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Issue 5 - February 2016 A RT ~ H E A LT H ~ T RAV E L ~ P OE T RY ~ E NV I RONM E NT A global magazine that creates community among creative, environmentally conscious people across all mediums and background
Editor's Notes T his issue we celebrate our 1 year anniversary
of Artinzene holding a multi-media exhibition at the dust temple in Currumbin featuring Conscious Vibes, Elemental, Deborah Emmanuel, Lou Moriaty, Beau Eastman and Craig Wilcox.d We are bringing together a fusion of music, poetry, art, body art, and film. You will find an exciting array of articles in this issue, we are growing every issue with this one being 112 pages.
T he beginning of 2016 has seen the loss of two musical heros. Both renowed for their indiviuality and song writing
skills as well as their stage performances. Glen Fry was one of the founding members of the Eagles and David Bowie we know as the chamelion of pop and rock, pushing boundaries with his theatrical performances and totaly original music for this time. They are both legends that will live on forever through their music.
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Contents
ARTINZENE Issue no. 4 21 November 2015, QLD Cover Image Artist: Rachael Hindmarsh Publisher Artinzene
ART Pg 4-33
Editors Notes Pg 2, Art vs the Real World by Racheal Hindmarsh, Pg 4-10, Circus Corridor by Laurinda Janlewicz Pg 11-17, Wildlife Film-Maker - Beau Eastman Pg 18-23, Sing to Your Heart’s Content by Louise Moriaty Pg 24-27, Oil Lamp in the Darkness - A 1 Year Anniversary in Bronze by Jason Anakalakoa Smith Pg 28-33,
HEALTH Pg 35-62
The Art of Letting Go by Rhianna Smith Pg 35-37, What to do When You have Tried Everything by Rhianna Smith Pg 38-41, It’s more than a Matter of Choice by Melanie Brockwell Pg 42-44, The Phenonmenon & The Boon & The Oneness Golden Club Pg 48-53, Hope the Journey is a Long One by Larissa S.R. Pombo & Giverny De’ol Pg 54-60, Optimal Health by Simon Morgan Pg 61-62
Editors Artinzene Graphic Design Artinzene Web Design Ray Dowling & DigitallDesign Sales & marketing: Artinzene Contributing writers
Dust Temple Photos by Michelle Ward Pg 64-67
Michelle Ward Rachael Hindmarsh Laurinda Janlewicz Beau Eastman
TRAVEL Pg 69-77
London in Under a Tenner a Day, by Brendan McMullan Pg 69-77, Craft of Ancient Hands by Caresse Cranwell Pg 78-85,
POETRY Pg 88-96
Wings, David Bowie Tribute by Sacha Donnell Pg 88-89, Don’t Price me, I’m Nothing, Skinless, What is the Metaphor for This Heart by Deborah Emmanuel Pg 90-93, Fatz Poems Pg 94-95, A Little Bit Lost in it all by Vikki Sturt Pg 96
Louise Moriaty Jason Anakalakoa Smith Rhianna Smith Melanie Brockwell Dana Love Larissa S.R. Pombo Giverny De’ol Simon Morgan Brendan McMullan Caresse Cranwell Sacha Donnell Deborah Emmanuel
Getting Beyong Beliefts - by Caresse Cranwell Pg 98-103 The 10th
ENVIRONMENT Annual Animal Action Night to Save the Koalas by Aldwyn Altuney Pg 104-111 Pg 104-111
Joshua Holms Fatz Vikki Sturt Aldwyn Altuney Matt Wilson
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Art Vs the Real World
by Rachael Hindmarsh
As I start emerging as an artist, I fight a constant battle of logic and love. I feel everything when I paint. I can feel happy, sad, carefree, stressed, jovial, moody, content, distant, disturbed and calm and sometimes I can be all of the above, over the course of a painting’s conception, and throughout it all, in its entirety and at its very core, I know I am true... And that sense of truth, lifts me weightlessly through all the good times and the bad times and I learn, I feel all the highs and the lows, that life has to offer and I live... Unfortunately that doesn’t pay the bills and as I struggle to stay on top of everything in the real world, juggling madly, having committed all that I am to my art, my dream, I can’t help but ask myself. Is it worth it?
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art art I had a real job before, in the real world, a relatively well paying job, it meant I could buy the little things in life that I like - my perfume, named after one of my cats and my beauty products that have fancy packaging but not anymore, now there is a daily struggle, often an exhausting balancing act. And all because I want to be an artist - What am I thinking ?!?! Someone recently told me, that they wouldn’t consider me a potential life partner because I’m not earning as much as them. Ouch - Did they really say that?!? Yes, yes they did. At the time, my Maori warrior spirit kicked in and I remember thinking, it was wrong on so many levels, I don’t judge people like that and I wouldn’t want any potential life partner to either so close call really but, I digress. I do know it’s hard, this financial struggle, trust me, I know and I have to keep reminding myself, that it’s only for the short term isn’t it?
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day in the life of an untrained artist - Art vs The Real WorldAs I start emerging as an artist, I fight a constant battle of logic and love.
feel everything when I paint. I can feel happy, sad, carefree, stressed, jovial, moody, content, distant, disturbed and calm and sometimes I can be all of the above, over the course of a painting’s conception, and throughout it all, in its entirety and at its very core, I know I am true...
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All jesting aside, I realise now that the term ‘struggling artist’ wasn’t born from whimsy, but rather out of credence, and like with any artist starting out, or any business really, I must not only have passion and skill but I must also be focused, driven and as a matter of priority, I must learn to excel at juggling and fast! So yes following this dream is hard and I am learning as I go. When it comes down to Rent vs Paint, and paint wins, (as it always does). I have to ask myself. Am I crazy? Actually, I know I’m not crazy, What I am, is an emerging ‘struggling’ artist juggling ‘art’ with the real world, who simply must find a way of making what she eats, lives and breathes into something that can start paying the bills. I have to learn, and learn fast, how to turn what I love to do into a business, because in this world, (where paint will always win over rent -always) I am true because this is the world that I need. Because this world is my real world, for in my world, I am true, for in my real world, I live.
