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The very first time I was on tour with all girl performers, and they were all wonderful to hang out with and so talented. This photo was taken in Christchurch, New Zealand – the last gig of the tour. We would go on to have a bang up after party where everyone let their hair down, and man o man. Hahahaaa!

Reviews

First Show @ Perth RAC Arena – 25/10/2023

Photos By Stu McKay Photography

Review By Sheldon Ang  Click here for full Review

A few minutes before twilight, Toni Childs, an Emmy winner, three-time Grammy nominee and now a Byron Bay resident made herself at home by sitting the front centre of the stage. Her vocal engine was sparked by the smash hit I’ve Got To Go Now. Her bluesy, soulful vocals driven by those powerful grinding and grilling falsetto drew immediate reaction with utter silence among the audience. It was a shock and awe invasion, as she painfully lyrically narrated about a wife leaving her husband with her kids after a series of domestic violence through those rich throaty, funnelling personification. Stop Your Fussin’ followed as she stood in bare feet and greeted her band members, followed by House of Hope and Don’t Walk Away. Childs took to the floor, greeting the audience while firing her thunder struck vocals. The power, emotion and honesty were catapulting, drawing the audience closer to the stages through those distinctive voice that can only be Toni’s. Toni Childs need to tour across Australia. She, herself was worth of the money spent.

Second Show @ Sandstone Point Hotel – 28/10/2023

Citizens of the Planet is an inspiring musical and visual experience that illuminates our  environmental human struggles and potentials. This immersive TED TALKS, THINK TANK meets MUSIC experience engages, confronts and exposes what is at the heart of our deepest longing – evolution! This unique contemporary art experience is devised and led by the unmistakable voice and captivating music of Toni Childs to inspire and shine a light on the wonderful innovators and answers that stand before us and a simple way – together – we can take care of what needs to be taken care of environmentally – by-passing government agencies and politicians.

It’s time to roll up our sleeves and just do it! And here’s how it’s possible!

Note: for more music scroll to the bottom of the post.

Talk – Toni Childs and Joby Baker 

It’s Up to You – Toni Childs and Joby Baker

The ‘Awe’ experience takes us on a journey. It entices us into a mini revolution, an internal revolt that opens us. It evolves our perceptions, our beliefs and the way we relate to the world around us – without asking for permission. It is an experience that turns on a light inside us when we least expect it!

Toni Childs – Artistic Director

Emmy Winner and three-time Grammy Nominated recording artist steps into the role of Artistic Director. Toni brings together the disciplines of music, film, 3D mapping, animation, lighting, set design and interactive components. Long after the show is seen, the interactive component gives audience members the opportunity to join a social networking site and interact with other individuals who are motivated to grow the powerfully the unfolding inspirational story that is Citizens of the Planet.

“…Evocative, evanescent music that allows you to immerse yourself and drift away.” -Rolling Stone

“In a year of auspicious break-throughs for women writer-performers, Childs was the stand-out.” – Time Magazine

Tigrelab… 

our animators are based in Barcelona. They focus on story telling and immersive design through media and technology. Directed by Javier Pinto, Mathieu Felix and Federico Gonzalez, this multidisciplinary boutique has long-standing experience in 2D and 3D animation, Motion Graphics and Video Mapping.

The trio’s particular passion is producing interactive experiences where graphic design and film are integrated within rules-based, generative environments, or Interactive Video Mapping. They love working closely with clients through the entire creative funnel from ideation, to concept, to producing final evocative experiences.

In their own words, “we are young, fun, serious and cool.” We tend to agree cheska-lekarna.com.

Citizens of the Planet Unfurled 

This traveling comtemporary arts’ experience starts in the foyer with a life size floating elephant tethered by a microfilament netting. On its side is a projected the word ‘evolution’. Hanging from the microfilament are giant digital price tags that name some of the things that are inhibiting our ability to evolve as a planet. Our Citizens of the Planet App gives theatre-goers a chance to add their personal thoughts and ideas to the digital price tags, as well as the eleven additional interactive installations in our Gallery of Everyday Objects, which extrudes out a simple object we use every day – breaking down the resource chain by tracing the raw material, economic impact and political landscape across the globe to our home.

Five talking points are embedded into the framework of the Citizens of the Planet live experience. With the advent of smart phones and multi-platform technology, we invite the audience to begin a dialog by turning on their phones. The citizens of the Planet App will allow the audience to respond in real-time to questions put to them during our taking points. Their responses to questions will be streamed to the screen during the show creating an intimate dialog that will continue to unfold long after the show, with with the COTP social networking site and also in the minds of the audience.

