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Cultivating Connections Recommends: Events for Metro Louisville - December 2017
Affirming Connections between Planet, People, Power and Possibilities
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Wednesday, December 6, 12pm
Louisville Sustainability Forum
Passionist Sacred Heart Retreat, Undercroft, 1924 Newburg Road, 40205
Directions to the Undercroft
The 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.
Featured Presentation:
Falls of the Ohio State Park
Paul Olliges, longtime volunteer at the park
Located on the banks of the Ohio River in Clarksville, Indiana at I-65, exit 0, is the Falls of the Ohio State Park. The 390-million-year-old fossil beds are among the largest, naturally exposed, Devonian fossil beds in the world.
The park features an Interpretive Center overlooking the fossil beds containing an exhibit gallery and video presentation. The center functions as a museum with exhibits that concentrate on the natural history related to findings in the nearby fossil beds as well as the human history of the Louisville area, covering pre-settlement, early settlement, and Louisville and southern Indiana history all the way up through the 20th century.
The Falls was originally a series of rapids allowing the Ohio River to drop 26 feet over a distance of two and a half miles. This was the only navigational hazard over the 981 mile-length river formed by rock outcrops. The Falls was the site where Lewis & Clark met for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Today much of the original falls have been flooded behind the McAlpine dam. August through mid November typically provides the best accessibility to the 220 acres of fossil beds, as the river is at its lowest level during this period.
Shorter Presentations
Sustainability and Communal Responsibility in Jewish Thought
Michael Fraade, Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education Director, Louisville Jewish Community Center
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Sustainability Program
Carolyn Cromer, Director of Ecological Sustainability, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Now in its eleventh 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.
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Thursday, December 7, 6 - 8pm
Peace Ed Shopping Night at Just Creations
2722 Frankfort Avenue, 40206
Come and:
- Visit with our board and staff
- Eat homemade desserts and drink apple cider
- Celebrate our victories over violence
- Purchase gifts that gives three times:
1) To your loved one
2) To the artisan who made the product
3) To the Peace Education Program
Peace Education Program strengthens communities and schools by training youth, young adults and adults to build and sustain positive relationships. We do this by providing learning experiences to reduce violence, enhance personal integrity and foster mutual respect.
Peace Ed has pioneered efforts in Louisville to increase the practice of nonviolent conflict resolution and reduce violence in our community. Over our 35 years we have evolved and adapted to the changing landscape and needs of our neighborhoods and schools, while remaining focused on our vision that every young person in Louisville has the skills, safety and support to solve their conflicts nonviolently.
Just Creations is a not-for-profit fair trade craft store that provides marketing assistance to low-income craftspeople throughout the developing world. The sale of these products helps to provide a fair wage for the artisans and enables them to pay for food, education, health care, and housing.
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Friday December 8 and Friday December 15, 6 - 9 pm
The Gifts of Attention with Wren Smith
My Old Kentucky Home, 501 E Stephen Foster Avenue, Bardstown, 40005
Writer, Simone Weil, once said that absolute attention is prayer.
Wren Smith added that it's also magic.
Join Bernheim's own Interpretive Programs Manager, Wren Smith at My Old Kentucky Home for "The Gifts of Attention," where she will bring her diminutive faerie creations for an exploration into the gifts that unfold when we are attentive to the natural world. During this special evening, Wren will lead a discussion on the gifts and the art of attentiveness and a magical miniature faerie dance.
Admission to "The Gifts of Attention" is FREE of charge and will fill on a first come first served basis with several showings each day (December 8 and December 15) between 6 - 9 p.m. Event takes place in the Magnolia Room of Matt's Cabin across from the Visitors Center. Access is available from the main parking lot.
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Sunday December 10, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Louisville TimeBank Community 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.
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Monday, December 11, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth Holiday Party
First Unitarian Church, 809 S Fourth St, 40203
Please join the Jefferson County Chapter of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth for a holiday party! Instead of our December chapter meeting, we'll gather our members, allies, friends, and family for a potluck, photos with Santa, and lots of holiday cheer.
Please RSVP and sign up to bring a dish to share, if you are able.
First Unitarian is wheelchair accessible, and the party is family friendly.
We hope to see and celebrate with you!
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Tuesday, December 19, 6 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club's
Winter Solstice Celebration
Locust Grove Visitor Center, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, KY
Join the Greater Louisville Sierra Club for our traditional Winter Solstice Celebration potluck event! This casual dinner features engaging fellowship, as we celebrate the successes of 2017, wrap up a challenging and productive year, and welcome special guests. Drinks and main dishes (meat and vegetarian) are provided. For directions see
www.locust-grove.org
Stay tuned for our new 2018 monthly meeting venue!
