French Bohemians Georges & Cerika will be performing at the James Bay Coffee & Books, a cute & very cultural venue in Victoria, BC. A unique and interesting shop in a heritage building in the heart of James Bay village.
One of Victoria’s well kept secret. We discovered this little pearl while exploring Victoria for contacts & places to perform on out first tour of what they call here “The Big Island”, meaning Vancouver island. G&C
When Friday, March 12th
About 20H00 (just after the open Mic event)
Where James Bay Coffee & Books
(Conveniently located at “Five Corners” across Thrifty’s)
143 Menzies St
Victoria,British Columbia,
Contact: (250) 386-4700
French Bohemians Georges & Cerika will be performing at:
Spiral Cafe 418 Craigflower Road, Victoria, B.C.
(in between Pine & Raynor )
(250) 386-9303
Saturday March 6th
8 PM
The Spiral Cafe, located across from Banfield Park in Vic West, is a real community resource that showcases and highlights local artists and musicians, supports Victoria West community events like the annual corn roast, and in general serves as an unofficial community centre. (victoriadailyphoto.blogspot.com)
French Bohemian duo Georges & Cerika presents
“A French Bohemian Night at the Sooke Harbour House Hotel”
Feb 5th 2010 17H30 - 22H00
at Sooke Harbour House Hotel (one of the top 25 hotels in the world)
1528 Whiffen Spit Road - Sooke (near Victoria)
250-642-3421
An evening of Live Music and Story Telling
with French Bohemians Georges & Cerika
+ Bohemian Art Exhibition
featuring Cerika’s Unique ELF & Bohemian Talisman Collections
Our Exhibition Booth at The Takilma Barter Fair in southern Oregon.
We are always willing to work with creative people, groups & projects actively involved in making a difference for the better in this world!
That’s what we came here to deliver!
Georges & Cerika
French Bohemian Duo
Since the late seventies, we have been performing together as composers, musicians, singers & songwriters.
Our repertoire is comprised of French, European classics, originals, improvisations & chansons from all ages.
We sing in several languages (mainly in French but also in English, Romanian, Armenian & Portuguese). We perform in the European Bohemian/Tzigane tradition.
Concept Live performance with an uplifting message.
A living example of positive energy & action in the “Now” moment.
Each one of our performances brings people together in a magical way because of the pure joy & serenity that it inspires.
Unique - Refreshing - Beyond mere Entertainment!
Tutoring, Training, Counseling & Workshops
Music Production from start to finish
Arts & Crafts
Stone Cutting & Polishing
Painting
Computer Skills (basic & advanced) - Custom - Special Needs
About Cerika & her Work
Cérika is a Canadian professional artist born in Belgium, Europe. She practices her Art of Beauty through a unique alchemy of disciplines ranging from lapidary arts, metal work, leatherwork, painting to sculpting.
The Concept: Bohemian Art Companions
Her approach to Art is one of integrality where meaning, uniqueness and the human experience all play major roles. She feels that life is a continuum of elements in constant interaction and evolution. Each and every action, thought and emotion of our lives do influence both our whole existence and consciousness as well as those of others.
For her, Art is more than just something you do or the medium you use, it is a celebration of our fundamental uniqueness, an ode to life and beauty and a privileged communication link with the Universe.
Each of Cerika’s jewelry pieces also carries a hidden element: a profound & mysterious symbolic meaning that can only be described as a blend of the destiny of both the object and its human destination.
As an added value, each person who will end up with one of her pieces is invited to get in contact with her in order to get a micro reading of its symbolism. This complements harmoniously the affinity spiral that was initiated with the piece’s creation and its “second life” with its “new Companion”.
Juried Art Awards & Prizes
Celebrate Arts 2008
Florence Event Center, Oregon, USA
One Merit Award for “Perceval” from the ELF Collection
Korea Jewelry Design Association 2006 International Jewelry Design Contest
5 prizes:
One Jury Special Prize, 3 Jury Prizes and also the Jury Selected Venture Prize.