Evolution is the elephant in the room of humanity! And it would appear evolution is standing on its head trying desperately to get our attention.

TALKING POINT – ACTIVATING OUR INTELLIGENCE

In this talking point we explore the biology of intelligence and the impact believing in one’s self has upon our lives and our world. Toni Childs is a futurist and love activist. Her new work Citizens of the Planet asks this question, “When do we get it?” When do we love ourselves and trust ourselves enough to evolve as a collective group and stop the madness of killing each other over assumptions, and disagreements over land, resources, religious and cultural differences?

“I believe in us and our collective ability to finally get it. I am taking a stand for humanity. I believe in a grace that exists in each of us and a massive growth spurt of clarity that is a real possibility. We have what it takes to do it! We have the intelligence and the biology to leap beyond our current expectations.” Toni Childs

TALKING POINT – EVOLVING OUR ANCESTOR’S JOURNEY

Citizens of the Planet celebrates the ancient bones we walk on, and our ancestor who brought us to this point in time southafrica-ed.com/. Citizens of the Planet looks at the diversity of concepts, stories and myths that make up our personal and global dialog with each other, and how our stories can evolve in order to include us all. Humanity has lasted millenniums on this planet. So there is no question we know how to survive.

The question for this time is are we collectively capable of believing it is possible to graduate to a new way of solving global challenges on a personal and global scale. Citizens of the Planet brings to light the necessities that planetary evolution asks of us. This list is both personal and global. What planetary prejudicial beliefs do we personally embody as children of our perspective cultures? And how do we go about dismantling them?

This talking point will be inspiring for some, perhaps confronting for others.

“It has not been an easy thing to be a human being and learn how to put my trust in a stranger. Or to push out beyond the conditioning of my family’s religious beliefs, and collective community structure to discover for myself what it is ‘I’ believe. I’ve had to be willing to stand alone in my questioning and to delve beneath the surface digging into the ancient bones I stand on to discover the many influences, protections and suspicions that have been built one upon another and another for millenniums. I’ve looked into the eyes of what my family’s religions called ‘The Devil’ or ‘Heathen’ only to see another human being who has a different belief system with their own Devils as well”.  – Toni Childs

TALKING POINT – WE WONT WASTE THIS TIME

In this talking point, we discuss off planet mining for resources and the cost to our pockets and the types of constructs controlling resources: water, land, air, seas, food and more. If someone told you there was a way you could save 2.5 million lives a year and simultaneously halt global warming, reduce air and water pollution and develop secure, reliable energy sources – nearly all with existing technology and at costs comparable with what we spend on energy today – why wouldn’t you do it?

According to a new study co-authored by Stanford researcher Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, of the University of California-Davis, we could accomplish all that by converting the world to clean, renewable energy sources and forgoing fossil fuels in 20 years.“ Based on our findings, there are no technological or economic barriers to converting the entire world to clean, renewable energy sources,” said Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering. “It is a question of whether we have the societal and political will.”

TALKING POINT – PLANETARY RESOURCES 101

Our intelligence lies in our ability to create, problem solve and retain a healthy balance between commerce and our planet’s resources. We take a look at how ingredients for products we use every day are farmed, mined and then refined, modified, manufactured and synthesized. How wars over land acquisitions and resources are embedded into the products used in our homes. It is important to understand where the resources that make up what we buy come from.

Toni wants to shine a light on the fact that we are indeed corporate farmers, what we buy we grow. If we don’t buy it, they won’t manufacture it. We take a look at what a single purchase creates on a global scale, and how we buy and what we buy is absolute power!

TALKING POINT – BECAUSE YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL

Can we agree that loving one’s self is at the heart of our evolution process? All of us struggle in some way with a beauty wound. To evolve we have to find a way to push through our personal insecurities to embrace that we are deserving of a beautiful life – as there are the seven generations and beyond that come after us. It is time to stand for ourselves and our beautiful planet. It is our responsibility to believe that we do have a part to play in the unfolding destiny of planet Earth.

“I want to reflect the humbling beauty that is both our planet and ourselves, and present opportunities for re-framing, empowerment and conscious engagement with our lives and it’s impact on the planet. No matter how hard we want to hide, keep our heads down, or turn away from the challenges that face us both personally and globally, Citizens of the Planet asks us to activate the Hero Option. The Hero Option is our ability to respond in intelligent ways by stretching toward solutions and learning that our conscious participation has a quantum effect on the planet’s sustainability!”

