Cultivating Connections Recommends:
Events and More for Metro Louisville - March 2013
Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities
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Table of Contents
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Saturday, March 2 * Wild & Scenic Film Festival
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Monday, March 4 * Activist and Advocate Vandana Shiva at UofL
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Wednesday, March 6 * Louisville Sustainability Forum
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Thursday, March 7 * Sing Along w/ Cynthia - Be the Change Concert Kick Off
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Sunday, March 10 * Eco- Justice Worship Collective with Tevyn East
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Sunday, March 17 * Good Morning Sweet Darkness - kRi & hettie w/ Mark Steiner
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Monday, March 18 * Social Change Book Club - Simply Complexity
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Tuesday, March 19 * Sierra Club Meeting with Guest Joe Franzen
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Wednesday, March 20th * Spring Equinox Sacred Celebration
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March 20 * CART Presents a Community Conversation
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**** Spring Save-the-Dates ****
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Saturday, April 13 * Earth Day Mighty Kindness Festival
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April 19 -21 * Being on the Fertile Edge of Spring Retreat
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May 8 - 12 Courting the Mystery of Our Invisible Soul
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**** Community Projects, Resources and More ****
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Art Meets Conservation with Herman: The Strider Bug
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Kentucky Represents at Historic Forward On Climate Rally
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Local Activist/Author Sam Avery's New Book: The Pipeline and the Paradigm
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15 Thousand Farmers Needs New Leadership to Continue
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Check Out kRi n hettie's Cool Crowdfunding Project
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Saturday, March 2nd, 7:30 pm
Kentucky Waterways Alliance's
5th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival at the Clifton Center
2117 Payne Street in Louisville, KY.
We have a great lineup of films that are sure to inspire you.
Click here to view the complete film festival lineup, including a special showing of Wonder,
by local film producer Morgan Atkinson.
This year's emcee is Tom Fitzgerald
Executive Director of Kentucky Resources Council
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Monday, March 4, 5:30 pm Annual Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women's & Gender Studies
"Violent Economic 'Reforms' and
the Growing Violence Against Women"
with Vandana Shiva  U of L, Swain Student Activities Center Multipurpose Room
Reception to follow Free and open to the public Vandana Shiva is a philospher, environmental activist, author and eco-feminist based in Delhi, India. The many awards she has received include the Sydney Peace Prize in 2010 and the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food and has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns to the fields of intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, and genetic engineering. Dr. Shiva suggests in her article, "Empowering Women," that a more sustainable and productive approach to agriculture can be achieved through reinstating a system of farming in India that is more centered on engaging women. She advocates against the prevalent "patriarchal logic of exclusion," claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner.
If you need further information or require any accommodations in order to participate fully in this event, please call 852-8160 or e-mail nancyt@louisville.edu.
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, March 6 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road)
Featured Presentation 
The Sustain Louisville Story
Maria Koetter, Director of Sustainability, Louisville Metro
Maria Koetter, Director of Sustainability will give an overview of Sustain Louisville, Louisville's first sustainability plan which heralds an exciting chapter in Louisville's history and affirms Louisville Metro Government's commitment to becoming one of the greenest cities in the country. Sustain Louisville will guide the city and its many partners in uniting multiple sustainability objectives and creating broad reaching impacts. Sustain Louisville is a foundational framework to shape city-wide efforts, including public and private sector organizations and individuals, to promote a vibrant, prosperous and healthy community with a better quality of life for all Louisville citizens
now and in the future.
Shorter Presentations
Herman, the Water Catchment
Linda Erzinger, Artist
PechaKucha + Action
Barry Zalph, Free Radical
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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 Thursday, March 7 6 pmBe the Change Community Choir and Concert
Sing Along with Cynthia Kick Off Event
Central Presbyterian Church, 318 W. Kentucky Street
Come join us on Thursday, March 7 for a Sing Along with Cynthia as we kick off the formation of this year's Be the Change community choir
The 2013 concert will be a huge celebration launching our year-long 30 year anniversary celebration. Directed by Cynthia Fletcher this year's concert (Sunday, April 21 4 pm) features Harry Pickens with special guests John Gage, JD Green, Carol Kraemer and Dawne Gee!
Come partake in light refreshments, join in a sing along with Cynthia Fletcher and learn more about how you can help Peace Ed's work by becoming a member of this year's Community Choir.
More details available by clicking here. Please email office@peaceeducationprogram.org or phone 502-589-6583 and let us know if you will be able to attend the March 7th kick-off and/or if you will be singing in this year's choir. 
