YOGYA QUAKE.. these are photos of art and life before the Yogya quake stay tuned for more

this will be a news center, info x change and fund collecting portal for the Bantul Java relief fund... please see https://www.13c.com/aid to make a paypal donation.. i will take all funds directly to the villages in Bantul, Yogyakarta, where i lived,...

this will be a news center, info x change and fund collecting portal for the Bantul Java relief fund... please see https://www.13c.com/aid to make a paypal donation.. i will take all funds directly to the villages in Bantul, Yogyakarta, where i lived, learned, and collaborated with amazing artists and musicians for 2 years.... spaz occupied a small house in Bantul till the 6.2 quake hit last saturday... we will be searching for a new place, and are planning on setting up trauma healing arts workshops for children.. here is a transmission from Rehane (the woman in the photo on the front of this album: "It is taking time to fully comprehend what has happened to us. We have been in a hotel since Saturday. Our area of Bantul was worst affected. For those of you that have been to the house - No-e's house in the ricefields outside Jogja- the kitchen is completely collapsed, the walls are cracked, xhunks fell out of the roof... we can't live there. Our neighbours are in far worse positions. Some houses are completely flattened. We are terrified that another quake will hit. All little noises and wobbles scare us. The volcano is 4 times as active as before. People are sleeping outside under tarpaulins. It's been raining too... On the positive side!!! The response to the tragedy has been amazing. People have organised themselves into anarchic bands of first aiders, relief workers carrying food and tents and help. It's amazing how the local people are rallying to help each other. There are communal kitchens everywhere. Circle and I have been helping as much as we can. The help must keep going for the next few months. People are homeless - So are we! Tomorrow we go to Anas' (an arist living in Ubud) exhibition opening in Bali. There we chill and start to plan our future for the next week. I am planning trauma healing arts workshops for kids. Drama and a bit of storytelling dahlings! Fabulous - those kiddies will be making musicals about it all in no time. The kiddies are well freaked. It's deeply traumatic as you can well imagine! Strange apocalyotic scenes in the city and dream sequences - circle and i walking really slowly through rice fields with the villagers to escape the rumoured tsunami. Hundreds of families carrying their old out of doors for the first time in months maybe years. Send LIGHT, Send Love, weave a network of light around us all. Sing the earth back down... Love you, rehane "

Posted by sunflowrfish on Thu Jun 1 12:20:48 2006