Damanhur Crea Conference Center Via Baldissero, 21 Vidracco (To), Italy
Sponsored by the City of Vidracco and Conacreis
Prabhat Eusebio: Editor, spiritual researcher, musician, father of two children. Begin a parent was guided him to materialize ideas and proposals, like the projects: "Bambini Nuovi" books, “New Children for the Future Human”, or the successful struggle to allow the practice of Lotus Birth (gradual removal of the umbilical cord), even in hospitals.
A good story speaks to the heart and knows how to open magical doors, from which our potentials and talents emerge. It liberates ingenuity, frees the mind, and puts wings on the dreams and the future, where the young will be the directors.
Other than feeding the body, young people need to be nourished in a more intimate sphere, one that is fed by stories, symbols and significance. They need to grow in all their facets, through encountering life, taking in the best that each culture has to offer.
Iride Pistacchio, Director of the Damanhur Education department, and Gazzella Mimosa, President of the Association Damanhur Education, presented at the conference “Family today: roots and wings ~ sacred everyday love” at Lonato del Garda, Italy. [Please visit the website (in Italian) for more information.] They spoke about their professional and personal experience with educating and raising children at Damanhur, and offered interactive sessions of “sunset metratura” – an awareness meditation – and “dynamic collective art.”
The course on “How to Create a Successful Community” was held October 20 – 24, with nine participants coming from various parts of the world: Hungary, Bulgaria, Brazil, Australia and America, some of whom already have communities in formation. The five-day course offered in-depth exploration in the art of creating a community, with themes including the choice of the territory, economic considerations, decision-making and organization, education and children, health and wellness, change and innovation, and networking with the communities of the world.
Fair Trade is a worldwide movement that promotes just conditions and wages for workers of the world, particularly in developing countries. Damanhur is participating in Fair Trade Break, an activity organized by Fair Trade Italy – part of the Fair Trade Labeling Organizations (FLO), which coordinates the labeling of fair trade products internationally. The President of Fair Trade Italy, Adriano Poletti, has come to Damanhur, recognizing our history of working for a culture of peace, promoting solidarity, sustainability and ethical business. Poletti visited the activities of Damanhur Crea, a place that intends to increase its visibility as a point of reference for Fair Trade and ethical business standards.
The Tentaty Organic Cooperative and Arielvo Bar & Restaurant have special offerings for Fair Trade Break.
“I Shop for Justice / Io faccio la spesa giusta” 17 – 25 October 2009
Come to Tentaty where you can find certified fair trade products. During this week, we will also promote the ecological bag campaign; you may acquire a Fair Trade cotton bag for your shopping, respecting the environment, and a Fair Trade recipe book, with everyday recipes using fair trade products written by Sophie Grigson.
“I Dine for Justice / Io faccio la cena giusta” Saturday, 24 October 2009, 8 pm
At the Arielvo Bar & Restaurant, come for a dinner made with organic, fair trade and local products. During the week 17 – 25 October, when you order coffee, you shall receive a coffee bean covered in chocolate, a fair trade product, to bring attention to the coffee harvesters of the world.
Dinner at Arielvo is by reservation
call Pellicano +39 0125 789921 or + 39 347 1253549
Using ecologically sustainable energy sources that are available at contained costs has become essential for the wellbeing and development of our society. The new energy center of Vidracco uses biomass from waste collection and agricultural production to make an ecological fuel that produces electrical energy. Biomass is a renewable energy source using the biodegradable part of waste products from industries and cities and residual material from agricultural production. Biomass is available independent of climactic conditions.
Through the depolimerization process, biomass and other organic materials are transformed into a combustible liquid analogous to fossil fuels. The liquid is then used to produce electrical and thermal energy for civic use. There is no combustion involved in this process, and the depolimerization process assures an environmental impact that is negligible with respect to most of the traditional systems that generate energy from organic waste.
Coboldo Melo, Vice Mayor of Vidracco: The project Vidracco Energy involves the construction of an energy center that uses biomass and organic waste to produce fuel ecologically. It is ecological in that it uses plant-based materials and there is no combustion or production of mineral residues. The fuel produced shall power a co-generation motor to produce electrical energy for the city.
This project was inspired by the ethics of sustainability applied in a local condition, in combination with the use of technology to attain practical results. The intention of this project is to bring the resources of the city back into the hands of the people, to give them the power to participate in solutions.
