Events

Transition Sebastopol and St Stephens Church cordially invite you to attend our first Annual Harvest Community Potluck on 10/10/10 to pledge our commitments to reducing our carbon footprint and to celebrate the harvest of our gardens and farms.

10/10/10 is an international day of action to reduce global warming organized by 350.org. We, along with people and communities all over the world will be participating in projects and activities that make a difference to this cause. We invite you to join in with friends that day to work on a project that makes a difference, and then come to our Local Food Potluck to enjoy the harvest of our abundant gardens.

Bring yourselves, your families and friends, a potluck item, and (if you have it) something to share from your summer garden. We will trade our homegrown goods, be entertained by music from live band The Role Models, share stories, press all the apples you bring, and laugh! So definitely bring all the apples you can, and we will press them into a Transition apple blend for you, and everyone to enjoy.

Remember to bring your own dishes. We look forward to seeing you there.

When:
Sunday, October 10, 2010
2-5 pm
2:30-4:30 pm: Live music played by the band "The Role Models": classic rock in the party music vein; Bon Jovi, Stones, Fu Fighters, Clash, etc.

Location:
St Stephens Church
500 Robinson Road
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(see map)

For additional information: Call Angel @ 477-4564

Larry Robinson will be the guest speaker to discuss Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) for Sonoma County. It will be informative on multiple levels, and we wantdiscover if the Energy group can help with this process.

This meeting links to one of the TS Energy Group's top priority goals and is the first step in partnering with others throughout the community to make changes on the energy front.

Location:
St Stephen's Church (classroom)
500 Robinson Way
Sebastopol

Join us for our last Movie Night of the year at the French Garden Restaurant for "What Would Jesus Buy?" This is a film by Reverend Billy & the Church of Life After Shopping, a satire on holiday consumerism, just as the season begins to gear up for it. Father Phil Roundtree of St Stephens Episcopal Church will be the guest speaker after the film for group discussion.

Wednesday, October 27
7:00 - 9:00pm
Please arrive on time!
Come early and enjoy dinner! 

Location:
The French Garden Restaurant
8050 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/frenchgardenmap

The movie:
Produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade, this docu-comedy follows our trials and triumphs across the country as we preach and sing to help holiday-abused Americans find a new Christmas without products.

The film takes the viewer into the homes of families as they max our their credit cards to live up to the Consumer Ideal of Christmas, while also telling personal stories from those who remember the holidays as a simpler, less commercial, and more joyful time. Interviews with labor rights experts, historians, and spiritual leaders reveal how the consumerization of the holiday season over time taught Americans they can only show love for their children by purchasing toys made by other children in overseas sweatshops.

This film has played throughout the US, bringing Fair Trade activists and Evangelical Christians together in darkened movie theaters, emerging with new tools to BUY LESS and GIVE MORE!

 Visit the movie website here.

A Wisdom Council Discussion Group of Transition Sebastopol 

Calling All Elders, Earth Elders, Wannabe Elders, Soon-to-become Elders, or Interested Baby Boomers on up! 


The Elder Salon is a nonhierarchical circle of peers. We’ll introduce the discussion with some thoughts from an elder voice or thought-provoking instigator to kick off our own discovery of what it is WE think and believe about the topic; what WE want and need now and in our future; what WE think should be the course of action and attitudes as we progress into and through our older years

WHY: There are a lot of new ideas about aging, staying youthful in body and spirit, and our role in society and local life. What have our generational contributions been and what is left undone? What are our mistakes and triumphs?

If we don’t want others to determine what becomes of us in very old age, we need to be proactive and begin making conscious, thoughtful choices about our future, how we want to live and be regarded. What role do elders want to play in the coming changes; what wisdom can we offer?

Reminder to all: the Elders Salon is regular and ongoing.

When:
Fourth Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m.

Location:
Sequoia Village Cohousing Common House
459 Sequoia Lane, Sebastopol —
(off Covert Lane, opposite Pacific Market (Fiesta) and west a little, before Pleasant Hill Rd.)
Please PARK ON THE STREET!

see more about this group here: http://transitionsebastopol.org/aboutelderssalon

West County Community Seed Bank meets monthly on the last Saturday of the month (except Nov. and Dec) from 9 -11:30 am to share seeds, plants, resources and local gardening and food information.

Our vision is to create a network of seed savers that build a repository of locally grown seed for Sonoma County gardeners. The seed is offered free to anyone who will use it, and the goal is to have it be an exchange where people take seed and they bring seed to share.  In order to build the network of seed savers, we offer classes in seed saving and other food gardening skills.

The Community Seed Garden is a new project of the WCCSB, located at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Sebastopol.  We are caretaking a 1/2 acre garden the main purpose of which is to grow seed for the seed bank.  The seed garden allows us to grow more seed than many of our home gardens allow.  The garden will be used as an educational tool to teach about the seed saving process.

Creating a local source of seed is an important part of creating a healthy and resilient local food system. Seed is the beginning of the food cycle.
 
Location:
St Stephen's Church
500 Robinson Way in Sebastopol

There is a garden work party from 9:00-10:30
Class from 10:30-11:30, and seeds available all the time. 

Bring plants and seeds, questions and experience to share.
For more information contact Sara at 829-5234

Also check out the seed bank blog at westcountyseedbank.blogspot.com

All are welcome, including children!