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History

L.O.V.E. Productions was conceived in the spring of 96'. It has existed on a small scale of fund-raisers before for rainbow events in Boulder. The 1st full on council of L.O.V.E. was formed in early January in a potluck of 30+ people. Boulder's L.O.V.E. was brought together for the sole purpose of organizing a 4:20 festival in April, called Sow the Seeds Festival. The event went off after weeks of organizing in a collective fashion by many groups and Mystical Ascension. Community effort was tested in this event to accomplish a goal to bring awareness on many issues in legalization and rainbow issues. This next event came together as Return to Camelot was produced by Avery Runner from Space Dub Productions that united many factions of the Colorado underground rave scene in putting on a 3 day event in Southern Colorado in August 1998 at Bishops Castle.

L.O.V.E. Productions on the road came about with the Zion Train Roots Unity Tour that began in May 98' to Colorado regional rainbow gathering that produced the Gypsy Funk Circus theater at the Colorado Camp. Then united efforts with Granola Funk Theater at Arizona National rainbow gathering. From there we participated in working with The Arizona Earth Fair produced by 5th World Productions. Then from there we started the caravan to High Times WHEE 2 Festival in Eugene Oregon, where once we arrived we were welcomed and given a prime spot to set up the MERKABOOM tent. We also had a kitchen and our work crew numbered to around 50+ volunteers under our rainbow volunteer management. This was the reset of the actions That Zion Train 97' Tours had set in place. The 98' Tour was now with a L.O.V.E. focus yet we lacked the proper resources and tools to become really efficient and focused. We helped in providing late night live tribal techno music and filmed Rainbow Gypsies main stage act. Unity came in many efforts during the event. After that event we worked our way to Reggae on the River and Reggae at the Lake.

In these two festivals we accomplished much work and yet we found ourselves scattered again due to proper tools to handle the over work that our volunteers put themselves through. reggae on the Lake we had a crew that expanded to kitchen bus to security to production and we even had a co-op booth crew. We were overworked and the volunteers left at the end of the event. The lessons came that the mission had changed from a Peace Pilgrimage in 97' to a work mission in 98' that had no central support unit. So from there the L.O.V.E. Council of the Zion train Tour decided that we no longer wanted to work as volunteer worker crews. That the new focus was to be Co-producers of events and actions. We thank the reggae festival community for allowing us in 97-98 to spread the One Love message. We feel that the message is better understood as a performance and educational branch for future events.
GYPSY FUNK CIRCUS From Heaven

So this new project began with the end of the Zion Train tours that became well known in the reggae festival community to the co-creation of the Gypsy Funk Circus in September 1998. The 1st visit was The Mystical Ascension crew and One Love Central traveling to Santa Cruz where efforts were met in uniting with 13 Moon Tribe gatherings in August 99" and Rain dance events. Then in Early September we started a new journey to Northern California at the Hog Farm Picnic where we worked with the CASBAH TEAHOUSE and coordinated efforts for the Trinity Tribal Stomp in Hayfork California. In Hayfork we not only worked with the Casbah in the kitchen but we set up sound and backed up performances with Baganvan Dass, Jah Levi, Freedom Tribe, Dejabom, Mystical Ascension and many more. After this event One Love Central split off to the south to return to Santa Cruz for planning and Mystical Ascension went to Headwaters base camp for a visit.

This is when David "Gypsy" Chain from Earth 1st Headwaters Campaign was killed in a loggers cat and mouse game of falling trees to scare the activist away. Many members of the Zion Train and One Love Family were in the area. The news spread out all over the country over our 800# One Love line at the time. It was universally accepted from there on that the Gypsy Funk Circus be in memory of David "Gypsy" Chain that many had known personally in the family.
Gypsy Funk Circus from there on became a unifying factor with many production crews in the Bay area. From there on till February 1999 and again May-June 1999 L.O.V.E./Gypsy Funk Circus with Merkaboom Collective (formerly known as Mystical Ascension ) worked with 13 Moon tribe and Rain dance gatherings in San Francisco and Santa Cruz to even a 3 day event in Northern California in June. We worked with Global Empowerment Network in November 1998 in producing the ambient live jam room for the EARTH event. In April 1999 members of the GFC and MC participated and even help advise the Maui Earth Day Celebrations. Two weeks later L.O.V.E. productions/MC producer AJ produced a community event at the Paia Youth Center focused on Cultural Unity. Gypsy Funk Circus hit the road back on the mainland to the Pennsylvania rainbow National gathering in 1999 uniting strongly with Granola Funk Theater and the Funk Master himself, Aaron Funk.

From there The Merkaboom Collective went their way to other events and recording in Washington D.C. and the One Love Central of L.O.V.E. went onto PHISH tour in Massachusetts and New York and GFE tour Massachusetts and Vermont. This was a basic network journey and make money anyways possible mission. One Love Central came into WOODSTOCK 1999 as Special Projects Department Volunteers and helped in finishing touches in the art/wall museum. Our service was greatly appreciated and message shared with the Woodstock production core.

The very next week L.O.V.E. united again at the WHEE 3 Freedom Fighters festival in Columbus, OHIO. There in our 3rd year of participating, The Gypsy Funk Circus united with Art and Revolution and Aaron Funk became the live MC for the theater. Merkaboom Collective set up the Merkaboom tent as a rest area and performed as a 2nd stage act after hours from the main stage. The stage was shared with non-other then Fantuzzi himself when he paid a warm visit to the Gypsy Funk Family. Gypsy Funk Circus finally was allowed to become its fullest and the stage was set for the future.

