Welcome to the Holistic Arts Fair web page
The Holistic Arts Fair is a health, spiritual and visionary
art fair all in one.
The Arts of being and becoming Whole!
(some people spell it wholistic)
The next fair is scheduled for Sept.27 and 28, 2008
Presented by the Holistic Arts Fair Association
What's happening at the Fair
The Holistic Arts Fair is a great opportunity to experience many ways to transform your life. It features exhibits, lectures, workshops and music on such topics as alternative health services and products, spirituality and metaphysics, psychic awareness, spiritual healing, visionary arts and music, and community organizations dedicated to peace and planetary evolution.
The Fair for 2008 is scheduled for Sept.27-28 at Divine Science Community Center in San Jose.
At the Holistic Arts Fair, you can get readings and healings, health products, exciting crafts and visionary art, and lots of resources and info on metaphysics, spirituality, peace, and ways to transform yourself and your world.
Click HERE for a partial listing of exhibitors at the Fair.
We will have about 45 exhibitors, and at least 10 free lectures and workshops. We also plan a special Crystal Bowls Meditation event on Saturday.
Special guests and events for 2007. See below for full schedule
Saturday Sept.22: Yoga for Your Eyes with Melissa Moody; Mellen-Thomas on near-death experience; Dowsing workshop with Barry Smith; Crystal Bowls
Sunday Sept.23: Peggy Black, Crowman/Spirit Tiger, Una White, UFO Panel
Admission is FREE to the Holistic Arts Fair and all its events, and there is FREE PARKING (parking is limited in our lot in back). The event coincides roughly with the Fall Equinox, a sacred time in many cultures when all energies and forces are in balance. The Fair runs Saturday from 10 AM until about 8 PM, and on Sunday until about 7 PM. Some exhibitors go home before 8 PM though, so arrive at least by 4 PM to give yourself enough time to see them.
Exhibitors are wanted for 2008. Applications will be available soon. Spaces cost $60 for readers, or others using card-table space (must bring own table) indoors, and $75 for an 8 foot wide by 6 foot deep space outdoors. 6' Tables (use is optional), and chairs, will be available free while supplies last (we only have a few tables, and none will be rented). You may order electricity for your space for $10. Some outdoor spaces (especially those numbered in the teens and forties) will need shade, and you can rent an umbrella from us for $28 if you don't have covering for an 8x6 space.
Please contact the producer for an application at:
eameece@california.com, and leave your address, or call (408)448-6726, and leave your "snail" mailing address for an application! Please let me know what you have to offer at a booth.
If you want to print out an application to send in, CLICK HERE.
Also see and print out the floorplan here to pick out a space and see the layout of the event. Circle several locations, and I will get the best space still available for you. Send it in with your application; you can print it on the back.
Note: the floor plan may come up slowly if you have a slow computer connection.
You can also get the application and floorplan sent to you by mail. Just email the producer with your address for a snailmail application.
The Holistic Arts Fair is produced by the Holistic Arts Fair Association, a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization. A portion of booth fees will be donated to charities decided upon by our Board of Directors.
Speakers, workshops and concerts in 2007
Here is the schedule of events for 2007 (all free). Schedule for Sept.27-28, 2008 will be available about a month beforehand. Schedules are also available at the Fair.
Saturday Sept.22
11 AM: Renita Zies, doctoral student at Clayton College of Natural Health, on the Optimum Weight Loss Program- Why diets don't work. Topics include:
1. Some of the current diets out there and their problems
2. Digestive and excretion issues and why they are important in life long program of living healthy
3. Insulin resistance and carbohydrate sensitivities and what that means regarding the burning and storing of fats.
4. How neurotransmitters affect our cravings and satisfaction level as well as our emotions.
5. How food sensitivities can affect our weight and stamina
6. What my six month program includes.
12 Noon: Marianne Saum on Unleashing Your Mind Power. Learn how to relax in ways that unleash your mind power, to help you achieve what you really want.
1 PM: Barry Smith, past president of American Society of Dowsers, on Healing Through the Depths. Do you sometimes feel like you're out of your depth? This presentation will begin a journey of self-discovery toward staying in greater harmony. Explore the process of clearing physical body systems through a sequence of events. This activity-based program can help you with emotional release, as well as enhance your ability to cope with changing planetary vibrations.
