Cultivating Connections Recommends:
Events and More for Metro Louisville - April 2013
Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities
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April Table of Contents - Click to Jump to the Listing
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Wednesday, April 3 * Louisville Sustainability Forum
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Thursday, April 4 * The Works of Wendell Berry Voces Novae Concert
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Saturday, April 6 * Plant for the Planet - Kentucky Arbor Day
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Saturday, April 6 * Troubadours of Divine Bliss Concert at Clifton UUC
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Sunday, April 7 * Love and Nature at Unity of Louisville
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Saturday, April 13 * Mighty Kindness Earthday Festival
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Saturday, April 13 * Our Place in the Universe with Fr. Joe Mitchell
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Monday, April 15 * Social Change Book Club - Resilience
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Tuesday, April 16 * Sierra Club Meeting with Guest Barry Zalph
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April 19 -21 * Living on the Fertile Edge of Spring Retreat
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Sunday, April 21 * Earth Day Service with Mark Steiner
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Sunday, April 21 * The 2013 Be the Change Community Choir and Concert with Harry Pickens, Cynthia Fletcher and Carol Kraemer
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Sunday, April 28 * Talk - Restless Fires: Young John Muir's 1000-Mile Walk
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**** Spring Save-the-Dates ****
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Wednesday, May 1 * Michael Pollan interviewed by Wendell Berry
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May 8 - 12 * Courting the Mystery of Our Invisible Soul
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Thursday, May 9 * Annual KIPL Awards Dinner with Michael Dowd
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Street Puppet Making Playshop with Artist Mary Plaster
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June 20 - Injustices of the Coal Cycle March and Rally
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**** Community Projects, Resources and More ****
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Tell President Obama: Reject Keystone XL!
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Community Building + Social Innovation = PoSoupbility
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The Empathic Civilization - RSA Animation
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, April 3 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road)
Featured Presentation
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.
Shorter Presentations
James Sidell for Enterscape
Stephanie Barnett ChooseWell-Louisville &
Member of the Advisory Committee for the Louisville Timebank
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, April 4, 7:00 pm
World Premiere Concert
The Works of Wendell Berry
with Voces Novae, Harry Pickens & John Gage
Cathedral of the Assumption
433 S. Fifth St., Louisville
You are invited to a concert of music based on the poetry of Wendell Berry, internationally-known Kentuckian whose work focuses on the need for humans to live in harmony with the natural rhythms of the earth. Voces Novae will present music by Harry Pickens, Andrew Maxfield, and Giselle Wyers, with special guest baritone Jeremy Kelly Featuring performances by Harry Pickens and John Gage Tickets are $12 and must be purchased on or before April 2.
Parking is free in the garage just north of the Cathedral after 6:00 pm.
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Saturday, April 6, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Plant for the Planet! Native Seedling Giveaway
Douglass Community Center  The Joint Highlands Arbor Day Committee will be handing out free native trees in partnership with global Plant for the Planet! to celebrate Kentucky Arbor Day (rain or shine), at the Douglass Community Center (2305 Douglass Boulevard). Visitors must sign the United Nations Environmental Program's PLEDGE to plant the seedlings. The Central District Chief Forester and the Jefferson County Master Gardeners will have information on the general dos and don'ts of tree planting, as well as on our specific trees. Light refreshments are provided. Plant for the Planet! has given out about 7,400 seedlings over the past 6 years, most of which have stayed in the Highlands and almost all of which have stayed in Jefferson County. Since 2007, 12.6 billion trees have been planted for the global Plant for the Planet! campaign. Our 1,400 trees for 2013 include 300 dogwood, 200 redbud, and 100 each pawpaw, northern red oak, bur oak, willow oak, yellow poplar, tupelo/blackgum, Washington hawthorn, roughleaf dogwood, and river birch - depending on availability. All species for 2013 are native to Jefferson County. Stephen R. Spanyer, Organizer Plant for the Planet! A Joint Highlands Arbor Day Committee |
Saturday, April 6th 7:30pm
You are invited to a very special show with the...
