Cultivating Connections Recommends
October 2011
Upcoming Events for Metro Louisville
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Monday, October 3 · Tar Sands Nightmare and the Keystone Pipe Dream
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Beginning Tuesday October 4 - Menu for the Future
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Wednesday, October 5 · Louisville Sustainability Forum
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Monday, October 10 · Butterfly Documentary Screening
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Friday, Oct. 14 and Oct. 15 - Healthy Foods, Local Farms
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Saturday, October 15 · 15 Thousand Farmers
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Tuesday, October 18 · Greater Louisville Sierra Club Meeting
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Friday, October 21 · Community Drumming Circle
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Friday, Oct. 21 thru Sunday, Oct. 23 · Bluegrass Bioneers
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Monday, October 24 · When Spirit Meets Action w/ Julia Butterfly Hill
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Friday, October 28 · Spiritual Movie Night - Nightmare Before Xmas
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Saturday, October 29 · Mighty Kindness Harvest Hootenanny
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Save-the-Dates November 2 - 7 - Festival of Faiths
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 Monday, October 3rd, 7:00 pm The Tar Sands Nightmare and the Keystone Pipe Dream: What You can Do
James Lees Community Center 1741 Frankfort Avenue (at the corner of William Street)
RSVP on FaceBook
 Louisville-based activists and members of 350 Louisville will provide background and an overview of the Alberta Canada Tar Sands, the proposed Keystone II Pipeline, the recent civil disobedience around the Tar Sands pipeline at the White House and their participation and arrest as part of that action. Very importantly the program will explore next steps and the various ways concerned citizens can make their voices heard as we call for President Obama to reject the Keystone II Pipeline permit. This event is sponsored by 350 Louisville and Cultivating Connections |
Beginning Tuesday, October 4Tuesdays thru November 22 Menu for the Future: Discussion Group Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church 4936 Brownsboro Road Menu for the Future invites participants to learn more about modern food systems and to reflect upon their own role as eaters in a global food marketplace. Food connects us intimately with the world around us and the choices we make every day around what we eat are far reaching. To sign up contact Marlene Killian msrainbows@hotmail.com or 244-5040
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, October 5 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind St Agnes Church 1924 Newburg Road)
20 Minute Presentation -
Green Infrastructure Incentives Program
with Wesley Sydnor, Senior Technical Services Engineer
with Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District
On August 1, 2011, Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) published a Green Infrastructure Incentives Program. This program will provide financial incentives to property owners to incorporate green infrastructure on their sites.
The objective of the program is to remove impervious surfaces (parking, rooftops, streets, etc.) from draining to the combined sewer system. Typical green practices that may be eligible for the incentive program include the use of rain gardens, bioswales, pervious pavement systems, and vegetated roofs. The speaker will discuss how property owners can participate in this exciting new program.
5 Minute Presentation- Christian Thalacker with Louisville Biodiesel Co-op 5 Minute Presentation- Laura Porter Blackburn with Core Fluency Pilates
Food & drink:
Heine Bros. provides us with Heine Bros. coffee. Feel free to bring a bag lunch, but know that the Barn opens its doors to us at 11:30 a.m. -- no earlier. If you'd like to prepare extra food or drink to share with others, that is always welcome!
Now in its Fifth year the purposes of the Louisville Sustainability Forum are:
1. We hold and promote the intention of sustainability for Louisville.
2. We establish and nourish relationships that strengthen community and create change.
3. We create a space for discussion that inspires, motivates and deepens our ability to catalyze social change.
Please park in St. Agnes Church lot and walk back behind the church
to the Earth and Spirit Center
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Monday, October 10, 7:00 pm Butterfly Documentary Screening (the Julia Butterfly Hill Story) Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church 4936 Brownsboro Road (behind Rodes across from Holiday Manor)
The Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church Green Sanctuary Committee is hosting a screening of Doug Wolen's documentary chronicling Julia Butterfly Hill's two-year tree-sit. This critically acclaimed film was featured on PBS' Point of View in an edited form. The Denver Post called it "Entertaining", The New York Magazine called it "Amazing". See the full film and join in a post-screening discussion!
Free and Open to the Public.
Donations Appreciated.
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 Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference "Cultivating Change, Harvesting Health" Conference Saturday, October 15, 9 am - 5:30 pm $45 Kentucky Country Day School
4100 Springdale Road Louisville
Harvest Party
Friday, October 14, 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm $35 St. Francis School
11000 W Hwy 42, Goshen
As always, local food will be served. For more information and registration On FaceBook
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Saturday, October 15th
4 pm - 6 pm
15 Thousand Farmers 15th Day Celebration
Dismas Charities St. Ann Center, 1515 Algonquin Pkwy.
Fall's delicious coolness hit us somewhat suddenly, and while summer crops are on the vine as I write this, make no mistake, fall is definitely here.
Time to think about planting fruit trees and berry vines, and putting the summer garden to bed. Fall's cooler temperatures give us a chance to enjoy cleaning up the old vines and leaves from our gardens so that pests don't become a problem next year.
