Using circle/mandala (Sanskrit for circle) art projects before and during the festival we want to bring individuals from all areas of our community together to celebrate their own individuality by creating their own  art as well as celebrating their unity and connectedness by putting those individual art pieces together with others to form bigger more beautiful art installations. We want to show what we can do when we work together, how we are all connected, a part of the whole at the festival as well as the right to being individuals too. Showing the interconnectedness of everything.

Our theme for the project: Circles within Circles

From the tiniest atom within us to the sun that shines big and bright in the sky, Circles and cycles are everywhere within us and our world. We breath in and out, circling air. We sleep, we wake …another cycle. We live within bodies that grow and renew and heal every day. We live within the circle of our blood family; individual yet connected to each other; within the circle of the larger family—our community—being a part of it in the way we choose; on a circular planet witnessing the cycles of nature, day and night, seasons, flowers that open and close daily, that grow, bloom and die scattering seeds to grow again; alongside cultures that live life on medicine wheels, walk continuous circles on spiral pathways, draw ever connected celtic knots, come together in drum circles or gather around the fires of talking circles knowing everyone is equal, under the sky of a solar system of planets which circle and cycle within our universe.

 This is the “mandala of life”!! Each and every one of us an arc in that universal picture unique and individual in our own way. An arc that when added to another suddenly forms a circle transforming the tapestry as it grows. It shows that our small arc still exists even when it seems to disappear into the bigger picture but if that arc was taken away the bigger picture would not be the same. The mandala of life is a celebration of our individuality and at the same time our unity. It celebrates that everything and everyone is interconnected and equal as the tapestry continuously grows and changes.  

So!—through your art and using your passion for life and the circular symbology that runs within it, come and be part of the central coast community as we bring our part of the universes rich tapestry well and truly alive at Coastfest 2008.
You don’t want to miss this!!