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art I’ve just watched a video the “Documentary Temple of Art.”, and Neil Gaiman says that what artists are mostly doing is brick laying, he says you’re taking a brick and putting it in place, and you’re picking up another brick, and putting it in place. No one will do it for you. He goes on to say, that if you do not put down all of these bricks then the wall will never get built and if the wall is never built then the rest of the structure will never get built, it won’t exist, so you pick up another brick and you put it down, and you pick up another brick and put it down and that’s how you build the temple of art. So I am laying my bricks, in my real world, where I am true, and where I live, and one day I will shout from the mountain top, I am an artist. With thanks to Temple of Art for allowing me to use an excerpt from Temple of Art: Permission http://templeofart.net/ https://www.facebook.com/templeofartdocumentary/ videos/442604555933677//
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art Circus and the Gold Coast are not usually two things that are said in the same sentence. Most people when they think of circus picture lions, elephants or perhaps Cirque du Soleil. This story of circus is a different one. For me, the culture of circus represents being part of a diverse community that shines it’s light on what’s possible. One that allows everyone to find their inner freak flag and fly it with pride. A culture that involves tapping into a whole other level of risk taking and mental focus. This side of circus when experienced either as a participant or spectator questions the limitations we place so habitually on ourselves. Everyone wants to feel amazing. For me circus is a vehicle to achieving that very goal. There are many aspects to who can play in the arena of circus arts. It could be anyone from emerging to professional performers, aspiring nurses and accountants that love flying in the air or using circus as a form of therapy. Now, the opportunity to experience circus in the Gold Coast is becoming more available. This is the aim of the new driving force called The Circus Corridor. Hailing from the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Northern Rivers. The Circus Corridor is a curatorial collective that came together with the burning desire to create a place for circus to be supported, felt and loved throughout Gold Coast culture. Together they have over 100 years experience in the circus industry combined. In this collective there is Celia White the Artistic Director from Vulcana Woman’s Circus, Brisbane, Creative Director Simone O’Brien from Spaghetti Circus, Mullumbimby, Tammy Zarb of Industry Aerial Arts and Flyworks, Louise Moriarty with Have a Go Circus, Kristy Seymour from Circus Stars and Laurinda Janlewicz a community worker extraordinaire. ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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art Together this crew is on the mission to offer opportunities for the diverse communities we live with to all have a go at feeling the goodness of circus. The Circus Corridor has a few projects up their sleeves to watch out for. On March 6th come watch over 20 young people and adults perform in a site specific performance on the Paradise Point Playground. This is a Bleach* Festival event and is free for everyone. From April 8th-17th The Circus Corridor is programming Festival called STAMP (Stand Tall and Move Paradigms) an Arts Centre Gold Coast youth focused initiative. If you are a young person aged 15-25yrs old and want to be part of creating a festival. The Circus Corridor is looking for you! Contact Laurinda at circuscorridor@gmail.com There’s just a little taste at what’s in store. To stay in the loop check out the Facebook page: circuscorridor.
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Biography: Laurinda Janlewicz is the Community Liaison for The Circus Corridor. Her mission is to bring together all aspects of circus to the diverse community on the Gold Coast. Circus is for everyone. You don’t need to be amazing. Feeling amazing is the goal. Circus can do that. Have a go.
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My name is Beau Eastman, I am 27 years of age, I love making films and currently work as an animal trainer in the “Animal training and Wildlife presentations” department at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. After finishing Grade 12, I attended The Sunshine Coast Institute of TAFE graduating with a Certificate IV in Screen in... 2008 During this time I was able to pick up four awards for my films including a Best Film award for “Prejudice” (a short documentary about stopping racism), Best Director and Best Film for “Our Guru of Surfing” and “Audience Choice” award for “Natural Flows. Animals has been a big passion of mine and my goal is to create documentaries about the environment and the wildlife.
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Surfing is another big passion of mine as well. For the last four years I have been to different parts of the world filming surf spots for a surfing/travel agency called World Surfaris who provide surfing trips for customers. In April I will be on my next adventure and probably the most adventurous and challenging one ever. I will be going to Africa to film surfing and wildlife and turning it into a 15 minute documentary, all about what Africa has to offer to an adventurer.
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I’m hoping to create motivational and inspiring documentaries for people to get up and go see the world what has to offer. Nature is the greatest gift all and we should always let nature be the artist.
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Sing to Your Heart's Content by Lou Moriaty
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art Hi everyone the Poet here. Incredible times hey!!! So much going on, so many ideas involving working with diversity, co-existing truths, surrendering to what is actually going on and being willing to say yes to more possibilities than I have previously considered. Whew it sounds exhausting yet incredibly simple. I was flicking through a Richard Branson book and he was saying all you need is breakfast, lunch and dinner and then anything else is just a reason to have fun doing what you would love to do. That really resonated with me this week. I am learning to trust my natural voice. After being told and believing I was tone deaf for about 14 years, I had several encounters that turned my joy of expressing myself through this medium into a passion. I asked a friend Jayne Hewetson who is an incredible singer if anyone could learn to sing and she said ‘Yes’. Then I heard Andreas Vollenweider at a cafe in Melbourne and she told the story of being told she couldn’t sing and being laughed at. Ignoring that and following the passion in her heart and letting herself do it. At an indigenous event at Raukin Community in South Australia I saw a Elders choir of Central desert woman. Such an overwhelming feeling of gratitude to these indigenous woman of the deserts of South Australia. People who had lived through atomic bombs being tested on their lands, had their children taken away, been treated as flora and fauna, seen massacres and dispossession of their lands for mining. The devastation of their spirituality, lands and language which are at once inseparable. Yet still they sung open heartedly to us and welcomed us as sisters and brothers to their country. They gave me such a sense of forgiveness, joy and living in the moment.
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Over time I joined community choirs which socially anchored me in two very different yet fabulously supportive communities. In Broken Hill, (where their is a tradition of trade union choirs that fought for not only bread but roses for the mine workers), we sang union songs, protest and activist songs and songs that celebrated diversity. Then in Palm Beach at the Gold Coast, (where the focus was eating lollies, community announcements and cups of tea, if you have ever seen ‘As it is in Heaven’ you will know the kind of passionate community choir I am talking about), we sang African songs, gospel songs, songs in indigenous lingo and many more.
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Now I am writing songs and singing them in public. Whoo, it feels big! Daring to get my voice out. It is all new and scary but an edge I am excited to be stepping over. It makes me happy! So open mic’s, creating house concerts, daring to share my voice with a diversity of musicians. There also seems to be a wave of opportunities everywhere. Zullaz our regular Sunday night open mic at a cafe in Burleigh Heads has been like a Songwriter’s showcase. Each day there seems to be another one somewhere on the coast; poetry sharing, slams, story telling sessions. artinzene/ Issue #5
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Be open to finding the perfect place for you to stretch your musical and lyrical tentacles and then say yes. Sing along nights with friends, bring the guitar and singers and musicians come out of the woodwork. Ukulele groups where simple songs can be strummed and hummed to your hearts content and turned into a communion of community and connection. Raising your voices to sing the power of words to create vibrations back into our daily practice. So Say yes and enjoy making opportunities for you to free your natural voice, bring some food to share and really what else do we need! Weary Child Written by Louise Moriarty Sung by Cherie Surman https://soundcloud.com/louise-jayne-moriarty/sets/songs or find examples of Louise doing all kinds of whacky things on Louise Moriarty on you tube.
