Drawing on Joanna Macy’s Council of All Beings practice, this event invites us to expand our perspective beyond the human and reconnect with the wider community of life. Through creative expression — music, poetry, and participatory ritual — we’ll give voice to the Earth’s many beings and hear their counsel for these times, joining in a shared act of listening, mourning, celebration, and imagination.
Guided by Weaving Earth’s spirit of Interspecies Hospitality & Earth Intimacy practices, we’ll weave story, song and interactive experience as we move through the Spiral of the Work that Reconnects:
- Gratitude for the Miracle of Life
- Honoring Our Pain for the World
- Homecoming to the Body of Earth
- Going Forth in Service to Life
Co-hosted by Lydia Violet and Lauren Dalberth Hage. Featuring special guests Drew Dellinger, Karisha Longaker of MaMuse, Logan Navar, Jules Indelicato, Kele Nitoto, and KJ Song, and the Weaving Earth team.
Audio of Joanna Macy’s own voice will be interwoven throughout the evening, a living thread calling us to remember: even in times of great peril, the beauty and wonder of the Earth endure — and so does our capacity to respond with love.
Come as you are.
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Support acts are subject to change without refund.
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Artists
You’re Going to Die
You’re Going to Die, the organization presenting this show, is a 501(c)3 non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of grief, loss, and our shared mortality, inspiring a more connected and meaningful experience of being alive. You’re Going to Die offers a free podcast, open mic events in SF and LA, Concerts, writing workshops, along with our prison, hospice, and cancer patient support programs. Learn more about our work at www.yg2d.com
Lydia Violet Harutoonian
Lydia Violet Harutoonian- is an Iranian-Armenian-American facilitator-scholar, grief-worker, and folk multi-instrumentalist who studied and worked with Joanna Macy for the past 16 years. She founded and runs The School for The Great Turning, which creates access to educational and therapeutic programs to empower humanity's life-sustaining legacy. In her music, she weaves together her songwriting, folk standards, Iranian ballads, 3-part harmonies, fiddle, banjo, and collective singing into an altar of music to lay our most pressing questions and verdant prayers.
Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education
Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education provides nature-based education for action at the confluence of ecological, social and personal systems change. We believe that education must critically engage inherited systems of separation and domination, and at the same time, responsibly recollect a deeper human inheritance: stories of interrelationship, belonging, dignity and respect.
Drew Dellinger
Drew Dellinger is a poet, writer, and speaker whose work bridges ecology, justice, and the sacred. The author of "Love Letter to the Milky Way," his poetry has been performed in hundreds of venues worldwide. A student of Thomas Berry and an advocate for the “Great Turning,” Drew weaves art, activism, and cosmology into an inspiring vision for our times.
Karisha Longaker
Karisha Longaker is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as one half of the beloved duo MaMuse. With rich harmonies and heart-centered presence, her music invites deep connection, joy, and remembrance of the sacredness of life. Rooted in gratitude and service, Karisha’s voice carries a prayer for beauty, healing, and belonging in these transformative times.
Kele Nitoto
Kele Nitoto (he/him) is a percussionist, vocalist, and educator based in Oakland. With roots in West African, Haitian, and Congolese rhythms, he blends traditional drumming with hip-hop, storytelling, and spiritual practice. He founded Oakland Hand Drums and performs with groups like Wildchoir, using music as a tool for connection, healing, and cultural remembrance.
Jules Indelicato
Jules Indelicato (they/them) is a musician and sound designer based in San Francisco, CA. In addition to being a familiar face in the Bay Area music scene, Jules is an empathic grassroots community organizer who is deeply committed to driving positive change by advocating for the people and places working to make our communities more inclusive, equitable, and magical.
KJ Song
KJ Song (they/them) is a queer music minister and Master of Divinity Candidate who leads transformative spaces at the intersection of Spirit, song, and liberation. Their work invites every voice—tender, tired, or triumphant—into communion.
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