The 5th Annual TAHA Healing Arts Fair

Saturday, October 11, 2008 - 10:00am


Trinity Alliance for the Healing Arts (TAHA) Annual Healing Arts Fair at Veteran's Memorial (CD) Hall

The Fifth Annual TAHA Healing Arts Fair will be held on October 11th, 2008 from 10:00am to 5:00pm, with exciting vendors offering astrology readings, massage, and more. This year, the first 100 families attending the Healing Arts Fair will receive a canvas TAHA tote bag!



Vendors

The list of vendors who will be at the Fair this year includes (in alphabetical order):

Name Details
Robert Bateman Astronomy
Betty Bauman Energy healing
April Bourke Massage therapy
Catherine Davidson author of "The Alchemical Woman"
Earth Dance Gem Art
Barbara Edwards Art paintings and cards
Sonya Edwards Gemstone jewelry
Marie Gillette Indian Jewelry
Jacqueline Gilmore Energy Healing
Hawk Channeling
Lindberg Minerals gemstones, minerals
Sylvia McCurdy Good Sense Natural Candles, Bath and Body products
David Menefee Tarot Counseling with recordings
Robert W. Mercy Dermatoglyphics - interpreting fingerprints for inherited traits that reveal physical, mental, and emotional health imbalances and latent potentials and abilities
Kimberly Piazza and Suzan LaBerteaux Trinity ArtCycle, BowWow Pow, soaps, art cards
Lydea Roach Tarot readings and Homemade Soaps
Deborah Robinson Reflexology
Sheranda Tay Silk paintings
Peggy and Steve Wheeler Anam Glyph readings

Background

TAHA made a big leap of faith in 2004 when they decided to hold a Healing Arts Fair in Trinity County. They booked the Veteran's Hall in Weaverville for a Saturday early in October and began to plan the event by advertising with press releases and forming food, decorating and music committees. The fair would be their coming out party to the community and would also act as a fundraiser.

The food committee acquired large cooking utensils and prepared selections of harvest soups, breads, and desserts. Music director John Garrett chose various relaxing new age type CDs to play throughout the day. Vendors were recruited from both members and outside practitioners to present health, healing, and metaphysical products and services to the public. Colorful decorations were strung and hung from the ceiling and walls to add a flair of festiveness. And then the morning came!

The visitors to the fair began to trickle in. TAHA members were a little concerned that the attendance might be small. By noon the hall had filled with a nice steady stream of people and they seemed to linger in the hypnotic relaxing ambience of the fair's energy. The homemade soups completely sold out by mid afternoon and by day's end it was agreed by all that the fair had been a fantastic success. The Healing Arts Fair was repeated in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and in each year there has been a terrific turnout.

Map to Veterans' CD Hall