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Oil Lamp in the Darkness 1 Year Anniversary in Bronze by Jason Anakalakoa Smith
Surreal happiness experienced in a dream while sleeping in Hawaii woke me up and I began telling my (ex)girlfriend about the epic sunset on the playa in New Mexico… when at that moment a text comes in saying: “Your mom is in the hospital in New Mexico.” Specifically she was in the city of Las Cruces. Picture the image of three splintery crucifix, and their heat-rising shadows, looming over the worst example of “Urban Renewal” in the United States. 28 Painting by Jason Anakalakoa Smith artinzene/ Issue #5
art The ambulance carted my mom 200 miles from her tiny mountain home to the ruthlessly over air-conditioned hospital in Las Cruces, where she was basically neglected for seven days before I received that text. Flashback: Ten years before any of this, I was in Las Cruces working on a Master’s degree when my whole system collapsed; I became deathbed sick. My spine stopped working, my legs lost life, my organs failed, and welcome to two years of not walking, totally bedridden. I am still healing from that nightmarish time, so never in a million years, did I ever want to go back to New Mexico. It honestly scared me to death.
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art How to get from Hawaii, where I was still healing - and penniless, to the city that I feared more than anywhere else in the World? Within four hours of launching a Crowdsource campaign, called: “Send me to Mom” over $2,400 dollars was raised from two dozen friends (and strangers!). The ripple effect of that many people having my mom’s back, through me, was a strength-innumbers experience I will always remember. It gave me a courage beyond measure. Great miracles happened and very the best one of all is Mom healed. After Mom was strong and healthy again, I was returning to Hawaii when, on the plane, I had another vivid dream, “Get rid of everything, except your yoga mat, and return to New Mexico.” Hell no! I would never leave Hawaii. Not ever again! But when I landed on the island the air didn’t feel right, and immediately significant life-changing events happened: Two hurricanes hit, my girlfriend dumped me, and my job didn’t rehire me. I was devastated. No job, no love, and excruciating heart ache. Forced to listen to my dream, I got rid of everything, including all of my expensive painting supplies.
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art I arrived in New Mexico in tears. Depressed. Empty. Broke. Walking around town one day, I thought, “If there is any art I would like to learn, it would be sculpture. Almost immediately after that thought, and exactly one year ago, I was introduced to the head of the art department at Western New Mexico University, the sculptor named, Michael Metcalf. Even though I was dying inside, Metcalf “saw” me; I could see it in his eyes, he was totally present with me. His ability to be completely present felt like an oil lamp being lit in the dark. Right then, he announced to his students, “Hey everyone, this is Jason. Teach him how to bronze.” Students of all ages began lending me tools and knowledge. The first sculpture I began making was a hammerhead shark. Sharks were already on my mind, because in Hawaii I was painting hammerheads. They are older than trees, and once, I heard a person say that fish are the first yogis.
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art So here I am, a lonely fish out of water in New Mexico where I miss Hawaii everyday but that deepest oceanic feeling is also in the turquoise water blue color of my mom’s eyes especially after she practices in one of my yoga classes or later when we are sharing her organic homegrown homemade pumpkin pie! The memories and mana of all of this is casted in bronze from lava-molten metal that is almost as hot as the magma creating new land and reefs in Hawaii, where I hope to someday return.
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art Jason is a professional yoga instructor and artist currently living in Silver City, New Mexico. For a video on one of his latest bronze pieces, please go to: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=37LXaqMrN2c And for more info about Jason Anakalakoa Smith, please visit: http://www.arrowheadsalign.com He currently teaches yoga at the Lotus Center of Silver City and at Western New Mexico University
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The Art of Letting Go
By Rhianna Smith
Hanging on my wall I have a quote by Buddha. It goes something along the lines of “In the end, what matters most is how well did you live? How well did you love? How well did you learn to let go?” I loved this quote enough to buy it and hang it on my wall. However I have never really understood the true meaning behind it. It has niggled at me as I’ve always felt the meaning was there and I was missing it. Initially I thought it meant letting go of past lovers and past experiences. But recently my life has taken a few unexpected twists and turns, and this simple saying has come into much sharper focus. I can feel my mind finally turning the corner and starting to grasp at the coattails of this vast message. How well did you learn to let go? Let go… Being the type A, perfectionist that I am, letting go is not something I do without desire and intent. If I want to let something go, it’s gone. But when it comes to things I can’t control, such as other people, life direction and unforseen circumstances, well then I have a whole lot of trouble. I tend to stress, worry, over-analyse, hypothesize, over -think and basically drive myself up the wall with all the thoughts about what could have been.
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But things happen. People surprise you. Unforseen events occur. And I realised by beating myself up about these uncontrollable events, I was desperately, breathlessly, pointlessly holding on to things that were never mine to grasp. I realized I had to learn to let go. Not just to past lovers or past experiences, but to all the things in my life that I have no control over. So for me, when I look at that quote now, I see a whole lot of subtext underneath each simple line. “In the end, what matters most is how well did you live?� Truly LIVE, every moment, every day, every breath. Living is a whole lot more than existing, and with each breath we take we live a moment never to be lived again. Make it count 36
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“How well did you love?” Love EVERYTHING! Madly, truly, passionately, with your whole heart, as best as you can. Love the sunrise, and the clouds and the annoying people next door, and the barking dog and your friends, your partner and YOURSELF; just the way you are, above all else. “And how well did you learn to let go?” Of control, of direction, of the plan you made up in your mind, of your rules, of the “truths” you know, of the beliefs you’ve been given, of everything you struggle to hold. And with this will come release. The weight will be lifted. And when you let go, you might surprise yourself, stop drowning, and start to float. ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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What to do When You Have Tried Everything Sometimes you just get to that point. You know, the point where you feel that nothing you have tried this far has worked. You have spent so much money, wasted so much time and done everything you can possibly do. Yet still nothing has worked. All you want to do is scream, cry and give up. I often speak to people who feel this way. Before we begin our consultation I learn just how long they have struggled to fix their conditions and how many dollars they have spent doing it. In all honesty, I could sum up the answer to this article in two words. Keep trying. It is as simple as that, but please let me explain why. Trust me, I know what it is like. I have been working through my own health problems for the last 15 years and I still haven’t cracked it 100%. Yes, I have also spent thousands, tens of thousands, on different treatments, modalities, pills, concoctions, ways of eating, tests and so on and sometimes when things get particularly bad, I think “Well f*#k it, I should just give up.” 38
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But that has never lasted. I might give up for a day or a few months, but eventually I always find myself searching again. And the reason why is because the answer IS out there. I see people finding their answer on a day to bay basis. I also understand that what helps one person may not always help another. Some people are just super special and their health problems are a little harder to crack than the majority of the population. So if you feel you have tried it all, start going through all the modalities you have experimented with. Have you tried naturopathy, nutrition, acupuncture, homeopathy, herbal medicine, chiropractic, massage, osteopathy, counselling, hypnotherapy, yoga, meditation, exercise, Indian medicine, Chinese medicine, Shamanic healing? Have you tried experimenting with diets such as gluten free, dairy free, allergen free, vegetarian, vegan, paleo, raw, cooked, high fermented foods, low FODMAPS, low salicylates, high carb, high protein, high fat? Have you had western medicine testing, eastern medicine testing, naturopathic testing, intuitive testing, test on blood, urine, stool, saliva, swabs, scraping, hair analysis, and serum? ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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health Have you given your best to the programs and protocols along the way, stuck to the diets, drank the nasty herbs, avoided the suggested foods? And if you can answer yes to all these elements, I would still say the same thing. Keep trying. But also please be open to what the next practitioner suggests before you shut them down with a “tried that” response. There was one lady who was at her wit’s end with her son’s eczema. She came into the health food store where I work on occasion and was looking at the wall of supplements. She told me her story of how she has tried everything, spent thousands and didn’t have anything to show for it. When I asked about allergy or digestion testing, she waved me away with “Tried the prick test, didn’t work and he’s not Coeliac either”. She then said “Well I can’t see anything new so I won’t waste my money” and left. I wanted to run after this lady and get her to wait. I wanted to tell her that the skin prick test she tried was entirely different from the IgG blood test I was talking about. I wanted to tell her that the digestion testing I mentioned was not the same as the test for Coeliac’s Disease. I wanted to tell her that there were other options and investigations out there and although I didn’t know if they would cure her son, there were things she hadn’t tried. There was more hope out there than just a new product on a shelf. So what do you do when you have tried everything? Keep trying everything else. Because one day something will work, and all that trying, and money, and time, and weird diets and tests and supplements and doctors and 40 artinzene/ Issue #5 to be worth it. practitioners… is going
