World Trade Center/

Ground Zero Observance

Saturday, August 28, 5:00-7:45 PM

Couple, 8/28, Peter Holderness Photo, www.PeterHolderness.com

Ringing for Healing:
For All Victims of Violence All Over the World
By Pauline Oliveros
commissioned & produced
by RingOut, Inc.

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The Score

You are invited to create a peaceful event using bells as your voice. Please be a listening presence. If it is necessary to speak, please do it very quietly without distracting others during the performance. You are invited to help create a peaceful and respectful atmosphere for a memorial. This is a memorial for all those killed by violence around the world. Many will desire to use the time meditatively.

During the ringing, the Bellwethers will keep track of the score. Follow their lead. It is OK if you want to stop or rest or give your bell to another.

Part I: 2,749 Rings

Slow, like a pile driver. As you listen to each pulse of your bell, you are invited to send healing through the sound of your bell to all who have been victims of world violence, as well as the 9/11 victims. Try to pulse your bell like a heart beat. Listen to stay together with all others to create one heart beat.

Time

Minutes

East

South

West

North

5:30p

68



Part II: Silence

Time

Minutes

East

South

West

North/

6:38p

10

 

 

 

 


Part III: Directional Ringing

When your group rings alone, imagine and express through your ringing the qualities associated with your group’s compass direction.

EAST:
Sunrise , new beginnings, babies (human and animal), innocence.

SOUTH: Warmth, comfort, nurturing, and goodness.
WEST: Sunset, visions and dreams.

NORTH: Wisdom, truth, eldership, navigation.

ALL: Joy of communication and interconnectedness.

 

Time

Min.

East

South

West

North

Round 1

6:48p

2

 

 

 

6:50p

2

 

 

 

6:52p

2

 

 

 

6:54p

2

 

 

 

6:56p

2

Round 2

6:58p

2

 

 

 

7:00p

2

 

 

 

7:02p

2

 

 

 

7:04p

2

 

 

 

7:06p

2

Round 3

7:08p

2

 

 

 

7:10p

2

 

 

 

7:12p

2

 

 

 

7:14p

2

 

 

 

7:16p

2

Round 4

7:18p

2

 

 

 

7:20p

2

 

 

 

7:22p

2

 

 

 

7:24p

2

 

 

 

7:26p

2

Round 5

7:28p

2

 

 

 

7:30p

2

 

 

 

7:32p

2

 

 

 

7:34p

2

 

 

 

7:36p

Face away from the WTC site

2


KEEP RINGING, and disperse into the city, ringing in all directions as long as possible wherever you go.

 

7:38p

Ring on

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