Submitted by moreinterestingstuff on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 2:42pm.
Sep 20 2007 - 10:00am
Sep 24 2007 - 6:00pm
The Design for a Loving Future Conference 2007 runs Sept 20-24th and Oct 4th -7th.
It is a permaculture, peak oil, healthcare design and multicultural community symposium, a conference, that offers experienced instructors and workshops from all over the world and also offers participants hands-on instruction in an enjoyable learning environment.
No One Will Be Turned Away For Lack of Funds. This means, if you don't desire to pay an admission fee (for any reason), this event is free for you. We just encourage you to join us at this event! :)
LINK strives to create a multicultural, community inclusive event and welcome everyone.
LINK runs from September 20-24 and October 4th-7.
To print out the PDF schedule for the September 2007 Symposium please visit our website.
To print out the document version of the schedule for the September 2007 Symposium please visit our website.
We look forward to seeing you!
For the benefits of those who are using slower computers and/or have trouble downloading pdf or documents, we have included a few of the many workshops of the LINK Symposium schedule below.
Alternate LINK Symposium Activities for September 21, 22 and 23rd, 2007.
LINK is part of the Film festival network.
Between 10am-4pm, as an alternate option to LINK workshops, all pre-registered LINK Symposium participants will each receive a key to SURGE film festival library giving them the option of watching any one of over 50 new and original , non-corporate, independent films submitted to the SURGE 2007 Film Festival! SURGE is The Third Annual, International, Social Uprising, Resistance and Grassroots Encouragement (S.U.R.G.E.) Film Festival, Conference and Film Festival Network which took place in May 2007. Several of the films were world premiers!
To see the complete selection of SURGE films that you have to choose from please visit: www.WeSurge.org
September 20th, 2007, 10am-4pm
We look forward to seeing you on the first day of the 2007 LINK Symposium! The first day of the conference, including breakfast and lunch will be held at the Millersylvania State Park Environmental Learning Center (ELC). The conference will transport pre-registered conference attendants from the ELC to their conference housing directly after dinner. The ELC includes a dining hall/ kitchen, restrooms/ showers, one amphitheater, one private swim area, eight canoes, two rowboats, three ball fields, plus a volleyball and a horseshoe court. The 2007 LINK Symposium Indigenous “Welcome” Ceremony, introductory presentations and initial workshops will be taught here and there will be free time to enjoy the hiking trails and canoes, rowboats, ball fields, and the volleyball and a horseshoe court. Millersylvania State Park is an 842-acre camping park with 3,300 feet of freshwater shoreline on Deep Lake.
The park, filled with trails, is abundant in old-growth cedar and fir trees.
Millersylvania State Park is located at 12245 Tilly Road South, Olympia, WA, 98512.
Secret Café: Community Dinner at the Love Shack Facilitator: The Love Shack
Location: 225 Milroy Street, Olympia, WA Carolin is going to perform and possibly Grizzle Grazzle and Paris McKlusky September 20tht, 2007, 6pm-8pm
Thanks to the kind sponsorship of the Love Shack, pre-registration with the LINK Symposium (Registration Level 1 and Level 2) comes with pre-paid tickets to dinner at the Love Shack Secret cafe. The Love Shack is Olympia’ amazing residential-community permaculture project and features environmentally friendly toilet system, rainwater catcher, and several gardens install by GRuB (see below). Please keep in mind that you can also order meals at the Secret Cafe, without registering for the LINK Symposium. Everyone is welcome for this special community dinner. J
Friday, September 21st and Saturday, September 22nd LINK Symposium Schedule.
September 21st, 2007, 10:00am-11:30am –
Community Tour And Interactive Art Workshop
Facilitator: Chriset Palenshus Location: 225 Milroy Street, Olympia, WA
Free Exhibition Tables for everyone September 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 2007.
From 10am on Friday, September 21st through 4pm on Saturday, September 23rd, everyone is welcome to place flyers, booklets and more material for their groups on any of the exhibition tables located in Comm. 2 of 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501.
