INTERFAITH CONNECTION

Interfaith Works promotes interfaith understanding,

and serves the community through
charitable, social and educational endeavors.

Experience Artbeat of the Spirit

Music, dance and artwork from the world’s diverse sacred traditions will be celebrated at the
fifth annual World Sacred Music Festival from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday March 7 at South Puget
Sound Community College’s Kenneth Minnaert Center for the Arts.

Festival headliners include Portland Taiko (Japanese drumming), Word-Beat (a rhythm and vocal
duo from Washington, DC), and Thione Diop & Yeke Yeke (Senegalese drum and dance).

Three stages in center will host performances of pre-Hispanic Mexican music by Nuestro Canto,
Jewish music by Jewbilee and The Erev Ravs, sacred jazz by the Olympia Sacred Jazz Ensemble,
contemporary Bahai music by Russ Salton, solo kora (West African harp) by Sean Gaskell,
contemporary Native American flute by Peter Ali & Tammy Kennedy, Indian temple dance by
Arpan, sacred vocal music with percussion by Abrace, Sufi dance by the Mevlevi Order of
America, and more.

Olympia's World Sacred Music Festival is a showcase for musicians from across the Pacific
Northwest and beyond, all part of our world’s rich spiritual tapestry. Created by Interfaith Works
and sponsored in part by the Washington State Arts Commission, this all-day, family-friendly
global celebration is a rare opportunity to experience the music, dance, and visual art of different
sacred traditions in one location.

The festival will also include a display of sacred visual art, interactive workshops, ethnic food and
a marketplace with dozens of vendors of sacred ethnic and musical goods. Admission for the full
day of the festival is just $20, $15 for low-income individuals, and free for kids under 10
accompanied by a paid adult. Advance tickets are available at Rainy Day Records, Traditions Fair
Trade, and www.buyolympia.com For more information, performer biographies and links, and the
complete performance schedule, see the festival website: www.olysacredmusic.org.
www.olysacredmusic.org
_ Scott Stevens

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 Like to Shop
AND Help the World?

Another Way… Fair Trade Gifts and Foods is a

new retail shop and community outreach project
of the Lacey Community Church. Located at 4501
19th Ave SE in Lacey, the shop is open from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays.

Another Way offers a wide variety of foods and

handcrafts from fair trade and farmer-owned
cooperatives. Handcrafted gifts include unique
children’s toys and puppets, musical instruments,
jewelry and accessories, baskets, soaps, craft
kits, and aprons.

Divine Chocolates make a meaningful and

delicious gift for someone special. Divine
Chocolates are made from cocoa beans grown by
Kuapa Kukoo Cooperative in Ghana, the first
farmer-owned cooperative in the world. Fair trade
and shade grown coffees from Ethiopia,
Guatemala, Costa Rica and Peru and organic teas
from India and South Africa are also offered for
sale.
Education is an important aspect of this outreach
project. Shoppers can learn about cooperatives
around the world and enjoy a cup of tea while
they browse.
Proceeds pay living wages to craftspeople and
farmers and provide loans and grants to artisans
through SERRV, a nonprofit organization
dedicated to eradicating poverty. A portion of
each sale is returned to our local community
through support for hunger relief programs.
Another Way offers another choice for the
shopper who wants to put his money where his
heart is.
Need more information? Contact Dianna Ullery,
360-455-9329 or ullerys5@comcast.net .
A Sustainable Economy?
What is that?
Interfaith Works Earth Stewardship
Committee and Earth Care Catholics of
Olympia invite you to join them in viewing
and discussing a film “The Next Industrial
Revolution and The Birth of the Sustainable
Economy” at Traditions 300 FIfth Avenue.
This is the second of two videos that look at
our commercial-industrial production
processes. “The Next Industrial Revolution
and the Birth of the Sustainable
Economy” illustrates a closed loop,
sustainable model of industrial and
commercial development.
What is a sustainable economy? It’s an
economic system that meets the needs of
its current members without compromising
the prospects of future generations.
All are welcome at this free event at from 7
to 8:30 p.m. March 4.

February 2009
 Book lovers: Take note!
Books-Brownies-Beans, a one-day fundraiser that offers bargains on used books, CDs,
DVDs and videos returns Sat., Feb. 28. Set for 10am to 3 pm at the Olympia Unitarian
Universalist Congregation, this annual event will again include a bistro offering coffee,
brownies and ice cream plus a round of live entertainment.this year. Also planned is a
door-prize giveaway featuring signed copies of books by local authors (some of whom
will be on hand to chat with event-
goers).

Proceeds go to Out of the Woods. a

shelter that offers emergency services
for up to three homeless families at a
time for up to 90 days. During their stay
in OTW’s safe, home-like environment,
resident families are helped to find
jobs, permanent housing and in some
cases, sobriety. Of the 29 families that
have lived at OTW since its restructure
from an overnight shelter in 2006, 27
have moved from the shelter into
permanent housing.

For event details or to donate books,

CDs, DVDs and videos in good
condition, visit www.olyuu.org or call
Jan Spiller at 360-866-1921
(afternoon/eves) or Linda Crabtree at
360-357-4080.

