Cultivating Connections Recommends May 2012
Events for Metro Louisville
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Wednesday, May 2 * Louisville Sustainability Forum
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Saturday, May 5 * Climate Impacts Day at the Derby - Connect the Dots
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Sunday, May 6 * Mark Steiner at Clifton UUC on "My Enemy, My Self"
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Tuesday, May 15 * Greater Louisville Sierra Club Meeting
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Thursday, May 17 * KIPL's Climate Change and Social Justice Dinner
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Friday, May 18 * Drumming Circle
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Saturday, May 19 * Fire, Spirit and Energy - Eco-Justice Worship and Meal
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Sunday, May 20 * Discovering a Sense of Place at Earth and Spirit Center
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Monday, May 21 * Social Change Book Club - What Matters Now?
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, May 2 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road))
20 minute presentation
Beargrass Creek Alliance Jill Maurey Beargrass Creek Alliance is a grassroots, action-oriented group seeking to preserve one of Louisville's greatest natural resources--Beargrass Creek-- through community involvement. Their mission is to raise awareness about Beargrass Creek and to make it clean, safe, and accessible for everyone. They began as a watershed group under Kentucky Waterways Alliance, and have just initiated the Neighborhood Creek Project.
5 minute Presentations
Healthy and Sustainable Parenting Practices
Shannon Stone of Mama's Hip
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Single Stream Recycling
Bryan Bogo
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.
Food & drink:
Heine Bros. provides us with Heine Bros. coffee. Feel free to bring a bag lunch. If you'd like to prepare extra food or drink to share with others, that is always welcome!
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Friday, May 4 (Oaks Day), 10am- 12pm
Saturday, May 5 (Derby Day) 9 am - ? 350.org's
"Climate Impacts Day: Connect the Dots Churchill Downs, Louisville 
For the full story click here.
350.org's next big world-wide day of action is May 5, Derby Day! The event is called "Climate Impacts Day: Connect the Dots." The idea is to "connect the dots" between the recent spate of extreme weather events and global climate change.
350 Louisville will stage a simple, peaceful action to take advantage of the huge crowds and intense media coverage at the Kentucky Derby. Participants will walk around in the area of Churchill Downs, e.g., along Central Avenue, on both Oaks Day and Derby Day, engaging the crowd as appropriate.
In addition, other volunteers will wear some typically outlandish Derby hats, the designs of which will be consistent with our T-shirts. The hat wearers will enter the track and go to the paddock area (or infield), hoping for media attention.
To learn more and for sign up information click here.
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Sunday, May 6, 11 am Mark Steiner presents My Enemy, My Self
Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church
2231 Payne Street
Mark offers an exploration of the nature of "enemy" as informed by his own spiritual journey including looks at: The ways we can be our own worst enemies Our tendency to create outer enemies by projecting our own frailties and flaws onto the other How through a co-evolutionary process our enemies shape and inform us. Can we embrace our enemies without first embracing the enemy within?
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 Tuesday, May 15 7pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club presents
Mary Berry Smith of the Berry Center
Clifton Center 2231 Payne Street
Please join Greater Louisville Sierra Club as we welcome Mary Berry Smith, Executive Director of the Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky. The Berry Center is a foundation that has been established for the purpose of bringing focus, knowledge and cohesiveness to the work of changing our ruinous industrial agriculture system into a system and culture that uses nature as the standard, accepts no permanent damage to the ecosphere, and takes into consideration human health in local communities.
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry was published in 1975. This book started a national and international conversation on the state of agriculture in our society. The Berry Center seeks to further the dialogue surrounding this most important and central issue, a healthy and sustainable agriculture in this country.
This program is free and open to the public.
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 Thursday May 17, 6:30 pm KIPL Annual Awards Dinner:
Finding Common Ground:
Faith, Climate Change and Social Justice First Unitarian Church Kentucky Interfaith Power and light invites you to their Annual Awards Dinner as they explore the connections between Faith, Climate Change and Social Justice with special guest community organizer Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener (author of Claiming Earth's Common Ground: The Ecological Crisis Through the Lens of Faith).
The intention is to explore our response to global warming from within the core understanding that it is a crisis that is as much a social justice issue as it is an environmental one.
Andrea will be joined by local environmental justice organizers Kathy Little and Eboni Cochran . Kathy has been active around coal ash pollution issues at LG & E's Cane Run plant and was named Louisvillian of the Year by LEO Weekly for that work. Eboni is a board member of REACT, a citizens group committed to the elimination of toxic air pollution coming from Louisville's Rubbertown industry. Musical guests are local favorites kRi and Hettie.
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Friday, May 18 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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Saturday, May 19, 5pm Worship and Collective Meal
Theme: "Fire, Spirit and Energy"
at 142 Crescent Hill Ave
(back building and grounds of Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church)
 The Eco-Justice Worship Collective, seeking to create dynamic, ecumenical and inclusive worship space for eco-justice concerns, invites you to join our May worship on "Fire, Spirit, and Energy." Using scripture, theological imagination, the arts and natural elements, we will explore the places of fire, spirit, and energy in our own lives and in the world and how we are called to tend these hearths. For more information, email Rebecca Find " Eco-Justice Worship Collective" on Facebook and/or check out our blog |
Sunday, May 20 - 12:20 pm
"Discovering a Sense of Place" Passionist Earth and Spirit Center The Passionist Earth and Spirit Center in Louisville will be offering "Discovering A Sense of Place" a 12-session course designed to help adults and children restore a connection with the place where they live - the Ohio River Valley Bioregion. Through inspiring lectures and experiential learning events, participants gain a new appreciation for their local place and recover a sense of belonging.
The course is offered in two tracks - one for adults and one for children. They meet one Sunday a month from 12:30-4:30 pm beginning May 20. Contact the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center for more information: 452.2749 or info@earthandspiritcenter.org
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Monday, May 21, 6:00 pm Social Change Book ClubWhat Matters Now
by Gary Hamel
Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews. What Matters Now, our May book, is Gary Hamel's plea to rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about management, the meaning of work, and organizational life. He asks, "What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether your organization thrives or dives in the years ahead?" The answer is found in five paramount issues: values, innovation, adaptability, passion, and ideology.
The Social Change Book Club is open to everyone who is interested in understanding, participating, leading, or supporting social change. Each month we select a book and get together to discuss. Selections rotate among three themes: social changes, how we work with others to make change happen, and the inner qualities needed to bring change into the world.
Please just show up if you are interested--no RSVP, commitment, etc. It is great when people have read the book, but that is not a requirement to come and discuss. We got this going because there is a lot to learn about how to make social change happen and people who are interested in changing the world need opportunities to share stories and experience community with others who care. |
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