We encourage you to network!
In order to maintain the educational independence of the LINK Symposium we do not make these exhibition tables available to multinational corporations or politician-affiliated government agencies. Thank you for your understanding.
Chriset Palenshus works at the Center for Community-Based Learning and Action at The Evergreen State College. There she coordinates action days where students and community members partner with local organizations to improve Olympia. They have worked with GRuB to build a community garden, helped move Camp Quixote to their new location, helped to organize the Free Store and much more. She and her 8 year old son Gabriel spent the last few years traveling, and living around the world. Some of the things Chriset has done include working for peace, justice, and sustainability. She has performed in the Vagina Monologues, been a delegate to a multi-national conference regarding the FTAA and worked with the Women of Color Coalition to co-ordinate networking at the International SURGE Film Festival and Conference. She legalized skateboarding on CWU campus and has been a DJ at the university radio station and helped to build straw bale homes. She has also recently helped to co-ordinate the Community Action Day at the Fern Haven Center. The photograph at left is Chriset (far left) at Fern Haven with friends and Community Action Day participants. The action day included projects such as organic gardening, building a composting toilet, clearing trails, landscaping, woodcutting and more. The photo at right is Chriset in a protest. Chriset was recently in an article in The Olympian and Free Speech TV regarding her peace activism in the resistance to the militarization of the Olympia Port. To read that article please www.blueskylink.org. She hopes that she can make the world a better place.
September 21st, 2007, 1pm-2:30pm
Garden Raised Bounty Interactive Workshop and Tour Facilitator: Justin Umholtz
Location: The exact location of this workshops is included in your LINK resource binder.
LINK attendants will also have an opportunity to enjoy the GRuB experience! GRuB is an acronym for Garden Raised Bounty. GRuB is a non-profit organization dedicated to nourishing strong communities by empowering people to grow good food. Conference participants will experience a tour, a little hands-on work and an entirely rewarding experience!
GRuB grows inspired, self-confident, and community-minded youth through educational and employment opportunities in their Cultivating Youth program. GRuB also has a Kitchen Garden Project that helps low-income families to help themselves by building raised-bed gardens at their homes, and they improve quality of life and nutrition of low-income seniors through therapeutic garden programs. Since 1993, the Kitchen Garden Project (KGP) has given over 1,300 gardens to low/no-income families in the Pacific Northwest! KGP builds free vegetable gardens for low-income families, seniors, disabled people, and single parents. KGP garden recipients receive 3 raised beds, a trellis, fertile soil, seeds, starts, a gardening guide, and the opportunity to work with a garden mentor. The gardens are built with the help of the KGP coordinator, KGP assistant, interns, the GRuB Youth Crew, and many community volunteers. The gardens can produce up to $650 of fresh organic produce each growing season! GRuB farm youth learn about the benefits of organic and sustainable agriculture through hands-on work growing organic produce.
To visit the GRuB website please click here.
All Good Visions Start with a Dream, Followed through with Dogged Perseverance and Dedicated Hard Work September 21st, 2007, 4pm-5:30pm
Facilitator: Mike Pelly Location: Olympia Freeschool, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501
To read the full workshop description and to hear Mike Pelly online in a National Public Radio interview please our website at www.blueskylink.org and click on ‘Presenters, Pg 1 of 2’.