No matter how you spend these crisp days, be sure to join us October 15th for our 15th Day Celebration! Want to help us put on the celebration? You are welcomed to show up at 5:30 pm to help with the setup or stay late to help us take down. If you want more details or would like to help in other ways, please email Susan Olson at aerosue@insightbb.com. We hope to see you there! Find 15Thousand Farmers on FaceBook |
Tuesday, October 18, 7pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club
October Meeting - "The Lost World"
Please join us as we welcome George and Joan Perkins who will share stories and slides from their recent trips to the top of Mt. Roraima and to Angel Falls, both in Venezuela. Roraima is the flat-topped vertical-walled "tepui" rising several thousand feet from the surrounding lowlands that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy novel "The Lost World" and more recently, the setting for the animated film "Up.". Angel Falls, with 2600 feet of free fall out of a 3200-foot drop, is considered the world's highest waterfall.
George grew up in Louisville and after moving to Alaska, met Joan while both were working in Denali National Park. After returning to Louisville, George started the Louisville Peak Oil Group, which raises awareness of sustainable energy and diminishing oil supply. He currently works for the Air Pollution Control District and Joan teaches foreign languages at Manual High.
Our program is at the Clifton Center (www.cliftoncenter.org) at the corner of Payne St. and Clifton Ave., just off Frankfort Ave. and is free and open to the public. |
Friday, October 21 7:00 pm
Monthly Drumming Circle
at The Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind the Passionist Monastery 1924 Newburg Road)
Ho Drummers,
Join us for a community drum circle to make in-the-moment music. No musical experience necessary! Bring your percussion instruments. Co-operation and collaboration are the glue to a community drum circle. The results can be those magical musical moments where one powerful voice is crafted out of the many. Dancers are welcomed too!
When we as a community drum together, sharing our spirit in the form of rhythm, it changes our relationship for the positive. As we play together, we give ourselves a rhythmical massage, an emotional release and a healing!
Ample parking is available in a parking lot just to the left of the monastery. Alongside the monastery, take the sidewalk which will lead behind the monastery to the large red-brick barn with green awnings.
(Please do not park in front of the Barn, use one of the big lots out front by the monastery. thanks)
Doug Van Houten
502.472.6563
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Friday, October 21 - Sunday, October 23 Bluegrass Bioneers at the University of Louisville 
Bluegrass Bioneers 2011 - presented by BEcreative and the University of Louisville Center for Environmental Education - is the southeast's Beaming Bioneers incarnation and is based in Louisville, KY. Louisville is proud once again to be a Bioneers satellite city. The 3-day conference will be held at the University of Louisville's Strickler Hall, Davidson Hall, & Rauch Planetarium. The third annual Bluegrass Bioneers will combine national plenary speakers and experts on the "big screen" from the national Bioneers Conference in California with live local & regional speakers, experts, and performances for an entertaining and enriching event that encourages innovative, creative solutions to help Louisville and the rest of the world build a more just and sustainable society. |
 Monday, October 24, 7 pm Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light presents When Spirit Meets Action:
Working Together In Response to Climate Change with special guest, author and activist,
Julia Butterfly Hill Frazier Hall Bellarmine University Julia is the young woman who lived in an ancient redwood tree for two years in a world-changing effort to protect old growth forests. Her story is the subject of the documentary "Butterfly." The evening will include, in addition to Julia's presentation, facilitation by Harry Pickens and music by the Troubadours of Divine Bliss, stories of several community members efforts towards sustainability sharing a broad spectrum of inspiring ways we can all respond to the climate crisis 
For more information www.kentuckyipl.org |
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This wonderful stop-motion animated feature directed by Henry Selick (James and the Giant Peach) and written/produced by Tim Burton is a wonder-filled fable for children of all ages
Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own leading to a wild journey of self discovery.
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Saturday, October 29 Noon - 6:00 pm Mighty Kindness Harvest Hootenanny Louisville Nature Center (across from the Zoo - 3745 Illnois Ave) 
A Community Unity Festival bringing together local earth, body, mind, spirit and heart friendly services that make our commonwealth more rooted and kind. The Hoots are all about feeding the peace, love, joy, healing, knowledge, sustainability and strength of our community so bring your family and friends for a celebration of life and possibility!
mightykindness@gmail.com www.mightykindness.org 502. 608. 1587 |
Coming in November the 16th Annual Festival Of FaithsSacred Air - Breath of Life November 2 - 7
including programs sponsored by Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light,
Cultivating Connections, 350 Louisville and the Sierra Club Wednesday, November 2 11:30 am This Old House of Worship:
How to Save Energy and Money at Your Congregation hosted by Tim Darst
Thursday, November 3 7:30 am Interfaith Breakfast with Bill McKibben
renowned Climate Change activist and 350.org founder 9:00 - 11:00 am Youth Workshop
with Bill McKibben and Alec Loorz founder of "Kids vs. Global Warming"
Friday, November 4 9:00 am - 2:15 pm Youth Day (with Alec Loorz)
Saturday, November 5 5:00 pm Chief Francois Paulette presents
The Violation of Sacred Air by the Tar Sands Project
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