CATALYST Weekly Reader ~ Resources for Creative Living
Mar. 6 - Mar. 12




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Dear friends and family,

Yesterday we attended the Intermountain Sustainability Summit at Weber State. CATALYST was honored to be a Gold Level sponsor. We got to meet so many people involved in projects plotting a healthier future for Utah ~ building anaerobic digesters, expanding the role of electric vehicles and renewable energy growth, preventing food waste, exploring what really matters in cleaning our air ~ and hear keynote David Orr (I hope you got to read his feature story in our Feb. issue). It was a day packed with enough inspiration for many CATALYSTs to come.

Greta deJong
editor & publisher, CATALYST

 
Event picks for
Mar. 6 - Mar. 12
Friday, Mar. 6, 7p. The King's English, 1511 S 1500 E. Free.

Reading and book signing. "Not since Ken Wilber introduced the Western world to the integral movement of East-West psycho�spirituality, has there been a catalyst for a paradigm shift that is so relevant and radically re-inventive."- New  Consciousness Review.
 
 
Friday, Mar. 6, 7-9p. Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.
 
Learn about the Global Dream Initiative, a call for a recognition of the trauma in the natural and urban landscapes along with the need to participate in their healing. Simply said, "people can become depressed because nature is depressed." The Global Dream Initiative is a forum to see and hear the world's dreams, and also learn how to begin using these dreams to create new and more generative methods of attending to the growing perils facing nature. Stephen Aizenstat is the Chancellor and Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute.

  


Saturday, Mar. 7, 9a-1p. U of U Union Building, Parlor 200, Central Campus Dr. $49.
 
This workshop goes deeper into the theme of Friday evening's talk, to learn how nature enters into our dreams and asks us for our engagement. Dr. Stephen Aizenstat will share Dream Tending methods in which dreamers become "naturalists" of the psyche, observing the activity of the images in their unfolding dreamscape. Aizenstat's work opens creativity and the generative process. His book, Dream Tending, describes multiple new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the World's Dream, relationships and the creative process.
 
Saturday, Mar. 7, 9:30a-4p. Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library 295 S 1500 E. Free.
 
The Wasatch Cooperative Market is hosting this video conference about our food systems. Learn about local opportunities and ways to eat more sustainably. Presented in partnership with the SLC Sustainability Division, U of U Sustainability Resource Center, Slow Food Utah and Wasatch Community Gardens. Topics include the necessity of women farmers in the local food movement, food as medicine, teaching students about health through hip-hop, why organic food isn't really more expensive than conventional food, how small changes in your eating habits can make big differences. Brown bag lunches encouraged. Limited seating.

Monday, Mar. 9, 7p. 
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 S. 7 p.m. Free.

Amy returns home to help her ailing mother, only to discover a house full of uninvited guests: girls from her favorite childhood novels. The beloved crew of heroines  (including Sarah Crewe, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, and Penny Parker) turn the household topsy-turvy as Amy struggles to reconcile with the stories and people she loves and the stories she has told herself. 
Playwright Ellen Struve says the play will appeal to anyone who has a mother and loved books as a child. 
 
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 7p. 
Main City Library, 210 E 400 S. Free.

Seeds provide the basis for everything from food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink. Following the challenges and triumphs of some of seed's most tireless stewards and advocates, this timely documentary  illuminates what's at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food.
 
Winter Wednesdays at Tracy Aviary

Wednesday, Mar. 11, 9a-5p. 
Tracy Aviary, Liberty Park 589 E 1300 S.

Tracy Aviary is offering $1 admission through the end of March. Take advantage of the slower season and spend more quality time with the birds, minus the bustling crowds of summer. You can even hide out in the tropical warmth of the South American Pavilion.  Free-flight encounters are held in a beautiful, heated space as well.

By the way, that Wednesday dollar goes entirely to support conservation efforts in Utah and the Western Flyway. 
 
Thursday, Mar. 12, 6-7:30p. 
The Leonardo, 209 E 500 S. Free.

Arguably one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the past century, the mapping of the human genome raises almost as many questions as it an�swers. These questions will profoundly impact the way we think about our health, disease and free will.

Leo After Hours is a series of public events that tackle current topics and their impact on society. Local experts from universities, industry and government join attendees for lively discussions in a laid-back evening atmosphere.
 
Blog Updates 
 
On March 16, at 9:53:26 PM EDT Uranus and Pluto will complete the final square in a series of seven exact squares that began on June 24, 2012. And for the next several weeks, as they finish this cycle, daily life will reflect this last contact with escalating intensity-if such a thing is possible. Expect most of your fellow travelers to be on edge. This isn't a peaceful finale, and it is certain to wreak havoc on nervous systems, as well as on attitudes. Mars plays a large role in the culmination of this fractious Uranus/Pluto alliance, and its presence lends a warring signature to the interaction. What's more, Jupiter also joins the fray, and its presence amplifies and magnifies the already extreme tendencies of the entire bundle. But that's not all!...(read more).