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Christopher Brown
My life has been a love affair with the Earth. I love this place. It is our Garden of Eden - and it is the only one we have. I consider myself a professional sightseer, a daydreamer, and an explorer. I first saw the Grand Canyon then I was 15, when I hiked from the North Rim to the South Rim one weekend. What drew me back as an adult was the lure of the Colorado River, and the challenge and excitement of big whitewater. Slowly my interest shifted from the adrenaline of the rapids to the aesthetics of the Canyon, and the quiet tranquility of remote grottoes. I became entranced by the visual experience, the beauty of being in the Canyon. The photographs from the Canyon are my report on what I have seen - a record of one man's sightseeing delights. My view of the Canyon, from the inside out, is distinctly not the Grand Canyon most people expect to see. I never know what to expect when I go to the Canyon, just that it will be differentÐand this is what keeps me coming back for more! |
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Over many years my quest has been to achieve what I call "First Sight:" seeing objects as if for the first time in order to convey the essence of things in my photographs. I remain an explorer of both exterior and interior landscapes. I want to reveal layers of meaning and beauty that are often obscured by our preconceptions and habitual ways of perceiving the world, our relationships and ourselves.
Though the Grand Canyon is made of rocks, it was carved by water, and as Lao Tzu was fond of saying, the weak always overcomes the strong. This paradox is operative in river running and photography, both of which teach us to surrender to forces outside of ourselves. My photography is the result of an intuitive process based on these lessons. They are also a visual reminder of the restorative splendor and importance of wild landscapes, where people can go to explore, discover, and grow wise.
All best from the Canyon, AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS:
2008: Chautauqua Lecture: "Beauty and Reflection" |
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Christine Tulis
Christine Tulis is a contemplative harpist, award winning composer and healing artist inspired by a deep love of the spiritual qualities of the harp. She is devoted to creating musical experiences that nourish our Divine essence and primarily does this through her sacred music evenings called Sound Temples. The Sound Temple concept is an integration of Christine's 20 years of experience with sound healing, exploring the power of sacred text to transform consciousness and using the harp as a bridge between the inner and outer worlds. |
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She plays internationally and has performed for two U.N. events and at Chartres Cathedral, France for Labyrinth pilgrimage. Primarily self taught on harp, her most influential teachers are Kim Robertson, Christina Tourin and Loreena McKennitt. She is the founder and director of Sound Temple Music and Healing Arts based in Boulder, CO through which she produces CDs, offers private healing sessions and creates sacred music events. www.christinetulis.com.
Kem Stralka Kem Stralka, MM Ed., is a classically trained multi-percussionist, educator, composer and audio engineer. Kem has performed widely in the U.S. and shared the stage and studio with pop legends, including: Carol Kay, Joe Sample, J.J. Cale, John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Tom Rush, The Coasters and The Drifters. A New York native, Kem moved to Boulder Colorado where he attended the University of Colorado and received a Bachelors in Music and the Recording Arts. He has taught in schools, performed in jazz ensembles and started the Colorado Drummers Collective in 1981 where he taught jazz drum set and world rhythm percussion ensembles. As a co-founder of the Colorado percussion ensemble Kandombe, Kem became immersed in the rhythm cultures of South America, Africa and the Caribbean. In 1996 he moved to Boston to pursue a Masters Degree at the New England Conservatory of Music and tenured with Boston Pops drummer Fred Budda. |
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Becky Reardon
Becky Reardon's voice is familiar to the millions of people who heard her singing on the Charlie Brown TV specials in the 1970s and '80s. She appeared with George C. Scott and The Fifth Dimension in an NBCTV celebration of the 100th anniversary of the national parks, and she was a regular performer at acoustic venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a studio singer for national TV and radio commercials. Drawn to New Mexico in the early 90s, Becky's singing was transformed during an initiatory time of camping and hiking in desert canyons and the high mountains. She responded to the beautiful world around her by improvising songs to the moon and stars, and to the rocks and canyon walls, She found herself harmonizing with the calls of birds and the riffles of wild streams, and scatting counterrhythms to the pulse of her feet on the trail. Out of these joyful experiences she fashioned songs and rounds for community gatherings celebrating the solstices and other ancient holy days, and for theater groups and women's circles creating ceremonies of passage to the underworld, rebirth, transformation and affirmation. |
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From New Mexico and California, her songs and rounds have spread to singing circles and choirs all across the US, Canada, and British Isles. They are treasured for their ability to move singers and listeners to deep places of pleasure, laughter, awe, and healing.
Becky lives in Taos, New Mexico, and travels widely to lead singing-in-circle workshops. She was a guest presenter at the NASA-sponsored Institute for Science Educators at Chaco Canyon in 2008, and since 2005 has co-led, with Melanie DeMore, Kate Munger, and Terry Garthwaite, the beloved Women'sSinging in Circle Retreat at the Lama Foundation in Northern New Mexico.
Her songs are collected in three CDs: Follow the Motion, Songs for a Walk, Inside the Outside, and Natural Rhythms, with Terry Garthwaite.
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Tree Andrew
Tree Andrew was introduced to the Native American flute by her uncle, Leon Littlebird. Her style of playing is to share whatever spirit brings through her (and the flute) in the moment. She plays as part of her personal spiritual practice, and also as a healing modality in her work as a psychotherapist, educational consultant for at risk youth, and vision quest guide. During her time as a wilderness therapist for children and adolescents, Tree would often play for the kids as a way to ground and deepen their connection to themselves. Often, she can be found sitting in nature with her flute, and has played in canyons, desert, alpine tundra and even in the rain forest of Costa Rica. Tree is a founding member of Resonance Women's Chorus in Boulder, Colorado. |
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Bonnie Carol
With a natural energetic ease, Bonnie Carol sings and plays hammered and fretted dulcimers as well as African marimba, bodhran, folk drums and hand percussion. A performance is likely to encompass traditional music from North and South America, the British Isles, Caribbean rhythms, and even Tex-Mex tunes, all fitting together in that exuberant whole we call World Music. In addition to her solo concerts, Bonnie can be found playing in an African marimba ensemble, a Celtic ensemble, and a square dance band. |
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Bonnie's music has filled concert halls from New York to Nicaragua for four decades. She is an international ambassador for peace in the most artistic sense, a visionary from the high country of Colorado. She has an arresting natural charm, extraordinary talent and energy, acres of instruments and mountains of talent.
Bonnie possesses professional credentials that are some of the most complete in the industry. She has produced, recorded, and distributed half a dozen recordings of her music, on which she plays the majority of the instruments. She put her knowledge of traditional music, dulcimers, and African marimbas into the eight books she has authored. Most of the dulcimer contests across the nation have seen Bonnie win or place.
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