Project Earth

Michael Franti and Wookiefoot- "Rivers of Babylon"

This summer, Wookiefoot put together an amazing charity festival called Project Earth. It was a small, intimate event and only 1,000 tickets were sold. According to the website, "The intention of the festival was to co-create a community celebration with the event patrons. Primarily, Project Earth was an opportunity to camp together and fund raise for charitable causes. 100% of the profits for the festival went to help other communities around the globe from emergency relief, sustainability, to education and medicine. By taking the focus off the "main stage" and dividing the energy between numerous ambient performance spaces, and an atmosphere of intimate spontaneity unfolded. The idea was to focus hundreds of ticket purchasing participants to be involved in everything from prop building, theme camp design, workshop presentation, performance, family activities, promotions, clean up, etc."

The campground was divided into 7 spaces, representing the Chakras (bodies of wheel-like energy that permeate from certain points on the physical body, according to Indian medicine). The Chakras represented were Crown Chakra, Third Eye Chakra, Throat Chakra, Heart Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra, Sacral Chakra, and Root Chakra, each representing certain themes.


This festival was an opportunity to "make art that is larger than that we can make as individuals." I really hope to be a part of this experience next summer!