A BULLHORN CLOSING – PLANETARY ENDOWMENT – DOING IT TOGETHER!

Have a little listen to what Toni’s cooked up in her Citizens Kitchen with Producer Joby Baker!

Talk – Toni Childs and Joby Baker 

Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary – Toni Childs and Joby Baker

You Gave it the Most – Toni Childs

What Do I Do About You? – Toni Childs

A Beautiful Life

Each theatre is unique. I can now say that I have played every nook and cranny of Australia – truly kamagra pris!!

A big thank you and congratulations to everyone at Big Mother Touring Company! We did it! Thank you Laree Thorsby our in-house Tour Coordinator and Tour Manager, Thank you Rae Mitchell our merch and advertising b**ach, and Karen Linsday at Little Sparrow PR and Advertising!

Our first national tour was a massive success and we all learned a hell of a lot in the process! I knew we would make mistakes. Thankfully, the mistakes that we did make were easy to get a handle on and course correct so as not to effect ticket sales.

I am proud of everyone and so grateful, we all had the courage to embark on the journey together!! Thank you!

The ‘Awe Experience’ takes us on a journey. It entices us into a mini revolution, an internal revolt that opens us.

Without asking for permission, it evolves our perceptions, our beliefs and the way we relate to the world around us. It is an experience that turns on a light inside us when we least expect it!

I gave my first successful u

nderwater concert test off Michaelmas Cay in the Great Barrier Reef. I have invested more than a 150k into my underwater gear, transportation and filming thus far. I wish is to do it again next year for two months this time, with a ten person crew.

I initially reached out to IKONIX, an Australian based team of professionals producing bespoke content and immersive environments using video, lighting, audio and architecture for a three part installation for museums. After reviewing my vision, they asked if I’d consider turning my initial three piece underwater concert installation into something much bigger.

Big Mother Touring is now doing the leg work needed to present Reef 360 in domes that will tour regional towns and cities across Australia over a five-year period of time, starting in regional towns in the first year.

Reef 360 is an opportunity for people across Australia to ensure coral species survive whilst we follow through with innovative solutions to cool reefs, like using the natural currents to distribute the deeper cooler water across the reef as a whole. This could be initiated right now! Add in Greening Australia’s initiative to repair the gullies and restore the wetlands that effect the GRB together we create a cocktail of NGOs working together to inspire a focused movement for ocean-centric and land management NGOs to work together. As I see it this is what we need onthe planet right now.

There are many individual organisations, scientist and environmentalists working singularly, but what happens they could work together. If you have an Oboe player playing alone in a concert hall or a cello it is not as effective to communicate a complete piece of music. But many instruments working together can create something magnificent to behold.

The environmental concern is the song, the individual organisations are the instruments in the orchestra. Working together in concert is the solution, and ultimate beautiful story!

This one-of-a-kind (((WOW!!!))) entertainment and educational experience gives children and adults the opportunity to participate in initiatives such as (but not limited to) adopting a coral species [GBR Legacy], hands-on repairing and restoring gullies and wetlands [Greening Australia], and adopting local marine reserves where invasive species require management [South East Marine Park Network and GBR Marin Park], and encourage them to come up with novel and unique solutions to issues at a local level.

We are committed to engaging young minds with an engineering design competition at universities to come up with innovative ways we can cool our reefs for future generations using wave energy to pump deeper cooler water across the natural currents that distribute water across the GBR in order to reduce future coral bleaching events.

Reef 360 is on the road to entertain, educate and connect marine scientists with primary, high school and university educators, giving children and adults the opportunity to literally adopt a coral species whilst being a part of a national GBR education fundraising initiative; plus other initiatives mentioned above; and more that will be announced.

“As coral reefs worldwide decline due to climate change, severe storm events and coral disease, the Great Barrier Reef Legacy team have decided it is time for ground breaking action to help preserve our reefs. Current approaches to securing the health and biodiversity of corals are not working, and with each coral bleaching event we are losing vulnerable coral species and reefs around the world.

Therefore, GBR Legacy have officially partnered with Corals of the World and Cairns Marine to safeguard the biodiversity of all known hard coral species by creating the worlds first Living Coral Biobank.” – Great Barrier Reef Legacy

I personally feel we need to invest and build bridges into regional areas around the world by bringing top shelf music-driven spectacle to seed emerging solutions into communities who are often left out.

The Reef 360  includes viewings for the general public which include: Xtreme Sport, Live Music and Dancing Under-the-Sea, as well as mindful activities like yoga under the sea in the mornings before three school sessions. We plan to interface directly with schools in each town during the day. Laree Thorsby, Reef 360’s Tour and Education Coordinator is a teacher and tutor which makes her the perfect person to lead the educational modules.

