Maji Events

11/12/2022

The final video for festival at Good Earth Farm, October 1, 2022.

Big thanks to Artez Photography for putting this together, and everyone involved in this magic event.

10/27/2022

Photos from Harmonic Harvest - a 1-day immersive Food and Art Festival from Poetry Gabriola, co-produced with Maji Events and Hidden Bass Society, funded by the BC Arts Council, at Good Earth Farm on Gabriola Island.

Very proud of the work we did on this to celebrate local growers, beauty, music, poetry, and dance!

09/23/2022

This made my night.

09/16/2022

“Destiny is altered as you hear the enchanted melody of all living things” - ,

09/13/2022

Harmonic Harvest
Immersive Food & Art Festival
A Poetic Carnival for Creative Souls!
All-ages, family friendly event
Saturday, Oct 1
Gates open at 1pm
Good Earth Farm
Gabriola Island, BC

Come feast, dance, and delight in your senses.
Harmonic Harvest is a garden wonderland abounding with transformational art and delectable veggies.
Activate and harmonize your mind, body, and spirit with other beautiful souls, as together we welcome the fall energies of gratitude and reconciling.

Take your pick:
* Curated light, sound, and tactile installations by top local and Salish Sea festival artists!
* Playful performances of poetry, music, story, and dance!
* Meaningful workshops and participatory experiences!
* Artisan vendor market - superfoods, elixirs, fashion, tarot, and more!
* Tea and tincture bar!
* Kids zone!
* Bonfires!
* Corn Row Fashion Show!
* Inspired farm-to-table delights from the Good Earth Kitchen!
* 4-hr+ silent disco harvest dance!
* Shuttles from/ to ferry!

On offer:
+ $10-20 donation entry to the site
+ $30 rental of headset for dance
+ $10 daytime silent headset art/dance farm tours
+ $25 off-site camping (limited quantities, Descanso Bay Campground)
+ Bring cash! ATM available at Coastal Community Credit Union
+ Fundraiser for Good Earth Farm and Poetry Gabriola Society!

Gates open at 1. Opening ceremony is at 3pm, with land & contributor acknowledgements.

***Vendor Applications please send bio and pictures to [email protected]

Produced by Maji Events and Hidden Bass Society
Supported by Poetry Gabriola Society, Good Earth Farm, and the BC Arts Council
Poster Art by Scarlet Art 🍄

09/13/2022

Harmonic Harvest
Immersive Food & Art Festival
A Poetic Carnival for Dancers & Artists!
All-ages, family friendly event
Saturday, Oct 1
Gates open at 1pm
Good Earth Farm
Gabriola Island, BC

Come feast, dance, and delight in your senses.
Harmonic Harvest is a garden wonderland abounding with transformational art and delectable veggies.
Activate and harmonize your mind, body, and spirit with other beautiful souls, as together we welcome the fall energies of gratitude and reconciling.

Take your pick:
* Curated light, sound, and tactile installations by top local and Salish Sea festival artists!
* Playful performances of poetry, music, story, and dance!
* Meaningful workshops and participatory experiences!
* Artisan vendor market - superfoods, elixirs, fashion, tarot, and more!
* Tea and tincture bar!
* Kids zone!
* Bonfires!
* Corn Row Fashion Show!
* Inspired farm-to-table delights from the Good Earth Kitchen!
* 4-hr+ silent disco harvest dance!
* Shuttles from/ to ferry!
On offer:
+ $10-20 donation entry to the site
+ $30 rental of headset for dance
+ $10 daytime silent headset art/dance farm tours
+ $25 off-site camping (limited quantities, Descanso Bay Campground)
+ Bring cash! ATM available at Coastal Community Credit Union
+ Fundraiser for Good Earth Farm and Poetry Gabriola Society!
Gates open at 1. Opening ceremony is at 3pm, with land & contributor acknowledgements.
***Vendor Applications please send bio and pictures to [email protected]

Produced by Maji Events and Hidden Bass Society
Supported by Poetry Gabriola Society, Good Earth Farm, and the BC Arts Council
Poster Art by Scarlet Art 🍄

09/12/2022

To all the linkers and bringer-togethers, and those that dance among and between. To those who carry the seeds of community, the salve of human connection. To those who refrain: “I really want to introduce you to…”. To those who would revive kin without the kings. Let’s do this.

08/13/2022

08/05/2022

Excited to be hosting this in collaboration with a bunch of clowns :) including .groove.disco

07/29/2022

Climate protest

05/21/2022

Could it be? First day of summer? I love the way the sun can heal so much. Arigato Amaterasu…

05/15/2022

LOCATION CHANGE: Full Moon Dance at the Commons. We want warm feet and the weather looks…wet and windy.