Troubadours of Divine Bliss
Clifton UU Church
2231 Payne St
Join us for a unique concert experience in a beautiful 100 year-old church.
New instruments, new songs, stories and a whole lot of bliss...
you won't want to miss this.
Bring a friend and an open heart for an uplifting and inspiring night.
"It's time to grow wings and put your ears where your heart is"
said the old magician by the sea
$10 suggested Love Offering- no one will be turned away
Come back the next morning as we deliver the message in that same church for Sunday Service..."Awakening to Love."
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Sunday, April 7 11 am Sunday Service - "Love and Nature"
featuring Rev. Susan Engpoole and Mark Steiner  with special musical guests
kRi and hettieUnity of Louisville 757 South Brook Street |
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Saturday, April 13 12 noon - 6 pm Mighty Kindness Earth Day Hoot  Waterfront Park, Brown Forman Amphitheater (next to Tumbleweed) The Mighty Kindness Earth Day Hoot brings together local services for the body, soul, heart and mind that make our commonwealth more rooted and kind. It is a free community unity festival that celebrates kindness where you'll find local food, music, art, green businesses, neighborhood & social justice organizations, fun for kids, the healing arts, the spiritual community, free workshops, Massage-a-thon, Circle of Dance, Turners Circus and more! 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! The Mighty Kindness Earth Day Hoot was voted "2nd for BEST FESTIVAL IN LOUISVILLE!"by LEO Weekly & "Top 15 Music Events in Louisville" by Louisville.com Get the full music and workshop schedules as well as all sorts of other details on the Earth Day Mighty Kindness website |
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
9:00am - 3:30pm
Our Place in the Universe Workshop
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center  Learn about the stunning shift in our understanding of the universe, our place within it and how the universe continues to evolve as we do. We live at a truly phenomenal time in the history of humankind. Modern science has soundly equipped us to understand how the universe has evolved - and will evolve. You'll learn that we don't live in a meaningless, mechanical universe, but one that changes and creates capacities to invent itself in new ways...but not without our help!
Instructor: Fr Joe Mitchell Reserve seats in advance
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Monday, April 15 6:00 pm
Social Change Book Club
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy
Heine Bros. Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane, St Matthews.
In this time of turbulent change, scientists, economists, social innovators, corporate and civic leaders, and citizens alike are asking a basic questions: What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of forces beyond our control? Or, in the face of constant disruption, can we build better shock absorbers-for ourselves, our communities, our economies, and for the planet as a whole?
The answers to these questions are shaping a new field of inquiry, and a new agenda, focused on Resilience: the ability of people, communities, and systems to maintain their core purpose and integrity amid unforeseen shocks and surprises. By encouraging adaptation, agility, and cooperation, this approach can not only help us weather disruptions, but also bring us to a different way of being in and engaging with the world.
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, April 16, 7:00 PM Greater Louisville Sierra Club  The Future of Metro Louisville
with Barry Zalph Clifton Center 2117 Payne St Please join us Tuesday, April 16 for a program focusing on the future of Metro Louisville. Barry Zalph will present comments and facilitate discussion on two concurrent local government initiatives of interest to Sierra Club members: the Vision Louisville 25-year land use and economic development planning process and the Sustain Louisville draft sustainability plan. In both cases, the city's team has raised important topics and articulated some worthy goals. In both cases, Sierra Club may see fit to press for higher aspirations. Barry will especially focus on benefits to be gained by addressing interconnections among the many areas in which our community deserves improvements, including public health, ecosystem integrity, social equity, education, transportation, and sustainable and widespread prosperity.
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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April 19 - 21
Living on The Fertile Edge of Spring Retreat
with Marilyn Stoner
Crestwood, Kentucky
 * What is emerging for you?
* For our community?
Come to an April weekend retreat featuring the poetry of the Sufi and Christian Mystics...
Guided imagery, meditation, journaling, collages...
Opportunities to be in silence with trees, trails
and a pond...
Delicious food, and fun!
For details and registration information click here.