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Thursday, December 21 and Friday, December 22, 10 am - 3 pm
Making Social Media That Matters Workshop for Teens
Peace Ed 318 West Kentucky Street, 40203
This two-day PeaceCasters workshop is for people age 12-17 who want to use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and all social media to create positive change and affect their world (and maybe make some memes while they're at it).
Our focus will be on building communication skills and best practices for a social media lifestyle. It will be designed and presented by other young people and is all 100% hands-on.
Session topics will include:
* Social Media Success Stories
* Going Viral - Building Followings
* Crafting Messages With Meaning
* Exploring Popular Platforms
* Creating Graphics That "Pop"
Participants must be ready and willing to interact in small groups. The $25 fee covers lunch and snacks. Some scholarships are available. Online registration and a downloadable form are available on our
website.
Requests for additional information and general questions can be directed to [email protected]
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Save the Date for the
2018 Louisville Earth Walk
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Iroquois Park
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New Media Project: FORward Radio is ON THE AIR!
Make Grassroots Radio With Us!
On April 9th, 2017 a new day dawned on Louisville's media landscape when the team behind FORward Radio, switched on our transmitter atop the Heyburn Building in downtown Louisville and WFMP-LP 106.5fm went ON THE AIR! Tune in for progressive, grassroots radio 24/7!
The people have taken control of the airwaves and now all we need is YOU to be a part of our community radio station. Do you have an issue, organization, or community you're passionate enough about to produce a weekly show on? We'll connect you with the tools & training needed to become a citizen journalist & radio producer. Financial donations are also welcome to keep us on the air. Learn how to get involved and pitch us a program that you would like to help create! forwardradio.org
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Ecozoic Reader
The fourth issue of The Ecozoic: Reflections on Life in an Ecological-Cultural Age, on "Thomas Berry's Work: Development, Difference, Importance, Applications," is now available. It contains twenty-five papers from a May 2014 academic colloquium held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is 497 pages long.
This issue contains multiple, critical perspectives onThomas Berry's thought.
* Thomas Keevey gives Berry's background in Catholic teaching and the Passionist religious order
* Chris Chapple covers Berry's studies of world religions prior to his ecological turn
* Sheri Ritchlin makes sense of those horizontal lines in the I Ching en route to revealing the relationship of the human to the cosmos in Berry and Confucius
* Matthew Eaton takes on the formidable task of uncovering the "un-thought" of aspects of Berry in Merleau Ponty's phenomenology
* Michael Ross finds guidance for sexual ethics in Berry's ecstasy of the Earth
* Catherine Wright removes the pink-colored glasses and discusses how Berry approaches human suffering
* Anne Marie Dalton and David Schenck take on the rhetoric of Berry: Dalton focuses on "ecopoesis" and Schenck on "wisdom-teaching" in an ancient sense
* Mike Bell and Jim Schenk go "down in the trenches": Bell covers his work with the Inuit in Canada and Schenk his work with urbanite eco-villagers in Cincinnati, Ohio
* Drew Dellinger relates Martin Luther King, Jr., and Berry, and establishes that Berry was a social justice activist after all
* Herman Greene hammers away at the philosophical foundations of Berry's work and reminds us that in Berry's formulation of the mission of our times, "critical thinking" comes before story and shared dream experience
* Heather Eaton presents the intellectual background of Berry and the meaning of the new story
* Dennis O'Hara expands on Berry's ideas on Earth as the primary healer, and Renée Eli writes on the importance of Berry's work to modern medicine
* Nancy Hardy, Nelson Stover, and Malcolm Kenton account for what Berry has taught them about personal growth and social change
* Peggy Whalen-Levitt gives the nearly definitive account of the "communion of subjects"
* Abigail Lofte relates Christian resurrection to Berry's work, John Sullivan finds in Berry a communal spirituality, and Shirley Pevarnik envisions the First Earth Church
* Eve Olive discusses the relationship of Rudolph Steiner and Berry
* Jim Peacock gives his experience of teaching Berry to college students
* Reference is made to works by Allysyn Kiplinger and Tim Toben presented at the Colloquium, which were previously published by CES.
You may purchase 1-3 copies of this issue for $25.00 US, each, plus shipping ($3.50 in the US). For orders of 4 or more - free shipping within the US; and, for other countries - shipping reduced by the amount of "book-rate US shipping."
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