{"id":274,"date":"2016-02-16T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthdanceohio.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:49:59","slug":"earthdance-2016-theme-announced-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/2016\/02\/16\/earthdance-2016-theme-announced-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthdance 2016 Theme Announced! (And More!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthdance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earthdance Global<\/a> has just announced the theme for 2016: <strong>Global Shift<\/strong>, &#8220;as we shift the Earthdance movement into its third decade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, they&#8217;ve also announced an accommodating schedule for their 20th anniversary year, when the International Day of Peace falls on a Wednesday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year\u2019s events will take place throughout the world September 17 through 25, 2016 and now include three global prayer for peace meditation times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday, September 17 at 0:00 UTC (midnight in London) \u2013 opening meditation<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, September 21 at UTC-8 (midnight in California) \u2013 in alignment with the United Nations Day of Peace<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, September 24 at UTC+8 (midnight in Australia) \u2013 closing meditation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Local events\u00a0may take place either weekend, for the number of days producers organize and create at each gathering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which brings us to a short survey to determine a date for our local Earthdance Ohio event:<\/p>\n[vfb id=1]\n<figure id=\"attachment_276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" style=\"width: 4068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-276 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/earthdanceohio.org\/files\/2016\/02\/9200965-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of OWU student dancers at Earthdance Ohio 2014 by Vrinda Trivedi\" width=\"4068\" height=\"2772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2016\/02\/9200965-copy.jpg 4068w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2016\/02\/9200965-copy-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2016\/02\/9200965-copy-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2016\/02\/9200965-copy-1024x698.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4068px) 100vw, 4068px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of OWU student dancers at Earthdance Ohio 2014 by Vrinda Trivedi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthdance Global has just announced the theme for 2016: Global Shift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-event","tag-announcements"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/earthdanceohio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}