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 Sunday, April 21, 11 am Earth Day Service with Mark Steiner Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church
2231 Payne Street
 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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Sunday, April 21, 2013, 4-5:30pm
Let's Celebrate!
Peace Education Program's
Be The Change Community Choir and Concert First Unitarian Church 809 So. 4th Street
The 2013 concert will be a huge celebration launching
Peace Education Program's year-long 30th anniversary celebration. 
Once again directed by wonderful and talented Cynthia Fletcher,
this year's April 21st concert also features
the amazing Harry Pickens with special guests
John Gage, JD Green, Carol Kraemer and Dawne Gee!
Interested in joining this year's choir?
Click here to find out the practice schedule and to sign up. Can't carry a tune in a bucket - that's okay. Come to the concert and support Peace Ed's work. Help us 30 years of resolving conflicts.
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Sunday, April 28 7pm
Meet the author of
Restless Fires:
Young John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk
First Presbyterian Church, Jeffersonville, Indiana
Author and historian James B. Hunt will be speaking at First Presbyterian Church, (222 Walnut Street, Jeffersonville, IN) at 7:00 pm on Sunday, April 28. He'll be speaking about his new book "Restless Fires: Young John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68" which explores the walk that shaped Muir's views on life, nature, death, and faith. Click this link to learn more about the book.
This event is free and open to the public.
Light snacks will be served.
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 Wednesday, May 1, 7pm
Celebrating the Release of
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Michael Pollan interviewed by Wendell Berry
Clifton Center 2117 Payne Street
Tickets get you admission to the event at The Clifton Center, one copy of Michael Pollan's new book, Cooked, and a designated place in the book-signing line based on the letter on your ticket stub.
Cooked will be published on April 23, 2013. You can pick up your book at the event or at Carmichael's between April 24th and April 30th.
Additional copies of Cooked, Michael Pollan's other books,
and books by Wendell Berry will be available for purchase at the event.
Wendell Berry will sign copies of his books purchased at the event only.
Seating at the event will be general admission---no reserved seats
To honor Michael Pollan & Wendell Berry, Carmichael's will donate a portion of the proceeds from this event to Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.
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May 8 - 12, 2013
Courting the Mystery
of Our Invisible Soul
Oldham County, Kentucky
with Annie Bloom
& Doug Van Houten
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 Thursday, May 9, 6:30 pm Annual KIPL Awards Dinner
featuring author
Michael Dowd on
"Beyond Sustainability:
A Realistically Inspiring Vision"
with musical guests
kRi n hettie
at St Paul United Methodist Church, Louisville
Click here for details
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 Street Puppet Making Playshop with Mary Plaster - Coming in May
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 Save-the-Date June 20 - Injustices of the Coal Cycle March and Rally
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Community Projects, Resources and More
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Tell President Obama: Reject Keystone XL!
This is the final official comment period for Keystone XL. Sierra Club supporters like you need to top previous numbers and submit 100,000 comments!
 The State Department has released their revised report on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Shockingly, the report still downplays the overall effect of the tar sands on our climate. But while the report may be outrageous malpractice, science is on our side. We have several weeks during this comment period, the biggest one yet, to speak out and show the president that there is a national movement demanding he keep his climate promises. Go to the Sierra Club advocacy page to send your message to the President.
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 Community Building + Social Innovation = Posoupbility
PosSOUPbility is an easy and fun way to bring community together over over a meal and at the same time support new and emerging projects that create innovative ways to celebrate, and/or benefit people, places and things in the Louisville area. Applicants and projects can be based in a variety of fields and disciplines - the only requirement is creativity! Ingredients for all meals are donated by and/or sourced from local farms, restaurants and bakeries.
For a $10 soup ticket, each community member who attends PosSOUPbility receives a ballot and a delicious soup-based meal. Three local innovators present project proposals during the meal, and attendees vote on the idea that they would most like to make a reality. The innovator with the most votes receives a micro-grant to help execute their project, the outcome of which is presented at a future PosSOUPbility.
Questions? Email posSOUPbility@gmail.com
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