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Rhianna Smith is a Naturopath and Nutritionist practicing on the Gold Coast. She specialises in allergies, food intolerances, digestive health and stress support. She is also a very passionate healthy foodie, who, through her business Health and Simplicity, leads clients through Healthy Pantry Make-Overs, Healthy Shopping Trips and Healthy, Simple Cooking Classes. For more information on Rhianna, please visit: www.healthandsimplicity.com.au
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It's More Than A Matter Of Choice by Melanie Brockwell
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.� ~ Nelson Mandela 42
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health health It’s true we find comfort in the idea that one day we might all get along as one single sustainable unit. It’s why we prescribe things like patience and humility. Prescriptions designed to create better life experiences. Better that is, than things we find unpredictable because we see chaos as a sign of being out of alignment. An alignment that tells us anger, sadness, relationship issues are all signs of something being unresolved or off track. Signs that we need to do things differently until the signs change to match those we recognise as flow. Signs of flow tell us the world is a friendly place, that we are doing a good job. And when we get down to it, that’s what our seeking flow is really about. It’s about figuring out how well we’re doing and wanting some certainty that we can control life just enough to avoid drama and attract the rewards of being a good person. The question is, if we want more flow as proof of being a good person, then how can we make sense of the times we don’t see the proof (and still love ourselves unconditionally)?
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How do we make sense of the fact that while the proof we need is universal (the same for everyone), in reality do we not start out on equal ground? When each of us has unique genetic, environmental, spiritual, and cultural aspects to negotiate, the ability to be brave, to be compassionate and mindful are more than choices. When we consider ourselves subjects of circumstance, the flow of life is about being able to recognise the divine in all things not just the things that look like proof of being a good person. It is said that the secret to happiness is freedom. Whether it’s the freedom to be who we are, or freedom from chaos‌ we will never know our true worth or be able to love unconditionally until we stop evaluating the signs, and start trusting everything as Spirit manifest. By Melanie Brockwell Deva Avatar & Living Master Mentor Email: heart alchemy@howtobemedicine.com Web: howtobemedicine.co Tap into the Alchemist’s Heart
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The Phenonmenon & The Boon & The Oneness Golden Orb This program supports humanity’s transition into a new golden age. At such times throughout history great spiritual teachers and avatars have come to help humanity make the transition. Our time is no different and The Phenomenon of The Golden Orb – a transformational energy/consciousness – has manifested through the agencies of Oneness University, anchored by Avatars Sri Amma Bhagavan to help bring about the awakening and transformation of individuals and of humanity as a whole. The University refers to The Phenomenon as The Golden Orb. In the west we may refer to the Christ Consciousness or Divine Consciousness or Divine Intelligence or any other name which we prefer. But by whichever name it is known, The Phenomenon has the effect of transforming our neurobiological system so that we actually perceive life differently, easily giving us more joy, love, happiness, freedom, abundance, fulfilment and closer, deeper relationships. This is an experiential transformation, not a theoretical or philosophical change. The Phenomenon prepares participants in the program to accept ‘the Boon’ which is the wish one has for one’s life.
RECEIVE THE GOLDEN ORB INITIATION Participants will also receive the Golden Orb Initiation to transfer the Golden Orb Energy to others. This is a new level of manifestation of the Golden Orb. This intiation is given to all participants - those new to Oneness and existing Blessing Givers alike, in fact, this is the only way one can receive this initiation at this point in time.
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The Phenomenon and The Boon program was launched on the West Coast USA last November, and is now being offered around the world. The response has been exceptional. The USA participants reported the energy ‘off the charts” and encouraged others to not miss the opportunity when it comes to a place nearby. It is being conducted again in the USA in February and is being launched in Australia in April-May. It is a 2-day, webcast program conducted entirely by the Guides (teachers) of Oneness University India who are in an amazingly high state of awakened consciousness. Participants in the USA said that everyone’s heart melted when the Guides appeared on the screen. The program is suitable for newcomers and experienced practitioners alike. No pre-qualifications are necessary other than the genuine desire to experience life more deeply, more broadly and more powerfully and to grow and expand in consciousness. We look forward to sharing this lifetransforming event with you where you will receive life gifts and grace normally only available by attending the programs at Oneness University India. Spaces at these programs are strictly limited so be sure to book early to secure your place. A deposit option is available to help you secure your place. ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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For more information about this extraordinary Golden Orb Phenomenon. The Oneness Golden Orb Meditation & Information Event ST LEONARDS Thursday 3 MARCH 2016 6:45PM-8:45PM CO-CREATION CENTRE LEVEL 2 / 83-85 CHANDOS STREET, ST LEONARDS NSW 5-min walk from St Leonards Train Station & 2-min walk from Willoughby Road 5-min walk from Hume Street Carpark $10 donation info@onenesscentre.com.au 0414 935 538 www.onenesscentre.com.au The Oneness Golden Orb Meditation & Information Event BONDI JUNCTION Friday 4 MARCH 2016 6:45PM-8:45PM WAVERLEY LIBRARY THEATRETTE 32-48 DENISON ST, BONDI JUNCTION NSW 5-min walk from Bondi Junction Bus and Train Interchange Undercover off-street parking available until 9pm $10 donation info@onenesscentre.com.au 0414 935 538 www.onenesscentre.com.au
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The Oneness Golden Orb Meditation & Information Event CENTRAL COAST NSW Sunday 6 MARCH 2016 10:00AM-12:30PM Green Point Community Centre 96 KOOLANG ROAD, GREEN POINT NSW $20 donation info@onenesscentre.com.au 0414 935 538 www.onenesscentre.com.au
The Oneness Golden Orb Meditation & Information Event GOLD COAST Wednesday 20 April 2016 7:00PM-9:00PM Mercure Gold Coast Resort - Augusta Room 64 PALM MEADOWS DRIVE, CARRARA QLD $10 donation info@onenesscentre.com.au 0414 935 538 www.onenesscentre.com.au ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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MEDITATION & INFORMATION EVENTS The power of the Oneness Golden Orb continues to break through all boundaries. It is appearing to people all over the world. Come and hear about this Phenomenon that is awakening our spiritual potential and increasing our ability to tap the super-conscious so that we can create our life the way we want it to be. Lisa & Pasquo will be conducting meditation & information evenings with Oneness Deeksha (Energy Transfer) in Sydney, NSW Central Coast and Gold Coast leading up to The Phenomenon & The Boon programs. We will be sharing our recent experiences here at the University where we are seeing the Phenomenon drawing people from all over the world, people who are inspired to be part of the dawning of this New-Golden-Age-Consciousness. All are welcome to these meditation and information evenings. Oneness is certainly moving into a new phase with this international outreach of The Phenomenon & The Boon program. We see it creating a new explosion of energy around the globe. Oneness University
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Hope the Journey is a Long One by Larissa S.R. Pombo & Giverny De'Ol
She was born with the understanding that she was wonderful and free. Free to move, dance, sing and play the way she chose. She was honest, trusting and generous with her love. But as she grew, grew into a chaotic and judgemental world, she learned what it was like to not love herself. She began to lose herself.
