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Events and More for Metro Louisville - September 2015

Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities

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Tuesday the 1st * Prayer for Care for the Earth
Wednesday the 2nd * Louisville Sustainability Forum: West Louisville FoodPort
Thursday the 10th * KIPL presents the Hope in Action Awards
Sunday the 13th * Guest House Inaugural Community Gathering
Sunday the 13th * Louisville TimeBank Potluck Dinner
Tuesday the 15th * Sierra Club presents An Overview of Solar Energy
Friday the 18th - Sunday the 20th * Art and the Landscape of the Soul
Saturday the 19th * Louisville Nature Centers's: Hoots and Hops
Monday the 21st * Social Change Book Club: 21 Skills of Spiritual Intelligence
Tuesday the 22nd * Autumn Equinox Sacred Celebration
Wednesday the 23rd * Compassionate Louisville Town Hall Meeting
Thursday the 24th * One Family. One World. Standing with Francis
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Tuesday, September 1st, 7:30pm
Prayer for Care for the Earth
Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion 
411 North Hubbards Lane, 40207 

 
Join us and interfaith friends around the world for a special ceremony Tuesday evening at DGCEC.  Pope Francis has invited all people of goodwill to join in a World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.  His Holiness the Dalai Lama also encourages us to recognize the deep interconnection all sentient beings have with our Planet Home, and to be attentive to how our choices often harm the most vulnerable among us.

All are welcome to join this ceremony as committed stewards of the Earth and all people.  

 


Wednesday, September 2, 12 - 1:45 pm
Louisville Sustainability Forum
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located behind St Agnes Church at 1920 Newburg Road)
 
West Louisville FoodPort
Caroline Heine,  Co-founder and Project Director for Seed Capital Kentucky.

The West Louisville FoodPort transforms a 24-acre brownfield into a seed-to-waste food chain where food is grown, harvested, processed, sold, eaten and distributed to the local community. The FoodPort will locate food-related businesses in one place where they can buy food from local farmers and hire neighbors for jobs.

Designed by world-renowned architecture firm OMA, the FoodPort will include a state-of-the-art facility that spurs economic activity in a historic but under-invested section of the city. The entire project invests over $25 million in West Louisville. It brings over 200 permanent jobs, of which nearly two thirds are new jobs, as well as 250 temporary construction jobs.

Caroline has 20+ years of management experience, focusing largely in the nonprofit sector, working in the areas of business and strategic planning, business development, relationship management, communications and marketing, and operations.

Shorter Presentations
Gardening with Native Plants      
Margaret Shea, Dropseed Nursery

Now in its seventh 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:
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!
 



Thursday, September 10 from 6 - 8:30pm
Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light presents
The Hope in Action Awards
The Olmsted, 3701 Frankfort Avenue 40207

Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light invites you to celebrate Kentucky's creation care leaders! These awards recognize local faith communities for the passion for sustainability they have shown in their congregations and for acting as stewards of our planet and planting seeds of hope for a healthier future.

Join us for a one-hour social reception beginning at 6 pm with food and music. The awards ceremony will begin at 7 pm and will be followed by an exploration into the many ways that Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light is engaged in creating a healthy future for our communities.  You are invited to stay after the ceremony to socialize and be in community until the event concludes.

Admission to is $35 per person. To reserve a seat, mail payment to Kentucky IPL, 1722 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40205, or click here to pay by credit card.


  
Sundays beginning September 13th at 5pm
The Guest House
Hosted at Drepung Gomang Center for Engaging Compassion
411 North Hubbards Lane 40207

The Guest House...

...where all worldviews, from agnostic to atheist to faith-professing, are respected...

...where all experiences, from mundane to exotic, from painful to joyful, are embraced...

...where all talents, from those newly discovered to those well-developed, are appreciated...

...where all voices, from not-ready-to-speak to shaky to steady, are honored...

...where being human is enough.

At the guest house we weave together the diverse gifts and wisdom of our community, creating the space for the emergence of collective insight and knowledge, which then guides us in our individual journey of being fully human and our collective journey of being a flourishing community, city and planet.

