BONFIRES FOR PEACE at PRITCHARD PARK

2013 DATES (all Saturdays): April 13, May 11, June 8, July 13, August 10. INTERESTED bands/performers, dancers, theater acts, juggles etc—email me, pasckie@yahoo.com or Jadwiga McKay, jadwigamckaypromo@gmail.com or call Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555.

INITIAL Committed Bands/Performers: Riyen Roots, Brief Awakening for April 13; Kri and Touch Samadhi for May and August (possibly moved to a Sunday); Peace Jones for July 13.

FOOD POETS SOCIETY (poetry, music, food), Event 3, NOV 24/Sat/9PM—PERFORMERS: Riyen Roots, Alex Haskell, Michael Tao, and poets Jadwiga McKay and Pasckie Pascua. VENUE: Vanuatu Kava Bar, 15 Eagle St, downtown Asheville. 828 505-8118. FREE, food is donation basis. 

“PURPLE IS THE COLOR OF FIRE.” 

A series of poetry/music events for breast cancer awareness. [1] Launch event, Oct 27, Vanuatu Kava Bar: Featuring Dulci Ellenberger, Madelyn Lavender, Regina Duke, Alisa Danielle Kuumba Zuwena and Jadwiga McKay; [2] Second event, Nov 15, Westville Pub: Featuring Westsound, Laine Lewis and Deva Laxamana. INFO: Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555 or email pasckie@yahoo.com.

http://ashevilletravelingbonfires.blogspot.com/

Peace Jones headlines Traveling Bonfires' “Food Poets Society” poetry, music (and food) show at Vanuatu Kava Bar, Oct 27

LOCAL band Peace Jones is the main act in the Traveling Bonfires' monthly poetry, music (with food) show, “Food Poets Society” at Vanuatu Kava Bar on Oct 27. The event is free to the public.

     Folk-rock-Americana band Peace Jones, a perennial guest in Traveling Bonfires' events, is anchored on Paul “Drum” DeCirce's flamboyant flute and ruminative songwriting.

     Also performing in the event are slam poet Riley Schilling and Pasckie Pascua, and a number of guests. 
     The Traveling Bonfires' centerpiece project is the “Bonfires for Peace,” a movable feast of family fun and community connectedness through music, arts and dancing, held mostly at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. The project just concluded its 3-event 2012 summer program, its 10th year in the mountains, last Sept 15. The organization organized an unprecedented 16 weekend events here in 2004, and more through ensuing years.

     “Food Poets Society,” a dinner and poetry/music gathering, is a brainchild of TBonfires founder Pasckie Pascua. He prepares food, mostly an “interface of Pacific island cuisine and Western food choices,” and serves them on donation basis for the benefit of the organization's community projects.

     Pascua, a veteran journalist and publisher-editor of the Asheville-based The Indie newsmagazine, is also a parttime cook with training at Gascony Cookery School in Gramont, France and at the Los Angeles Culinary Arts & Design School in Santa Monica, California.

     The Traveling Bonfires has also produced similar outdoor and indoor events in New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and in the Philippines where it originated, “instigating arts and music events and bringing people together in celebration of peace and multicultural connectedness."

     The Traveling Bonfires' events enjoyed the support of a number of local Asheville businesses, organizations, and individuals. Projects have benefited non-profit organizations that work with at-risk youths, families of the disappeared, orphans, and disaster victims.

For more info, http://ashevilletravelingbonfires.blogspot.com/ or call Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555 or email pasckie@yahoo.com

Traveling Bonfires' Wander Women Program Launches Series of Breast Cancer Awareness Events at Vanuatu Kava Bar, Oct 27 and Westville Pub, Nov 15

WANDER Women, a partner program by the Traveling Bonfires that is spearheaded by but not exclusive to women, launches “Purple is the Color of Fire,” a series of events for breast cancer awareness.

     The kick off show, which is an open dinner invite to breast cancer survivors and patients and their families, happens on Oct 27, Saturday, 8PM at Vanuatu Kava Bar on 15 Eagle Street in downtown Asheville.