05/11/2022

Let's dance and praise the glorious May moon this Sunday! We may even see an eclipse. Dance at 7:30, moonrise at 8:47pm. Meet at the point - turn left when you get to the beach from the campground and follow the trail.

Join the Dance Temple Gabriola mailing list for future events: https://forms.gle/gKdoCzKMhMbQGVcC7

05/10/2022

Cedar has been used for thousands of years by Coast Salish people. Learn to weave cedar into a bracelet, headband, and more in a traditional way. Hear stories from Snuneymuxw culture.

The workshop takes place in a community setting, at 88 Princess Street. It's by donation. You can attend 1, 2, or 3 of the sessions.

Taught by David Spiritwolf Bodaly, Snuneymuxw First Nation. Hosted by Michael Geselbracht, Princess-Columbia Neighbourhood Association.

Spots are limited. Register and more info: [email protected]

Funded by the Resilience Grant.

04/14/2022

Silent disco dance at descanso bay campground on Gabriola this Saturday! Come dance it’s going to be beautiful. Sunset to moonrise. Walking distance from ferry or we can find rides. Everyone welcome

04/07/2022

It's a lot easier to diagnose someone than to be with them in their pain and confusion.

It's a lot easier to think we know what someone needs so that they're "better" or they're "fixed" than to just listen and hear them.

It's a lot easier to have concepts about "what's wrong" with ourselves than to just be present to our current feelings and experiences, and accept them.

In the end, though, our intellects and thoughts can often block our ability to be empathic - to simply be present and curious to what is.

Needing a dose of empathy without so much analysis? Want to learn the superpower of simple empathy?

NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION (NVC) ESSENTIALS
1-DAY WORKSHOP
Friday, April 15, 2022
10am - 5pm
NVC Trainer: Mitch Miyagawa
Poetry Yurt @ the Gabriola Commons
Gabriola Island
Sliding Scale:
Supported: $100
Regular $150
Supporting: $200
Max 12 participants
E-transfer to [email protected] to register, with your name in comments
Rides to/from ferry arranged
Optional dancing and potluck to follow
** laughter and tears warning ** This workshop involves feeling the feels…
This workshop is for anyone who wants to explore “by the book” NVC - either as a way to learn it for the first time, or as a way to get back to fundamentals for people who may have been studying and practicing it for years.
Learning NVC is like learning to dance. It’s a blend of feel and technique. Like dance, you need to learn to listen to rhythms and patterns, and if you want to partner dance, to tune into other people’s unique expression of the music of life.
—
Mitch Miyagawa is a group facilitator, community artist, and event producer who splits his time between 2 islands on Canada’s west coast, one big (Vancouver Island) and one small (Gabriola Island). He is a Certified NVC Trainer with the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, and has led workshops and retreats internationally. He’s also the owner of Maji Events, a small business which creates events for communities, businesses, and organizations based around connection, inclusion, play, and art.

04/06/2022

Learning Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is all about learning to choose how to live your life. To do so deliberately and intentionally, based on what is alive in any moment.

We so often default to right and wrong as our guides for how to live. Yet the "victories" in the game of Who's Right never satisfy.

What if we could live guided by to the beautiful set of human needs we all share, such as acceptance, freedom, and joy? What if the name of the game was Make Life Wonderful - for ourselves and everyone
around us?

NVC ESSENTIALS
1-DAY WORKSHOP
NVC Trainer: Mitch Miyagawa

🌱 Friday April 15, 10am - 5pm
🌱 Poetry Yurt @ the Commons, Gabriola Island

🌱 Sliding Scale:
🐝 Supported: $100
🐝 Regular $150
🐝 Supporting: $200

🌱 Max 12 participants
🌱 Rides to/from ferry arranged
🌱Optional dancing and potluck to follow

🐝 E-transfer to [email protected] to register, with your name in comments

This 1-day workshop is for anyone who wants to explore “by the book” NVC - either as a way to learn it for the first time, or as a way to get back to fundamentals for people who may have been studying and practicing it for years.

😂 laughter and tears warning 😂 we'll be feeling the feels...

04/01/2022

Never do anything that isn't play - Marshall Rosenberg, creator of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

This is a favourite saying among NVC Trainers!

In one way, NVC is about retraining our motivation - doing things to meet our needs and those of others instead of doing things because we should.

Marshall also wrote, “An important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life, rather that out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation.

When what motivates us is simply to make life wonderful for others and ourselves, then even hard work has an element of play in it…

A joyful activity performed out of obligation, duty, fear, guilt, or shame will lose its joy and eventually engender resistance.”

We'll explore this idea, and many others, in...