Inspired by the Cirque du Soleil touring model, the domes will travel from town to town. They will be up for two weeks or more depending on the size of the town or city bringing the spectacle and awe of the ocean to regional towns that are normally left out of being exposed to exceptional out-of-the-box entertainment.

Cirque du Soleil took the world by storm. It created a blue ocean of new market space. Its blue ocean strategic move challenged the conventions of the circus industry. Cirque’s productions have been seen by more than 150 million spectators in more than 300 cities around the world.

A compelling aspect of Cirque du Soleil’s success is that it did not win by taking customers from the already shrinking circus industry, which historically catered to children. Instead, it created uncontested market space that made the competition irrelevant. It appealed to a whole new group of customers: adults and corporate clients prepared to pay a price several times as great as traditional circuses for an unprecedented entertainment experience לויטרה 20 מ”ג מחיר.”

Cirque du Soleil succeeded because it realized that to win in the future, companies

must stop competing in red oceans. Instead, they should create blue oceans of uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant. ‒ Blue Ocean Strategy

By taking stunning, moving inspired entertainment that focuses on simple things we can do together – on the road – to where it is most needed on the planet, which are rural areas, we can create a Blue Ocean Strategy for the environment that opens hearts and minds.

As a performing artist and environmental activist living in the time of covid-19, innovation and adaptation is paramount. Seizing the opportunity to turn Reef 360 into a touring

vehicle is innovation in action.

THANK YOU IKONIX FOR THE INSPIRATION!

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THANK YOU PROSPERO PRODUCTIONS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Big Mother Touring and Reef 360 are targeting 80 regional towns over the next five years. Scroll down for a list of towns and theatres I have pollinated for many years now.

Below are two of the songs that inspired me to want to sing to whales and dolphins. They are also a part of a new album of music and a new 3D mapping show called It’s All a Beautiful Noise… Enjoy!

I am currently looking for like-minded individuals and organisations to support us in making Reef 360 a reality. Please contact us at admin@bigmotherentertainment.com if you are interested in learning more.

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This very special Bali Retreat is about identity. It is about perception and meeting ourselves differently.  Releasing our historical relationship to how we perceive and judge ourself to be, we begin to focus on what inspires us and what wants to take us on an adventure – programming attitude sets a new ((( tone ))) And life is all about tone.

This is a Rite of Passage through the Portal of Death.

My retreat is all about rolling up our sleeves digging into creating support strategies to allow what is not in alignment to fall away.

This is a MASTER CLASS experience that introduces you to a part of yourself that has been waiting for connection for a long long time! 

Regardless of whether you attend my retreat take the time to find a guide and clear the things that keep you stuck in being a victim or staying small. Our planet needs you to have the ride of your life and participate in the most incredible decade of our lifetime!! We are all being called to drop the baggage, and show up and care for ourselves and our planet at-casinos.com!! Kisses!!

If you would like to more and reserve your place now email us at info@tonichilds.com

Try it you will love it!

My Heart Body Polish was created to assist us in healing and balancing the 4th Chakra – also called the Heart Chakra. We are talking about emotional healing and alignment with your true Self. Its location is about 2-3 inches above the solar plexus. It is associated with the color green and the ability to love our Self fully; to be compassionate, merciful and forgiving with ourselves and the world around us.

The most interesting thing about the Heart Chakra is that it is in the centre of all seven major chakras, and it is from the Heart centre that all the chakra centres must be consciously connected and balanced. Like a flower, the Heart and hub Chakra naturally radiates out to the world our true and beautiful essence, and is the focal point of our ability to give and receive love. If the heart is heavy and filled with hidden shame, criticism, regret, anger, resentment, and self-loathing, then it cannot fully open to give and receive the special gifts that are our birthright. The Heart Chakra is associated with the element of Metal.

Metal may seem like an odd pairing for the heart. But check this out, isn’t it true that metal must be extracted from the heart of the earth and forged with intentional vision and deliberate action? And like the heart, must not our love be extracted from the heart of our desire? And, forged with intentional vision and deliberate action?

It may not always be easy to feel love for ourselves and others. So by choosing to love. and learning how to forge the resonance of our personal love – and enjoy the quality of our love’s ring and the vibrational impact it has on the world we heal our beauty wounds, and therefore evolve ourselves and each other.

