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Chesapeake Education, Arts and Research Society
Promoting the health of all life in the Chesapeake Watershed
through action projects organized by volunteers.
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October 2012: Festivals, Music, and Award Deadline
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Featured Video
BBC Documentary, broadcast 2012.
We might think humans are the most powerful living thing on Earth, but it's plants that time and again have set the agenda for life.
Look for the short feature on horseshoe crabs on the Chesapeake Bay!
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A Concert of Story and Song
with Teresa Whitaker and
Frank Schwartz
Sunday November 4th, 2012
4 PM to 6 PM
On the water in Lusby, MD
Featuring original music celebrating the beauty and rhythms of water and earth
at Roberta Reeve's beautiful home on Chesapeake waters in Lusby, MD.
This concert is an invitation to share community through story and song.
Using a variety of instruments, including banjo, guitar, udu and hang drum, these dynamic, versatile musicians will enliven listeners with songs and stories from different parts of the world.
The concert will include songs of the late Tom Wisner, long time Maryland environmental educator/songwriter, known as the "Bard of the Chesapeake."
Teresa Whitaker is a singer/songwriter/storyteller and arts educator whose delicate and earthy voice conveys nuance and punch. 
Frank Schwartz is a gifted singer, songwriter and musician who has played many styles of music. He was also a founding member of Maryland's famous Irish band O'Malley's March. Together they have three CDs: Finding Home, Below the Radar, Earth and Sky Lullaby and a new EP from Teresa's performance piece Gathering the Waters.
Tickets are $20 each and must be purchased in advance.
Call Roberta at 410-326-1268 for additional information.
Please make checks payable to Teresa Whitaker and mail to:
Roberta Reeve
PO Box 895 Lusby, MD 20657
Include your email address for confirmation and additional information (parking etc.)
Co-sponsored by the Tom Wisner Legacy Group of Chestory, project of CHEARS.
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2012 Jim Cassels Award
Applications for the 2012 awards are due on Oct 15!
Each year, since 2006 the Greenbelt Co-op Supermarket & Pharmacy gives a $1,000 grant to an organization or group to initiate and implement a new project or activity to benefit Greenbelt. CHEARS was the 2011 recipient of the award to support providing handicapped access to the Three Sisters Center Garden and workshops with youths and seniors.
Throughout his many years in the Greenbelt community, Jim Cassels was an outstanding cooperator helping local groups, mentoring new cooperatives, and guiding the formation and realization of senior housing. He was tireless in making Greenbelt a place we all love it to be.
Applications are available at the co-op customer service office or available online and should be submitted by October 15, 2012. The award ceremony will be held at the Co-op's annual meeting. Click here for more information or contact Maggie Cahalan, this year's co-ordinator at 301.642-4851. |
Interested in learning
something new?
Looking for a way to practice the skills you already have?
Drop your pebble and ripple into service with CHEARS!
CHEARS welcomes our fellow community members to spend some time with us. With our many volunteer projects, there are many opportunities to give back to our home, the Chesapeake Watershed.
Volunteer Maryland Coordinator sponsored by the Chesapeake Conservation Corps
CHEARS/City of Greenbelt Public Works
A partnership amongst Volunteer Maryland, an AmeriCorps program, CHEARS, and the CIty of Greenbelt Public Works.
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Greetings!
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
 -Robert Louis Stevenson
As we celebrate the beginning of Autumn, join us for music, arts & crafts, harvesting fall crops and planting of cover crops. We are collaborating with Franklin Park Apartments to start a garden club with the residents and serve as a host site for freshman students from the Integrated Life Sciences Program at the University of Maryland. These emerging collaborations and partnerships with Volunteer Maryland and City of Greenbelt Public Works allows us to work together in mutually benefiting ways that encourages us all to be creative in defining a "beyond sustainable" inclusive movement. CHEARS volunteer project coordinators look forward to meeting you at the events listed below.
For those seeking financial support to initiate a project in Greenbelt, the Jim Cassels Award Committee wants to give away $1,000! Deadline is October 15th. And don't miss "Population and Climate Change," a presentation and discussion by Dr. Eugenia Kalnay, distinguished University of Maryland professor, on the relationship between human population and the environment at the GCAN monthly meeting!
Best,
Kim Walsh
Executive Director
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9th Annual Greenbelt
Fall Harvest Festival
Live Music * Arts and Crafts
Saturday, October 13, 10:00am-5:00pm
Roosevelt Center
Crescent and Southway, Greenbelt, MD
CHEARS invites the community to join in celebrating the Harvest season, the milestone in the yearly cycle of our planet, to celebrate the work and creations of common folks, and the spirit of life that springs forth from the earth and reflects in our being.
Come enjoy the live Music, Arts and Crafts, the exchange of ideas and a great fall day.
The festival is held on the Roosevelt Center in historic Greenbelt, MD:
- Come enjoy live performances by Tinsmith, Global Warming, Raincrow, The Scrub Pines, Doug Way & Jeff King.
- Community Stone Soup Demonstration, starting at 11 am
- Bring some veggies and herbs from the garden or stock beans and grains from your cupboard and help make the "Soup of the Day"
- Get your hands on the Interactive Mosaic Mural project and add some pieces to express your own creative touch to the mural.
- Get moving with the open air table tennis demo
- And much more!
Brought to you by the Stone Soup Project, a conspiracy for the Arts.
A project of CHEARS. For more information contact us at stonesoupchef@live.com.
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 CHEARS and Franklin Park are teaming up!