2 PM: Yoga for Your Eyes Workshop with Melissa Moody from the Center for Self-Healing. Don't miss what has become our most popular annual event at the Fair. This expert on self-healing, who healed her own eyesight from a terrible accident, will show you how to take care of your eyes, and thus improve your whole life. 2 hour workshop.
4:00 PM: Beverly Cohoon on Signature Cell Healing. Learn to focus on the "God cell," which lies within the pineal gland. This all-important cell holds the memory of our cellular perfection and our original life blueprint. The reawakening of this signature cell allows for a return to optimum health and balance in all four bodies: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Kahu Fred Sterling pioneered Signature Cell Healing over a decade ago through the guidance of Master Kirael. In this intensive weekend workshop you will learn how to integrate Signature Cell Healing techniques into your daily life and into your existing healing practice. Beverly studied with Sterling, and owns the Lemurian Healing Center in Mesa, AZ. 1 hour.
5:00 PM: Mellen-Thomas Benedict describes his "Journey Through the Light and Back." In his near-death experience, Mellen travelled beyond the "light at the end of the tunnel" through several realms of consciousness on the other side. He was shown in holographic detail Earth’s past, and a beautiful vision of mankind’s future for the next 400 years. He experienced our connection to Mother Earth (Gaia), our manifest destiny, and was gifted with access to Universal Intelligence.
In 1982 Mellen-Thomas died of terminal brain cancer and survived to tell about it. He is the most studied near-deather in the world, and has devoted himself to scientific research projects. Deepak Chopra has called Mellen-Thomas the "Encyclopedia of the After Life." 90 minutes.
6:30 PM-plus: Crystal Bowls Meditation takes you into a powerful space; the popular conclusion to our events on Saturday.
Sunday Sept.23
11 AM: Rev. Christine of Divine Science leads a New Thought sing-a-long of favorite hymns. Gene Turner, organist.
12 Noon: Jay Wang on Judgement Clearing, an energy work that clears our hidden judgements in the unconscious mind. In this participatory session, the audience will ask each other what their judgements are, but need not answer. Jay will listen to the unconscious mind of the people in the audience, performing energy work to release stuck energy. Willing participants could experience anything from relaxation to detoxification or spiritual breakthrough.
1:00 PM: Una White on art therapy and angelic aura color healing.
2:00 PM: Crowman leads a mini-workshop of drumming and sharing of wisdom in a circle, focusing on the "vision quest."
3:00 PM: Peggy Black on the Energy Matrix of Daily Life. She will cover:
The unconscious effects of each energy matrix you encounter. Know when you are triggered and how to stop it.
How to be conscious of the energy fields you step into.
How you are manipulated by these energy fields or this matrix, when the group energy effects you in a way that you would normally not participate.
Transforming from unconscious to conscious in each energy field, each matrix.
How to support yourself and protect your balance and integrity.
How to truly serve as a Multidimensional Starhuman and shift the Energy Matrix.
Peggy Black is a Multidimensional Channel who works with Sacred Sound. She has been channeling transmissions she calls "Morning Messages" from the "We Are Here" team for several years.
4:00 PM: UFO Panel, with host Ruben Uriarte, and panelists Steve Reichmuch, Alex Neuse and Ron Lampi.
Directions to the Fair at Divine Science Community Center
From local areas of San Jose, take Meridian Ave. to Hamilton Ave, go east about 4 blocks. Turn left at Hicks. The Center is on your right at 1540 Hicks Ave. You can also travel on Minnesota Ave. and turn southbound onto Hicks; the Center is then 4 blocks down on your left.
From Highway 17, take Hamilton Ave. east, go about 2 miles to Hicks Ave. Turn left and go about 4 blocks. We are on your right. Park along Hicks Ave, or if you're early and there's still room, try our parking lot in back (entrance just past the Center buildings).
From Highway 17 from Santa Cruz/Los Gatos: exit Hamilton. Stay to the right. Turn left at first light, then right onto Hamilton, and go east about 2 miles to Hicks, turn left and go about 4 blocks.
From Highway 280 (San Francisco, Peninsula): take Highway 17 (Santa Cruz) south to next exit (Hamilton); turn left/east, and go 2 miles to Hicks; turn left and go about 4 blocks.
