April 2007

Spirited Contribution means bringing your whole self to work and life. That part of you that is the scientist and the engineer, that part of you that is the artist, the comedian, the singer, the actor, the gardener, the home improvement expert, that part of you that celebrates your culture. Spirited contribution allows you to utilize your culture its music, its stories, its rituals, its connections, your beliefs about the universe and its relationship to you. At the core we are all the same and yet we remain individuals. We have this spirit but what makes it sing may differ from person to person. For a company to have employees that make a spirited contribution there needs to be an understanding of authentic diversity. Authentic diversity welcomes the whole person and provides for true inclusion.

"Hailed as having the "ability to bring the listener towards deeper personal and social consciousness," Mary Sarah and Elements of Return swirl around the musical globe creating a sonic sanctuary from which we return different than when we arrived. Drawing heavily on percussion, found instruments, ambient sounds and vocal styles of world cultures, they beckon us with a new musical experience. "Our goal is to create a connection.  Music to emotion and emotion to community," states Sarah. “For it is through our emotions that we receive information that can reverberate throughout the ‘body politic’, sending resonance into the world.”