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Monday, April 27th

***DOORS OPEN @ 7pm with live music and short films***
***SPEAKERS BEGIN @ 8pm***


Project Butterfly, Reality Sandwich.com and Evolver.net present::

EVOLVER 2013: WHAT COMES NEXT?

An event filled with visionary speakers, music, art, film and practical tools and models for proper transformation.

Hosted and Moderated by ::


DANIEL PINCHBECK
Pinchbeck is the Editorial Director for RealitySandwich.com :: A web magazine featuring essays and articles on subjects from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies. Reality Sandwich is a platform for voices conveying a different vision of the transformations we face.

Pinchbeck is also the author of "Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism" and "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl", which examines prophecy through personal and philosophical approaches, and offers the hypothesis that humanity is experiencing an accelerated process of global consciousness transformation, leading to a new realization of time and space during this period.

with guest speakers::


FIDEL RODRIGUEZ :: Divine Forces Media :: www.divineforces.org
Fidel Rodriguez is producer and host of the award winning radio show: "Divine Forces Radio" which formerly aired on KPFK. DFR flawlessly blends music, education, in-studio guests, and spiritual consciousness within a theme-based show. DFR now continues its legacy on Divine Forces' Media. Divine Forces' Media creates inspirational and insightful cutting-edge Radio, TV and Film productions, conferences, and concerts. DFM focuses on facilitating cultural and popular education-based curriculums for non-profit organizations and governmental agencies. Their intention in all media relations is to assist and expand human consciousness through the art of media and auspicious projects.


LARRY SANTOYO :: Earthflow, Permaculture Institute LA :: www.earthflow.com
Larry Santoyo is Vice President and Field Director of the Permaculture Institute USA, Founder of the LA Permaculture Guild and Director of the ecological planning firm, EarthFlow Design Works, a community planning and design firm that integrates economic development strategies with ecological systems management. He has 30 years experience in natural building and sustainable landscape construction including 20 years experience as a Permaculture Designer and Educator. Santoyo also taught with Bill Mollison in Australia and in the US.


LISA RENEE :: Energetic synthesis :: www.energeticsynthesis.com
Lisa Renee is an Intuitive, Spiritual mentor, Writer, Quantum Therapist and Etheric surgeon. Lisa Renee's mission is to support humanity through its evolution with education, awareness and by discussing the impacts of the energy shifts upon the planet, human beings and human consciousness.


JOHN MARSHALL ROBERTS :: Transformational Design :: www.jmarshallroberts.com
John Marshall Roberts is an acclaimed speaker and serves as communications and consultant for several client organizations, including Evenson Design Group, a sustainable branding and design firm in Los Angeles. A former psychology professor, John's unique insight into the psychology of the communication design process has made him a prominent contributor to several pioneering projects over the past decade.

An outspoken voice within the Los Angeles sustainable business community, John is particularly interested in using his research to further the environmental movement's agenda. He works with a variety of profit and non-profit organizations to create messaging campaigns that inspire environmental action.


Ryan Wartena :: iCel Systems, Inc. :: www.icelsystems.com
Ryan Wartena, Ph.D., iCeL Systems, Inc., Van Nuys, CA, CTO for a revolutionary integrated energy systems company. iCel develops intelligent energy storage architectures with energetic awareness and geometric insights from source to load. Integrating distributed energy systems across the planet for the home, business, automotive, industrial and utility with the global communications systems. iCel is building the "Internet of Energy", because it is easier to send information about energy than sending energy.

Performances by ::


The Deprogramming Division ::
The Deprogramming Division is a sub-sect of Herwig Maurer's New World Revolution, based in Venice, Ca. This trio carefully blends diverse genres into a potion of live ambient soundscapes using acoustic and electric
instruments, featuring Adam Yasmin on Cajon and Yogi Hendlin on Hang drum.

more info and sounds at www.newworldrevolution.com and www.adamyasmin.com


Miranda Rondeau :: www.myspace.com/mirandarondeau ::
Miranda is a singer, songwriter, musician and frame drummer whose music is inspired by the inward journey. Her chanting transcends language, bypasses the intellect, and is devotional and invoking in nature.


rooftop after party with ::


DJ Jun :: www.junantazo.com ::
Hard to define with words DJ Jun is like the City of Angels itself:: rich in diversity, flavor and intensity.

+ More!


We will be celebrating the launch of Evolver.net :: a new social network for conscious collaboration and our los angeles community

Tickets :: $25

To purchase, please click on the button below::


For discounts or trade inquiries please email:: info@projectbutterfly.org

Location:
The Downtown Independent
251 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

[ Evening begins at 7pm, "What About Me?" screens at 8pm ]

Due to popular demand and because everyone must see this movie, we are doing it again! At the newly founded, "state of the art" theater:: Downtown Independent.

Project Butterfly presents Two Special Screenings of the yet to be released film "What About Me?" The latest visionary project from the Creators of the Grammy Nominated film & album "1Giant Leap".

Following the success of their first double Grammy nominated film & album, "What About Me?" Is the latest offering from 1 Giant Leap. This visionary project took Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman to over 50 locations as they explore through music, the complexities of human nature on a global scale, and aims to reveal how we are all connected through our creativity and beliefs, but most of all through our collective insanity.

Covering universal topics such as God, Sex, Death and Money,"What About Me?" Features an incredibly diverse collection of collaborators from Noam Chomsky to Will Young, Maxi Jazz to Tim Robbins, Billy Connolly to Michael Stipe, Eckhart tolle to Baaba Mall, among many others.

