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Greetings!
March is a celebration of the feminine in nature and the welcoming of spring and the greening of the Earth, in which the Equinox is over, day is now longer than night, and the light has conquered darkness. In bringing spring into our lives and cycles, I share the following by Wendell Berry.
Through the weeks of deep snow
we walked above the ground
on fallen sky, as though we did
not come of root and leaf, as though
we had only air and weather
for our difficult home.
But now
as March warms, and the rivulets
run like birdsong on the slopes,
and the branches of light sing in the hills,
slowly we return to earth.
Joyfully,
Kim Walsh ~ Executive Director
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Reel N' Meal @ New Deal Cafe
Reel and Meal is a monthly film series at the New Deal Cafe exploring vital environmental and social justice issues. March's film is...
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND.
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March 21 (7 PM) @ New Deal Cafe
FREE & Open to the Public
with optional vegan buffet at 6:30 PM ($13).
Community discussion will be led by
Dave O'Leary of the Sierra Club.
Admission to the film is always free, sponsored by Beaverdam Creek Watershed Watch Group, CHEARS, Peace & Justice Coalition of Prince George's County, and Vegan Networking.
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This month, GCAN will be hosting or participating in the following events:
March 7, (7:00 pm-9:00 pm) Greenbelt East Advisory Coalition (GEAC) " Clean Renewable Energy Training". Lore Rosenthal will be presenting on the topic of "How to Reduce Your Energy and Save Money". Luisa Robles and Megan Hughes will also be speaking on Green ACES and "We Can Save Energy".
Come out and show your support!
March 9, (7:00 pm-9:15 pm) GCAN Meeting,
Room 114, Greenbelt Community Center. A two-part evening: "Youth Panel - The Next Generation" and "Defending the EPA & Clean Air Act". Look for an email later this week with more details.
Folks can sign up for the "Menu for the Future" discussion circle. GCAN hopes to host one or more of the following discussion circles, as interest is expressed.
- "WeCanSaveEnergy" (support group)
| GCAN plans to host a Reel Mower Sharpening Clinic at the upcoming Greenman Festival. If you have a reel mower that needs sharpening, please email Lore to get your name on the list. |
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You are Invited to a Spring Equinox
Three Sisters Gardens Kick Off for the Season
Sunday, March 27 (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM)
Food and Fun Raising ~ Sustaining our Three Sisters Demonstration Community Gardens: Planning for the 2011
Workshop, Fire Circle, and Pot-Luck Picnic
Bring some food to share and your own plates and utensils
Greenbelt-West Garden
Behind Springhill Lake Recreation Center 6101 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt MD 20770
Volunteers and crew work leaders are needed for each of the three sites (Greenbelt Center-behind the Community Center, East-Schrom Hills Park and West-Springhill Lake Recreation Center).
Contact maggie@chears.org for more information. The Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens is a project of the nonprofit organization, CHEARS. CHEARS thanks the Greenbelt Community Foundation and the City of Greenbelt for its support. The project is approved as one for which Prince George's County Master Gardeners can receive volunteer work hours credits.
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7TH ANNUAL GREEN MAN FESTIVAL
May 7-8, 2011
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A call out to all the vendors from those that started with the Festival in 2005 to the most recent to join us again this year to...
- Showcase and sell your art, crafts, and talents;
- Listen and enjoy local musicians and their acts;
- Reconnect with festival friends, family and community!
Come join us for the festival in building a future that's inclusive, expressive, healthy and impressive!
Click here to register for the early bird discount by
March 31, 2011! |
To share your love of nature, volunteer for the organizing committee. Contribute ideas, funding, or offer your help in anyway, please email Richard at greenman2011@live.com.
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Chestory Archive
The Calvert Marine Museum is creating the "Chestory Archive of Regional Story and Song," comprised of Tom Wisner's writings, photos and art works, educational materials, musings and songs.
Children's Song Book: Chestory's current project is to chart Tom Wisner's songs and publish a songbook for children. The next meeting of the Tom Wisner Legacy Working Group will be held on Monday, April 4th at the Calvert Marine Museum. Tom Wisner's Latest Album | 
| Tom's last CD "Follow on the Water" (a two CD set completed iin January 2010).
You can purchase the album for $25, includes shipping.
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Forest Garden Design Intensive Course with
Dave Jacke & Friends!