A partnership with you and the environment in mind
CHEARS and Franklin Park are joining forces to bring some exciting new events and a new Greenbelt community group: the Franklin Park Garden Club. In establishing this partnership group with Franklin Park Apartments, CHEARS is looking to co-host a series of meetings, film screenings, and educational workshops for Franklin Park residents. These events will be opened to all of Greenbelt this spring to provide opportunities for community building through education about sustainability and the environment.
This collaborative Garden Club would work out of the Springhill Lake Garden Outdoor Classroom, a Three Sisters Demonstration Garden site, to help create a community of knowledgeable residents focused on locally growing food, environmental awareness and understanding for people of all ages, and to help provide a safe space for youth, adults, and families to gather.
Our first dinner meeting and film screening for Franklin Park residents will occur on Wednesday, October 17, 6:30pm, in the Springhill Lake Recreation Center Clubhouse. For more information, contact Evan Allen, Director of Housing Partnerships, Franklin Park at Greenbelt Station, or Concetta Laskey, CHEARS Communications and Outreach Coordinator.
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Greenbelt Food Forest
CHEARS welcomes University of Maryland students this fall as service volunteers
This past Saturday, students participated in the National Public Lands Day, a localized initiative for this national effort. This year more than 1,700 volunteers served at more then 2,100 sites across the country to participate in the largest single-day volunteer effort dedicated to public lands in the United States.
For National Public Lands Day, they worked with the City of Greenbelt's Public Works Department to help plant native perennials along a recently restored stream, learned about the Greenbelt Lake watershed, and how the restoration will reduce sediment loads downstream and promote groundwater infiltration. Lesley Riddle, the Assistant Director of Public Works, organized the event and spoke about the project Check out the photos from this event on our Flickr!
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Three Sisters Demonstration Gardens
CHEARS at the 2012 Greenbelt Fall Fest
 CHEARS will invite Greenbelt Fall Fest visitors on Sunday October 14 in Schrom Hills Park to take a brief guided tour of the Three Sisters Demonstration Garden. This will be your last chance to see our demonstration of how to grow a complete diet using the One Circle concepts! Take a brief guided tour of our garden, plant first fall cover crops and fall bulbs - garlic, leeks, daffodils - for next year's food and flower, and help us put in some new fruit or nut vines and trees.
FALL FEST offers many family fun activities from 2-6 pm on Sunday, October 14. Click here to view the City of Greenbelt recreation brochure for more information. See our calendar listing for more information on CHEARS activities during Fall Fest.
 Community members are welcome to tend to our gardens spaces and reap their benefits with other Greenbelt friends for relaxing, fun activities outside. Feel free to visit any of our locations at your convenience, or let Maggie or Lucy know your availability and preferred garden site. There are also a variety of special events and workshops planned each month, so keep up with the Gardens Calendar for updates.
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GCAN: Greenbelt Climate Action Network
MEETINGS
- The next GCAN Meeting will be on Tuesday, Oct 2nd, at 7 pm. The topic will be "Population & Climate Change." This month we will be meeting on a different day of the week (Tuesday) and in a different location: Greenbelt Community Church. You should have received a separate GCAN email with details. Featuring Dr. Eugenia Kalnay, distinguished UMD professor, and her son, Jorge Rivas. View the presentation, and also visit the EPA webcast website to learn more about the urban heat island affect and many other subjects.
- The GCAN Program Planning Committee met in August and planned out the programs for the next few months. Future topics will be announced at the Oct Meeting.
- GCAN has decided to move our meetings to Tuesdays in order to avoid conflicts with other Greenbelt organizations. For October we are meeting on the FIRST Tuesday, but beginning in November we will be meeting on the THIRD Tuesday.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
- Re-Skilling Workshop Committee will convene in October to plan another re-skilling workshop. The topic will probably be "weatherizing your windows." Contact Lore if you would like to attend the planning meeting.
- Greenbelt Barter Network met four times this summer. We have decided to use the online software from Time Banks USA. We are currently drafting our mission statement and other content for the website "template". We plan to hold another meeting in October to finalize the website and then will plan a public meeting this fall to "launch" the Barter Network. Contact Lore if you would like to attend our next planning meeting or our public "launch" meeting.
- Initial meetings to investigate a green, worker-owned cooperative. We have met three times so far on June 17, July 15, and Sept 9 and had a table at the Cooperative Alliance celebration on Aug 12. Next meeting will be on Sun, Oct 21, 3-5 pm, at a new location: the Clubhouse at the Springhill Lake Recreation Center on Cherrywood Lane. Our guest consultant will be Jim Johnson from the Democracy at Work Network (DAWN) Contact Lore for details.
GCAN "ACTIVISTS"
We will have several opportunities to get involved this fall, including:
CITY: Asking Greenbelt City Council to write a letter against Fracking in MD.
COUNTY: Asking Greenbelt City Council to support a new county Draft Solid Waste Plan, that moves us in the direction of "Zero Waste"
STATE: Working with CCAN in support of the Offshore Wind Energy Bill in Annapolis
FEDERAL: Contacting Hoyer, Cardin, and Mikulski, to ask for their support for ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies
DISCUSSION CIRCLES
We have finalized plans for three discussion circles this fall. We are still looking for a few more participants for each!A. Common Security Club/Resilience Circlee Intro Meeting, Tues, Oct 9, 7-9 pm, Room 112, Greenbelt Community CenterB. Sacred Economics by Charles EisensteinI ntro Meeting, Tues, Oct 9, 7-9 pm, Room 112, Greenbelt Community Center [same room as above!]C. World on Edge by Lester BrownIntro Meeting, Wed, Oct 10, 1-3 pm, Room 103, Greenbelt Community Center [DAYTIME circle!]
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Chesapeake Education, Arts, and Research Society
P.O. Box 1841 | Greenbelt | MD | 20678
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