In March 2020 when Covid shut the world, the Desert Flaggers shifted from in-person gatherings to keeping our community together through compilation videos. Over the next 17 months flaggers from all over the world joined our monthly productions.
For World AIDS Day we felt another video was in order – a chance to cherish all those lost while honoring the National AIDS Memorial (our beloved Grove) and others taking shape in places like Palm Springs. Our soulful friend DJ Brian Norwood created an outstanding soundtrack.
FLAGGING VIDEO FINALE
It’s time to leave these videos as ‘Gold Forever’:
The memory of being here with you, Is one I'm gonna take my life through, ‘cause some days stay gold forever.
This shared celebration of music happened thanks to one hundred gorgeous flaggers and the gifted seven DJs who made it possible.
Watch for “special credits” at the end of the video and make sure to go back and experience our previous videos – each a very special moment in our isolated unity.
June is PRIDE month and the rainbow flag reminds us of how our diverse community joins together.
The colors ( Red=life, Orange=healing, Yellow=sun, Green=nature, Blue=serenity, Purple=spirit ) when all joined together are sunshine, hope, and, warmth.
Flaggers look back over the past year and recall what we did to be proud. How we contributed and supported each other in trying times. We look forward to joining everyone in person to celebrate.
What have YOU done today to make you feel PROUD?.
We began these videos as a way for flaggers to stay connected in isolation.
As we all got vaccinated and life, as we knew it (and need it) returns, we look forward to events where we can all flag together again.
But until then flaggers around the globe can join in the positive, playful energy.
Based on a vote by flaggers, Janet Jackson’s ‘Together Again’ was selected to honor Memorial Day weekend.
“Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there, smilin' back at me!”
Flaggers celebrate their excitement of getting outside because "it's in the air" and they are feeling "mighty real".
Thanks to Scott Abel for the remix.
Thanks to the flaggers and singers. Please share the joy.
The message of this video is that life can start to
emerge from the darkness we have endured for one year this month. We asked flaggers do do their video in blacklight. "In a little Light...."
Flaggers from around the world celebrate Spring
and optimism for our future – one we hope to
share together again soon.
Please inspire others by sharing this video.
Here is ‘A Flagger’s Valentine‘ for the world, demonstrating our love of the flow arts and our passion for sharing that love with others. DJ/Producer Paul Goodyear has blended three outstanding odes to love:
‘Thinking Out Loud’ by Ed Sheeran, ‘Sacred’ by Erasure, and Oxygen’s ‘Am I On You Mind’.
Together they help us celebrate and share our Valentine message to you. Thanks to flaggers around the world for giving their love to this touching project. The world deserves a Valentine!
2020 was a very difficult year and flaggers have been separated unable to join together. As we usher in new leadership and progress against the virus the country, and the world, breathe a sigh of relief and display a sense of optimism that we have needed.
Flaggers hear that as a JOYFUL SOUND. The video includes flaggers from around the world in celebration.
Please watch to the end after the credits and then share our love as we move forward in 2021
It’s the season, so let your flags and your love flow!
We thank everyone who shared (and survived) the year with us. Special thanks to all our gifted DJs and the brave camera folk who captured our magical flaggers so these videos could lift spirits worldwide.
Massive holiday love to you all and here’s to
a MUCH BETTER new year.
It's time to join flaggers from around the world in celebrating change! Change of leadership, change from darkness, change to progress, and a positive vision of our collective future.
It’s time to shine!
Flaggers come together around the world with faith and a version of the song that was never publically released.
It is a message of upbeat optimism.
“With a little Faith, with a little hope, we can walk on through to the light”.
Once upon a time, DJs Michael Mangiaforte and Michael Brown created the Shake Rattle & Roll remix of Pat Benatar's 'We Belong'. It kicked ass at the time then faded into memory.
Thank you to Jayson Leahy for unearthing the vinyl and Phillip Bhullar for giving it a 2020 refresh. The message means more than ever - we DO belong together - and 30 flaggers embraced that with gusto for this month's video.
We may be separated by geography and the virus, but we can still flag together. This month we celebrate a community of flaggers that know the meaning of "we belong".
With the incredible help of DJ Brian Norwood, the song selected for this month is called ‘AMERICA’.
This song has an energizing beat and the lyrics are selected from speeches by Barack Obama - very poignant when you consider what we are witnessing around us.
We hope the song and your performances leave everyone - flaggers and fans alike - charged and ready for a more positive future.
For this video we focused on ‘home’. Take us to where you feel at home - safe, secure, nurtured.
This song does not have lyrics, but since it’s titled HOME we added the flaggers words to amplify the message about what ‘home’ means to them.
Pride Month was here, this time under very different circumstances. Because we cannot gather together as we traditionally would, Flaggers around the globe gathered as they could to express their heartfelt desires for everyone, everywhere: less hate and more Freedom.
Go spread some love however you can, today!
Song: Freedom by David Morales and Janice Robinson with a remix by Susan Morabito.
We had 40 flaggers from all over the country participate in this video. The song is by Peyton and certainly speaks to the need to look forward and know that "Things Can Only Get Better".
We had a remix to lengthen the song so everyone could participate, but you can purchase the original from the various links at the end of the video.
DJ Brian Norwood extended the length of the song
"OK" by James Bluntso that it was long enough to accommodate the many videos that were contributed.
The lyrics say
"I really need you, I really need your love right now......I don't fear nothing when I hear you say
It's gonna be OK"