International Sculpture 2001 Symposium
St-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada
Special Popular Selection (“Coup de Coeur du Public”) for her piece “Ecce Homo” performed Live during the Symposium.
Contact
We’re always open to any meaningful project, group, contact & ideas you may want to bring to our attention.
Lets Cooperate Together to Make this World a Better One
for the Children
Who Will Inherit It!
A better future for humanity… first, get acquainted …
…with…The Root of the lies we’ve being fed with
and learn HOW we became such a sick culture
Zeitgeist: Addendum
… then, open up to…
…a better alternative for us all & our children
How long since you’ve heard about a real possible global solution?
“The greatest lesson we might learn could be that human beings free of debt, insecurity, and fear become much more amiable.
No one will be out to sell anyone anything or to deprive another of possessions or money. In a resource-based economy, the basis for unhealthy human aggression will be outgrown. People will no longer be burdened by the nagging concerns that consume so much of our attention, such as mortgages, health care costs, fire insurance, economic recession, the loss of jobs, recession, depression, and taxes.
With the elimination of these burdens and the removal of the conditions that create feelings of envy, greed, and competition, our lives would be far more meaningful. For the first time we may begin to know what it means to be human.
As we enhance the lives of others, protect our environment, and work toward abundance, all our lives can become richer and more secure. If these values were put into practice, it would enable all of us to achieve a much higher standard of living within a relatively short period of time; a standard of living that would be continuously improved.
People would be free to pursue whatever constructive endeavor they chose without the economic pressures, restraints, and taxation that are inherent in the monetary system. By constructive endeavor, we mean anything that enhances the lives of the individual and others.
When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential. With these major alterations, people would eventually live longer, more meaningful and healthier lives. The measure of success would be the fulfillment of one’s individual pursuits rather than the acquisition of wealth, property, and power.” Jacque Fresco
“Miracles are natural.
When they do NOT occur, something has gone wrong.”
A Course in Miracles (Text - Chapter 1 #6)
“Faith & Action towards a better future is so much more empowering than just letting yourself get dragged down by a depressing vision of an apocalyptic doomed world. The decision is ours and the time is Now. Lets empower each other with the highest vision of a better world we’re capable of.”
Georges & Cerika
Our Belief Systems are constantly re-creating our Environments.
Lets make our Belief Systems sustainable!
Change an obsolete belief in yourself today!
This video shows a selection of some of Cerika’s original acrylic, water color & oil paintings. This clip is accompanied by the song “The Beauty of Communication”, composed & written by Cerika.
Recorded by Georges & Cerika before their US tour in the winter of 2002-2003 .
The song “The Beauty of Communication” was created for the CD project “AW Compilation CD II” of the Yahoo Group dedicated to the Yamaha’s AW4416 Digital Recorder with which this song was recorded.
Mastered by master engineer & group moderator Ronny Morris.
These amazing paintings are an ode to beauty & imagination as much as the song itself is a celebration of the Beauty of Communication & the Beauty of Generosity. For us, these values are a major part of what Life is all about.
What would we be without communication & generosity?
Will most probably be aired next Monday (November 2nd) Live on the France Inter International radio program “Allô la planète” also broadcasted on French CBC - Radio-Canada’s “Les Nuits Internationales“.
“Allô la planète” is produced by Eric Lange assisted by Aneka Bodocco and Christophe Mager.
Georges & Cerika will be sharing their Pilgrim experience of leaving everything for a three an a half year long adventure on board of their school bus & van across the Americas of Georges Bush & Obama.
From the depth of Québec northern Gaspé peninsula to SaltSpring Island, BC, Canada via a “Grand Tour” of the US where they managed to survive as artists, musicians, craft people but most importantly as travelers, witnesses and “Pilgrims” of an ever shifting world.
The passage of “The Convoy” from one world to the other…
Georges & Cerika will be exhibiting their Bohemian Art pieces & hand made jewelry at the 2 last Saturday markets of the season (October 24th & 31st of 2009) in Ganges on SaltSpring Island.
