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Saturday,
September 13, 2003 Noon - 4PM
San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens
Community Healing Garden Festival
-- Purple Moon Dance Project (PMDP) will hold its first
annual Community Healing Garden Festival on Saturday, September
13, 2003, from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at San Francisco’s
Yerba Buena Gardens, Third Street between Mission and Howard
Streets. This event is free and open to the public.
Since 1999, PMDP has created healing
movement programs for women living with life-threatening
illnesses, elders, mothers, and women in recovery from substance
and alcohol abuse, and to date, hundreds of women have taken
advantage of the program. A joint project of PMDP
and non-profit community health agencies and wellness programs
in San Francisco and Oakland, The Community Healing Garden
Festival was designed as an opportunity for everyone to
come together as a community and celebrate life.
The Community Healing Garden Festival
will be an afternoon of healing movement and dance performances
by program participants, musicians, and Purple Moon Dance
artists, as well as body work, hands-on arts activities
and information on low-cost healing and health resources
throughout the Bay Area. The public is cordially invited
to take part in the festival’s activities. There
will also be activities for children.
Yerba Buena Gardens are fully accessible.
Community partners in this event include:
Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center (APIWC), Asian and
Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), Association
of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (APCHO),
Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS), Charlotte Maxwell Clinic,
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), Chinatown
Public Health Center (Women’s Cancer Support Group),
Circulo De Vida, Homeless Prenatal Program, Japanese Cultural
and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC), Lavender
Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC), Lesbian
Health Center – UCSF, Lyon-Martin Health Services,
Margie Cherry Complementary Health Care, New Leaf Outreach
to Elders, Oakland YWCA, San Francisco Department of Public
Health, United Territories of Polynesia Islanders in Alliance
(UTOPIA), and Women’s Cancer Resource Center.
Sponsors for the event include: Trader
Joe’s, Arizmendi Bakery and Whole Foods Market, San
Mateo. The event is funded by Yerba Buena Garden Festivals,
California Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission,
Asian Women’s Shelter and Hunt-Weber Clark Associates.
Artistic Director Jill Togawa and
Purple Moon Dance Project have been presenting work since
1992, performing and teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area,
nationally and internationally. Through collaboration
between women artists from diverse disciplines and cultural
backgrounds, and the creation of work which uniquely reflects
the experience of lesbians and women of color, Purple Moon
continues to develop appreciation for American cultural
diversity through the medium of dance.
For more information call 415/552-1105
or email: project@purplemoondance.org.
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