     The free show features local singer songwriters Dulci Ellenberger and Madelyn Lavender, poet-singers Regina Duke and Alisa Danielle Kuumba Zuwena, and poet Jadwiga McKay. Breast cancer survivors and patients and their families are invited to share dinner and enjoy the show, free. Neo Cantina and The Blotter co-sponsor these events.
     The second event, set on Nov 15, Thursday, at Westville Pub in West Asheville, highlights the soul and R&B band WestSound, along with Laine Lewis and dancer Deva Laxamana. Suggested donation for this show is $5, entitling the patron a raffle ticket to various gifts from Asheville supporters.

     “Purple is the Color of Fire” is a continuation of a similar advocacy event for breast cancer prevention that was held in Manila and Baguio City in the Philippines in 2010. The Traveling Bonfires originated in the Philippines but has made Asheville its home since moving here from New York City in 2002.

     “This series of events is a continuous advocacy project that doesn't just happen in October,” says Marta Osborne, TBonfires and Wander Women supervising producer. “We are committed to carry on not just in Asheville but also in other cities and also in Manila.” October is billed as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

     The Traveling Bonfires' centerpiece project is the “Bonfires for Peace,” a movable feast of family fun and community connectedness through music, arts and dancing, held mostly at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. The project just concluded its 3-event 2012 summer program, its 10th year in the mountains, last Sept 15. The organization organized an unprecedented 16 weekend events here in 2004, and more through ensuing years.

     The Traveling Bonfires has also produced similar outdoor and indoor events in New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and in the Philippines where it originated, “instigating arts and music events and bringing people together in celebration of peace and multicultural connectedness. “

     “We see the need to effect a vibe of peace and joy in Asheville in the light of a record increase in crime and violence in the last few years,” says TBonfires founding executive director Pasckie Pascua. “We don't have to launch speeches, we just play music and enjoin the community to come out, dance and be together.”

     The Traveling Bonfires' events enjoyed the support of a number of local Asheville businesses, organizations, and individuals. Projects have benefitted non-profit organizations that work with at-risk youths, families of the disappeared, orphans, and disaster victims.

For more info, http://ashevilletravelingbonfires.blogspot.com/ or call Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555 or email pasckie@yahoo.com

ART by Duane Lucas Pascua

SEPT. 22 (Sat), 9 to 11 PM. 

FOOD POETS SOCIETY: “Poetry, Music, Food” 

Poet-cook Pasckie Pascua cooks Pacific Islander dishes to complement kava-kava. No cover charge for the show, food is donation basis. ENJOY cool poetry and music from Caleb Beissert, Paul DeCirce, Tom Hoa Binh & The Peacemakers, Aaron Price, Bill Ramsey, Riyen Roots, Jadwiga McKay, Michaela Roche, and more awesome local poets and musicians, while you savor exotic cuisine. 

Vanuatu Kava Bar, 15 Eagle St, downtown Asheville. 828 505-8118. 
INFO: Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555. https://www.facebook.com/events/426368447400433/

Thanks to Jon Seven for the poster. His outfit: Myres Design, based in Eugene, Oregon. Contact info: jon7even@hotmail.com or find him around Facebook.

COLORS and coolness will undulate with beautiful bodies and peaceful spirits as community celebrates when SENSOMA, KRIKETT, SPAGHETTIMAN provide music at BONFIRES for PEACE at Pritchard Park 
(downtown Asheville NC) on Sept 9, 4 to 9PM. 

BE COOL, COME OUT AND SHARE SOME SWEETNESS!

FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/events/407459835982939/

Traveling Bonfires presents “PEACE IS A FLOWER.” SEPT 11 (Tues), 8 to 11 PM, with James McKay (from England), Laura Hope-Gill, Caleb Beissert, Pasckie Pascua, and Aaron Price. Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar, 
1 Page Avenue, Asheville. 

FACEBOOK EVENTS PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/416291915094197/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

Bonfires for Peace is Back at Pritchard Park this Summer

"BONFIRES for Peace," the Traveling Bonfires' movable feast of family fun and community connectedness through music, arts and dancing, are back at Pritchard Park this summer—on Aug 19, Sept 9 and Sept 15, 4 to 9 in the evening.

     The events are free to the public. Pritchard Park is located right in the heart of downtown Asheville. Touch Samadhi, featuring Kri, Goadream and Sensoma provide music on Aug 19. Touch Samadhi, with a new set of DJ's, will be back on Sept 9.