Gypsy Funk Circus was inspired to act again in summer 2000 after the Annual Rainbow Gathering in Montana. The GFc was invited to produce a second entertainment area at the Roots revolution Festival that accredited the collective with fire dancers, Kumbaka, Arjun, Chai station, and a Big tent known as the Merkaboom. the event went off with lots of positive props and were asked to come back. After this event, many nomadic family were on separate trails and the circus did not stick.. The focus became one of small scale outreach with an information table and some small performances at various events, Health & Harmony, Sierra World Music Festival, Roots Revolution Festival, Hornets Hideaway w/ String Cheese Incident, Seattle Hemp Festival, Reggae on the River, Hog Farm, Trinity Tribal Stomp, Reggae at Mount Shasta, Ashland Community Fair, Shasta Barter Fair, Spearheads 911 Free Festival, Reggae in the Park and Peter Tosh Birthday Celebration. Gypsy Funk Circus was retired and new focus has since been laid out for future projects on the road.

The concept of L.O.V.E. is shared by many and his living example to Peoples Productions of the Mateel Center, and many other famous cooperative production collectives. The vision of this collective is for it to be versatile in all areas of production and promotions. On the local levels, it will encompass productions from small fund-raisers to big festival gatherings. On the National side it could be the driving force of a tour collective and/or working together with other local/regional collectives/producers in co-producing an event. The range of concepts and communities stretch to underground events, tours, festivals, stage shows, spiritual meals, pow wows, camp outs and so on.

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L.O.V.E. productions
exist for bringing the expertise of many like minds together in the tradition of The Summer of Love Council, Woodstock Gatherings, Rainbow Gatherings, Kumbha Melas, POW WOWs, Renaissance events, Folk and Reggae festivals.
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L.O.V.E. Council
LETTER OF INTENT
February 1st 1999

The letter of intent is a call of cooperative unity in all areas of the music and artist fields of entertainment, environmental, humanitarian, holistic, spiritual, ecological, civil, social and cultural; organizations here in the USA and Internationally. L.O.V.E. Productions was activated with unity of different production companies, organizations and individuals. On February 1st, 1999; a group of 6 hiked to the labyrinths at the Sibley Volcanic Park in the East Bay mountains of San Francisco. These individuals represented four groups; Butterfly Gardeners Association, Mendocino Coast Environmental Center, Global Empowerment Association & One Love Vibrations Foundation; and the Exodus to Eden Collective. After visiting three labyrinths, we circled and shared visions of what needed to happen.
(From this the letter was shared and intent was spread for last two years)
Revised November 12th, 2001
On the weekend of October 13th-15th

Earth dance International & a collective of organizations pulled off a 3 day event on the Yakima Reservation in Northern California. From this event, inspired in music, art and prayer many an entertainer and net worker came together to re-initiate the
L.O.V.E. Council/Circle.

The 1st gathering occurred at the Cell Space in San Francisco and the following attended. Individuals representing; One Heart Global Broadcasting Network, Global Empowerment Network, One Love Vibrations Foundation, Global Peace Foundation, Planetary Art Network USA, World Alliance for World Peace, Mystical Family Circus, Bizaaare.org, Uniting Souls, Cell Space Collective, and many as just themselves; came together to share that it was indeed time to work together and accelerate the vision of the L.O.V.E. council/circle potential in the present world situation. It was agreed to have L.O.V.E. councils/circles at least once a month. Flexibility is accomplished through communications. Vision of council/circle is as same as before:
UNITY
of all factions with similar visions working together to accomplish similar goals. A collective universal prayer and consensus ( group decision ) that a collective circle / council ( production team/crew) is to form, to unite different groups in working together under LOVE.

The concept has been created in form of a spiritual traditional council that has approved to create communications between groups and actions. This letter of intent is to inform and invite all those in all fields to work together in co-creating many events and actions for the purpose of spreading World Peace, World Unity and One Love..

One Love of all humans on the Planet Earth.

LOVE councils / circles can form anywhere in the world to create events. No leaders, no one organizations..
L.O.V.E. Collective Productions is to be umbrelled by a rainbow of organizations on the events created together. No official paperwork, no permits signed by the council / circle . Solidarity and Sovereignty. Invitation is to all in respect of vision, endorsement of events occurs by group decision called consensus. All affiliated or part of circle groups will receive credit to all events produced; they are a part of.
The idea is to spread unity and help manifest the needs and support for different projects. There may be many projects happening at the same time all with the intent of LOVE.

Each council related to event would make decision on proceeds and have the advisory help of a network of specialist. A toll free or local hotline will be incorporated that will have updates of events, and world web homepage sight will be set up to unite all activities and for communications. A call for all those in any field of training to share and volunteer for events in the future in planning office / warehouse / house is needed for L.O.V.E. central for computers and net workers. A call for fund-raisers, auctions, gallery events and baking/yard sales. Donations and contributions of any sort can be accepted by not for profit organizations associated.

LOVE

is a pure intent of unity and peace. We suggest that an outdoor location away and serene from modern society be used once in a while ( weather permitting) for a LOVE gathering and council / circle to occur. This will help everyone come back to the roots of the intent of the actions, love of Life, love of each other in respect, and of our unilateral home the Planet Earth.. Lets unite to take care of her and the future of our children.

Harold I
One Love Vibrations Foundation