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After years of feeling anxious and trapped by the beliefs that had become her norm, after years of feeling fear and after years on not having the courage to pursue her dreams, she let go. She let go of everything the world told her to be, let go of all the pain, insecurity and fear. She grew to enjoy the present moment and dive deep inside her inner self. It wasn’t fast. After years of punishing herself, after years of feeling she wasn’t worthy, she slowly began to love herself deeply. For that, first she needed to accept herself and shift her expectations to appreciation. She reconnected with nature and her real self. She sort out mentors. Those who would guide her on a path to self-discovery. She found and followed her purpose, her passions and her duty. And she became part of something bigger. How different it was from the path she imagined…
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As she began listening to the voice of her soul, it took her to the wildest ends of this earth. Each experience prepared her for the next. She met the most interesting people, and saw the most wonderful and vibrant colours. Her life was a journey. Filled full of lessons, people, scents, colours, feelings, sensations, ideas, opportunities and accomplishments. Her life wasn’t easy, nor boring. But, unlike so many others, she made a decision. The decision to awake every morning with a hunger to live and learn the nature of life.
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My name is Larissa S. R. Pombo, I’m 26 years young, I’m from Brazil and currently living on the Gold Coast, Australia. I’m passionate about Wellness, Art and Travelling. I’m a Wellness Connector and the Rock&Fly Pilates Developer.
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My name is Giverny De’Ol. I’m a Journalism and Languages student.
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Optimal Health
by Simon Morgan
Established for 15 years in the heart of the Gold Coast, Optimal Health Chiropractic are the leaders in corrective chiropractic and lifetime family wellness care on the Gold Coast. Our centre is committed to bringing better health and a better way of living to our community, combining skill and expertise that spans the entire chiropractic corrective and wellness spectrum to help you achieve your health and wellness goals. Our unique approach of finding and correcting the underlying cause of your health concerns, empowering you with the knowledge and inspiration to stay well, all in an environment of genuine caring and concern for you and your family, has placed Optimal Health at the forefront of Chiropractic and Wellness in Australia. Our Chiropractors, Wellness Experts, Dr Nicholas Mazsyzsyn, Dr Simon Morgan, and Dr Angela Gebert, have been leading the Optimal Health Team for many years, with a deep belief in and respect for, the natural healing ability of our body and our inborn potential to be well. Dr Nick, Dr Sime and Dr Angie have a lifelong passion for helping to improve the health and happiness of our community.
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In addition to clinical excellence, Optimal Health Chiropractic is a much a teaching institution as it is a healing centre. Many doctors and their teams have travelled nationally and internationally to train in our centre, participating in workshops and seminars we have conducted over the years that continue to positively impact practices and therefore their members all over Australia and abroad. Ideally located 5 minutes from the M1 and Bermuda Street in the vibrant and rapidly growing Varsity Lakes precinct, Optimal Health Chiropractic is perfectly placed to help you and your family. Please feel free to browse our website and learn more about chiropractic, wellness and lifestyle care. We would love to hear from you and help you achieve your health goals.
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Aboriginal – Native American – Tibetan – Maori
Sound Healing Dates • • • • • • • • • •
Theme Venue Feb 19th Mar 4th Mar 18th April 1st April 15th April 29th May 13th May 27th June 10th June 24th
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Come and allow the traditional and magical vibrations of the didgeridoos, medicine drum, djembe, guitar, angelic vocals and channelled chanting vibrate through your cells creating healing and uplifting you. Vibrations have the power to support you to shift blockages, release stress and lift your mind, body and spirit to another level. Each event has a different intention for the night; you can attend all or just one that suits your needs. Everyone’s experience is different! Bring yoga mat, pillow and blanket to be comfortable.
Time: (6:45pm for) 7:00pm to 8:30pm Address: Burleigh Heads: 14 Park st, Church Hall Carrara: Community Centre on Nielsen’s Rd
1hr sound healing and ½ hr grounding and reconnecting afterwards. Tea and grounding snacks offered and shared.
Door Entry: $30 (Bookings essential Search for Conscious Vibes on Eventbrite.com.au)
Come Relax Enjoy Connect Evolve
Call: Tracy – 0404 443 548 Rufus – 0432 372 758
consciousvibes9@gmail.com Facebook: Conscious Vibes
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dust temple 54 Currumbin Creek Road Currumbin “The best coffee in the southern Gold Coast” “One of the most eclectic, creative and alternative venues I have found on the Gold Coast” “Poetry nights last Thursday of each month, so many gifted writers” “The GalleryIssue in conjunction with dust temple host some of the best local artists” 64Hinge artinzene/ #5
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London in Under a Tenner a Day by Brendan McMullan
We all know London is one of the most expensive cities to live in and especially to visit. London is also one of the most amazingly vibrant cities you will ever go to. On any given day London offers a plethora of world-class exhibitions, shows and experiences right on your doorstep. I’ve been lucky enough to call London home for almost a year now and have experienced the battle between enjoying all that London has to offer and not breaking the budget. I have put together a 2-day itinerary for one weekday and one weekend day for travellers and locals alike who are trying to find a balance.
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During the week Galleries and museums are the perfect mid week experience; whilst there will still be other like-minded visitors mid week you’ll escape the masses that flock to them on the weekends. Perusing exhibitions at some of these galleries and museums even comes at no cost. The Natural History Museum, The National Science Museum and the V&A Museum are all free to the public and all in walking distance from the South Kensington tube station – so all it will cost you is your Oyster fare. The exhibitions, architecture and gift shops offer you the ability to escape for hours as you wander the great halls and rooms – all at no cost. Sketching some of the 100 + marble statues at the V&A is a great way to get creative; they have ample benches and even little drawing seats to borrow. If your artistic skills are a little rusty or lacking I suggest starting with the statues with out head and arms to get you warmed up.
