Less than a week to go on our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing movie. We’ve done so well–but still have far to go! However, it occured to me that it was past time to share with you all the Green Plan I wrote up for our production. It’s designed to guide [...]
Continue Reading →Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electronica and world roots music comes a masterful merge of modern technology, live instrumentation and seductive performance, built of brass bands and glitch, string quartets and dubstep: the musical trio Beats Antique.
Since the group’s inception from the eclectic underground of San Francisco’s performance art scene, Beats [...]
Continue Reading →We are extremely happy to announce the release of The Fifth Sacred Thing as an ebook! Starting today you can purchase Starhawk’s epic novel in digital form, and several popular formats at many online retail outlets. Here is a small list of links where the book is currently available:
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Continue Reading →In a triumph of optimism and ideology over observation and common sense, I’ve just hung out my laundry to dry in the cold, dank, near-freezing San Francisco fog. There is a reason I love this place—and there’s another reason I generally do my big travels in the summer, which I’m preparing to do now, today—assuming [...]
Continue Reading →Lammas morning—I woke up and saw that during the night we’d reached our first funding point on our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing movie. Yesterday, I’d posted the update below on our Kickstarter page—hoping that we’d hit that landmark on Lammas, and we did! Such good magic!
“August 1, Lammas, [...]
Continue Reading →August 1, Lammas, one of the eight key Celtic Pagan holidays on the Wheel of the Year. Lammas, traditionally, was the beginning of the harvest, when the early crops are coming in and the summer fruits are ripe. In Ireland, it was Lughnasad, the festival of the sun-God Lugh. “Lammas” comes from “Loaf-mass”—the loaf made [...]
Continue Reading →This summer has been a whirlwind of teaching permaculture and working on making a movie from my novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing. But a few days ago I took a break to attend a performance of Guys and Dolls put on by SF Arts Education, in which my fifteen-year old Goddess-child Kore [...]
Continue Reading →Our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing is going phenomenally well. We are 80% toward our original funding goal—with 25 days left to go! Thanks to everyone who has been showing us such fantastic support!
Now, we’re shifting gears. Our campaign really has two goals—first, of course, to raise the money we [...]
Continue Reading →“Who is the Goddess, Who is the Goddess? We are!”
We sing these words each year at the big Spiral Dance ritual put on by Reclaiming, the spiritual network of teachers and ritual-makers I work with.
In The Fifth Sacred Thing, the Goddess is a character, much as Aywah is in Avatar. Although the [...]
Continue Reading →This week’s Artist Feature spotlights Jessica Perlstein, a visionary artist and painter from the Bay Area who has created many of the beautiful color renderings of a transformed San Francisco circa 2048 for the film. Her vibrant, colorful work has been a fantastic addition to our project, and we are very pleased to give you [...]
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