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ENTERTAINMENT EXPLOSION PRESENTS

ANNUAL RUMMAGE / A REALLY BIG SHOE THREE

ESTATE SALE
Benefit show for homeless & needy kids
March 6TH & 7TH
Friday – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat. Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. and Sun. Feb. 22 at noon
Saturday – 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Washington Center for the Performing Arts
1st United Methodist
512 Washington St SE, Olympia, WA
Church
1224 E. Legion Way, Olympia Call 360-753-8586 for tickets, available for $10.50 and $12.50

Come find your special treasure! Website: www.entertainmentexplosion.org

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 COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Interfaith Works is pleased to announce some of the activities and events of our members and cooperating
organizations; IW does not necessarily endorse these events. More details & events at www.interfaith-works.org

Affirmation Prayer
9:15 to 3 p.m. Sat. Feb. 21. Call St. Placid Priory Spirituality Center at (360) 438-2595
or email spiritualityctr@stplacid.org.

The Wilderness Speaks: Lenten Journey Retreat

Feb. 27-March 1 (7:15 p.m. Friday to 1:30 p.m. Sunday).
Call St. Placid Priory Spirituality Center at (360) 438-2595 or email spiritualityctr@stplacid.org.

Healing Touch for Seriously Ill/End of Life Care

9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat. March 7
Call St.Placid Priory Spirituality Center at (360) 438-2595 or email spiritualityctr@stplacid.org.

Powerful Stuff: Word and Music Together

1 to 4 p.m. Sat. March 14
Call St.Placid Priory Spirituality Center at (360) 438-2595 or email spiritualityctr@stplacid.org

Night of 1,000 Desserts

6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fri. Feb 20
Capital High School A Pod. Presented by Capital High School Minesweepers Club, which
promotes awareness of global landmine issues and raises money for landmine removal. Donations
accepted. Information: Susan Staiert, 943-2173

Practicing Intimacy-Communication
Intimacy for Couples
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat. Feb. 21, $85 for singles, $150 for couples. Information: 360-754-2201.

LOTUS Support Group for Women is looking for two new members to join a weekly group for women
who want a safe, supportive environment for expressing themselves. Facilitated by Suska Davis, Ph.D. 7
to 9:15 p.m. Thursdays in Olympia (call for specific location). Sliding scale fee: $15 to $40 per session.
A six-week commitment is requested.

Intro to Nonviolent Communication Join trainer Liv Monroe for an introduction to this system of
interpersonal communication.
6:45 to 9 p.m. Wed. April 1 and Tues. June 2, Lincoln Elementary School cafeteria, 213 21st Ave. SE,
Olympia, Free; donations welcome.

Benefit for Local Families affected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, arrests and
deportations. 7 p.m. Fri., Feb. 20 (doors open at 6:30) at St. John's Episcopal Church, 19th and Capitol
Blvd., Olympia. Raúl Añorve, an immigrant rights activist from Southern California, will speak about the
state of immigrant rights. Requested donation $8- $10; All funds go to local families affected by ICE
raids. Hosted by Bridges Not Walls (www.oly-wa.us/bridges), with support from the Community
Sustaining Fund of Thurston County and the OUUC Social Justice Committee.

Spiritual Cinema Movie Night fourth Saturday of each month, 6:30 p.m., fireside room, The United
Churches of Olympia, 110 Eleventh Ave SE, Olympia. For an updated list of upcoming films, see http://
www.theunitedchurches.org/bookgroups.htm#Spiritual_Cinemas.

February 2009
 Help kids connect with nature
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful we should focus on the interdependence of life
lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not”. on this planet, on our commonality as all
having one home.
Most of all, we need to give kids direct
This is a quote from Dr Seuss’ The Lorax. As experiences with nature, and encourage them
much as I love Dr. Seuss and The Lorax, this to feel connected. That is a much stronger
book illustrates a type of environmental motivator than fear. Nature can be found in
education that I want to caution against. Too our own backyards, a city park, the schoolyard,
often, we bring disaster scenarios and images or the grounds of our faith communities.
of complete devastation to children who are Go for a walk and try to count the number of
already disconnected from nature. different trees in your neighborhood. Put out a
How many of you can think back to a birdfeeder and keep a list of the birds that
childhood time when you were outdoors and come. Look for bugs together. Pull kids away
felt connected with that place? Many children from the TV and back into communion with
don’t have those experiences now. We bring to nature.
their classrooms curriculums about the
rainforest, with images of deforestation and (Excerpted from a message by Sara Lewis,
facts about how quickly it is disappearing. If Director of Children’s Religious Education at
that were your first exposure to nature, how the Olympia Unitarian Universalist
would you feel? Congregation.)
For many children, it may lead to fear and
despair. When we do lessons in the classroom,

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 World Sacred
Music Festival
11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat. March 7

South Puget Sound Community College

Kenneth Minnaert Center for the Arts.

Festival headliners
Portland Taiko (Japanese
drumming)
Word-Beat (a rhythm and vocal
duo from Washington, DC)
Thione Diop & Yeke Yeke
(Senegalese drum and dance)

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