I recommend using Heart every day until the jar is finished. Shower upon waking and set your intention for the day ahead. Below are easy-to-follow instructions. The more sincerely you follow the directions, the better the results will be.

Notice how the Sesame Oil, Vanilla, Rose Oil and spices keep your intention anchored throughout the day.

Ingredients:

• 16oz Raw washed organic Sugar Cane
• Organic 1/2 cup Sesame oil
• 1/2 cup organic Sunflower oil
• 30 Drops Bulgarian Rose oil,
• 15 drops of Sweet Orange
• 2 tsp Vanilla extract
• 30 drops Sandalwood essential oil 
• Whole organic Lavender Buds
• 1 whole organic Star Anise
• 3 Cloves
• Organic Chamomile
• Organic Milk Thistle
• Rose Petals.

Normally I add in some natural flower essences that I really like… but I am not including these as they are not readily available.

Also very important… please play music that makes you feel good while you make these polishes. Consciously place your loving intention into the making of the polish, this will add tremendously to your experience… saying prayers, chanting mantras or singing  a celebratory song… it all works!

Put your spin on it!

Water Meditation Directions:

To begin, shower as you normally would. After cleansing, open the jar of Body Polish. Focus your mind on your Heart Chakra. Open the jar and take three deep breaths of the body polish. Imagine a massive spinning wheel of green light in your mind’s eye… (Note: You can sense the spinning wheel’s presence instead of having to visualise it.)

Once you’ve connected to the wheel, step into the wheel’s vortex, and onto a giant lotus flower.

Imagine yourself standing alone on a giant floating lotus flower in the middle of a small still lake. Breathe in the peace and look around. You are surrounded by beautiful mountains illuminated only by stars and the crescent moon at twilight just before dawn breaks.

Give yourself permission to experience your full radiant Divine Self.

Now breathe in the aroma of the polish, and let it help you to anchor and connect deeper and deeper with each breath into the Divine Presence, You Are. Imagine the power of your Divine Presence shooting out the ends of your hair, and the ends of your fingers and toes.

Let the knowledge and the full impact of connecting to this Divine Presence fill your entire body. Humbly acknowledge your power and beauty, and let yourself know you are entitled to be an authentically powerful person who is capable of living an extraordinary life.

When you feel fully connected to yourself, open your eyes, take a handful of polish and begin to gently scrub your body all the while saying;

I release all that is unlike love and all that does not serve the truth of who I am. I open my heart, my mind and my spirit, and I align with the beauty of who I am.

I want to thank you for choosing to be born… it takes great courage to be born into this world! I Love you and I support you!

Do this from head to toe. Applying this to hair will make it greasy so dab a bit of it on the crown of your head.

The purpose of this water meditation is to let go of all that does not serve you. That includes any blockages that get in the way of your health, or seeing you as you truly are.

After using the body polish, go back and lovingly touch every part of your body. Tell each body part that you love it, and thank it for the gifts it provides you with. 

Example: Thank you feet for walking me through life, I love you feet!! 

Send love to every cell in your body. You may want to create an affirmation for the day like “My thyroid is working in perfect balance!”. Or “I am capable of ——-!” Or maybe, “I give myself permission to take up space today and speak what is in my heart!” “It is ok to do what I really want to do!”

If you find it difficult to talk to your body in this way, imagine yourself as a little boy or girl who is needing to be loved. Make a game of it.

When I first started doing this I found myself unable to hold back the tears. A part of me really needed to be loved up and acknowledged!

I believe we have an opportunity to grow beyond what we’ve inherited by releasing the ancestral and personal patterns that hold us back from bridging to our innate internal Divine Self. We are all beautiful and powerful beyond measure. It is time to select the realities we want to create, and remember we have everything we need inside of us to live a fulfilling life.

In 2010,  Vladamir Kush’s painting inspired me to write a song called, I Am a Candle. I couldn’t find a melody that I liked so it took me a while to create a sketch that worked.

I keep imagining our animators – Tigrelab – bringing this painting to life in my new show It’s All a Beautiful Noise (IAABN)! Wowie zowie!! Vladimir gave me permission to use his painting in a show that same year.

It wouldn’t be until sitting at a piano in 2013 that an melody really spoke to me. Some times it takes a bit of time for inspiration to find its way. Below is a raw recording of Joby and myself at the piano. I’m showing Joby the chords and the musical threads I am following as we get a loose structure for the song down.

This recording will give you an idea of how Joby and I work together.

November 2019

We are finally able to carve out sometime to record four new songs for IAABN. As I was working on the script for the new show, I realised we needed a few more songs to complete the visual and emotional journey.