Wild Meadows Farm
Schellsburg, PA
(April 15-24, 2011)
To learn more, go to the event webpage & register! Only 8 spots remaining.
Introduction to Community Herbalism: Certificate Course with Mimi Hernandez! SAVE THE DATES! June 3-5, 2011 
Registration info will be posted on wildmeadowsfarm.com website in the middle of March! |
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CHEARS on FACEBOOK!
You can now become a fan of CHEARS on Facebook and receive updated information in a format that may best suit your networking preferences. We will continue to communicate via email and Twitter but are pleased to offer yet another method to share information about upcoming events, discussion boards, photo albums, and much more. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions as CHEARS moves into the social networking arena. |
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Follow CHEARS on Twitter!
CHEARS is offering an exciting line-up of educational, musical, and community activities and events in 2011. Receive up-to-the-minute information by following CHEARS on Twitter-an information sharing network. -
Simply register at
http://twitter.com
- Add CHEARS as a friend and follow
- Choose how you wish to receive information (email, text message, rss feed)
- And never again miss any of CHEARS's exciting educational and community events!
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Gardens
Messages from Mother Earth
Call for Entries ~ Visual Artists, Poets and Writers
All ages are invited to become part of the Green Man Festival, for a two month long exhibit at the New Deal Cafe during May and June, 2011.
This year's exhibit theme about gardens from Mother Earth asks you to connect your senses and imagination to all kinds of messages about our world. They can be found in small spaces tucked away on windowsills, in yards, at the edge of dense forests, along riverbanks or beside lakes--wherever the Green Man goes-- even on a walk around your neighborhood in what is green and growing.
When you discover one of Mother Earth's gardens--ask how she is doing. Is she hopeful? Colorful and fragrant? Peaceful? Does she welcome the wild things and invite fairies? Perhaps she simply needs your help. By including materials such as recycled glass, nontoxic paints, organic fabrics and dyes, mosaics, crayons, pencils or other goods, make some Earth friendly art about what Mother Earth has to say. Poetry and stories printed on recycled paper, or pages from a journal are possibilities. Perhaps photography or a terrarium will become her voice without words.
Instructions for submitting art...
All wall art must be ready to hang (framed and secured by wire). Include title, price if being offered for sale, and contact information for the buyer. A display case is available for 3 dimensional pieces no larger than 10"x 10".
New Deal Cafe
113 Centerway
Greenbelt, MD 20770
301-474-5642
Drop off ~ May 2, 6:00-8:00 pm
Reception ~ May 22, 7:00-9:00 pm
Pick up ~ June 27, 6:00-8:00 pm
For more information contact: jean@chears.org or 240-601-9924.
The Green Man Festival is a project of CHEARS (Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society). Exhibit is sponsored by FONDCA (Friends of New Deal Cafe Arts) with support from the City of Greenbelt.
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9 Lives -Yard Sale
Sunday, April 10th (9:00 to 12:00 PM) Roosevelt Center, Greenbelt Maryland. All good old things need a loving home, so don't let your attic, shed or cupboards fill up with things you no longer use or need. Recycle them to a new home where they will be appreciated and used. The 9 Lives-Yard Sale serves as the place for the good old stuff to find someone who is looking for just such an item. So look around and find the good stuff that has "more lives to live", and donate it to the 9 Lives- Yard Sale. OUR GOAL: In our highly commercialized disposable society where many items are discarded long before they have actually outlived their use, the 9 Lives-Yard Sale helps gather these things from people who have them but don't need them anymore and find people who want them but don't have them. Good things deserve many lives. Our goal is to find new homes for unwanted items that would otherwise be thrown into the trash, thus reducing the amount of reusable items that end up in landfills. Reusing items not only cuts good things going into landfills, but also helps reduce the strain on our natural resources by keeping useable items in circulation, reducing the need to manufacture and distribute additional goods. HOW TO DONATE ITEMS: A representative of CHEARS will pick items up on 4/9, or, if you prefer, you can bring items directly to the sale. Let us know which option works for you, and we will work out the details with each of you. You can contact the Stone Soup Chef (Richard ) at 202-664-7572 or email stonesoupchef@live.com. (Tax Donation receipts available)*
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Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society4 Maplewood Court · Greenbelt, MD · 20770 www.chears.org
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