Arts & Entertainment
Great Escape: Spiritual Entertainment
Venture into the realm of sound and energy healing through song and dance and chant.
Each Wednesday, the Great Escape is about offering one great idea to give yourself a well-deserved break to help you feel refreshed and centered. The concept is to prevent burnout by creating a sense of renewal within yourself so that you can bring that renewal back to your family life.
This week’s Great Escape comes to you from the long and honorable tradition of Northern California’s experimental and unconventional practices for health and healing. (Let’s not forget, watsu — aquatic body massage — was born just a matter of miles from here.)
How would you like to venture into the realm of sound and energy healing through song and dance and chant by attending a concert and perhaps receiving a blessing from a Marin High Priestess? Meet Jan Cercone whose Song and Spirit office was, until recently, located in Bel Marin Keys (she has since moved to Fairfax). Cercone has also led several concerts at in Hamilton.
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She, along with several other musicians, will present an afternoon concert this Sunday, April 3, from 2-5 p.m. at Nexus, a performance space created by Richard Lukens of Architects of a New Dawn, along the water-front in Marina Bay Park in Point Richmond near the Craneway Complex and the Rosie the Riveter Museum.
The program is entitled “The Women’s Voices: A Caravan of Healing Songs and Joy to Light the Way.” Expect to spend your time seated (among 50 life-sized golden Buddhas) but participation in dance or singing is always an option. During the concert’s second half, Cercone has invited what she describes as the “High Priestesses of Marin” to move through the crowd offering simple forehead anointing to anyone who wishes “in keeping with the ancient caravan theme and inviting people to move into their most divine self here on the earth now.”
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If this sounds like it might be your cup of tea – or maybe you’re just curious – tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Before the concert, drop by the Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Marina Bay Park as it is open year-round, dawn to dusk, although the Visitor Center is now closed. If you would like to visit the Red Oak victory ship (a cargo ship from World War ll), it is open Sundays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. for a $5 boarding fee or just $2 for children 12 and under. You can call 510-237-2933 for more information.