Mike Pelly, the president of Olympia Green Fuels, has been actively involved in the biodiesel field since 1995 and in the development of various forms of renewable energies for over 20 years. His work in biodiesel includes writing a recipe on how-to make biodiesel that was posted at the website www.journeytoforever.org since Spring of 2000 and has been read by millions. It is now translated in 4 languages and has been the springboard for learning to produce biodiesel for many people around the world. At left is a photograph of Mike Pelly repairing a filtration problem on his biodiesel processor. At right is the 'Pelly Model A5' Biodiesel Processor. He has been featured in many radio interviews including the National Public Radio interview ad=nd the Frugal Yankee, both found on our website at www.blueskylink.org
Mike Pelly and Olympia Green Fuels have become a vital part of advancing biodiesel use in the USA Pacific Northwest, and beyond. Olympia Green Fuels manufactures, tests, and sells high-quality, industrial grade modular skid-mounted biodiesel processors for those wishing to produce a clean burning, safe, and domestic fuel for a variety of uses. Mike Pelly also provides the technical training needed to operate the processor, and training needed to start a successful restaurant grease collection route. Mike's processors and training has enabled people worldwide to produce their own biodiesel fuel, to be used as they see fit, whether it be for fueling their own fleet of vehicles or equipment, for heating needs, or for selling. The 'Pelly Model A' Series Biodiesel Processor continues to provide years of efficient biodiesel production. The 'Pelly Model A5' Biodiesel Processor will process 1000 gallons of vegetable oil into biodiesel per week (over 50,000 gallons annually). Expansion capabilities with the system that Mike Pelly created will allow the processing of 6,000 gallons of oil into biodiesel per week (over 300,000 gallons annually). Most fresh oils will yield at over 95%, and low free fatty acid used fryer oils will produce yields of 80% to over 90%.
Workshop Title: All Good Visions Start with a Dream, Followed through with Dogged Perseverance and Dedicated Hard Work
With the onset of rising fuel prices due to Peak Oil, Rapid environmental degradation worldwide caused by Global Warming, and the untold deaths, pain and suffering caused by U.S. foreign policies relying on fighting wars to assure continued access to fossil oil.
Reclaiming Grassroots Artswalks
September 22nd, 2007, 10am-11am
Facilitator: Anna, Cameron, Carolyn, Evan Schopke and other members of the Raccoon Collective. Location: 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501. The Westside Artswalk, organizd by the Raccoon Collective, became more popular than anyone could have imagined. Within 3 months the number of homes, community organizations and schools that were involved in this monthly event nearly tripled and the Artswalk soon spread to also create an Eastside Artswalk as well!
The radical road trip is a journey and an adventure with a bunch of friends. We are going to travel around the country on a road trip starting August 14th, 2008 to raise consciousness for the need to create a better world! A DIY documentary will be placed online for free which will share the road trip with others worldwide This workshop will discuss the road trip plans and discuss other road trips which encourage multicultural alliances.
September 22nd, 2007, 12:30pm- 1:45pm-Lunch
The Need for Local Food Security in Our Community and the Gleaners Winter Farm Project
September 22nd, 2007, 2:00pm-3:oo pm
Facilitator: Chris.
Location: 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501
Free Exhibition Tables for everyone September 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 2007.
This talk will detail the Gleaners Winter Farm Project which aims to help bring more produce to table of those in need during the winter months of scarcity. It will attempt to fit into the larger theme of local food security which, in the future, is likely to become increasingly necessary in the Puget Sound bioregion. Please come ready to share with the group about what local resources exist that could involve more collaborating individuals. This does not have to be just food related resources, it can be anything that deserves being plugged. Working together, a community as a whole becomes greater than any one individual. It will take us all to solve our greatest problems.
The Mutualist Project: Creating the Multilingual Underground Railroad to Make Activism and Networking Fun Again!
September 22ndt, 2007, 4:30--6:oopm
Facilitator: T with the Mutualist Project Location: Olympia, Freeschool, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501.
This presentation was first given at Z Media Institute with Noam Chomsky in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in June 2007. It will discuss creating a progressive digital infrastructure that will create::
• mutual-aid health care and dental care • a Creative Common Search engines so that our non-copyrighted progressive media can be distributed worldwide, even when we are sleeping. • A Mutual-Aid network that increases mutual aid networking in all aspects of life. • A revolutionary, online method of distributing journalism, photos, film, art, music and so much more!