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travel Once you’ve perfected your sketching take yourself for a short stroll across the courtyard and you’ll find yourself placed in one of London’s best coffee shops. As you step into it you are immersed in the sound of the piano player that fills the space and lifts into the 20 foot ceilings and bounces from large stained glass windows – you are transported to an environment that could not be further from the bustling London life that continues outside.
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You don’t have to venture far to find your next experience; The Natural History Museum is located just across the road. Not just for lovers of natural history, the architecture of this building will have you exploring for hours.
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travel Weekend The weekend is the best time to explore Bricklane in Shoreditch. As you exit Shoreditch High Street station the iconic fence of padlocks will no doubt get your attention. With each padlock monogrammed with the names and initials of lovers. And if you have a better half you can pick up a padlock at the local markets and claim your little piece of the fence. The infamous Brick lane markets are always a hive of activity and energy, offering a huge mix of bric a brac, antiques, clothes, food and even a guy selling coffee out of an old black cabby. The surrounding labyrinth of allyways will lead you to hidden gems you wont come across if you stick to the main roads so make sure you explore – just don’t get lost. Almost every inch of wall has become the canvas for amazing graffiti artists who are constantly pushing the envelope with their art providing you with a street style gallery. Brick lane is the perfect way to spend a Saturday or Sunday; rain, hail or shine you won’t be disappointed. I hope this has given you a few thought starters on enjoying London without breaking the budget. To see more travel pictures please BrendanMcMullanphotography on Instagram
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I grew up in Central West NSW in a small town called Orange. I’ve always had a passion for photography growing up and playing sports. Photography has always been away to express my self and I love taking portraits as its a great way to connect with people an capture a slice of the beauty in the every day. As I have retired from playing Rugby I have found another challenge in Yoga, mental and physical strength in one, giving back to my body from the years of impact sports. This year is all about travel and connecting with people and myself, India is my next stop in March I’ll keep you updated with a travel blog at Brendanmcmullanphotography@gmail.com
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Craft of Ancient Hands Handicraft. It seems too small a word, too minimising, trivialising for the Artcrafts of Gujarat and Rajasthan. These are ancient arts handed down through the generations, tended, tendered, attended to with loving devotion. Each piece vibrates with lived life! The colours and textures create movement so each ‘artefact’ is alive with a kinetic dynamic energy that gets embodied in the cloth, wood or metal. It’s as if the artisans life is condensed into this one moment of creation where the conversation they are having with life, with tradition, culture, land is being stitched, woven, forged, shaped into art-icles that shape the everyday texture, richness and beauty of their lives.
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It is art to be lived in, living art that gives value to the multitude of moments that go into the shaping. Some of these cloths take months and years to stitch. A lot of them are for the dowry, the imagined life of a rich and fertile love, they’re imbued with hope, positivity, richness.
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They remind me to add beauty richness value to the moments, to attend life with care for what we create and how it gives back to life. To be full of care - there’s a rich and beautiful life. I would be Making an art out of life!
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Wings turn your key and come downstairs down seven stairs to the pretty lights and sounds of spheres where children whirl with crumpled wings the children’s wings beneath the spheres beside the door the starry songs within your eyes your starry heart and angel eyes
for David Bowie with love 1947 – forever by Sacha Donnell
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Artist Bio: Sacha Donnell, New Zealand Currently studying painting at Elam School of Fine Arts, Sacha holds a BA in Art History, English Literature and Philosophy. She is employed at the Auckland Art Gallery and is involved with children’s art education. Her evolving art practice is informed by the ways intertextuality plays out within contemporary culture.
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Don't Price Me, I'm Nothing Lock me in a cellar and I’ll claw my way out, birth blood from my fingers; gasp air from the gods. Trap me in a wine bottle, I’ll drill through the cork, when my belly is full and my teeth are stained dark. Give me a mirror i’ll smother it in paint, since I can’t use my mind when it’s wrapped in my face. Hold me at ransom, I’ll swallow the telephone, don’t price me, i’m nothing, don’t price me, i’m nothing.
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My soul scrapes the pavement while running away, can’t hammer my body in a place it will stay. Cast me in tarmac, a statue of road, park trucks on my madness so it has nowhere to go. I yawn at the sun and I cry with the moon while tree roots creep slowly, leaves wither slowly. Carve me in bark so I know my own shape, as my trunk breathes alive as my branches burst veins. I look into mirrors but only see ghosts with guns in their hands. Call me a name and i’ll be at its birthplace, call me a name and i’ll burst from its loins, call me a name and i’ll bury it’s bones but don’t ask me to spell it, i’ll get it all wrong the smoke screen of death can’t be moved by a song and no fairy lights will make visions appear. No fairy lights will make visions appear. 90
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Skinless by Deborah Emmanuel
You tell me that i’m beautiful but i want to be a skinless thing Shredded pig hanging from a hook raw and truthful like a final squeal maddened and lost and welcoming the dark Make me an abattoir instead the slaughterhouse for ugliness I am where ugly goes to die. Compare me in the wet market like i’m selling this flesh Watch my thighs in the night smile at me in the elevator Look at me like i’m on a hook Look at me like i was made for you
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What is the Metaphor For This heart? by Deborah Emmanuel
What is the metaphor for this heart that throbs alive hurt in its eyes that eats itself to quell the sobs that can’t be still because it moves it can’t be still because it moves I can’t be still because I move. What is the metaphor for this heart? When this heart is a knife? When this heart is a wound? When this heart is a wormhole? When this heart is a vacuum? When this heart is constant, shifting worldlessness? What is the metaphor for this heart which cannot see where it must go which cannot breathe which cannot glow which cannot stop which cannot stop which cannot Stop.
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Paul Karass
By Joshua Holms
Death is the ultimate unexpected and overbearing guest destined to fill all beds. RIP to my first mentor Paul who passed back in April. It’s because of him I love words and dare to dream. Paul changed lives; heroes and saints do exist in all forms, in all walks.... A poem wrote for him.... Your eloquent stare and benevolent care.... You made me feel as though you harnessed the elements and sat everywhere....
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You sat, stared and like Bedouin tribesmen you read me like they read stars. You fed me like rainy weather feeds farms and I grew every time you outstretched your arms.... You loved with the passion of Christ. You strived to provide a better life for those who had died on the inside. You turned night to day.... You carved a paved way to change and if people didn’t change you still tried to save the day. You were superman for the insane. Because of you my words are heard and don’t suspend suppressed in my breastplate; because you told me I could be great and create my own fate. I’m certain the curtain unveiled and the heavens hailed as you now sit around a table by the sides of your Hellenic ancestors; as they speak testaments to the time you blessed us, fed us and acted as our weapon. Send one last message as you look down with Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras and the greats. Paul Karass you were a great mate...