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Sunday March 10th 9am
Eco- Justice Worship Collective Presents
Worship and the Arts
with Tevyn East and her piece
"Blood on the Cedars"
(main sanctuary, Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church, 142 Crescent Ave)
Come worship with music, movement, reflection and prayer. Tevyn will share with us a prophetic rant against the exploitation of the trees - ancient and contemporary, that appears in all cultural and spiritual traditions, yet particularly in the Judeo-Christian narrative.
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Sunday, March 17
11 am
Good Morning Sweet Darkness
Join Us for this Sunday Service at Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church featuring story and song with
Mark Steiner
and
kRi 'n' hettie
  As we prepare to enter the light of spring this service offers the opportunity to honor the blessings of the dark and explore how our culture's unhealthy dichotomies around light and dark deprive us of the blessings and beauty that come with the universal experiences of mystery, suffering, fear and letting go.Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church is a progressive religious community with a diverse membership that welcomes folks of all backgrounds, beliefs, and lifestyles. Ours is not a dogmatic, but a pragmatic faith. We may not share the same ideas, but we do share a common way of relating to others and our world that includes justice, compassion, kindness, and respect. It is in this spirit of openheartedness and openmindedness that we eagerly open our doors to you. Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church 2231 Payne Street, Louisville, KY 40206 
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Monday, March 18 6:00 pm
Social Change Book Club
Simply Complexity:
A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory by Neil Johnson
Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews.
What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting - and ultimately solving - everything from terrorist attacks and pandemic viruses right down to rush hour traffic congestion.
In Simply Complexity, Neil Johnson introduces complexity theory. "Complexity can be summed up by the phrase 'Two's company, three is a crowd.' In other words, complexity can be seen as the study of the phenomena which emerge from a collection of interacting objects - and a crowd is a perfect example of such an emergent phenomenon, since it is a phenomenon which emerges from a collection of interacting people." The strength of this book lies in Johnson's plain approach towards complexity which he couples with many real world examples.
The Social Change Book Club is now in its seventh year of monthly meetings.
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.
Hosted by Howard Mason
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Tuesday, March 19, 7:00 PM Greater Louisville Sierra Club An Interdisciplinary Hands-on Approach
to Whole-living Environmental Education
with guest presenter Joe Franzen Clifton Center 2117 Payne St Please join us on Tuesday, March 19 as we welcome Joe Franzen. Over the past three years, Joe has developed a program based in Food Studies to connect students to the outside world, linking their individual behaviors to the larger current global issues of sustainability, environmental degradation, social justice, poverty, hunger,
food epidemics, and climate change.
As students engage and personalize these connections, Franzen provides his own urban-homestead as a laboratory and an example to explore and experiment with the quest for a more sustainable lifestyle. With the first of these students graduating from the program, they have begun infiltrating multiple institutions and occupations with this new foundation. The program will trace the path of these personal passions and the
resulting educational creation.
The Greater Louisville Sierra Club meeting is at the Clifton Center 2117 Payne Street (www.cliftoncenter.org) and will begin at 7:00 p.m.
This programs is free and open to the public.
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Wednesday, March 20 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Spring Equinox Sacred Celebration
First Unitarian Church
809 South Fourth Street (at the corner of York Street)  Celebrate the promise of Spring through ritual, story, song and movement.
Join us in this soul-fulfilling evening of
connection, color, circles and community.
Sacred Celebrations are a collaborative effort between artists,
spiritual leaders, and activists who come together to create fun,
reverent and relevant programs affirming our connections to the sacred, to each other, and to our world. www.sacredcelebration.org
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CART Presents a Community Conversation
Wish Lists & Great Expectations:
Community, Transit, and Beyond
March 20th 2013 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Louisville Free Public Library, Centennial Room
4th and York Streets
Louisville is buzzing! There are multiple plans, visioning processes, regulatory updates, and revisions of Louisville Metro policy documents in the hopper now and in the pipeline over the coming months. CART has assembled a very talented group of community leaders and invited them to express their priorities and answer some key questions about how to manage these efforts for the benefit of all our diverse interest groups. The conversation will include exchanges among panelists and attendees will have the opportunity to participate as well.
We want to filter the noise and identify a few key ideas to rally behind. A few bold initiatives is better than a thousand talking points.