T is an African-American organizer of several conferences worldwide and gives multicultural activist presentations at many other conferences around the world. He is a peace activist who majored in Philosophy and minored in women's studies at Drexel University. He has traveled to every state in the USA at least twice and has gained an education in multiracial alliances through face-to-face experience and hands-on participation in marginalized and minority communities. He has visited and volunteered in communities such as We Invite You in Olympia, Washington, the Lamont Street Collective in Washington DC and many more activist communities and cohousing groups. He has been a member of the Temple University Adolescent Initiative organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an organization that has worked with at-risk children in foster care and group homes for over 15 years.
T has been a member of the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles, California; a world renowned activist organization recognized for their multilingual, multiracial work with branches in the USA and Canada. He has been a member of the visioning committee of Sisters of the Road, which has served Homeless residents throughout Portland, Oregon from within the Old Chinatown district of Portland since 1979. He has been a member of the Homeless Outreach services group in Maui and many more multiracial outreach groups. He has worked with Tent Cities throughout the USA, including Dignity Village in Portland, Oregon and Camp Quixote in Olympia, Washington. He is currently a member of A Better World is Within Reach Peace Network, the Surge International Film Festival and Conference organizers and an organizer for the annual A World Beyond Capitalism Conference, the international multiracial alliance-building peace conference. He has helped to create over six full-length documentaries including the music video documentary, 'The Love, The Rhythm, The Unstoppable Quest for Social Justice' which has been aired on cable networks and seen by thousands of people around the world. The photograph at the left is of T (in the middle with the peace sign) with the Alternative Winter Break group from Vanderbilt College where he taught an Interactive audio/visual workshop on Media Empowerment.
Please visit our website at www.blueskylink.org and click on ‘Presenters, Pg 1 of 2’ to learn more.
Special Performance by Jenny Jenkins
September 22ndt, 2007, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Musician: Jenny Jenkins Location: Olympia, Freeschool, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501
Please visit our website at www.blueskylink.org and click on ‘Presenters, Pg 2 of 2’ to visit her website and hear three of her fantastic songs ‘Darkness Like Sunshine,’ “Sometimes I Sleep With Evil’ and ‘Arrow.’
Jenny Jenkins plays the ukulele and sings incredibly intense and powerful funny, sad, dirty songs. Her songs are amazing lyrics combined with harmony about love, sex, death and funny stuff that happens and the distances between people. She was in bands for years and now she is solo so you can find her CD's at bicyclerecords. She just got back from an adventurous tour with The Wellbeings and Yes, Please. Jenny Jenkins will perform for the LINK symposium after returning from the Bicycle Records Super-tour 2007! Her new CD, Oventoucher, should come out in November, and she is planning a tour for that too! She has been described as a phenomenal musician with “a keen wit and an infectious laughter that can turn a room full of hipsters into giggling schoolchildren, and a room full of schoolchildren into little particles of joy. Her previous projects include, Super Duo, Encyclopedia of Fun, and "Love is Stupid" a musical staring Mirah in Olympia circa 1999 that has to be seen to be believed. If this makes jenny sound like a super hero, well, perhaps that is because she is.”
Multicultural Community Integration and Music!
September 22nd, 2007, 8:00pm
Musicians: Red & Ruby Location: Traditions Café and World Folk Art, 300 5th Avenue SW, Olympia, WA 985011
Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art, a sponsor of the LINK Symposium and LINK Film Festival, will present Local musicians Vince Brown and LaVon Hardison have teamed to bring us jazz and swing, humor and fine hats. Vince on guitar and banjo, LaVon on vocals are an entertaining new duo gaining many fans. A CD release party!
Important: Thanks to the kind sponsorship of Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art, pre-registration with the LINK Symposium (Registration Level 1 and Level 2) comes with pre-paid tickets to the Red & Ruby evening performances which are available on a limited seating basis! Tickets are necessary for the below events. Please keep in mind that you can also purchase tickets, where necessary, at Traditions without registering for LINK.
When you hear great performers, you know it right away. They balance skill with humility, sadness with levity, and performance with listening. Red & Ruby do all that and more, as they swing through a curious playlist of songs from the 1920s to modern day. They’ve got so much chemistry that Monsanto pales in comparison.