     Touch Samadhi is a community of “trance Goa” DJ's that takes its spiritual root in Goa, a small state in India. Mythology says Goa is associated with “spiritually cleansing touch,” a peacefulness or consciousness that Traveling Bonfires believes fit well with its vision-mission of global peace and community harmony through diversity.

     “We see the need to effect a vibe of peace and joy in Asheville in the light of a record increase in crime and violence in the last few years,” says TBonfires founding executive director Pasckie Pascua. “We don't have to launch speeches, we just play music and enjoin the community to come out, dance and be together.”

     The Traveling Bonfires produced an unprecedented 16 weekend events here in 2004, and more through ensuing years. The organization has also produced similar outdoor and indoor events in New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Manila and Baguio in the Philippines where it originated, “instigating arts and music events and bringing people together in celebration of peace and multicultural connectedness. “

     The local band Zealots headline the Sept 15 event, which also features other local acts, poets and performers. Meantime, Traveling Bonfires holds parallel shows in choice venues in downtown.

     On Sept 11, visiting poet from England, James McKay reads with Pascua and Caleb Beissert at Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne Bar, 1 Page Avenue. The group also holds another poetry and music event at Vanuatu Kava Bar on Eagle Street on Sept 22. TBonfires will serve “mung beans soup” (with kava-kava), a dinner staple in the Pacific Islands, especially during typhoon seasons. Both programs are part of the organization's “Love is a Flower” summer series.

     The Traveling Bonfires' events enjoyed the support of a number of local Asheville businesses, organizations, and individuals. Projects have benefitted non-profit organizations that work with at-risk youths, families of the disappeared, orphans, and disaster victims.

     For more info, http://ashevilletravelingbonfires.blogspot.com/ or call Marta Osborne at 828 280 1555 or email pasckie@yahoo.com

UPCOMING EVENTS, 2012


[1] AUG 8 (Wednesday), 8 to 10 PM

Pasckie Pascua (featured poet)

Mind Gravy Poetry, produced by Al Black

Drip Coffee, 729 Saluda Ave at Five Points, Columbia, SC

Part of Pasckie's “Red is the Color of my Night” Summer 2012 Gig Series

[2] AUG 19 (Sunday), 
4 to 9 PM

“Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park”

Featuring Touch Samadhi's Kri, Goadream and Sensoma

Downtown Asheville NC

[3] SEPT 8 (Saturday), all day

The Traveling Bonfires joins Organicfest Downtown Asheville NC

[4] SEPT 9 (Sunday), 4 to 9 PM

“Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park”

Featuring Touch Samadhi (touchsamadhi.com)

Downtown Asheville NC

[5] SEPT 11 (Tuesday), 8 to 11 PM

Featuring James McKay, visiting poet from England. With Caleb Beissert, Pasckie Pascua, Aaron Price, and TBA.

Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne Bar

1 Page Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801. (828) 252-0020

Part of “Peace is a Flower” Summer 2012 Gig Series

[6] SEPT 15 (Saturday), 4 to 9 PM

“Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park”

Featuring The Zealots, and TBA performers

Downtown Asheville NC

[7] SEPT, 22 (Saturday), 
9 to 11 PM
Performers, TBA.

Vanuatu Kava Bar

15 Eagle St, Asheville. Tel # 828 505-8118

Essentially FREE to come in. Dinner plate of island dish is $7. proceeds go to Traveling Bonfires' community projects and the band.

PAST EVENT/s This Year, 2012

[ ] JULY 24 (Tuesday), 9 to 11 PM

Caleb Beissert, Pasckie Pascua, Aaron Price, Sarah Phoenix Noel
Battery Park Book Exchange and Champagne Bar

1 Page Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801. (828) 252-0020

Part of “Peace is a Flower” Summer 2012 Gig Series

INQUIRY: Marta Osborne, 828 280 1555, or email pasckie@yahoo.com

The Traveling Bonfires' “BONFIRES for PEACE at PRITCHARD PARK” will be back in downtown Asheville on Aug 19 (featuring Touch Samadhi's Kri, Goadream and Sensoma). If you feel like your life and love need some rockin' and rollin' and be volunteers--we are the peace train to hitch a ride with. It's fun! Come join us in our summer to fall community events. FOR details: call Marta Osborne, 828 280 1555, or email pasckie@yahoo.com.