Damanhur supports the World March for Peace and has sent a message from the Temples of Humankind, available on video (in Italian):
This march is an occasion for people of diverse cultures and geographies around the world to construct spaces dedicated to peace. Moving beyond that which separates them, they meet with each other as individuals, small populaces and communities, with a shared vision for a future of peace and happiness.
Members of the Damanhur Center in Modena have written and performed a shadow puppet theatre based on the principles of the Earth Charter. The show was performed September 6 and 27, 2009 at the Villa Sorra near Modena and at the Holistic City Festival in Rome on September 12 and 13. The theatre piece is entertaining for both children and adults, and it promotes sustainability and increases conscious use of resources and respect for the environment. By drawing on themes inspired by the Earth Charter, the puppet show highlights the values of equality and solidarity, with the aim of increasing harmony and well being on the planet.
The theatre show entitled Everything Can Change features various dramatic scenes that illustrate the four Earth Charter principles, bringing them to life with colorful images and dialog. The scenes were created by shadows projected on a white screen, with objects and three-dimensional figures illuminated from behind.
Nearly 500 participants, Damanhurians and guests from all over the world, were present for the Autumn Equinox celebration. A vibrant party followed the main ritual, with nucleo communities, the Damanhur School and Damanhur Centers presenting their activities and products with stands throughout Damjl.
The playful science fiction theatre piece Nanomacchine was back on stage for the second episode in the saga, directed by Unicorno. The Nano-machines find themselves face to face with new challenges in the musical play, consulting “Computer Osseo,” a character skillfully and energetically interpreted by Ape Soja. New Damanhurian actors joined the seasoned ones, and sound, light and lasers set the stage for the show, which culminated in a dance party with audience participation.
A sold-out concert was given in the Hall of Mirrors of the Temples of Humankind for guests and Damanhurians. Traditional Damanhurian music was played by Gufo (voice, guitar, flute and percussion), Cigno (keyboard), and Albatros (guitar and cello), while Ara offered many graceful Sacred Dance performances in the center of the hall. Both music and dance profoundly moved the audience. This experimental concert was the first of a new opportunity that intends to convey the spirituality of Damanhur though the arts and traditional music.
Damanhur representatives traveled to Rome, bringing energy, excitement and news to the public at the Holistic City Festival, organized by Conacreis.
The theme of the festival was “Environmental crisis and economic recession: proposals by social advancement associations and ecovillages to construct a sustainable world.” Roundtable talks touched on the following themes: holistic disciplines, Cultural Creatives for a more ethical and conscious world, with an intervention given by Ervin Laszlo, ecovillages and cohousing, and the development of local economies and organic agriculture.
During the festival, Damanhur presented the new display of the Temples of Humankind. Damanhur made many fruitful contacts, including a notable sociologist Enrico Cheli.
The Damanhurian New Year begins on September 1, so we celebrated New Year’s Eve on August 31, welcoming in the 35th year in Damanhurian calendar. September 1 corresponds with the date when the first Damanhur newspaper was published and also the ancient Egyptian New Year. Damanhurians and guests came together in Damjl on the last evening of the year for the Ritual of the Cornucopia in the Amphitheatre. Then, everyone lit a candle and placed it in the Stellar Falcon, chanting together.
On Monday, August 24, we had our photo day for the Spiritual People of Damanhur. This day is an annual tradition that has been going strong for 20 years. Citizens of Damanhur and those who take part in the Spiritual People gather together in Damjl for a large group photo, which serves as both a physical and energetic snapshot of the community. Then, the nucleo communities, groups from the spiritual pathways of the School of Meditation, and other affiliations came together for smaller group photos.
A group of Palestinians and Israelis introduced themselves to Damanhurians after Thursday night's serata.
The group is currently living in the eco-village of Tamera, in Portugal, where they are visioning how to create an eco community in their homeland, one of the most controversial places in the world.
Nouveautés 
Conference with Prabhat Eusebio
Using ecologically sustainable energy sources that are available at contained costs has become essential for the wellbeing and development of our society. The new energy center of Vidracco uses biomass from waste collection and agricultural production to make an ecological fuel that produces electrical energy. Biomass is a renewable energy source using the biodegradable part of waste products from industries and cities and residual material from agricultural production. Biomass is available independent of climactic conditions.
The theatre show entitled Everything Can Change features various dramatic scenes that illustrate the four Earth Charter principles, bringing them to life with colorful images and dialog. The scenes were created by shadows projected on a white screen, with objects and three-dimensional figures illuminated from behind.