NVC ESSENTIALS
1-DAY WORKSHOP
NVC Trainer: Mitch Miyagawa

🌱 Friday April 15, 10am - 5pm
🌱 Poetry Yurt @ the Commons, Gabriola Island

🌱 Sliding Scale:
🐝 Supported: $100
🐝 Regular $150
🐝 Supporting: $200

🐝 To register: E-transfer to [email protected], with your name in comments

🌱 Max 12 participants
🌱 Rides to/from ferry arranged
🌱Optional dancing and potluck to follow

This 1-day workshop is for anyone who wants to explore “by the book” NVC - either as a way to learn it for the first time, or as a way to get back to fundamentals for people who may have been studying and practicing it for years.

04/01/2022

Always hear the "yes" in the "no". - Marshall Rosenberg, creator of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

You ask your daughter to wash the dishes, or your colleague to cover for you - and they say no. Hard to hear, right?

Imagine: what are they saying yes to, when they say no to you?

Could they be saying "yes" to rest and relaxation after a hard day at school?

Could they be behind in other projects, and saying "yes" to more time to catch up before taking anything new on?

Could they be saying "yes" to greater appreciation for all the work they do around the house or office?

And how might you respond differently when you hear all the "yesses" in their "no"? With greater compassion? With greater understanding that's really not all about you? 😊 but their own needs calling?

We'll explore this idea, and many others, in...

NVC ESSENTIALS
1-DAY WORKSHOP
NVC Trainer: Mitch Miyagawa

🌱 Friday April 15, 10am - 5pm
🌱 Poetry Yurt @ the Commons, Gabriola Island

🌱 Sliding Scale:
🐝 Supported: $100
🐝 Regular $150
🐝 Supporting: $200

🌱 Max 12 participants
🌱 Rides to/from ferry arranged
🌱Optional dancing and potluck to follow

🐝 E-transfer to [email protected] to register, with your name in comments

This 1-day workshop is for anyone who wants to explore “by the book” NVC - either as a way to learn it for the first time, or as a way to get back to fundamentals for people who may have been studying and practicing it for years.

03/23/2022

Huge huge gratitude to everyone involved in the Hub City Bounce Back last Saturday! 1200 people participated in all the different elements. So much joy and beauty after such a long long time without live festivals. Thank you to all the artists, volunteers, sponsors, the city of Nanaimo, and especially to our coproducer .groove.disco and coproducer and presenter . More pics to come!

03/18/2022

03/14/2022

03/14/2022

LIVE MUSIC is hitting Nanaimo once again! Yes!

And we are so excited to be part of what we hope is a wave of music festivals happening this year.

Kutapira is gonna heat up Maffeo Sutton park at the Bounce Back, Saturday March 19, 5:00 - 6:30pm. Afro-Cuban vibes together with the melodies of Zimbabwe... bring your dancing shoes! 🎸 👣 🥁 🇿🇼

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7oTzyXt6zc&ab_channel=SangitoBigelow

Meet Kutapira, Vancouver's friendly neighbourhood marimba band. Zimbabwean Marimba meets West African and Afrocuban percussion. The Group performs unplugged ...

02/21/2022

Super happy to be a part of this event….come on by the commons this afternoon for some more fun. I’ll have a set of 20 silent disco headsets to try out too.

Don't forget to slide your The Great Gabriola Scavenger Hunt forms into the ballot box at the Visitor Centre before 2pm today!

AND join us at the Gabriola Commons TODAY for some Family Day local love between 2-4pm!

We'll be announcing the winners of The Great Gabriola Scavenger Hunt starting at 2:30 with free hot chocolate and cookies from Ground Up Café & Catering!

Come enjoy music, a bonfire, try out Silent Disco headsets, donated by Maji Events, and LOVE LOCAL with the Gabriola Island Chamber of Commerce! 💕

02/21/2022

Super happy to be a part of this fun event. Come on down to the Commons today... even if you didn't participate, we'll have a fire going and I'll have a set of 20 Silent Disco headsets to try out. Come dance!

Don't forget to slide your The Great Gabriola Scavenger Hunt forms into the ballot box at the Visitor Centre before 2pm today!

AND join us at the Gabriola Commons TODAY for some Family Day local love between 2-4pm!

We'll be announcing the winners of The Great Gabriola Scavenger Hunt starting at 2:30 with free hot chocolate and cookies from Ground Up Café & Catering!

Come enjoy music, a bonfire, try out Silent Disco headsets, donated by Maji Events, and LOVE LOCAL with the Gabriola Island Chamber of Commerce! 💕

10/09/2021

I’ve got some recommendations for the this year. Shaun Becker is amazing. This one is called “midden” and it’s made with shells.

