 
Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society A nonprofit organization dedicated to all who share the Chesapeake watershed environment.
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Greetings!
June is the month to celebrate World Environment Day, which was established by the United Nations, 1972, to reaffirm worldwide need for care for the environment. It is also the month of the strongest solar energy of the year and the welcome of Summer. A time to pick strawberries and to honor our fathers as well as to give gratitude and light to all that we have received. A quote about June is the following from Aldo Leopold...
"In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."
Peace & Understanding,
Kim Walsh ~ Executive Director
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This month, GCAN will be hosting or participating in the following events:
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 (7:00-9:15 PM)
Greenbelt Community Center, Room 114
15 Crescent Drive, Greenbelt, MD
Susan Belchamber speaking about "Spiral Dynamics", look for futher details in a separate email from GCAN.
For more info, contact, Lore Rosenthal, Greenbelt Climate Action Network, lore@simplicity-matters.org, 301-345-2234
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GCAN to host the following discussion circles!
They will all be meeting in private homes in Greenbelt or nearby. More info on the topics is available here!
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Volunteers of all Ages and Skills are Needed and Welcome to Help with Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens!
 Early June 2011 Schedule
June 5 (4:30 PM-6:30 PM)-Greenbelt West Garden Sunday Evening Work Session, Springhill Lake Recreation Center (6101 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt MD 20770).
Pot-Luck and Discussion of possible plans for a new Greenbelt Orchard and Forest Garden project! The garden site is to the right at the end of the parking lot near the basketball court. We'll be discussing how to maintain the garden with watering, mulching, and animal protection. We have a very cute ground hog who has eaten a lot of what we've planted so far (cabbage, squashes, melons have their leaves all eaten away). He or she seems not to like tomatoes which are doing fine. We'll be re-planting and building up the beds with rich compost and eating!! Bring food and re-usable dishes & utensils (we aim to be trash free) and good chear to share as we do annual and perennial veggies and berry bush planting!
June 12 (4:30 PM-6:30 PM)-Greenbelt Center Garden Sunday Evening Work Session, Greenbelt Community Center (15 Crescent Rd Greenbelt MD 20770).
Work session, pot-luck and discussion of possible plans for a new Greenbelt Orchard and Forest Garden project-- The garden site is in the back of the Community Center near the flagpole. We'll be making supports for the beans, mulching !! Bring food and re-usable dishes & utensils (we aim to be trash free) and good chear to share as we do annual and perennial veggies and berry bush planting!
June 18 (9:00 AM-11:00 AM)-Greenbelt East Garden Saturday Morning Work Session, Schrom Hills Park Garden (6915 Hanover Parkway Greenbelt MD 20770-Downhill from playground).
- Starting construction of an arbor in the center of the garden, where runner beans and morning glories, now small seedlings, can climb and gardeners and visitors may sit.
- Sheet-mulching narrow passages between beds, making a pathway that won't need mowing.
- Switching a few cool-season vegetables to ones that withstand summer heat, such as peas to tomatoes.
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 hour credits.
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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. June's film is...
June 20 (7 PM) @ New Deal Cafe
FREE & Open to the Public
with optional vegan buffet at 6:30 PM ($13).
This 2008 Dream Catcher Films documentary highlights eight activists whose moral leadership helped spark the nation's post-September 11 peace movement. Discussion will be facilitated by the film's coordinating producer, Laurel Jensen of College Park.
Prince George's County Peace & Justice Coalition planned this Peace Month program. It will include a brief celebration in remembrance of Esther Webb, our co-founder and many long years an activist like those the film portrays.
| | Admission to the film is always FREE, the other Greenbelt-area organizations that sponsor the monthly film are Beaverdam Creek Watershed Watch Group, CHEARS-Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society, and Vegan Networking. |
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CHESTORY-The Center for the Chesapeake Story
Tom Wisner's legacy is being carried on through a variety of activities that Chestory has been supporting.
The musicians who helped Tom Wisner record his CD's will be performing some of his music and some of their own work at the
Annapolis Maritime Museum
on Thursday, June 9th, 7-8:30 pm. Teresa Whitaker, Frank Schwartz and Mac Walter will be singing and playing a variety of musical instruments. Their music will celebrate the beauty and rhythms of water and earth. For further information, call: 860-668-1535.
The Calvert Marine Museum is heading up the development of the Chestory Archive of Regional Story and Song. We hope to have a paid intern funded by the Chesapeake Conservation Corp to assist with this project for six months starting this fall.
Sara Ebenreck Leeland, co-founder of Chestory, has edited a book of Tom's writings that articulate his vision for the Chesapeake. Gather 'round Chesapeake: Tom Wisner's Vision will be published in September, 2011, and we are planning a book signing at the Calvert Marine Museum and possibly other locations this fall.
Michael and Kathy Glaser and Teresa Whitaker are working with Jim Fox of Fox Lion Recording Studio to publish a children's songbook of Tom's music with an accompanying CD. This will be completed in early 2012.
The traveling art exhibit "The Art of Healing the Chesapeake - A Tribute to Tom Wisner" consists of Tom's own art work and his children's collages - make by the children he taught as an environmental educator mostly in Southern, MD.
For further information about these projects, contact Joan Clement at joanpclement11@gmail.com.
Tom Wisner's Latest Album
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| | 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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Wild Meadows Farm is hosting and organizing
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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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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Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society4 Maplewood Court · Greenbelt, MD · 20770 www.chears.org
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