“For the Next 7 Generations” a Free Documentary Film Screening at Nelson Healing Center, Jan 22

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by in Wellness

13 Indigenous Grandmothers, shamans and medicine women from around the world have been called together to share their sacred wisdom and practices. Can they light the way for us to a peaceful and sustainable planet?

For the Next 7 Generations is a documentary film that chronicles the momentous journey of a group of women who have become known as the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. They travel around the globe to promote world peace and share their indigenous ways of healing. Facing a world in crisis, these women are sharing their visions of healing and a call for worldwide change now, before its too late.

In the film, For the Next 7 Generations, we accompany the Grandmothers’ early travels to the Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico, to the Brazilian Amazon, and to the mountain-top village of Huautla de Jimenez in Mexico. In October 2006, they went to Dharamsala, India, the second home of our Tibetan Grandmother Tsering Dolma Gyaltong, for a private meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. During their time there, they also interacted with speakers and attendees at the annual Bioneers Conference in California via satellite. Spanning the planet, this spacebridge united the powerful prayers of the Grandmothers with the visionary activism of the Bioneers.

The film will be shown on Friday, January 22 at 7 pm at the Nelson Healing Center, at 44 S. 2nd Ave. in Sturgeon Bay. There is no charge to attend.

Produced and directed by Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Carole Hart, For the Next 7 Generations shows the journey around the world of 13 original and irresistible characters. As they visit each of their indigenous homelands, we see grandmothers being canoed down the Amazon, or being driven in a super-sized tourist bus up narrow mountain roads. When the Grandmothers arrive at their destination, they take us inside their villages or pueblos or reservations, so we can witness and experience the living earth-based traditions and ceremonies that animate the Grandmother’s sacred wisdom.

The film features the music of Peter Buffett, an Emmy-Award winning musician, producer, and composer for film and television. Most notably, Peter scored the song Fire Dance for the Oscar-winning film Dances with Wolves, and contributed to the score for The Scarlet Letter. He composed the full score for the Emmy-awarded CBS miniseries 500 Nations, which Kevin Costner produced.

“Through their teachings, they are lighting a way to a peaceful, sustainable planet,” says Dr. Melissa Nelson who will also share her own personal experiences. When she first traveled to India to meet with the Grandmothers and the Dalai Lama, Dr. Nelson explains, “My life changed in a dramatic way and ever since, I have been traveling with them, twice a year, to their homelands all around the world.”
Dr. Nelson invites you to see the film as an introduction to gather in the 4-week Sacred Talking Circles Series starting on February 5. Plant prayers of peace and hear the ancient teachings from the Indigenous people so we all may empower ourselves and respond in the world from a place of grace, inspiration and right relationship.

More about the documentary can be discovered online at the film’s official Website: ForTheNext7Generations.com,  and at GrandmothersCouncil.com. For more information on the free screening please call 920.818.0045 (local calls do not require 920 area code).  Nelson Healing Center is located at w44 S. 2nd Ave. in Sturgeon Bay, and on the Web at NelsonHealingCenter.com.

Tags: , , , , ,

Switch to our mobile site