Namaste, Volunteers We thank you for your contributions to this year's Bhakti Fest. As you must know, an event such as Bhakti Fest can't take place without all the energy and support of its volunteers. The organizers and everyone who attended the festival are grateful to you!
We are very excited about the wonderful response that we have received from this year's festival and are already looking forward to next year. The festival dates are set for the next three years at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center.
Bhakti Fest 2010 will be expanded to four days and will be held September 9-12 with post-festival clean-up on the 13th. We have chosen those dates partly because we want to honor and accelerate the healing around 9/11.
Thank you again!
Kenneth Schwenker, Sridhar and Team Bhaktifest!
Photos: Sunset on Friday, 9-11. Artist/Volunteer Burgundy and Artist/Volunteer Sunny captured in their late-night hide-out by Mukesh. Finished "Bhakti Fest" sign in place at entrance to the "Bhav Realm." Burgundy at work on painting to be auctioned off for the charities. Finished painting by Burgundy. And one of the main 'Fruits of my Labor..." Getting to meet Donna Eve De Lory and her Buddha-full family (w/Sophie not a happy camper at the moment, but at least she agreed to be in the photo!) Thanks for taking the shot, Michael Rainbow! (Photos by Sundowner except the ones he is in!)
Also, a personal note from Sunny to all my Heart Sisters & Brothers who helped me get through the task of painting all the signs for the B-Fest(and the other 3 jobs I was doing at any one time during the 6 daze & nights I was working there): Burgundy (of course!), Katie, Helena, Gregory... I could also start a list of all the others I'd personally like to thank, but it would just take too long! (But at the top would be the cool-headed & warm-hearted Tasyah! ...the construction crew w/brothers like Jake, George, Marcus, Roberto, etc., who "Had my Back(Board)! And the massage therapists like Garrett, Hawk, Karen, Will... The Kitchen Crew... Head JT Retreat-Goddess Victoria & Team JTRC! Followed by a cast of thousands...) Thank You a Hundred & Eight times!! (Let's do it again soon [but not TOO soon!]) -= ~@~ =-
