Earthaven Ecovillage Benefit for Cooperate WNC
Earthaven Ecovillage Council Hall, 5 Consensus Circle, Black Mountain, NC
Community celebration (open to the public) at Earthaven Ecovillage + a fundraiser for the mutual aid and agroecology network Cooperate WNC: https://www.cooperatewnc.org/
Limited $20 Early Bird Tickets available here. Sliding scale admission $25-40 on the day of the event in support of Cooperate WNC.
Come enjoy a late summer musical evening with soulful songstress Diane Cluck and folk musician Brandi Mizilca at beautiful Earthaven Ecovillage in support of Cooperate WNC's regional mutual aid organizing work. Cooperate WNC is cultural connective tissue, growing collective power and supporting deep healing through stitching together a regional mutual aid network in 22 counties of western NC. We organize many in-person and online educational and mutual aid gatherings, support conflict transformation and trust work, facilitate grassroots economic empowerment strategies such as Community Savings Pools, and organize landowners and farmers for resource sharing and addressing collective problems through cooperative strategies.
BRANDI MIZILCA opens the evening. Brandi has been studying, teaching, and performing folk traditions of music and dance from around the world since the 1990’s. She has a passion for exploring the diverse cultural threads that make up our exquisite and intricate human tapestry and weaving them together with stories that remind us of how connected we all are, even across the far reaches of many miles and millennia. You can see some of her performances and curated playlists at https://youtube.com/@mizib and can follow her on social media at https://www.facebook.com/transformationalbellydance
DIANE CLUCK will play a solo set to follow. Diane is a singer-songwriter who leans on classical piano training in approaching guitar, dance as an inspiration for rediscovering piano, and voice as a rhythm instrument and paintbrush. She's currently at work on her ninth record, House Tears, for release in 2024. “Bell-clear and hotly austere, her lithe, dynamic voice hasn’t much kin. Categorizing her as folk is simplistic. (Cluck) emanates something humble but mythic. Appalachia or ancient Athens?” – Time Out New York