"What About Me?" is a poignant emotional and entertaining time capsule of humanity at its most inspirational.

Each evening will include::

Excerpts from the first Grammy nominated film "1 Giant Leap"
Screening of “What About Me?”
Q&A with co-director Duncan Bridgeman
Rooftop After Party
plus Special Guests & Performances:

THU: Miranda Rondeau [Frame Drum & Vocals
Rich Ferguson [Spoken Word]
Adam Yasmin and Yogi Hendin [Percussion Duo]
DJ Jun [Sound Selector]

SUN: Rich Ferguson [Spoken Word]
Mike the Poet [Spoken Word]
Adam Yasmin and Yogi Hendin [Percussion Duo]
Manu Delago [Music Pefomance]
DJ Jun [Sound Selector]



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Ticket Prices are $15

Screening Dates and Times:

Thursday :: 09 April 2009 :: Evening begins @ 7pm "WHAT ABOUT ME?" SCREENS AT 8PM
Sunday :: 12 April 2009 :: Evening begins @ 7pm "WHAT ABOUT ME?" SCREENS AT 8PM

These screenings begin a collaboration between Project Butterfly and the Downtown Independent. Stay tuned for many more Project Butterfly events at this venue.

Location:
Downtown Independent
251 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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See you there,

Project Butterfly

[Image: "Dragon Fly" by Tony Moss]

We invite you to "Tools of Remembrance", an Introductory Frame Drum Workshop & mini performance with Miranda Rondeau and guest Eliana Gilad from Galilee

The frame drum is one of the oldest universal instruments in the world. It is a powerful archetype and tool of remembrance. Its circular shape symbolizes wholeness, unity, and oneness. In the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean , the frame drum was used for religious functions, rites of passage, communal bonding and celebration. The predominant players were women. In indigeneous cultures the frame drum is the sound of the Holy Mother. Join us and be re-enchanted with the frame drum. For women and men.

Miranda will open with song offerings on various frame drums.

In this workshop we will:
*Learn to play in the upright position with our hands and fingers
*Learn to recite and play basic strokes of the drum
*Explore basic music concepts
*Explore different rhythm & stroke combinations
*Weave in the symbology and intention of the strokes.
*Develop a relationship to the drum
Frame drums provided or bring your own drum, with thumb cut out or thumb hole. Some frame drums will be available for sale.

**No drum experience necessary**

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Please email info@projectbutterfly.org with any questions.

Miranda Rondeau is a singer, songwriter, musician and frame drummer whose music is inspired by the inward journey. Her chanting transcends language, bypasses the intellect, and is devotional and invoking in nature.

She has performed and weaved through many circles of communities throughout southern California since 1994, both as a soloist and within various percussion ensembles, performing at colleges, Universities, drum festivals, churches, Yoga & Dance classes as well as community rituals and ceremony's.

Miranda has studied and performed with Layne Redmond and Italian frame drummer, Alessandra Belloni who are both pioneers in the world of frame drums. Miranda brings her intuitive instinctual experience and relationship to the drum to her performance and workshops.

She has taught frame drum workshops at the World Sacred Music Festival, Gaia Festival, Goddess Temple of Orange County, REMO Music Center, Bang-a-Drum Store, as well as at yoga studios, universities, colleges and elementary schools.

Location:
Project Butterfly Loft
821 Traction Ave #108
Los Angeles, CA 90013
[Downtown's Arts District]
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[Special, reduced price for Project Butterfly's Community :: $30/day or $50 for both days. To take advantage of this offer, email info@projectbutterfly.org to RSVP]

"The future of sustainability is in our cities and towns. Urban neighborhoods are ideal for the promise and potentials of permaculture design. Our cities embody the greatest concentration of the social, intellectual and physical resources needed to create a sustainable system."
-L. Santoyo

This weekend's session of the 7th annual Permaculture Design Course Series will be hosted by Project Butterfly on Saturday April 4th and Sunday April 5th.

The Los Angeles Permaculture Guild has one of the largest and most dynamic City Permaculture groups in the world -who now work beyond the garden to bring sustainable solutions to city planning, community activism and more.

Larry Santoyo, Vice President and Field Director of the Permaculture Institute USA, Founder of the LA Permaculture Guild and Director of the ecological planning firm, EarthFlow Design Works. L. Santoyo is an ex-lawman (and outlaw!) has 30 years experience in natural building and sustainable landscape construction including 20 years experience as a Permaculture Designer and Educator. Santoyo also taught with Bill Mollison in Australia and in the US. Larry received the Permaculture Community Service Award from the Permaculture Institute (Australia) for his pioneering work.

The Two-Day Educational Event will Cover:

Day 1
Course description, group introductions, site orientation & house rules, Permaculture Design ethics, theory, Indicators of Sustainability.

This session will introduce the guiding philosophies and fundamental methodologies of Permaculture Design. Students will develop skills for recognizing the intrinsic characteristics of natural systems.

Day 2
Concepts and themes of design, origins of form, design methodologies, zones and sectors, base mapping, procedures of property design, design teams.

Permaculture design emphasizes the patterning of landscape, function and species relationships. Concepts of flow patterns, guilds, edge effects and harmonics are covered in this section with reference to specific site examples. Students will begin to formulate their own ideas for site improvement using Permaculture principles.

To register please email info@projectbutterfly.org

Location:
Project Butterfly Loft
821 Traction Ave #108
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(Downtown Arts District)