From Highway 85: take Highway 17 north towards San Jose; exit Hamilton. Stay to the right. Turn left at first light, then right onto Hamilton, and go east about 2 miles to Hicks, turn left.
From 880 going south, continue south past 280 onto 17, take Hamilton exit; east about 2 miles to Hicks, turn left.
From 101, exit Highway 880 towards San Jose/Santa Cruz; take Hamilton, east about 2 miles to Hicks, turn left.
From 101 from Gilroy/Morgan Hill and points south, exit Highway 85. See above, OR: from 85, take Highway 87 north to Downtown San Jose. Exit Curtner, and travel west (left) about a mile and a half, past Cherry. Right on Hicks. The Center is past Hamilton/Pine on your right.
FYI: From Hamiilton Ave. going east: once past Meridian, you can also take the next left onto Hamilton Way, and turn left at Hicks; that way is shorter (but the street has speed bumps).
Buses: Take Line 82 to Pine/Hamilton and Hicks, or Line 63 to Meridian and Hamilton. For customer service and scheduling call (408)321-2300.
See list of hotels and motels in the area, and
click here for list of near-by restaurants
History
The first Holistic Arts Fair was held Nov.21-22, 1998 at San Jose City College. We had some 60 exhibitors, 40 speakers, and about 500 people attending. Exhibitors reported good results from our smaller second Fair on Sept.23-24, 2000 at Divine Science Center, and our third there on Sept.22-23, 2001, and all attendees enjoyed our wonderful program. Attendance was higher in 2002 (Sept.21-22), 2003 (Sept.20-21), and especially in 2004 (Sept.25-26), and most of our booth spaces were filled. Business was good at our event in 2005 (Oct.1&2), and attendance was up in 2006 (Sept.23-24). The Fair continues the 16 year tradition of the New Age Renaissance Fair, from 1982 to 1997, which attracted 1500 to 5000 people each year, about 200 exhibitors, and dozens of speakers and performers over the years.
We have scaled back the size of our event from the days of the New Age Ren. Fair. We have designed this new approach so that it will work better for our exhibitors and be more accessible to the public. We need the support of the people in our area, so please attend our event and support our exhibitors! The Holistic Arts Fair and the New Age Renaissance Fair have been given good publicity over the years, and we have always gotten great support from many exhibitors. I continue to express my deep admiration for the people in the holistic and new age fields who have offered themselves and their work. I also want to thank the many local businesses who have helped us by putting out our flyers for their customers these many years. It is up to the people to create a new age and holistic renaissance, and to support public events like this which are necessary for it to happen.
Watch for updates on future events.
If you need any further information about the Holistic Arts Fair, or would like to help or support any of our events, or join HAFA, you can email the Producer or call (408)448-6726 (mornings and evenings best)
HOLISTIC ARTS FAIR ASSOCIATION (HAFA)
HAFA Board of Directors as of June 2007: Tony McGettigan, Paula Nunes, Eric Meece (CEO).
CEO: Eric A. Meece
Secretary: Paula Nunes, Treasurer: Tony McGettigan
Special thanks to Rev. Christine of Divine Science, and our HAFA Board of Directors.
Banner by Greg Martin.
Thanks to volunteers:
2006: Joseph Leight, Mona Angel, Gene Turner.
2005: Gene Turner, Mona Angel Hernandez, Tom Dragosavac.
2004: Robert Perala, Joseph Leight, Gene Turner, Tony McGettigan.
2003: Ron Hart, Jeff Norment, Joseph Leight, Robert Perala, Cathy Cunningham.
2002: Jeff Norment, Tony McGettigan and Gene Turner.
2001: Jeff Norment, Michael Berry, Tony McGettigan, Rev. Christine, Paula Nunes, Andrew Mount.
2000: Tony McGettigan, Rev. Christine Emmerling, Michael Berry, and Dean Price of Sacred Productions.
I appreciate those who worked at our first event in 1998 too: Marquis Valentine, Mark Hutsell, Rodney Birkett, John Clarke, Kenny Elvin, Tony McGettigan, James Downer, Eve Page Matthias.
Special thanks to: Eve Page Matthias, Michael Caligari and Judy Rookstool, from San Jose City College, for hosting our Fair in 1998.
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