Special Guests:
Mr. Larry Chaney KIPDA, Director of Transportation
Ms. Patti Clare Assistant Director, Metro Louisville Department Economic Development and Innovation
Ms. Cathy Hinko Executive Director, Metropolitan Housing Coalition
Ms. Christie McCravey Director, Louisville Urban League Center for Housing and Financial Empowerment
Free and open to the public
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Whatever you do, don't miss . . . The Mighty Kindness Earth Day Hoot
on Saturday, April 13 12 - 6 pm
at Waterfront Park Learn more by clicking here.  |
Weekend Retreat: April 19-21
Being on the Fertile Edge of Spring
Featuring the poetry of Christian and Sufi Mystics,
great heart healthy food, trees, trails and a pond
Camp Kavanaugh, Crestwood, Kentucky
Guide: Marilyn Stoner
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May 8 - 12, 2013
Courting the Mystery of Our Invisible Soul
Oldham County, Kentucky
with Annie Bloom & Doug Van Houten  For all the details and registration click here |
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Community Projects, Resources and More
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HERMAN - The Strider Bug, A Water Catchment is a project from Linda Erzinger and Tara Remington of ArtResourced.com. Linda and Tara have been working though all aspects of HERMAN's birth since December 2012. They began with the desire to see water conservation linked with art. The term that describes this connection best is called Solution Based Art, art that creates a solution for the environment. They hope HERMAN will start conversations about water conservation and how we can work together to clean up our beautiful city of Louisville.
Here's how they could use your help
* Share through your database the campaign on https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/herman-the-water-catchment
* Louisville Clean Ups -Let everyone know how "HERMAN" will be created from the materials collected during the Louisville Clean Ups in March and April.
* Speaking Engagements -Linda and Tara can come speak about HERMAN to any groups that might be interested.
* Community Involvement - We will also be asking volunteers to come help with the construction of HERMAN.
* Donate to the project here.
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Thanks to the more than 70 Kentuckians (54 on the bus) who represented at the Forward on Climate Rally in DC on February 17th. Crowd estimates range from 35,000 - 50,000.
Sharing this action together was both inspiring and community-building.
Thanks to Drew Foley(the mastermind), 350 Louisville, Greater Louisville Sierra Club, the Center for a New American Dream, and all our home-stay hosts for helping to make our trip possible.
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In April, Friend of Cultivating Connections and Louisvillian Sam Avery is releasing his new book about the Keystone Pipeline and the people and places being impacted. It features a forward by Bill McKibben.
The Pipeline and the Paradigm:
Keystone XL and the Battle to Defuse the Tar Sands Carbon Bomb
by Samuel Avery  Should the the Keystone XL pipeline be built, the Earth will not be the same. There is enough carbon in the Canadian tar sands to kick the planet into runaway climate disaster and it is the Keystone XL pipeline that will connect that carbon to the atmosphere. Why do we think we the need it? Who are the people opposing it? Why are they resorting to civil disobedience? What is it like to have a toxic pipeline running through your back yard? The Pipeline and the Paradigm explores the economic reasons for the Keystone XL, the ecological awareness of those opposing it, and the psychological trauma of having to live with it outside your door.
"Environmental activist Avery travels the route of TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline, engaging in frank and respectful dialogue with proponents and opponents. His finely researched book blazes with hope." -Publishers Weekly
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15 Thousand Farmers Issues Call For Influx of New Leadership
15Thousand Farmers needs an influx of new energy to take it to the next level. The board of 15Thousand Farmers and most of the primary volunteers of 15Thousand Farmers are moving on to other interests. If any of you all are interested in taking 15Thousand Farmers to the next level of whatever it is to become, now is the time to step up and into leadership of this organization. Otherwise, sadly, it's time to close it down.
There are a number of assets that 15Thousand Farmers has created over the years that could help in its future reincarnation. So, if anyone wants more information on 15Thousand Farmers and how a group of people could take it on and grow it to a new level, contact me, Gary Heine, at gary@embodymagic.com or Steve Vice, at svice@dismas.com. We'll have to see new leadership and a plan for the future of 15Thousand Farmers emerge by March 15th, 2013. Otherwise, we'll take that as a sign that 15Thousand Farmers has run its course in the community. Many thanks to all supporters and friends and happy growing!
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kRi n hettie - Just to Get to You
Kri n' hettie are fundraising for their new cd with "gofundme" a crowd funding website that provides unique "rewards" for funders. Kri n' hettie's rewards range from copies of the cd to music lessons to concert performances and beyond!
Click here to check out this really cool new way to support artists and change-makers.
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