Each week...

...we welcome and celebrate the wisdom of all ages, races, cultures, world-views, and traditions.

...we express a central theme through a wisdom teacher, a meditation guide, a musician, and a visual artist.

...we create and celebrate rituals and rights of passage that mark changes and transitions in our lives and in the world.

...we explore different wisdom traditions from pre-modern, to modern, to postmodern, from humanistic, to scientific, to religious.

All are welcome!

Ashley Seaman will be our Wisdom Teacher, Pete Buecker will be our Meditation Guide. Kri and Hettie will be our Musicians, Beth Watkins will be our Visual Artist and Rose Flowers will be our Henna Artist. Join us for our first gathering.




 
Sunday, September 13 from 6 - 8pm
Louisville TimeBank Potluck Dinner
Highlands Community Campus, 1228 E Breckinridge 40204

Potlucks are a big part of the TimeBank community. We come together to share food, fun and build community all at the same time. Members get to know each other, and people who are not members can learn a bit about timebanking from chatting with our members at the potluck. Many exchanges get set up at our potlucks too!

We always encourage members to bring guests, and all community members are welcome too! PLEASE BRING: A dish that serves 12 and your own table service to make clean up easier (if you forget, there is plenty to borrow from the kitchen).

The entrance and parking lot are behind the building off of Barrett Avenue.
 

  
 Tuesday, September 15 7 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club presents
Robert Chatham, of the Kentucky Solar Energy Society, offering an
Overview of Solar Energy in Kentucky and Across the Country
The Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street 40206
This presentation will cover topics including current solar legislation like net metering, federal and state tax incentives for home owners and businesses, energy financing alternatives for businesses, and local grass roots efforts to promote solar energy projects.

Robert Chatham is a professional engineer and owner of Chatham Energy Consulting, LLC (Louisville, KY) who has over 30 years' experience. He has a working knowledge of domestic and international power plants and electric distribution systems with specific experience in conducting due diligence on power purchase agreements, siting, licensing, engineering, procurement, construction and interconnect tie-in.  He has expertise in all phases of US solar development with a focus on getting projects financed and constructed by identifying project feasibility and developer/investor risks.

The Kentucky Solar Energy Society (KySES) is an association of solar professionals, advocates, and enthusiasts dedicated to advancing solar and other renewable energy, and energy efficiency and conservation, across Kentucky. KySES was founded in 2007 to promote the use of renewable energy resources, energy efficiency, and conservation in Kentucky through education, advocacy, networking, and demonstration of practical applications. KySES is an official chapter of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) founded in 1954.


Greater Louisville Sierra Club's programs are always free and open to the public.
Please join us.

 
  
 
Friday, September 18, 7 pm - Sunday, September 20, 1 pm
Art and the Landscape of the Soul
With Marilyn Stoner and Doug Van Houten
Harrods Creek Farm

In this program we will dive into the mysterious landscape of our individual psyches through creative expression and Soulcraft™ practices designed for the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.
Your soul is what is most true and enduring about you; it is your never-before-seen unique essence and holds the key to discovering the meaning and destiny at the heart of your own life.

Too often we discover that we aren't really present in our own lives and that our true voice has been left back in the shadows of our awareness. As we encounter soul we withdraw from contorting ourselves to living a life that is not our own. The more we settle into ourselves, the more we live our own passions, possibilities and unique callings - we tap into "the one life that waits beyond all the others."

This program is highly experiential and is designed for both those who are new to the journey and for those who are looking for an opportunity to dive deeper. Our practices will include: ceremony, praise, council, deep imagery, dreamwork, focused time alone in nature, grief, rhythm, and enchantment.

