Cultivating Connections Recommends: Events for Metro Louisville - April 2016

Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities

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Monday the 4th * Earth Talks w/ Mark Steiner: Julia Butterfly Hill's Legacy of Luna
Wednesday the 6th * The Louisville Sustainability Forum with KFTC's Mary Love
Thursday the 7th * Integral Mondo Zen Talk with Doshin Michael Nelson Roshi
Sunday the 10th * Louisville Time Bank: The Louisville Share Fest and Pot Luck
Tuesday the 19th * Greater Louisville Sierra Club: Kentucky's Watershed Watch
Thursday the 21st * Public Invited to Join the We Walk for Compassion
Friday the 22nd * Watch Your Inbox for a Special Earth Day Announcement!
Saturday the 23rd * HuckabaLOU 2 Festival Comes to Douglass Loop Farmers Market
Saturday the 30th * White Environmentalists Acting for Racial Justice: The Sequel
Save the Date June 11 * Mighty Kindness 2016 Hoot! at Waterfront Park
June 13 - 16 * Making Media that Matters: PeaceCasters Summer Camp

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Monday, April 4, 6:30 pm
Earth Talks explores
The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill
The loft, 107 Crescent Avenue, 40206

For April we will explore the Julia Butterfly Hill's autobiographical The Legacy of Luna.  It's an inspiring story and a great read.  

On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousand-year-old redwood in Humboldt County, California.

Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she thought would be a two- to three-week-long "tree-sit." The action was intended to stop Pacific Lumber, a division of the Maxxam Corporation, from the environmentally destructive process of clear-cutting the ancient redwood and the trees around it. The area immediately next to Luna had already been stripped, and because, as many believed, nothing was left to hold the soil to the mountain, a huge part of the hill had slid into the town of Stafford, wiping out many homes.

Over the course of what turned into an historic civil action, Hill endured El Nino storms, helicopter harassment, a ten-day siege by company security guards, and the tremendous sorrow brought about by an old-growth forest's destruction. This story--written while she lived on a tiny platform eighteen stories off the ground--is one that only she can tell.


NBC Dateline Report from 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFRdy7o3DPE

Visit her website: http://www.juliabutterfly.com/


 
Wednesday, April 6, 12 - 1:30 pm
The Louisville Sustainability Forum
Note special location details below

Featured Presentation
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
with Mary Love

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a 34-year-old statewide grassroots organization with 10,000 members across Kentucky and 13 local chapters. Our membership is open to all people who are committed to equality, democracy and non-violent change.  We believe in the power of people, working together, to challenge injustices, right wrongs, and improve the quality of life for all Kentuckians.

KFTC is vision-based and solution-oriented. We use a set of core strategies, from leadership development to communications and voter empowerment, to impact a broad range of issues, including coal and water, new energy and transition, economic justice and voting rights.  We believe that we have the opportunity to build New Power in Kentucky - with a more authentic democracy, a just and sustainable economy, and a clean energy future. At the same time, we work to oppose injustice and end destructive practices

Mary Love has been a KFTC member since 2007. She has served as the Jefferson County Chapter's steering committee representative and is currently on the board of Kentucky Coalition, the 501c3 arm of KFTC. Mary is also a member of several of KFTC's statewide committees including the Land Reform Committee, New Energy and Transition Committee, and the Leadership Development Committee.

Shorter Presentations
Earthwell Energy Management, Inc.
Ken Slattery

New Earth Organics and Hydroponics
Nancy Roberts, Founder/CEO

NOTE: The April  meeting will be held in the Undercroft located down an outside stairway between the Passionist Sacred Heart Retreat entrance, and St. Agnes Church, 1924 Newburg Road.  Parking is available in the Sacred Heart Retreat parking lot, just south of the Passionist Retreat House, or in the St. Agnes parking lot, north of the church.

If someone needs elevator assistance, call Phyllis Fitzgerald at 533-4803 to make arrangements for parking and entrance at the rear of the building.

The Passionist Retreat House is on the #21 TARC line.
 
Now in its ninth 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.
 

   Thursday, April 7,  7 to 8:30pm
Integral Mondo Zen Talk with Doshin Michael Nelson Roshi
Earth & Spirit Center, Newburg Rd.

Doshin Michael Nelson Roshi is a poet, teacher and troublemaker - a Zen Master and founder of Integral Zen. Doshin worked directly with JunPo Dennis Kelly Roshi in developing Mondo Zen and is highly skilled in this transformative practice.

Mondo ZenTM is a dialectic exchange between Zen master and student - a direct transmission of pure awareness, of pure meditative mind. Mondo allows us to bring clarity, wisdom and deep caring into our lives. Integral Zen brings together the Integral theory of Ken Wilber, the shadow work of Carl Jung, and the power of Zen meditation practice. Doshin's broad perspective invites deep insight into ourselves, our conditioning and our interactions with others.

Fee is $15. To register call ESC at 502-452-2749 or go to www.earthandspiritcenter.org,
JohnShealyPhD@gmail.com or 502-727-2996

Doshin will also be leading a 3-Day non-residential Integral Mondo Zen Retreat
April 8 - 10, 2016
Space is limited to 20. To learn more, go to www.BeMindful.org/mondo0416.htm



Sunday, April 10
The Louisville Share Fest 2 - 5 pm
Followed by Louisville Time Bank Pot Luck 6 pm
Highland Community Campus, 1228 E Breckenridge Rd, 40204

The Louisville Share Fest is a collaboration between the Louisville TimeBank and Shareable. It is to celebrate sharing economy solutions and community organizations that are supportive of economic resiliency in Louisville. Especially encouraged to apply are cooperative businesses and non profits, co-share work or home space collectives,  CSA farms, and economic and food justice organizations as well as less structured groups who share -- meaning you don't need to be a big formal organization to be here.

