 All you have to do is breathe in and breathe out. Enjoy your... Hello, good evening. Welcome to the second showing of the Earth Keepers Musical. We're so happy to have you here. My name is Ginger Cloud, and I'm the author of the Earth Keepers Musical. And I'm a member of Cultivating Peace for Mott, which is our host. Cultivating Peace for Mott is a local nonprofit focused on increasing peace through mindful community engagement. These performances are free, and any donation is welcome. Any donations go to the cast and other organizations that have helped made this event possible. There are porta-potties back over there. We have our information table right over here with the blue cloth. And in the program, there are multiple ways to donate if you'd like to do that later. Before we start, we have some thank yous to give. First off, I want to thank our cast. This incredible group of women are so courageous, and they've been working on this performance since April. It's been a real honor to work with them, and I hope you enjoy their voices, and I hope you join them in singing. We've been delighted to have Daryl Brown as our percussionist. We have Mary Mulaney as our drum master, and Beth Mueller, which is a local artist. She did our poster for us, and we're so grateful. I want to express deep gratitude to the many individual and business sponsors who are also listed in our program that really helped us kickstart this program. I want to acknowledge our sound and technical director, Lisa Smith, our stage manager, Richard McIntyre. We have our musical director, Heidi Wilson, who's here earlier, but he should see us online. My mom, Sandra Schachet, was our seamstress. Say, mom, thanks. He was healing for her. I'm not sure if I was in place as a kid, so it was nice. And then we also, many other people that are too numerous to name. Thank you. So we want to call out to our land spiritual and blood ancestors that have brought us together right here in this moment. We recognize that we're on Abenaki land, and we invite healing into this space. This is a participatory musical, and so that means we encourage you to sing with us. Some of the songs are called in response, and otherwise there are lyrics in the program. And they're pretty easy, so you can catch on pretty quickly. When the bell's invited, we encourage you to take some deep breaths and just ground and have your feet on the ground and enjoy your place on this earth. We have this circle of care here with the flowers and the bowls of water. And over at the table in that little green box, there's disappearing paper. And we invite people to write names of people, maybe yourself or loved ones or unknown people that have been impacted by war and violence. And then add them to the bowls of water at your leisure. And as that paper dissolves in the name, evaporates, it's really about releasing these holding patterns of violence and war in our culture and that happen to this earth. So we hope you join us for that as well. Lastly, we ask that you hold any applause until the end. If you'd like in between songs, we love to see like happy hand waves or snaps. Thank you so much for being here. We're so happy to have this final performance for this evening. I feel my afflictions and suffering begin to dissolve. My mind is clear. My body relaxed. And a smile is born on my lips. Following the bell sound, my breathing guides me back to the safe island of mindfulness. In the garden of my heart, the flower of peace blooms beautifully. Body and bone, a promise between Mother Earth and humanity. Feather and stone, feather and stone, feather action I give day and night. Next song is water, the water song. It's a call to the elements and the audience we ask that you participate in this call and response song. Sunshine, sunshine, shine down on me. Shine down on me, sunshine, shine down on me. You set me free, you set me free. Ansko marching three by three, hurrah, hurrah. The Ansko marching three by three, till one stops to take a knee down. To the ground, to get out of the war. Next song is the cedar song. Tall mountains and strong trees. All beings belong to one another and to the Earth. From the broken of my brothers that cannot be separated from my own. To the organism of existence. Next song is Vietnam. There is no escape from war. I didn't work for my father. He decided to join the Marines. He saw a life that was familiar, one of hurting and harming other beings. As a child, I grew up with his anger. As a child, I became a witness to so much more. Vietnam, Vietnam, war, war, war. My two sisters and my brother, we all learned what it was like to live with war. We all saw my father's battles. We knew what it was like to be poor. Vietnam, Vietnam, war, war, war. Vietnam, Vietnam, war, war, war. Pills, alcohol and violent temper. No time to be a father when you're a veteran. Too many wounds, they go, they go unhealed. The unspoken awareness of war's broken home. Vietnam, Vietnam, war, war, war. Vietnam, Vietnam, war, war. Vietnam, Vietnam, war, war. The Vietnam War is alive in my sisters. The Vietnam War is alive in my brother. The Vietnam War is alive in me. Marching by, the ants go marching by, by, by, until one stops to stay alive. To the ground, to get out of the war. Next song, help me to love you for oneself. Love for humanity and love for the earth. Next song, Ocean Alive. A collective prayer for marine life. We invite you to focus your attention on an element of marine life, a dolphin, shark, plankton or any marine life. And as we sing, we'll be sending our collective love to the ocean with the intention of rebirthing life that is on the end of death due to human pollution. A rain cloud will appear over the ocean raining down our collective energy as medicine. Next song, I am that I am. It is it. Shine, the time is now. Next song, my heart song. A call to learn and love and be peaceful. My heart song, my heart song, my heart song. My heart song says learn from nature. My heart song says learn from nature. My heart song, my heart song, my heart song. My heart song says lovers mother. My heart song says lovers mother. My heart song, my heart song says make peace happen My heart song says make peace happen My heart song says learn from nature My heart song says learn from nature Now says love earth mother My heart song says love earth mother Now says my heart song says make peace happen My heart song says make peace happen Now says learn from nature My heart song says learn from nature Now my heart song, my heart song, my heart song Good mother, let's go marching, nine little one stops, step out of line To the ground, to get out of the- We inter-R, we inter-R, we are full of everything, yet empty of a separate self We inter-R, we inter-B, inter-R, we inter-R Coming out tonight and for participating, you can always see this again and again on Orca Media Thank you so much Orca Media for doing a live stream for us, the 115 and the 530 show We love you, we care for you, we are family with you And please contribute some names to the water and let some of this pain dissolve