HeartBeats - Drums for Hurricane Relief with Eco-conscious Music Alliance

Eco-Conscious Music Alliance presents:

HeartBeats - Drums for Hurricane Relief

Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024

Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Location: Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches, 3220 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78723

Cost: Donation to support relief efforts.

Join us for the Supply Drive & drum-centered, kid-friendly music event to support those impacted by Hurricane Helene!  Come dance, drum & celebrate community love-in-action.

Please bring supplies  to donate (full list below). The Eco-conscious Music Alliance brings people together through the change-making power of music to co-create community sustainability projects - together we rise! 

ADDITIONAL SUPPLY DROP AVAILABLE Oct 15-18:  

Indra’s Awarehouse at 7904 FM 969, Austin, TX 78724

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MUSIC:

Noah Colbeck & Guru-Shabd Khalsa 

Magnolia Baker with Jonny Green-Phelan

Lisa Pavati & Living Earth Circle 

Owen Towles 

Community Drum Circle with Living Earth Circle

Thank You To Our Partners: 

Sustainable Living Guide, GenEarth, Mindful Rescue, Rescue Appalachia, Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches, Indra’s Awarehouse

SUPPLIES NEEDED

• Buckets
• Chainsaws
• Construction tools
• Cookstoves & fuel, solar ovens
• Filled large water containers
• First aid supplies
• Flashlights, lanterns, headlamps
• Gas cans
• Herbal medicine (*see below)
• Large backpacks (e.g. trekking backpacks)
• Non-perishable food
• Power sources - generators, batteries, charging pads / solar: panels, inverters
• PPE gear (from masks & gloves to full body)
• Reusable bags (Cases are welcome)
• Walkie talkies
• Warm blankets
• Winter clothes & shoes for adults & children

*Herbal Medicine: (credit: excerpted & adapted from Janet Kent)

Topical Preparations

• Topical preparations are going to be needed. Liniments, salves, & sprays. The alcohol-based preparations can be a few years old. The oil-based ones should be made in the last year if possible.
• Salves should be individually packaged in small containers (well-labeled). Please put the salves in a bag when sending them with other items so that if they melt & leak or open, the oils don’t get all over everything else including your labels! 

Preparations

• Aromatics are essential. Sachets, hydrosols, & portable inhalers are well-loved & easy to
• Tinctures should be labeled with date.

Glycerites

• Glycerites should be less than one or two years old.

Dried Herbs

• Include dates of harvest or purchase.Herbs
• Please do not donate endangered herbs like Ginseng or Goldenseal, or herbs Indigenous people are asking settlers to leave alone, like Osha, White Sage or Palo santo.

Labels & Packing

• LABELS ARE ESSENTIAL. PRINTED NOT HANDWRITTEN if at all possible.
• Use a lot of packing material when sending breakable glass.

Thank you so much community!!!

Host or Publisher Eco-conscious Music Alliance