Jerry's Kids
Michael DeMaria
Mike Beck - Drum Circle
Mr. Mac Children's Music/Michael McCartan
George Scheller
Tribal Belly Dancers
The Outside Entertainment Area is located on the north east side of the Bayview Center Building , up by the picnic tables. There will be a large area where you can bring your own gear, so be sure to load a couple of fold-up chairs - with drinkholders - in the trunk!
Dr. Michael DeMaria is a practicing clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience in helping guide others on their life journeys. He has published and presented numerous papers on the role creativity and spirituality play in the healing process nationally and internationally. He is the author of Horns and Halos (Peter Lang, 1992) and Ever Flowing On (Terra Nova, 2001). His passion for philosophy and psychology started at a young age having graduated with degrees in both as he turned 20, while also achieving the outstanding student award the same year in the department of philosophy, art and religious studies. He then became the youngest recipient of a Ph.D. in the clinical psychology program at Duquesne University, where he studied in the graduate programs in psychology, philosophy and The Institute of Formative Spirituality.
For the first decade of his professional life he devoted himself to working with abused children and their families. His unique and effective approach to working with well over 2000 cases of child abuse and neglect resulted in him being appointed to the Governor's State Legislative Task Force on child abuse and neglect and testifying as an expert in clinical psychology in over a hundred cases in criminal, civil and family court. He is a diplomat in Expressive Therapy and a Registered Play Therapist - Supervisor. As a University Professor he has been teaching and training graduate students in psychotherapy for the past 20 years. He has also trained post-graduate students in play therapy and expressive arts therapy for many years. He has served as the clinical director of a variety of programs and trained hundreds of professionals and para-professionals from parents to judges in communicating with children and teens in creative and effective ways.
Listen to clips of Michael's music
(from the CD The River):
First Light
Journeying
The Sea
After decades of work with extremely severe cases of child abuse and neglect Michael became profoundly aware of how in less severe forms most all adults in our culture suffer from an essential alienation from our 'vital connection' we had as children that is essential for us to maneuver through the difficult passages of life and connect with others. (See chapter 1 of Ever Flowing On) This has led Michael to specialize and limit his practice to working with adults in transition. One of his greatest joys now is weaving his love of nature, creativity and spirituality into accessible and effective healing practices - particularly involving journaling, meditation, and the expressive arts. This work has resulted in the founding of ONTOS and the book Ever Flowing On and the CD The River. He is a member of Spiritual Directors International and The Wilderness Guides Council. He is also a certified Wilderness First Responder.
The greatest cosmic mystery of all is not the Big Bang but what came out of the Big Bang - rhythm. Everything vibrates. You vibrate. I vibrate. The Earth vibrates. And certainly the head of a drum vibrates. Everything is rhythmic.
The instrument of choice in all cultures, throughout time, with which to invoke and participate in the magic of rhythm has been the drum. That is why the drum is most often in the center of the circle when the indigenous peoples of the world gather to celebrate, or mourn or pray. It carries with its voice the stories of the tribe. It invites us to participate in the rhythm of the universe with our dance. It takes us deep within. It releases us far out. It connects us with the ancestors. It brings us into the moment. It is powerful. It reminds us that we are powerful. It is all of this and more.
Mike Beck is a local artist who creates custom hand drums in the traditional ways of cultures from around the world: Celtic, Middle Eastern, West-African and Native to the Americas. He lives in Navarre where he has a small workshop on the shores of East Bay.
When not busy creating drums or leading drum circles in the local community, he tours the country doing his first love, helping others create their own drums and exposing them to the power and magic of these primitive instruments that are making such a comeback in our society.
Listen to Audio Clips from Mr. Mac Says CD
Audio Clip #1 (Mr. Mac Says)
Audio Clip #2 (I See)
Audio Clip #4 (Stop! I Didn't Say Go.)
Audio Clip #5 (Act Like a Mirror)
George Scheller- Experimental Folk Rock Blues
"I got my first guitar (that stayed in tune) a month after John Lennon was shot. I was 14 and thought that all songs had already been written. A year later, I changed my own mind. I have been writing songs ever since. I have written over four hundred songs. I have forty that survived. Forty songs that have been praised by all walks of life. I owe many thanks for much encouragement and discouragement by many different people. These are songs that represent the unpolished part of the world. The unspoken for, the thoughtful, the underdogs, the workers, the starving, the std ridden, the cynical, the sensitive, the innocent, the morally outraged, the dead, the living, and the dying."
Tribal Heart
American Tribal Style Bellydancers
We are an American Tribal Style dance group on the Gulf Coast of
Florida. We came together in the Autumn of 2003, under the direction of
Rita Bates Brown, formerly of Chicago's ReadMyHips. Our sister troupe
in Mobile is The Gypsy Chicks. Still growing and evolving, we celebrate
life with our dance!
Shawn Sheffield, Shareena of Tribal Heart
850-941-0609
shareenamoondance@mchsi.com
tribalheart.tribe.net
