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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Santa Cruz premiere of SAND's "Flowers of the Earth" 
 followed by a Q&A with directors Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo.\n\nDoors open 
 at 6 PM. Film begins at 6:30 PM.\n\nThis is a rare opportunity to 
 experience the film in community, on a big screen and share a conversation 
 with the film directors.\n\n\nFlowers of the Earth - Brazil (Mato Grosso do 
 Sul)\nThey call themselves Flowers of the Earth. In the red-soil heart of 
 Brazil, the Guarani-Kaiowá fight with prayer, with seed, and with their 
 own blood to return to the mother who bore them: the land itself.\n\n"Water 
 lives in our bodies," a Kaiowá poet once said. "It evaporates into the 
 air, becomes a cloud of love, falls as rain, sprouts the buds, blooms the 
 flowers. We are Nature."\n\nFor the Guarani-Kaiowá of Mato Grosso do Sul, 
 there is no line where the body ends and the land begins. The earth is 
 their skin, the tree their umbilicus, the mountains the bones of a living 
 mother. But for over a century, that mother has been fenced, burned, mined, 
 and poisoned, her children pushed onto slivers of the territory that once 
 held them all.\n\nThe film listens to the elders who remember the forest 
 before the farmers came, before the native were clearcut and the living 
 land was carved into square plots of a single endless crop. It walks with 
 the healers, whose prayer is constant as breath, and with the young women 
 leading the Retomada, the return to ancestral land. The Guarani-Kaiowá are 
 a people who refuse to vanish. Their story is a struggle for survival, but 
 more than that: a love between a people and their earth, and a quiet, 
 defiant invitation to the world to reforest not only the land, but the 
 mind.\n\n\nEveryone is welcome.\nComplimentary tickets are available to 
 ensure no one is turned away for lack of funds. Click here to secure your 
 complimentary ticket.\n\nTicket donations support both RCNV and SAND’s 
 vital work, and 50% of proceeds after film production costs directly fund 
 Indigenous-led initiatives in the featured communities.\n\n\nContent 
 Advisory & Our Commitment to Care:\nThe films in this series honor the 
 profound resilience of Indigenous cultures while addressing the brutal 
 legacies of colonization. They may include references to physical and 
 sexual violence, substance abuse, and intergenerational trauma. We 
 acknowledge that this content can be deeply impactful, especially for those 
 with lived or inherited experiences of such trauma.\n\nTo foster a 
 respectful environment for all attendees, we will share clear Community 
 Agreements at each screening. These include guidelines on privacy, consent, 
 respectful sharing, and the right to exit and re-enter the space as needed. 
 Our goal is to create a container where learning and reflection can happen 
 with care for everyone's well-being.\n\n\nAbout the Resource Center for 
 Nonviolence & SAND:\nFor 50 years, the Resource Center for Nonviolence 
 (RCNV) has equipped our community with tools to build a just and peaceful 
 world. We’re proud to collaborate with Science and Nonduality (SAND)—an 
 organization exploring our interconnectedness and humanity’s place within 
 the web of life—to host the Santa Cruz Premieres of the Wisdom of the 
 Ancestors/Eternal Song film series. These films hold transformative power, 
 and we believe viewing and contemplating them together can help disrupt 
 cycles of violence and nurture Beloved Community.\n\n\nSpecial thanks to 
 our promotional partners:\nCenter for Spiritual Living, Center for World 
 Networking, Romero Institute, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), 
 SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice—Santa Cruz County, UCSC American 
 Indian Resource Center, UCSC Community Studies, Conflict Resolution Center 
 of Santa Cruz County, KSQD Community Radio, Watsonville Film Festival, and 
 Friends of Juristac\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/08/24/18888220.php
SUMMARY:Flowers of the Earth - Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul), Santa Cruz Premiere
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence\n612 Ocean Street\nSanta Cruz, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/08/24/18888220.php
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