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Greetings!
April is a time to appreciate the briefness of the spring season, acknowledge the beauty and gifts of trees, and recognize our capacity for compassion with creation. It is also the month to observe International Earth Day in which I'd like to share the following Earth prayers by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Water flows from high in the mountains.
Water runs deep in the Earth.
Miraculously, water comes to us, and sustains all life.
Water flows over these hands.
May I use them skillfully to preserve our precious planet.
Joyfully,
Kim Walsh ~ Executive Director
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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. 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.
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Greenbelt Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens April-Early May 2011 Schedule
April 9: Springhill Lake Recreation Center (6101 Cherrywood Lane) 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM ~~Combined with Potomac Watershed Clean-up of Springhill Lake Stream & Garden beds preparation and planting early starts.
April 16: Schrom Hills Park (6915 Hanover Parkway) 1:00 PM-4:00 PM~~Garden beds preparation and planting early starts
May 7- 8th: Saturday and Sunday afternoons-Community Center Garden (15 Crescent Rd)- 1PM to 3PM both days---combined with Greenbelt Green Man Festival---Traditional Three Sisters Garden planting & starts
 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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This month, GCAN will be hosting or participating in the following events:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 (7:00-9:15 PM)
Greenbelt Community Center, Room 114
15 Crescent Drive, Greenbelt, MD
How Much Food Could
GREENBELT Grow?
Did you know that the Greenbelt Towns original 1930s design provided for a separate food garden allotment for each townhouse; and that it was planned that there would be local farms ringing the town whose farmers would be able to sell their locally grown food to local residents. Scientific knowledge about peak soil, peak oil, climate change, and negative health effects of much of the food on grocery store shelves has raised new concerns with Food Security issues in 2011.
For more info, contact, Lore Rosenthal, Greenbelt Climate Action Network, lore@simplicity-matters.org
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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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. April's film is...
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April 18 (7 PM) @ New Deal Cafe
FREE & Open to the Public
with optional vegan buffet at 6:30 PM ($13).
Dr. Diana Post, veterinarian and Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Cousil and Lesley Riddle, Assistant Director of Public Works for the City of Greenbelt will lead a discussion after the film.
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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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!
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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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The Tom Wisner Legacy Working Group will hold its next bi-annual meeting in early April to honor the first anniversary of Tom's passing and to carry on the work of making Tom's legacy available to the public. Sara Ebenreck Leeland, co-founder of Chestory, has edited a book of Tom's writings that articulate his vision for the Chesapeake. The book's title is Gather 'round Chesapeake: Tom Wisner's Vision. It will be published in September, 2011 and we are planning a number of book signings and performances of Tom's music throughout the Bay area.
The Chestory Archive project will move forward with the assistance of an intern funded by the Chesapeake Conservation Corps. The children's songbook of Tom's music is also in the planning stages. The "Art of Healing the Chesapeake - A Tribute to Tom Wisner" traveling art exhibit, featuring Tom's own art work and the children's collages made by his students, ended its two month showing at the Calvert Marine Museum. If you would like to sponsor the art exhibit, a book signing event, or a live performance of Tom's music featuring the musicians who helped Tom record his CD's - Teresa Whitaker, Frank Scwartz, Mac Walter and John Cronin, contact Joan Clement chestory@gmail.com or write to Chestory, 506 Elm Ave. Takoma Park, MD 20912. 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 4 spots remaining.
Introduction to Community Herbalism: Certificate Course with Mimi Hernandez! June 3-5, 2011 
For more details and to register, go here! |
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Nature Journaling:
A guide to enhancing our perception of nature
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Keeping a nature journal is simply another way of studying place - Claire Walker Leslie
Join us as we re-discover the beauty and intricacies of nature. We will meet for several sessions throughout the year to explore our natural world. The second session will be held on April 30th at 10:00 a.m. at Buddy Attick Park (Rain or Shine) to continue our journey of recording and observing nature and its relationships.
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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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Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society4 Maplewood Court · Greenbelt, MD · 20770 www.chears.org
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