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Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

On Saturday, April 21st Transition Sebastopol will once again be participating in the Apple Blossom Festival parade!
We invite you to come, support us and walk behind the banner of Transition Sebastopol.

The theme for this year is:
"Old McBlossom on a Farm"

Come dressed for the farm,
or as a farm animal, 
and join us to show our community 
your support for the Transition of our town.

We will line up at 9:30am!
The parade route begins at Analy High School and continues South on Main Street and ends at Calder Ave.
It starts at 10 am and ends at Noon.

It will be fun!

For more information call or email Angel Rodriguez @ 477-4564 / wegreenyou@yahoo.com.

After the parade join us at the Festival!

Festival Hours:
Saturday, April 21st 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday, April 22nd 10 am - 5 pm

Festival Location:
Ives Park (on Jewell Ave. and Willow St.)
and the Sebastopol Veterans Memorial Building, 282 High St.

General Admission for each day will be $10 for adults,
$5 for seniors and students 11-17 and FREE for age 10 and under.

On Saturday, April 21st Transition Sebastopol will once again be participating in the Apple Blossom Festival parade!
We invite you to come, support us and walk behind the banner of Transition Sebastopol.

The theme for this year is:
"Old McBlossom on a Farm"

Come dressed for the farm,
or as a farm animal, 
and join us to show our community 
your support for the Transition of our town.

We will line up at 9:30am!
The parade route begins at Analy High School and continues South on Main Street and ends at Calder Ave.
It starts at 10 am and ends at Noon.

It will be fun!

For more information call or email Angel Rodriguez @ 477-4564 / wegreenyou@yahoo.com.

After the parade join us at the Festival!

Festival Hours:
Saturday, April 21st 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday, April 22nd 10 am - 5 pm

Festival Location:
Ives Park (on Jewell Ave. and Willow St.)
and the Sebastopol Veterans Memorial Building, 282 High St.

General Admission for each day will be $10 for adults,
$5 for seniors and students 11-17 and FREE for age 10 and under.

Next group Mon 4/23 from 6:45 pm to 9pm

Location:
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Library Room
6780 Depot Street  in downtown Sebastopol (behind Goodwill)

Contribution: currently, there are some expenses with creating this event, so we are asking for a nominal donation of $10 or whatever feels right to you. No one turned away for lack of funds.

We are pleased to announce our Resilient Living Gift Circle, which is a new group for creating our alternative economy and real ongoing mutual support for us in building resilience.

The gift circle is the core of the evening, with the intention to include ways of creating a "Resilience Network" as we evolve.  This means that this gathering will be a place where we can offer what skills we have to share, what we are doing to make ourselves more healthy and happy, emergency preparedness support, gardening and food help, energy sourcing, music and art sharing, and who knows, maybe even barn raising!   

This next circle invites you to come early, from 6:45 to 7:15 for the "gift table" and food/treat sharing table.  The gift table is an opportunity to bring something of yours that is useful or of value that you no longer need. We give and receive from the table our items.  The food/treat sharing is for simple snacks or yummy treats and drinks.(Please no food that needs heating or any kind of kitchen support). This is optional of course.

We are aiming for a no-waste event!

• Bring your own napkins, plates, cutlery or extras for others if you bring something that needs it. We will have tea, hot water and some extra cups (but please bring yours as well). 

There is a new google group list for this group, where you can post needs and wants between gatherings as well.  You can sign up at:

http://groups.google.com/group/resilientliving

or for more info you can send an email to: resilientliving@googlegroups.com

At the circle we will go over the basic format and guidelines and then dive in! This will be a fully participatory evening, so consider what you might want to give and receive.

Your Hosts:   Julia Bystrova and Mary O'Connor

Come eat with us and watch the film American Meat featuring Joel Salatin.

Joining us for the conversation afterwards will be some folks from local meat CSA's Felton Acres Farms and Victorian Farmstead. Our discussions are lively and informative, and we hope you stay to lend your voice.

