Gathering (Festival : Owhango, N.Z.)

Date: 1991

Reference: Eph-C-FESTIVAL-Gathering

Description: Includes a songsheet from 1991 and a programme from 1993. Songsheet for 1991 contains 48 songs, covering two sides of a sheet of paper. The 1993 programme is a folded sheet showing a map of the Gathering site, with the Whakapapa River named at lower left. The programme lists events for the weeklong Gathering. Workshops included permaculture, tree planting, alternative power, women's issues, men's concerns, spiritual and religious groups, Maori and indigenous people, Pakehatanga, Gay people, addiction and recovery, mediation and conflict resolution, prisons and justice, alternatives to violence, healing skills. Each day included sessions of meditation, yoga, tai chi, dances of universal peace, Rainbow groups, Grace Circle. This series of Gatherings in the early 1990s were festivals held at Ralph Brock's farm at Owango, Ruapehu district. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopies, sizes varying Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed in the Photographic Archive, and in Manuscripts..

Date: January 1993

From: Hamblin, Dennis C, fl 1998-2013 :Photograph albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-q-875

Description: Photograph album relating to The Gathering earth healing festival held at Ralph Brock's farm at Owhango, Ruapehu district, in 1993, taken by Dennis Hamblin. The images show the natural scenery, including the river, surrounding the Gathering, the creation of the cairn known as The Heart Space around which the ceremonies are held, the creche, the Men's Space ceremonies and drumming, stalls, toilets, tents and kitchens, food preparation, music making, meditation exercises, purification of healing tent, ceremonial flags and the Gathering Concert. Includes many group and individual photographs of individuals, but with no names. Elaine Dyer appears in several photographs. Other - Photographer Hamblin advises that the negatives for these images no loner exist. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album 36 x 32 x 4 cm with grey vinyl covers

Date: 1991

From: Hamblin, Dennis C, fl 1998-2013 :Photograph albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-q-874

Description: Photograph album relating to The Gathering earth healing festival held at Ralph Brock's farm at Owhango, Ruapehu district in 1991, taken by Dennis Hamblin. Images show the landscape and river around the farm at the festival, in both fine weather and in the rain. The photographs also cover the activities of the participants, including the opening, featuring Elaine Dyer and Choquosh, a North American First Nation woman, and Johnny Harris, morning meditations, daily activities, such as dance, music making, preparing food and eating and meetings. Also shows the signage, kitchen area, division of space within camp, including Men's Space, Children's Space and a Sacred Place by the river for the Rainbow Group's special meeting, and the blessing given on the day of departure. Other participants are Kath Watzig, Kerry Burrough, Val Hannah and Arapeta Cocksley-Tuwhare, Elsie Saddler, Christene and Karen Winstone, Kerry Warburton, Tejas Engel, Dorothea Honey, Judi Knights, Anna van der Pole, Anne Bottcher and Gail Wolf. Photographer Hamblin advises that the negatives for these images no longer exist Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album 36 x 32 x 4 cm ,with red vinyl covers