Their engaging partnership didn’t just happen overnight. Both have extensive musical experience that supports their playful performances. Vince has been performing and teaching acoustic music on guitar & banjo in a variety of styles for over 30 years. He has played at venues and festivals around the world. Recent performance projects include western swing style take-off guitar with Red Brown & the Tune Stranglers; guitar & tenor banjo with the gypsy swing band Hot Club Sandwich; and regular performances on guitar and 5-string banjo. He also teaches guitar performance and theory. LaVon’s background includes musical theater, including the Stardust holiday musical by Olympia’s Harlequin Productions; various roles with Boston Lyric Opera; and work with a variety of regional musicians. She has contributed vocals to albums by Hot Club Sandwich and Obrador, and recently (after much urging) released her first solo album, entitled Choices. She’s also a vocal coach and church choir director. While LaVon’s clearly articulated lyrics unravel the songs’ stories, emotion and the melody are an even bigger part of her vocal storytelling, which includes a unique scatting style. “I think people get caught up with words, which get to the intellect. Music can get straight to your being. Words tend to have barriers, but music has an ability to break down these barriers. Music doesn’t have to jump through so many hoops on its way to the heart.” The humor and angst of the human condition are painted with unerring clarity in the music of Red & Ruby -- and they share the fun with anyone willing to come along for the ride.
B.I.N.N. 2007: Bias In Northwest News and Media Conference. Olympia, Washington
Because We’ve BEEN Ignored By Corporate and Progressive Media For Far Too Long.
As minorities, women fighting patriarchy, marginalized people, activists and progressive members of the community, we already realize that corporate media censors news about marginalized people. But what exactly do we do when progressive newspapers, magazines and media groups also ignore marginalized people? A Free event. http://www.dsame.com/binn.html
A World Beyond Capitalism Conference. The Third Annual International Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference
A World Beyond Capitalism 2007 invites activists to come to Seattle in October 2007 and engage in a weekend of educational discussion and visionary dialogue. Registration is free of charge,
Articipation: A Collaborative Imaginative Story & Utopia Creation. Sunday, September 23rdt, 2007, 10:00am-12:00pm Facilitator: Michael Gaiuranos Location: Olympia, Freeschool, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501
Michael Gaiuranos will be conducting a special seminar titled: Articipation: A Collaborative Imaginative workshop designed to spark creativity and imagination as part of the LINK Symposium. Beginning with a staged reading of “How Do We Live?” this 10-minute play will then become the prompt and response point for the participants’ discussion and own creativity. Participants will collaborate with one another, first to create a mode of consensus and creativity, and will then have the opportunity to write, stage, and perform (or propose performers for) their brand-new, hot out of the box creative production. Not only will this be fun and low-stress, but it also represents a genuinely revolutionary moment in art, and theater in particular—to bring to life an artistic vision, socially and collaboratively created, that a mere hour before didn’t even exist as a notion in society. This is a chance to evoke utopia here and now; to make it visible and real.
Michael Gaiuranos is an award-winning writer with a Masters in Writing and Literature from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, OH. An author of 7 novels and over 24 works for the stage, his play “Blanks” was recently selected as part of the UPS / Northwest Playwrights Alliance Joint Festival of New Pacific Northwest Works scheduled for February/March 2008. Since 2004, he has collaborated variously with members of the School for Designing a Society based in Urbana, Illinois, and has twice traveled to Patch Adams’ Gesundheit! Institute in West Virginia for SDS Summer Sessions.
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007, 1pm Presentation: LINK Symposium 2007 Graduation Ceremony and…
…“Why Do We Care About Love When Working For A Better World” Open Forum Workshop
Everyone who attends at least 5 workshops at the LINK Symposium receives a graduation certificate.
Monday, September 24th, 2007, 11am
LINK Symposium Unity Cruise of Puget Sound!
Thanks for being part of the 2007 September LINK Symposium!
Don’t forget, the 2007 October LINK Symposium begins Oct 4th! For more details visit http://www.blueskylink.org
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