Pricing: Audience members attend by donation -- no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.  It's $10 for dinner, desert and wine are a bit extra. 

Where:  The Sebastopol Grange, 6000 Sebastopol Rd (Hwy 12)

When: dinner served at 6 pm, movie at 7:15 pm

About the Film:

American Meat is a solutions-oriented macroscopic documentary surveying the current state of the U.S. meat industry. Featuring, Joel Salatin, Chuck Wirtz, Fred Kirschenmann Steve Ells, Paul Willis, and tens of farmers across America, this film takes an even-handed look at animal husbandry.

The filmmakers explain how America arrived at our current industrial system, and show you the feedlots and confinement houses, not through hidden cameras but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there. From there, they introduce the current revolution developing in animal husbandry, led by the charismatic and passionate Joel Salatin.

Meet farmers from across the country who have changed their life to start grass-based farms, and they highlight every day tangible solutions that people can take, to change agriculture in America.

Read more about this movie 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?

This Month's theme: “The Dilemma of Our Times” (continued)

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

Reminder to all: the Elders Salon is regular and ongoing on the fourth Thursday of each month.

Location:

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

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

with Angel Rodriguez

Location: St. Stephens Parish Hall, 500 Robinson Road, Sebastopol ca 95472

About the Program:
The Model of Transition for Sustainable Living Course (MTSL) program consists of twelve monthly and seasonal modules.

Together they will provide an overall perspective on current thinking, as well as teach practical skills and appropriate technologies for everyday sustainable living. Participants may take single classes, or apply for acceptance into the yearlong program.

The mission of the yearlong program is to empower you to act; to transition you from wherever you are today, to a lifestyle that is highly sustainable, within the one-year time period of the course.

Therefore, the program consists of 20% theory and 80% practical application. This course is designed for making real changes in your lifestyle. It is filled with activities that will be implemented by you, with the support of its community and trainers!

The MTSL program will offer personal and home evaluations, private coaching, group fitness classes, and weekly teleconferences. You will receive a Workbook, a Reader, a Resource Directory, a Journal, and a series of Visual Aides. Moreover, the program works in concert with local participating businesses that provide additional community support and benefits.
The course, if completed, will:

• transform your personal habits
• lower your carbon emissions
• save you money on utilities
• reduce your demand on resources
• assist you in becoming more socially responsible
• help you to become a steward of the environment
• establish personal and community resilience

Transition Sebastopol Community Education and The Sustainable Living Institute invite you to attend a free short introductory presentation. The Model of Transition for Sustainable Living (MTSL) course consists of twelve modules. Together they will provide an overall perspective on current thinking and technology, as well as practical skills and integration of a sustainable lifestyle.

The mission of the program is to empower you to act; to transition you from wherever you are today, to a lifestyle that is highly sustainable, within the one-year time period of the course. Therefore, the program consists of 20% theory and 80% practical application. This is a hands-on course designed to facilitate change of habits and lifestyle.
The course, if completed, will:

• change your personal habits
• dramatically lower your carbon emissions
• save you money on utilities
• reduce your demand on resources
• assist you in becoming more socially responsible
• help you to become a steward of the environment.

For more information, please contact Angel Rodriguez: wegreenyou@yahoo.com or 707-477-4564
When: Saturday, April 28th, 2012
9-11am

Where: St Stephens Church Parish Hall
500 Robinson Road
Sebastopol, CA 95472

The Sustainable Living Institute and We Green You!

Where: St. Stephens Church, 500 Robinson Way, Sebastopol 

Schedule: 9:00-10:30: Work party in the Community Seed Garden

10:30: Class 

9:00- 1:00--Seed Exchange: Free seeds to share. (Seeds and resources are available the whole time.) 

Come by and check out our seeds or stay for the whole time!.

All classes and seeds are free to the community! 