Yes, Saturday October 24th & 31st will be the last 2 Saturday markets of the 2009 season on SaltSpring.
If Originality, Hand made, Home Grown, Fair Trade & Quality are dear to you, make sure to visit these 2 last Saturday markets of the season.
As for Georges & Cerika, they’ ll be both exhibiting and playing some of their Bohemian songs during the market hours (9 AM to 4 PM) this coming Saturday.
They will also be featuring their unique Handmade Jade & Agate Gypsy Jazz Pick Collection, a real treat for the guitar, mandolin or string player interested in getting that distinctive, precise & clear tone on their instrument. Each pick is so totally unique, that the best way to find yours is certainly to drop by with your instrument and “pick” up yours right at the Bohemian Arts booth.
Salt Spring Island is located about half way between Nanaimo and Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. The city of Vancouver on the mainland of BC is to the north.
There are over ten thousand human residents on Salt Spring Island, several thousand sheep and a sizeable deer population. 350 varieties of apples are grown here. Organic growers are all over the place.
Besides being a very beautiful place in term of nature there are other deeper beauties also present if you just take a little time to find out. There’s more underneath the surface than just what meets the eyes. By that we mean caring people & a lot of consciousness concentrated in a relatively small territory.
Live Like You’ll Die Tomorrow
Farm Like You’ll Live Forever! (As seen on a sweatshirt distributed at the Saturday market)
Many outstanding levels of consciousness are incarnated here on the island. This is sometimes manifested through spontaneous private initiatives like …
The Free Store (Ganges - on Jackson Street - Across the AutoPart Store)
where people bring useful stuff that would otherwise end up at the dump for lack of a better place. “Nothing gets recycled faster & better than when made Free” . This quaint little place in Ganges is a personal initiative of Garbage Guru David, an activist & a visionary we had the pleasure to meet along with a great team of people like Jonathan, the Newfoundlander, Peter, Suzan & others all working as volunteers for the “cause” of Free as in Free Beings & Free Thinkers. Again, there’s more than what meets the eyes there too: conscious caring people in action. This place is a living instance of creative freedom at work. If you happen to be in Ganges anytime soon, make a point to come and visit the Free Store and show your support by signing the petition to keep it open. The Free Store is under the threat of closing down by the end of October.
Money as Dept
Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. See the story of how money got manipulated from originally being a useful idea to what it has now become.
Many free spirits inhabit this little piece of Eden including some well known spiritual personalities among which …
Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now & A New Earth)
The reclusive German-born author of the million-copy bestseller, The Power of Now, has arguably done more than any contemporary Western teacher to popularize the idea that people can become spiritually awakened by “living in the present” — by avoiding becoming locked in the habits of the past or in always yearning for a grass-is-greener future.
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Tolle, who says he would prefer to be left largely alone to live “a bit like a hermit,” has also recently bought a home on Saltspring Island with his partner, Kim Eng, where they enjoy being surrounded by trees.
Even though he’s an introvert, Tolle says he feels life is asking him to “surrender” to the need to tour the world, give public lectures and sell books to save the planet.
(Sources Vancouver Sun)
With all its potential & all its blessings, real marvels should be coming out of this little piece of Eden…
Are we also going to see this happening ?
Is SaltSpring Island going to deliver its promises in the real world?
That’s what our experience here will be telling us.
We already have had first hand experiences and glimpse of some of this magic. But then again, we’re conscious that “as newbies” we’ ve hardly only scratched the surface.
The “touristy season” is fading away by now. We’ re just about to experience the “other side” of the island’s reality and at the same time a new phase of our adventure. Our intuition tells us that this may very well be the “family side” or certainly “an other side of the family” so to speak.
Yes, Saturday October 24th & 31st will be the last 2 Saturday markets of the 2009 season on SaltSpring.
Live Like You’ll Die Tomorrow
We are Georges & Cérika, 2 long time traveling companions. A few years ago, we left everything & became full time Bohemian RVers with our good old ‘79 Blue (Silver) Bird School bus & our brave little Dodge mini van.