Water protectors from three states will gather on Bent Mountain for workshops, a potluck supper, a SUN SiNG & Local Friends Concert, an Earth Grief Ceremony, Strategy Campfires and optional overnight camping near the path of the Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline. We will share stories, interfaith prayers and strategy. We will sing, dance, grieve, learn and make art for the Climate Emergency: Tri-State Pipeline Strike! (Roanoke, VA) on September 23 at 10 am.
Registration (completely secure/not shared) is required and details and directions will be emailed to you following registration from circleofprotectionbentmountain@gmail.com. The link for registration is here.
Message this page with questions or email: circleofprotectionbentmountain@gmail.com
Once you register, we will also send you our guide to nearby places to stay if you do not wish to camp.
Please note that entry to the event closes at 5:30 pm. No entry will be allowed after 5:30 pm on 9-22
The Shape of the Day:
1 pm: Registration Begins.
3 pm: Opening Prayer: Pre supper workshops: 3-4:30
Mama Bear Direct Action Story Share: Women who have taken direct action to stop pipelines share thier stories.
Ties That Bind: Braiding chains of resistance.
Art Build: with 1000 Flags/1000 Waters & AAP
Song Workshop: Learn & Sing 4 Resistance Songs
5 pm: Blessing for the Meal & Pot Luck Supper till 6
5:30 pm. Registration/Entry Gate Closes
6 pm: Plenary. Briefing for Next Day: full group.
7 pm: SUN SiNG** & Local Friends Concert (with three brief keynote speakers from each of three states and Earth Grief Ceremony
9 pm: Small group strategy campfires.
10:30 pm: Rest
Monday, September. 23:
7:00 – 8:30 am coffee and breakfast
8:30 am Depart for Downtown Roanoke
10 am: “Climate Emergency: Tri-State Pipeline Strike” in Downtown Roanoke (a separately produced event). Until 12:15
2 pm: Strike/Clean up at Bent Mt. Site. You & your belongings must be gone.
THINGS TO BRING:
– your own cup, fork and plate. we will wash.
-a real dish for the potluck.
-a cup of water from a water body you love & will protect.
-fabric for Ties that Bind. art supplies for Art Build (and we will have too)
-your water flag if you have one.
-printed and signed waivers from registration.
-light simple camping gear you can walk or or we can shuttle in.
-a token or picture for the Ancestor Ally altar.
-if you love your chair, bring it. we only have 120.
-your children if you mind em
More detail on bringing and not bringing post registration. No pets. No guns.
For more on the SUN SiNG collective and event producer, visit ARTivism Virginia on you tube here.
As always, the “Circle of Protection” will seek to serve and elevate the voices of our host community, in this case, Bent Mountain, and others now facing the destructive robbery of the Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline. Communities resisting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline threat will come to tell their own story and stand in solidarity to protect the region’s rights to clean water and to protect their own homes and future.
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