DEBORAH KELLER-RIHN
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 Lighten Up 
A Festival of Creative Consciousness
 

Photographs by Ramin Samandari
Our first annual "Lighten Up" celebration at the Woodlawn Casting Pond and Park 115 Alexander, San Antonio, TX 78201 was an amazing success! It was a collaborative event hosted by Keller-Rihn Studio/Mandala Healing Arts in collaboration with Dreamland Collective featuring the PEACE Initiative and Interfaith INC. On this wonderful day we celebrated life and light, conscious creativity and explored the endless possibilities for inner growth. This family friendly event was absolutely FREE to the public and  featured live music, FREE veggie food, yoga and Tai Chi workshops, live art, holistic vendors, mandala installations, a healing flower ritual, floating illuminated artworks, light art installations, poetry and a video installation. Live music and performances by: Verisimilitude, Oponomo, Krishna Monks, Kaveri Yoga Bharatnatyam Dancers,  Amanda Chavis, Rudy Harst of the Celebration Circle, David Rodriquez and Bettye Daniels. Workshops by P.E.A.C.E. Initiative, Deborah Charnes, The SA Yoga Meet-Up. Tai Chi by Shiva Jyoti. Massage by Sophia Martinez.
Many thanks to Bill Simons for his beautiful light sculptures and for his steadfast assistance with the project.
This event was funded by the City of San Antonio’s Department for Culture and Creative Development (DCCD) and
the Texas Commission for the Arts.

The Lighten Up installation enhanced what is already a beautiful natural environment and included floating, illuminated artworks in the pond as well as light art and video projections created by lead artists, Deborah Keller-Rihn and Bill A. Simons as well as other notable San Antonio area artists such as  Anthony Quintanilla, Erik Bosse, Laurie Dietrich, Lauri Garcia Jones, Justin Schneider, Naradi Devi Das (Michelle McFarlin), Coco Costello, Robin Gara, Mimi Duvall, Sharon Colangelo, Rohn Bayes, Shervin Khadivian, Sheida Asgari, Ramin Samandari, Denise McCoy, Laurel Gibson,Elise de Luna, Anthony M. Flores,  Noemi Solis, Mariana Vasquez, Cat Cisneros and Urban 15,  Andrea Sepulveda, Obafemi Ogunleye (Olaju Group), JBone White, Lilly Lazuli and others. 

Schedule:
430 Odie & The Digs
520 David Rodriguez
550 Oponomo
640 Bharathnatyam dancers
7pm Verisimilitude
745  Blessings by Ramon Vasquez y Sanchez, Sister Alice Holden and Maria Chavez
800 Rudy Harst
815 Amanda Chavis
835 Oceatenah
900 Krishna Monks-Catherine Cisneros and Urban 15 Dancers
920 Dance Like Robots
Poetry will be in between musical sets-
Anthony the Poet and Rohn Bayes
Bhagavan Narada Dasa GPS
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  • Home
  • Resume
  • GLIMPSES OF ETERNITY
  • Bio
  • Travels to India
  • Kali Maa
  • Invitation to the Voyage
  • Satchitananda
  • Traces of Perception
  • Common Currents, Exercise in Memory, 1986
  • Kolam Dreaming in South India
  • Moonwalk in Thirumannamalai
  • Buddha Boxes
  • Namaste Installation
  • Symbolic Transformations
  • 21 Aspects of Tara
  • Goddess Portraits
  • Secret of the Golden Flower
  • Hidden in Middens
  • Luminous Luminaries
  • Tattoo Portraits
  • Mandala Dancing
  • Absolute Body
  • The Exquisite Rainbow Corpse: Roy G Biv
  • Once Upon a Mirror
  • The Long Journey to the Self
  • Research Project in India
  • Mandala Healing Arts
  • Lighten Up
  • Blue Star Art and Fitness Camp
  • Dia de los Muertos on the Old Spanish Trail
  • Turning the Light Around
  • Re-Turning
  • Noche de Recuerdos
  • Alamo Mandala-First Luminaria
  • Locos Parade in San Miguel de Allende
  • El Gran Dia de los Artistas