Joshua Holms ”Truth seeking, bummily poetic, freedom fighting, word bending free spirit on a quest to command the English language in a bid to attain and express the unthinkable; to shed light on inequality and spark the mind that might change the world.” Creator of Bigger Than Poetry @ Miami 93 ARTINZENE / Issue #5 Marketta
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We Have The Power To Think Something Into Existence We Have The Power To Create An Infinite Creator Inside An Infinite Creation, Creating Infinitely In life We Create In Death We Create Forever Recycled From The Start To The Finish Within A Story That Never Ends A Mobius Loop Of Time Forever To Be, That Is Me Infinitely Existing Within An Existing Infinity Eternal Life Is Not Something Someone Can Give You It Is Something You Have Always Had Universes Within Universes Worlds Within Worlds Realities Within Realities Existences Existing Within An Infinity Of Existence I Do Now Know That I Am Ultra vers al 94
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I believe we exist in this moment We are in this moment for a reason Simply if all it is, is to experience existence To feel feelings, experience emotion To feel love, experience joy To felicitate, to gain wisdom through knowledge And an understanding through observation We have the power to create We have the power to destroy Why should we lead this world to destruction If we are creators, creating within creation Creation I See, is wanting to exist Our mother is true, I dearly love you Goddess is she, let’s treat her as such In her all life is sacred We need to believe this so much
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A Little Bit Lost in it all by Vikki Sturt
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A little bit lost in it all Lithe tendrils outreach to attach for stability Fear of mobility Lost the ability To trust the roots that draw fodder From the earth to feed the lost soul The brain works overtime The daily grind Into the dark Rooms apart Yet cannot speak the words The tongue longs to have roll off it Spun in the wrong direction Catch the reflection Lack of perfection Drives the motor on fumes of fear My dear, dear heart You beat to drums from long ago With a rhythm amiss today Fade away To a dull pounding of feet on clay Smoking rays of burnt sunbeams Sprinkle a dusty haze on the growth of the season No apparent reason Other than time Standing still With its nose on a spot Black dot On the wall of regret Measured by kind of mind Mouse blind To the blank pasty supremacy of race Long lost to greed To lead the world astray Away From the roots that feed the soul Weeping earth mother, the country This disconnected ďżź Reflected on us As pure as the muted Polluted Air we breath.
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Getting Beyond Beliefs by Caresse Cranwell Who are the people behind the label “environmentalist”, “greenie”? Why do some of us refuse to even accept this descriptor? I’d suggest that it is because it alienates and puts us in someone’s conceptual box. The label can be used to marginalise us so our opinions can be easily dismissed. How do we step beyond the boundaries and barriers of our belief systems? How do we transcend our differences and work together to create a better world for all of us? This article is one of a series on “getting beyond beliefs”. I’m asking people who are engaged in activity that has an environmental focus who they are, how they came to do what they do, how they came to hold the values that shape their action in the world. My hope is that in hearing people’s stories we can step beyond all that supposedly separates us. 98
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In this article I talk with Kieran Richardt who started the social enterprise Natura-Pacific.
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ENVIRONMENT In my work it’s important for me to walk the ‘thin green line’ between politics and business, between capitalist and socialist ideologies. As in Latin America we need to be thinking about environment and society and working in ways that respond to environmental and social needs. I’m trying to bring as many people as possible to walk that line with me. My core values? ” Giving everyone and everything a fair go”! All the critters and people don’t get a fair go. I want to give city kids the opportunities I grew up with. As a kid I just loved catching turtles in Tallebudgera Creek. Kids often don’t have the opportunity or the access to those places. Parents maybe don’t have the ability to expose kids to the simple wonder of finding critters in the creek. I have a 3 year old, Beau. I have him out there with me sowing seeds, collecting chicken eggs, so he’s connected to knowing where his food comes from. It’s important to grow up knowing this, to see your impact on our environment. Its from these experiences that we learn that we have an impact in society as well. I live now at Springbrook. I take my little boy outside at night. With a torch we look for crickets and snails or just simply look at the night sky together.
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I guess I got an ethic of fair go from being a middle child and being pushed around a lot at school. I was into critters and wasn’t given a fair go. I also had to balance things between an older sister and younger brother and maybe that supported me to want to walk ‘the thin green line’. I don’t think there is any such thing as black and white, for me, its just one big shade of grey. When I was very young I wanted to be a marine biologist. Right from a young age I had a fascination with turtles. At 14, when I worked at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, I got Ross River fever. I was very sick for the last 3 years of my schooling. I remember reading books about carnivorous plants. I was fascinated with how they evolved a means of eating something that was eating them. How were they created that way? It started me thinking about how things survive. And when I work with kids now we devise all sorts of survival and defence mechanism on paper. We then look to nature for examples of where those ideas already exist. Illness changes the pace of how you move and how you view things. It gave me motivation to do the things that I’ve done and not take for granted being fit and healthy.
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ENVIRONMENT From that experience, of my own survival I guess, I became fascinated by adaptations animals have, like Dolphins being able to hunt with sonar. We think we’ve created this thing but really nature has done it already. We create fibres that are light and strong. Spiders have been doing it forever. There is a lot for us to learn from nature. How amazing is the Strangler fig? It encourages a bird to eat its fruit, drop its seeds in the canopy where it can access light to grow as light is always a limiting factor in a forest. I’m fascinated by how things morph genetically to survive. Every single animal has some thing that gives it that edge. Look at bird of paradise, with their incredible plumage to attract mates. Essentially we’re no different to a funny little bird in Papua New Guinea in how we go about it. I’d Love to replicate what I’m doing now in social enterprise all around the world – small teams engaged in environment education. It needs to be something that is self-sustaining. Something that others can pick up, work with and replicate. I want other industries to take on environmental/ arts/social enterprise where they can give back to the community, to the arts, to the environment. Its not enough for business just to give some of its profits to deserving causes. They need to make ecology part of a social enterprise. I believe that small businesses, like mine, need to drive innovative responses to social and environmental issues. We need to take responsibility for issues and actively participate in creating a response. A large proportion of people in Australia are engaged in small business. For me business is about being able to support yourself while doing good things. We need a shift in mindset from a poverty mentality associated with arts and the environment. People need to put more of a value on these things. Social enterprise is a way of being able to do that. 102
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I want to support more people into eco social enterprises. I grew up with 4 different religions in my family, 4 different viewpoints: Muslim, Jehovah, Anglican and Orthodox. At family events everything went down the pipe. I want to assist people to access information to make up their own minds. Not force people to my view about Climate change. I don’t like converting people. Negativity is not going to drive people to action. We need to provide information in formats that make people want to change themselves. We need to step across the gaps and inspire people. Mark – working on Climate with Natura-Pacific Natura-Pacific has won an Environment and Sustainability Award as part of the 2015 Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards. They have been nominated as one of 11 finalists for the Ethical Enterprise Awards 2015, run by Melbourne-based Moral Fair Ground and Australian Ethical. The nomination has been based on their work with disadvantaged communities in Australia, South-east Asia and Africa to improve economic gains for these communities through undertaking resource-use whilst at the same time ensuring that this consumption is environmentally and economically sustainable. ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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The 10th Animal Action Night to Save the Koalas by Aldwyn Altuney
HELPING koalas will be the theme for the 10th annual Animal Action Night in October this year. AA Xposé Media Director/ Photojournalist Aldwyn Altuney, who founded Animal Action Events, said she wanted to keep the fundraiser focused locally to celebrate the 10th event. It is earmarked for Quality Hotel Mermaid Waters on October 1 this year, in the lead up to World Animal Week from October 4 to 10. “The koala population has been devastated over the last 100 years and is currently under great threat due to urbanisation and massive, uncontrolled habitat destruction, domestic dog attacks, bushfires and road accidents,” Aldwyn said. 104
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“The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) estimates that more than 80 per cent of original koala habitat in Australia has been cleared since European settlement.” She said AKF research strongly suggested the koala’s conservation status should be listed as ‘critically endangered’ in south-east Queensland. All funds for the Animal Action Night: Inspiring Action for Koalas event this year will go to Friends of the Koala - a non-profit community group run by volunteers dedicated to conserving koalas in the NSW northern rivers. Volunteer rehabilitators operate a 24-hour rescue service for sick, injured and orphaned koalas. Koalas are cared for in home care or at the Koala Care Centre on Rifle Range Rd in Lismore. Critically ill koalas are transferred to either Currumbin Wildlife Hospital on the Gold Coast or the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital in Beerwah, Sunshine Coast. ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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A native plant nursery is attached to the Care Centre providing koala food trees for free to local landholders. The proceeds from other native plant sales go towards the cost of koala care. Friends of the Koala play an active role in promoting habitat restoration in the northern rivers region. This includes encouraging landholders to commit to new plantings and maintaining and looking after remnant vegetation.