Sign up to volunteer at the event, have a table for an organization
or ask us a question about the Share Fest.

 Louisville TimeBank Members will earn Time Credits for their participation in the Share Fest!

Set up is 12:30 PM, with the Fest starting at 2 pm, winding down at 5:30, with our potluck afterwards. All participants in the Share Fest are invited to stay at our potluck, where the TimeBank will make sure there is dinner for you as thanks for participating.

There is no fee to either attend or table at the Share Fest

 
Sunday, April 10, 6 - 8pm
Louisville Time Bank 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 parking lot is behind the building, with the entrance to the parking off of Barrett Avenue. The entrance to the building is also in the back of the building.
 


  
  Tuesday, April 19, 7 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club presents
Joann Palmer with Kentucky's Watershed Watch
Clifton Center,  2117 Payne Street, 40206

Please join us as we welcome Joann Palmer, Director of Kentucky's Watershed Watch program. Watershed Watch is a statewide citizen-monitoring effort that trains volunteers on how to collect samples from the waterways of Kentucky. The program works to improve and protect water quality by raising community awareness and by supporting the implementation of the goals of the Clean Water Act and other water quality initiatives. Since 1997, Watershed Watch in Kentucky has trained nearly 4,000 volunteers and currently has approximately 2,000 volunteers that continue to sample across the state. Sign-ups for Watershed Watch training will be available during the program.
 
Joann Palmer has been a trainer and board member for Watershed Watch since 2000 and has worked for Kentucky Division of Water since 2007.

Please plan to attend this important meeting to learn how you can become a valuable citizen water-quality monitor.

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


  
Thursday, April 21 at12:45 pm
We Walk for Compassion
Starting at The Kentucky Center for the Arts, 501 W Main St, 40202

This year We Day and the mayor's Give-A-Day will launch the We Walk for Compassion, the closing activity of WE DAY KY 2016.

Students and community members who choose to join them will exit the Kentucky Center to walk a .75 mile route through downtown Louisville. This event is being organized and managed by The Mayor's Give A Day /We Day Youth Team of 22 student leaders from public, parochial and independent schools across Jefferson County.

Participants will be encouraged to hold signs highlighting their favorite causes. We will invite adults throughout Louisville to join the walk to show their compassion and support for Give-a-Day week, with a goal of ~5000 total participants.



Friday, April 22
Watch Your Inbox for a Special Earth Day Announcement!

On Earth Day 2016 Cultivating Connections and some awesome community partners will be announcing an exciting event coming up this summer.

Look for an email and/or watch our Facebook page for the big news!
  
Saturday, April 23rd 10 am - 2 pm 
HuckabaLOU 2 
Douglass Loop Farmers Market, 2005 Douglass Blvd, 40205

HuckabaLOU is a music festival promoting environmental justice. We will have multiple speakers, bands/musicians, and booths from area environmental organizations all at the Douglass Loop Farmers Market!

Performers: 
Jeri Katherine Howell 
Troubadours of Divine Bliss 
The Barefoot Best Friends 
Small Time Napoleon 
Whiskey Ginger

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Saturday, April 30,1 - 4:30 pm 
White Environmentalists Acting for Racial Justice: The Sequel 
A Follow-up LSURJ/350Louisville Workshop 
St. William Catholic Church, 1226 West Oak St. 40210

"To Change Everything We Need Everyone." Embody this powerful climate change slogan by participating in this second training for white environmentalists. It is open to interested white persons, whether you attended the first training or not. Please RSVP.
 
The training will be conducted by "Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice" (LSURJ). The goal is to strengthen the Louisville environmental community's work on climate change and other earth-care issues through racial justice action and accountable relationship-building with communities of color. The format will be interactive and workshop-like.

Let's face it: many of us who work on environmental issues are privileged white people. But much of the significant work on these issues has been led by people-of-color organizations and communities that are most effected by environmental injustice. Since last October's Peoples Climate March, there have been some small steps toward breaking down our racial barriers. This workshop is part of that ongoing work.
 
LSURJ is part of the group "Showing Up for Racial Justice" (SURJ). "SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing White people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves White people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability."

*Note that the Derby Festival Mini-Marathon is the morning of Apr. 30th. 
Please consider taking the expressway to 9th St., going south to Oak St. ramp then west to St. William at 12th and Oak to avoid any late street closures in Old Louisville.


 

 
Saturday, June 11, from 12 to 7pm
Mighty Kindness is pleased to announce the 2016 Hoot!
at the Brown-Forman Amphitheater & Lawn at Waterfront Park

 
 

 
Save the Date
Making Media that Matters
PeaceCasters Summer Camp
Where Peacemaking and Video-making Meet

June 13-16, 9 am - 4:00 pm
at Peace Ed located in Central Church, 318 West Kentucky Street, 40203

Know a 12 - 17 year old who might be interested
in a good summer camp experience?

Our PeaceCasters camps are divided between exploring and deepening the basic skills around affirmation, communication and cooperation that are core to Peace Ed's work and the fundamental skills of digital video-making.  During  this four-day camp we will create short videos about youth and peacemakers in our community who are helping to create a better world.

The PeaceCasters camp is designed to build skills while also providing a fun experience.  Activities will include plenty of cooperative games and visits from some special guests such as youth activists and local experts from the world of videography and filmmaking.

Participants must be ready and willing to interact in small groups.
Fee is $50. Some scholarships are available.

Online registration and a downloadable form will be available soon at
www.peaceeducationprogram.org.

Requests for additional information and general questions can be directed to mark@PeaceEducationProgram.org.

 
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