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky

350 Home and Garden Challenge Sebastopol Community Event-
Transition Sebastopol with Daily Acts and the Ceres Community Project

Location:
Ceres Community Garden
1005 North Gravenstein Hwy ( behind O'Reilly Media)

Across Sonoma County May 12th & 13th, thousands will be uniting to grow food, save water, conserve energy and build community as a part the 350 Home & Garden Challenge. Join the West County community and install a habitat border at the Ceres garden .The Ceres Project serves nourishing meals to individuals with life threatening diseases while providing food, healing and wellness education to the larger community.

• Sheet Mulch Demo and Install
• Drip Irrigation Primer
• Basics of creating habitat in your garden
• Bring your extra seeds and plants for a community plant swap!

In vibrant togetherness, let's grow our relationships and skills for a resilient community!

For more 350 Home & Garden Challenge action ideas, educational resources, local business incentives and registration, please visit: dailyacts.org/350-challenge/
For more information about the day contact Sara at saramc@emeraldearth.org

We are pleased to announce our next resilience event, our group for creating alternative economic transactions and real ongoing mutual support for us in building resilience and community abundance! This is a fully participatory group.

The “gift circle” is the core of the evening, with the intention to include ways of creating a "Resilience Network" as we evolve.  This means that this regular meeting will be a place where we can offer what skills we have to share, what we are doing to make ourselves more healthy and happy, emergency preparedness support, gardening and food help, energy sourcing, music and art sharing, and heck, who knows, maybe even barn raising! This group will be what we make it.

This next circle invites you to come from 6:30 to 7:15 for the "gift table"; food/treat sharing table and socializing.  The gift table is a place to bring something of yours that is useful or of value that you no longer need. We give and receive from the table our items.  The food/treat sharing is for simple snacks or yummy treats and drinks. If you don’t want to participate in that, feel free to just come to the gift circle at 7:15

The Sebastopol Grange in partnership with Transition Sebastopol presents:
Skill Share and Trade Fair at The Grange

Trade Fair: 

All are welcome to bring their handmade items to sell or barter.
Set up between 6-6:30 pm. Items related to handmade paper are strongly encouraged!

$10-$20 donation requested for admission
For more information visit our website or email Rachel Adair Dawson at radiantearth@gmail.com

Papermaking:  Ancient Craft ~ Contemporary Wisdom ~ Playful Medium
with Meryl Juniper

All Levels….Children welcome 8 and under accompanied by an adult. In this exploration of paper-making from scratch we will delight in the many aspects of this ancient craft. We will cook and beat fibers, use cambium fibers form Asia and explore combinations of recycled fibers, ancient and contemporary sheet formations techniques, wet collage and express our creativity within this extensive tactile medium, plan to get wet and swim in the fibers of this experience.

Meryl Juniper is a visual and performing artist, community arts activist/advocate and the prime instigator of collective multi-media art experiences, dance theater projects and large scale ceramic installation pieces. Her 30 years of experience in arts education allows Meryl to delicately encourage the full spectrum of human expression to come forth, supporting the virtues and wisdoms that dwell within the expressive arts experience. She brings a core of experience from her trainings in the somatic arts, ethnic, modern and classical dance, Contact Improvisation, Motion Theater, vocal improvisation, text and a lifetime immersed in visual arts and earth based mediums such as ceramics and gardening. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute. Meryl teaches and performs locally as she promotes the safety of diving deep into the soul of creative expression.

This meeting is for those interested in collaborating and working with the Heart & Soul group of Transition Sebastopol.  We will start with potluck, then head into facilitated activity, then into brainstorming, visioning, and planning.

Friday afternoons at 3:30 at Coffee Catz, an informal gathering, usually outdoors, weather permitting. There has been a different assortment of folks at each one, usually 4 to 5 of us. We encourage you to try it some week.

Where: Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Avenue, Sebastopol

Drop in—arrival and departure times are loose.

First person there asks at the counter for the “Insurgent Elders” sign to put on the chosen table area so others can find you. You might check the far back room if the weather’s cold or wet and choose some shade if it’s warm outside. It’s possible no one would show up, but it hasn’t happened yet!

-- Alexandra & Lucky