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Saturday, September 26 is the Earthdance Festival in Second Life -

ABOUT EARTHDANCE

"Give peace a dance!"

THE EARTHDANCE MISSION is to promote peace by joining participants worldwide in a synchronized PRAYER FOR PEACE and to SUPPORT HUMANITARIAN CAUSES through the global language of music and dance.

On September 26, 2009, nearly half a million world citizens in over 60 countries will join together for the world’s largest synchronized music and dance festival for peace. The defining moment of each Earthdance event is a synchronized link-up, (4pm SLT) when every event around the world plays a specially produced song called "The Prayer for Peace" at exactly the same time.

"I think global events are a really hopeful sign. When something happens on one side of the planet, it naturally effects the other side. Afterall, we all share the same blue planet." -His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in conversation with Earthdance founder Chris Deckker (Dharamsala)

Learn more about this annual, international festival for peace at http://www.earthdance.org

I am mentioning this because we are playing my piece called "Ritual" there - with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse.
The Earthdance Festival is an all-day affair, (SLT time, which is Pacific Time - California); the AOM plays at 11 AM SLT.

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