Anti fracking, anti mining.

The hunger for minerals and fossil fuel is damaging the earth, in many countries.
Here's some voices, strong voices, who question the whole thing.

Movie from Canada about a young layer Caleb Behn.



Frack is Wack                    Get The Frack Out!

They Get Rich. You Get Cancer.                    Can’t Drink Money

Love Your River                                  Health Over Profit

Don’t Be Fracking Crazy!                               Fraccidents Happen


Solar Now!                   Thou shalt not frack.


And in Sweden we are giving away our mineral recources to foreign companys, leaving only the scars and wounds in the earth for the local people who live there. This land belongs to the indigenous sami people, and colonial Sweden has taken land from the sami for a long time. Now Sweden give away the minerals to foreign company, Beowulf Mining Company in Great Britan. Let's fight this on a political level, we live in a democracy and our politicians has to listen to the people.
This time the big companies will learn that there is resistance. Reindeer herding has been there more than 1000 years, and the reindeers way of walking in the mountains and forests eating different plants around the year is essential to maintain this lifestyle. A new mine in this area will become the end of that era. We can't let it happen.




TED talk Sofia Jannok:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZu8xECOdw

Long live the sami culture in Gallok! And elsewhere.
Eva 

Reflections of light and water

A sunny afternoon near the beach on a winter day.

Walk by the sea.

Blue sky after days of rain.

I've spend time with a group of youngster & three other youth leaders, totally marvellous group! Confirmand group.

Four days we shared talk, songs, playfulness, deep talk, games, movie (Matrix I) creativity, candy-eating, prayers, friendship at the youth camp.
Us grown ups enjoyed the beach walk most, perhaps.
Pilgrim walk.
To me it was one of the great parts, as I always like to be outside
with the sky as my ceiling.

The power of play is my greatest memory of this camp.
Thank you for the play!
Long live playfulness!

Eva

Pete Seeger words!

Words!
By Peter Seeger.

"Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history."
- Pete Seeger

"Every times I'm in the woods, I feel like I'm in church."
- Pete Seeger

"Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live."
- Pete Seeger

"It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with."
- Pete Seeger


Today it's time to go to a youth camp a few hours south from here. I'm excited to go. I wish and hope there will be lots of moments when we truly meet, share, have fun and dare to talk important things. Indeed, we are there because it's a church confirmand camp, one of the rare moments when young people can talk about life mystery without having parents present, or in a ordinary school setting.

They are a lovely bunch of youngsters, full of energy as it should be. I can clearly remember when I was in the same age. Sometimes very much a confused thinker who wondered deeply about the mystery of life, and sometimes just a kid playing around. My wish is to be there for them the way I remember some really good people were there for us back in those days.

The four Pete Seeger quotes are in a way as if designed for this youth camp.
If you ask me.

Eva

GIFF - Gothenburg Film Festival 2014

Yesterday I enjoyed two films. And I really enjoyed. This years GIFF has delivered again. I had great company too, a friend who also enjoys slow movies that gives you a lot of food for thought.

Previous years I have chosen to se movies from Asia. So I'm glad my friend choose this one. (To surprise eachother we picked one film each)  I love the rythm, the symbolic pictures, the way of getting a glimpse of how it can be for people who live there.


Toilet Blues, by Dirmawan Hatta. A poetic, dramatic, symbolic film from Indonesia. It talks about the good and bad in every human, how life concists of both.



In one scene in Toilet Blues it's a rail road worker standing with a light on his hand saying: the train you know where it goes, it follows the track. But a humans head can go whichever way. Listen to the heart. The heart will lead, the heart is the track and the head will follow.


To widen my insights in what it is to be young and native in the US I wanted to see Pine Ridge, documentary movie by swedish film maker Anna Eborn.
Because I have a big interest in Idle No More movement.
Because indigenous knowledge is spreading and doing so much good work for clean air and water.
Because it's about indigenous rights.
I have to tap into this whole thing to understand better. Hopefully my contacts will lead me to travel there in a not too far away future.

Anna Eborn's film is not about Idle No More, it's about the people living on Pine Ridge. Are you interested to know how Idle No More comes into this? Check out social Media Hashtags: #MoccasinsontheGround #HonourTheEarth #NoKXL

Here's an interview with Anna Eborn:

Eva

Lindy in the djungle

After work lindy tonight. Bring out the child in you, it's said :-)

Watch this lovely gem: 



Have a lovely weekend!
Eva

The lady with the hawk eyes....

...has recieved all my tax papers for 2013 today. It's such a relief to hand it over. She knows my business since many years now.

This releases all energy to focus on Myst rehearsing  upcoming days. Tomorrow I'll meet the band, plus composer Roger Johansson. Number four out of four workshops we do together in our own incubator for new music. It's all about co-creation and stepping outside ones comfort zone.
Bring out the forces!

Wall in Switzerland.

Yes please, give me clear sight.

For to celebrate myself in this moment when the tide turn (...and the sea calls out once more) I bought myself a pair of leather boots at the Noa Noa shop. Irmelin has a Noa Noa fling since many years, we often chooses to have that danish design outfits when we perform. Now I can walk on with really nice new boots.

Gone wild. A night of the folly

Rain and more rain. A very warm night for the season.
But no rain will stop the star from going from house to house and knock the door. Stomping the grounds of Hönö Island. May we come in and sing the star-song?

Money was collected for charity. This year for the Swedish Sea Rescue Society and the Cancer Research Foundation.

Judas, wise man and King Herodes just before going out.

One of my fellow carachters, "the star", told me she will keep on doing this as long as she can. -"Because when you go out in the night in masquerade and disguised, it's a feeling we are the only ones that exist in the whole world."

With roots in middel age traditions.
Happening when the nights are the darkest.

Judas and Mörjeland's King.

We formed four bands of the Star. 7-8 people in each band. Seems to be a word-of-mouth organized thing, who is coming and joining. Each band walk in different neighbourhoods on the island.

Dressing up. Preparing in the afternoon.

Being someone else for a nigth. Taking on a compleete other personality. My role was to be a wise man of the East.

At midnight we gathered after performing in 20-25 houses/band and shared a hot meal. Home made Jansons has never tasted better! Also sharing some really funny stories of the nights experiences.

After we took our masks & costumes off and washed away the thick layers of make up, I couldn't recognize the people I've spend the whole afternoon + night with. When I saw the boots I could tell who it was.

The star.

Now it's the day after. I'm writing and thinking back on a fantastic night out on the wild island. Happily I will go out tonight again but now it's the folly of the dance floor.

Eva