Fees, registration details, etc. are available on their Facebook page
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Saturday, September 19, 6pm to 9pm
Louisville Nature Center's Fall Fundraiser
HOOTS AND HOPS
3745 Illinois Avenue, 40213

Come and discover the Louisville Nature Center at night! Your admission includes a Slab Daddy barbecue buffet dinner with vegetarian options and a local brewery beer tasting and homebrew demonstrations. Additional beverages will be available for purchase. The Whiskey Bent Valley Boys will be there so you can enjoy live music all evening. There will be a Silent Auction with great items for you to bid on. NEW this year we will have Raptor Rehab here with a few feathered guests. It's going to be a real HOOT!

Reservations $45 for LNC members; $55, non-members. Payment due September 11.
Note: This is an adult only (21 and older) event that will happen rain or shine.

To make your reservations or for more information, call the Louisville Nature Center 502-458-1328, E-mail Jessica Wheatley, or purchase tickets online here!


 
Monday, September 21, 6pm
The Social Change Book Club presents 
SQ 21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence
by Cindy Wigglesworth
Heine Brothers, 119 Chenoweth Lane, 40207

Cindy Wigglesworth lays out the case for spiritual intelligence as an important and largely neglected dimension of becoming fully human. The book's central argument is that spiritual intelligence is one of the many valid streams of human intelligences (building off the work of Howard Gardner and his theory of multiple intelligences) and that capacities or skills within this stream of spiritual intelligence can be inventoried and developed.

Spiritual Intelligence is defined as "the ability to behave with wisdom and compassion while maintaining inner and outer peace regardless of the situation." The author makes the case that spiritual intelligence is analogous to such concepts as IQ and emotional intelligence (EQ). She defines the "21 skills" that comprise spiritual intelligence and offers steps to begin developing spiritual intelligence.

The Social Change Book Club is now in its ninth year of monthly meetings. It 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.

Hosted by Howard Mason




Tuesday September 22 at 7pm
Cultivating Connections presents our 10th Annual
Autumn Equinox Sacred Celebration
Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, 4936 Brownsboro Road 40222

Join us as we come together for an outdoor celebration of the season of harvest! 

Through story, reflection, song and ceremony we will celebrate personal and communal blessings and harvests of all kinds - from the seeds of an apple, to the stars in the skies and everything in between.  Along the way special focus will be placed on honoring the unique gifts we each bring to the table and the possibilities for feeding one another from this communal cornucopia.

Cultivating Connections' Sacred Celebrations are designed to offer an opportunity to strengthen our awareness of the sacredness of creation and to nurture our connections to each other and the natural world.

Sacred Celebrations are a cooperative effort by artists, spiritual leaders, and activists to share relevant and nurturing experiential celebrations with the broader community.  This autumn's program is created in collaboration with some of the awesome members of Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church and their Green Sanctuary Committee.
 
Offered without a fee though donations are very much appreciated!



Wednesday, September 23 @ noon
Compassionate Louisville Town Hall Meeting  
Institute for Sustainable Health, 300 East Market Street Suite 200, 40202

Experience compassion in action!  Each month we invite you on a pilgrimage to discover the city's often hidden compassion gems. Once at the site, we will share the mission of the host organization, celebrate the newest organizations to have adopted a compassion resolution, congratulate the newest Compassion Laureate, share how Compassionate Louisville is encouraging compassionate action, and provide a forum for you and others to share their compassionate actions.

Everyone is invited! Bring a Friend! No RSVP required.

Through intention and social innovation, Compassionate Louisville creates
and celebrates a community and world becoming more and more compassionate.

The mission of the Partnership for a Compassionate Louisville is to
champion and nurture the growth of compassion.


Thursday, September 24 from 5 - 6pm
One Family, One World: Standing with Francis
Martin Luther King Jr. Park located at Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets

This community gathering is offered in support of the call for climate justice issued by Pope Francis' to a Joint Session of Congress that morning.  Citizens from all around Louisville Metro are invited to join us to say "I am standing with Francis on climate justice".  Join leaders from both faith and secular communities as they offer their thoughts on Pope Francis' message of a shared value for all people in caring for our land, air and water.

This event is organized by Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light.  Learn more about their work mobilizing faith communities in response to global warming at their website.
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