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The group supports research, particularly in the prevalence of disease in koala populations and in mapping current koala populations and their distribution.
The 9th annual Animal Action Night: Inspiring Action for Orangutans Christmas Extravaganza on December 16, 2015, at Quality Hotel Mermaid Waters raised about $1000 for the Orangutan Foundation International Australia (OFIA) and orangutans, which currently face extinction. Entertainment on the night included the launch of Vavachi Entertainment’s new show World on a String - a tribute to Michael Buble, featuring Thomas Armstrong Robley and his band, Ten Tenors co-founder/ internationally acclaimed tenor Roger Davy and country rock singer Tyson Colman.
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Speakers included Kobe Steele, Sunshine Coast Conservationist Casey Murtagh, who has personally raised over $65,000 for Orangutan focused projects in Borneo and Sumatra, and Aldwyn as MC. There was also a special appearance by Santa (aka Rod Hyatt), as well as roving masseuse Mario Fabris, stalls, raffles and auction items for the cause. OFIA co-founder / president Kobe Steele said OFIA’s mission was to support and continue the orangutan and forest conservation efforts initiated by Dr Biruté Mary Galdikas in Kalimantan, Borneo. 107 ARTINZENE / Issue #5 Photo : Tyson Colman Performs
OFIA has two core campaigns; caring for orphaned and displaced orangutans at the OFI Care Centre & Quarantine in Pasir Panjang Village, Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo and securing habitat for their future release. “The OFI Care Centre currently cares for 340 displaced or orphaned orangutans, which costs a hefty $1 million a year to run,” Ms Steele said. “Orangutans are threatened with extinction due to the destruction and degradation of the tropical rain forest, particularly lowland forest, in Borneo and Sumatra. This has been caused primarily by intense legal logging, illegal logging, conversion of forest to palm oil plantations and timber estates, mining, clearing forest for settlements, road construction and large-scale fires facilitated by the El Nino weather phenomena.” The illegal animal trade has also been a factor in the decline of wild orangutan populations and orangutans are occasionally hunted and eaten by some of the indigenous people of Borneo as well as migrant loggers and plantation workers who do not have dietary prohibitions against eating bush meat. 108 primate artinzene/ Issue #5
Photo : Thomas Armstrong-Robley in his Michael Buble tribute show World on a String
“At one time, the world’s wild orangutan populations likely included hundreds of thousands of individuals, but current estimates indicate far fewer wild orangutans now remain. During the past decade, orangutan populations have decreased by 50% in the wild,” she said. Aldwyn said Animal Action events also inspired action for the humane treatment of animals worldwide. “After being sick of seeing animal cruelty in society and watching the Earthlings documentary film, I wanted to do something about it and founded the world’s first Animal Action Day in 2007,” Aldwyn said. “The whole idea was to raise awareness, appreciation and respect for all animals and inspire action for animals. “While it’s easy to bury your head in the sand and say, “What can I do about all the atrocities happening to animals as one person?” I say, “You can help change a life or save a life and I believe that is worth fighting for.” Aldwyn ran seven free day events raising funds for different animal charities each year, including the Animal Welfare League, World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), David Fleay Wildlife Park, Sea Shepherd, Voiceless, Save Japan Dolphins, Save China Tigers and Currumbin Wildlife Hospital. The first night event on the Gold Coast in 2014 inspired action for whales and raised about $5500 for Sea Shepherd. Animal Action events aim to encourage people to take action for animals, even in small ways. You can do this by making healthy choices while shopping - buying cruelty free; reducing your consumption of animal products or becoming vegetarian or vegan. ARTINZENE / Issue #5
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You can also write to your local, state or federal elected rep to convey views on animal protection; volunteer with animal organisations; write a letter to the editor of your local papers; recycle and compost at home and express concerns to food companies and supermarkets that are involved in sustaining animal suffering. “Together, we can all make a difference for animals and the environment,” Aldwyn said. For details on the 10th Animal Action Night: Inspiring Action for Koalas, connect on the Facebook pages ‘Animal Action Events’, ‘Animal Action Day’, ‘Inspiring Animal Lovers’ and ‘Inspiring Action for Animals’ and visit www. animalactionday.com
Photo: Singer Roger Davy and Bruce Rogers
If you find an injured koala, call the Friends of the Koala 24-hour rescue hotline on (02) 6622 1233.
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Photo: Michelle Patterson, Nicola Reid and Rhonda Stark
All Photography for this article by Aldwyn Altuney
Photo: Karen McIntyre& Kobe Steele from the Orangutan Foundation International Australia
Aldwyn Altuney is a photojournalist with 30 years experience in TV, radio, print and online media. Known as the Media Queen, she hosts the Media Mastery Show and Animal Action TV. Born in Sydney and based on the Gold Coast since 2000, Aldwyn runs AA XposĂŠ Media, which offers corporate communications and the worldwide Mass Media Mastery training program. She is an actress in theatre, short films, TV advertisements and feature films and runs workshops across Australia on topics including Maximising Free Media Xposure, Law of Attraction, Living Your Passions and How to Maintain a Balanced Mind, Body and Soul.
Photo: Santa (aka Rod Hyatt) with Tracey Korman
Passionate about raising awareness, appreciation and respect for animals, she founded Animal Action Day in 2007 and has run nine annual events since then. These have raised nearly $20,000 for about 10 animal charities and millions of dollars of free media exposure for great causes. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter (@aldwyn), Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube or visit www.aaxpose.com
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