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We did it, everyone!  We’re 127% funded, thanks to you–and up in the top 50 of Kickstarter’s  most funded projects!  Huge gratitude to all of you who donated, who Liked the site, who joined our Facebook page, who posted and forwarded our links, who have offered so many different kinds of help, support and [...]

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In the world of The Fifth Sacred Thing, the residents of San Francisco agree to resist the Steward Army with non-violent tactics.  Even among those who do agree to engage in active resistance there is a consensus that the machinery of warfare and domination may be sabotaged or destroyed, but not at the expense of [...]

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Artist Feature – Rena Jones

On 17 August 2011 By

This week’s artist feature highlights the work of composer and cellist Rena Jones.  Rena’s skillful blending of acoustic and electronic music is both soothing and uplifting, and we are extremely proud to welcome her to The Fifth Sacred Thing creative family.  Her song “Open Me Slowly” is featured as the opening music in our 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 [...]

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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, [...]

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A Tale of Two Movies!

On 27 July 2011 By

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 [...]

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“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 [...]

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We’re halfway through our Kickstarter campaign for The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the response has been tremendous, and we’re over 70% of the way to our funding goal! With over 10,000 likes and on our page now, we are encouraging our followers to make pledges as small as $1 in an attempt to [...]

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In the 18 years since it was published, hundreds of thousands of people have been inspired by The Fifth Sacred Thing. Now, when our future seems so precarious, we want to bring it to the screen. Today, we joyfully announce the launch of our Kickstarter fundraising campaign. Watch our video, donate what you can, [...]

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