10/01/2021

Reminder to Register! Join this Saturday's FREE Exploring Grieving online workshop led by renowned local facilitator, Linda Lee Nicholls. There will be experiential exercises, practices, and opportunities to connect with others, including support from several trained volunteers from PHC Gabriola - People for a Healthy Community and The Haven, Gabriola Island.

Following the 90-minute workshop, we'll keep Zoom open to share local resources and offer additional time to connect.

👉 Click the image below to register.

Learn more about the full Day of Grief & Gratitude here: www.griefgratitude.ca

Join us for the first part of our

09/27/2021

Join us for the Coast Salish Ceremony in the Day of Grief & Gratitude on October 2nd. At 3pm at The Haven, Gabriola Island, you will be welcomed with coffee, tea and snacks. We ask that you bring a chair for yourself. We will be outside for the ceremony with community fire and soup made by PHC Gabriola - People for a Healthy Community to follow.

Elders Willie Pierre, Rose Gray, and Bill White were raised in traditional families with the values known as Snawayalth and have been involved with healing work for many years. Willie and Rose will share some of their classic teachings and experiences with healing after great loss. Bill, member of Chief Michael Wyse's Elders Advisory Committee, will speak on the Chief's behalf.

🧡 Thanks to the Snuneymuxw Chief & Council, Intergenerational Land Based Learning for Reconciliation on Gabriola (SFU), and local volunteers for their collaboration and effort in offering this opportunity to our community.

Learn more about the Day of Grief & Gratitude here: www.griefgratitude.ca

09/26/2021

Following the free online workshop, the Day of Grief & Gratitude for Gabriolans continues at The Haven, Gabriola Island: 240 Davis Rd. Bring a chair and join us at 3pm. You do not need to register for this in-person part of the event. All Covid protocols will be followed.

💙 Tea, coffee, and snacks
💙 Coast Salish Ceremony
💙 Community Grief & Gratitude Fire
💙 Nourishing soup generously made by PHC Gabriola - People for a Healthy Community

Learn more about the Day of Grief & Gratitude here: www.griefgratitude.ca

09/24/2021

Join us for the first part of our Day of Grief & Gratitude! At 11am, we'll meet on Zoom to acknowledge and address our individual and collective sorrows, our grieving, our mourning of changes, endings, uncertainties and losses.

This workshop is facilitated by local Haven Faculty member Linda Lee Nicholls and supported by volunteers from PHC Gabriola - People for a Healthy Community

Thanks to the The Haven, Gabriola Island, funding from the Holistic Centers Network, support from PHC Gabriola - People for a Healthy Community, and dedication from several volunteers, participation in this workshop is FREE. Registration is required: https://thehaven.secure.retreat.guru/program/exploring-grieving-a-day-of-grief-gratitude/?lang=en

We hope you'll join us! To learn more about the day's offerings, visit www.griefgratitude.ca

09/16/2021

The Gabriola Fall Fair will have lots for the young and young-at-heart to do! Like:

🎪 Traditional Games (3-legged race, tug-of-war) starting at 1:30 (signup beforehand)
🎪 Pet and People Parade! At 2pm... bring your critters
🎪 Kids Zone with Kids Zone Queen Erin Mancor
🎪 Rec Zone with slackline and badminton with Gabe Rec
🎪 fun categories to enter in the exhibition, including Junior Maker, Baker, and Farmer categories
🎪 And of course... the World Famous Squash Race, beginning at 2:30

www.fallfair.ca for schedule and details!

09/15/2021

Another day. Another season. Another life. These are strange new days on planet Earth.

What are you grieving this morning? What are you grateful for? And what do you live for?

Renewal seems to live inside loss and endings. And endings are everywhere.

Grieving today for the daily destructions of living community. Grateful for another day. Sending love to all those who wish to live in poetry and beauty.

08/31/2021

Very excited for our friends at Crimson Coast Dance Society!
This will be fascinating. Dancers, techies, artists, check it out.

(and also proud to have played a small part in seeding this - Maji Events wrote the successful Canada Council grant in collaboration with Crimson Coast, and led some of the initial brainstorming of design ideas.)

Announcing OUR HYBRID FUTURE: A Symposium that explores the impact and opportunity of digital technologies in live performing arts!

During the pandemic artists have been forced to be innovative, digitally-engaged, and community-focused, trying new things that have changed their practice and the way they make work and think about their craft. As the doors to the theatre reopen, what will we find inside?

Join us on September 9th, 16th, and 23rd to discover the wonder in hybrid performance, talk practice and process, meet the makers, reflect and share, learn new technologies, connect one-on-one, ask big questions, and build something new.

Learn more at CrimsonCoastDance.org
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