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SAN JUAN BAUTISTA -
California Indian
Market and Peace Pow Wow is an annual event to celebrate
peace. Native American Indian culture, festive costumes,
products, art and a variety of goods and services are all
explored in the 26th annual celebration held at Mission San Juan
Bautista. Held 3 days, May 1-2, 2010, a ceremony opens the event
at 10 a.m. on Saturday honoring
our ancestors with prayer.
Organized by a renown local
artist from San Juan Bautista, Elayne da Silva-Reyna aka “Laynee
Reyna” or Bluebird Woman is a visionary who's worked in many
careers and helped many people through service as a military
medic during wartime, private pilot and member of the Flying
Doctors, who assist people in need of medical help in other
countries, volunteering their time and services, and as a
spiritual counselor to help people through their grief and
issues that hold them back from living life to its fullest.
Reyna formed the non-profit One Earth, One People, Peace Vision,
Inc. to help empower people to restore honorable and respectful
relationships through understanding that all life is sacred and
interconnected. She won a silver medal/second place in the 2003
National Veterans Creative Arts Festival for her portrait of
prophet “Medicine Song Woman- Bernice Torrez”, Kashaya-Pomo
California Indian, and daughter of renowned Shaman Woman, Essie
Parrish, and donates proceeds from fund-raising events such as
the California Indian Market and Peace Pow Wow to bring art into
the lives of youth with supplies and instruction.
Cinco de Mayo will be honored, too, as all
people join in a friendship dance. Cost: $1 donation
requested, all donations accepted
and benefit Peace Vision's youth projects. Call:
(831) 623-4771 or peacevision.net.
California Indian Market & Peace Pow Wow, Celebrating Cinco de
Mayo & World Cultures
San Juan Bautista, CA
Mission San Juan Bautista Lot on Second Street
10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Native American artists, dancers, drummers and singers from
North and South America and multi-cultural vendors will be in
San Juan Bautista from 10am to 7 pm.
One Earth One People Peace Vision and the San Juan Intertribal
Council is billed as a "living prayer for world peace" along
with a show and sale of arts and crafts. Included are basketry,
dance regalia, dolls, dream catchers, drums, jewelry, paintings,
pottery, sculpture, weavings and more!
Entertainment:
* Xipe Totec Aztec Dancers will present the Fire Dance and White
Eagle Dance celebrating Cinco De Mayo both days at 3 and 5 p.m.
Audiences are invited by the Aztec Dancers and maestro Gerardo
Salinas of Mexico City to participate in the World Peace Dance.
* The California Indian Intertribal Dancers will give a memorial
honoring of California medicine song woman Bernice Torrez,
Kashaya Pomo, daughter of famed Essie Parrish. Before Bernice’s
death in 1996, Torrez annually sang sacred medicine songs at the
10 a.m. opening ceremonies. She formed the young peoples group
to do the ancient dance and songs to help people heal and enjoy
life. They will perform Sunday morning at 11 a.m. to honor
Bernice Torrez.
* San Juan Intertribal Council will drum and chant ancestral
honoring songs for heroism of veterans, children, women, men,
elders and families who foster peace in their homes and
communities. All peoples in traditional regalia are invited to
participate in the Peace Pow Wow dances. Families are invited to
do the Round Dance for world peace around the drum. Council
Peace Chief Sonne Reyna offers these songs on his CD ‘Healing
Songs of Earth and Sky’ created with famed musician Steven
Halpern. Children are also invited to place their handprints and
sign their names on the World Peace Teepee.
Schedule of Dancers, Drums & Music:
11:00 A.M.
KANYON SAYERS-ROODS
BLESSING SON
11:30 A.M.
ALLISON BARNES
CELTIC DANCERS
11:45 A.M.
PATRICK OROZCO
CALIFORNIA INDIAN DANCERS
12:45 A.M.
TRIQUI COPALA
WOMEN DANCERS
1:00 P.M.
SWIFTCLOUD
DRUM AND DANCERS
2:30 P.M.
STALIN LEMA
FLUTIST
3:00 P.M.
XIPE TOTEC AZTEC DANCERS
FIRE & WHITE EAGLE DANCE
4:00 P.M.
SWIFTCLOUD DRUM
DRUM AND DANCER
5:30 P.M.
XIPE TOTEC AZTECS
FRIENDSHIP DANCE
Admission: $1.00 Donation benefits Peace Vision, 501c.3:
Promoting Peace Through The Arts
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