Join Volunteers from all over Olympia Saturday, June 28 from 10am – 1 pm, to help rid Decatur Woods Park of English Ivy. This will be a fun work party that is suitable for all ages. Tools, gloves and refreshments will be provided. Decatur Woods Park is at 1015 Decatur Street SW in Olympia. Volunteers are asked to park via 11th Avenue because of construction on Decatur street. Walk, bike or carpool if possible. All are welcome, but those 17 and under must have signed parental permission, 14 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. No need to RSVP, just show up! Contact Olympia Volunteers in Parks (VIP) Coordinator Todd Smith at 753-8365.

Summer is here and it's always a crazy time for us at B&R. If you've got some spare time, think about spending a few hours of it with us. We've got lots of volunteer opportunities, from outreach to fundraising to providing hospitality at our advocacy center. If you're interested, just give us a call at 360.359.3293.

Hope to hear from you soon!

What You Got?! Fest?! is THIS weekend!

What You Got?! youth arts festival happening this weekend at the Capitol Theater. WYG provides an annual space for youth to showcase their creativity through talents in music, film, spoken word and visual art at a local level in the form of a weekend festival.

This year's fest is happening this coming Friday and Saturday and will feature awesome workshops by people from Food Not Bombs, Stonewall Youth Speaker's Bureau, Teen Council, and the Film Ranch. We'll be screening films by YAYA Media, Ittai Orr, The Seattle Girl's School, and more. Both nights will feature great band lineups with bands like The Vintage Valkyries, The Numbzkullz, Hi-Five, DEK, Anna Bri, Moon Runners, and more!
 
It's going to be an awesome fest! Tickets will be on sale at the Theater box office, and they'll cost $5 per day, or you can get a full fest pass for $8. Even better, you can get a full fest pass FREE when you put in two hours of volunteer work! To get signed up for volunteer shifts, contact Maxine Peabody at (360) 701-1330 or sign up at the Capitol Theater!
 
 
www.myspace.com/whatyougotfest
 
 
THANK YOU!

 

Beginning June 1st, Bread and Roses is joining forces with Capital Clubhouse in order to expand the reach and effectiveness of the Bread and Roses Mail and Vouchers Program. For nearly five years now, B&R has been providing the homeless and low income of Thurston County with mail service, laundry vouchers, and shower vouchers. As the economy worsens and times get tougher, the needs have quickly outgrown our small advocacy center. To combat this we are teaming up with, and moving those services to, Capital Clubhouse, which is located in a large building on the corner of Cherry and 7th in downtown Olympia.

We're looking for volunteers to help us make this transition a smooth one by helping people with change of address forms and by staffing the voucher desk at the new location, which will consist of handing out mail, laundry vouchers, and showers vouchers. It's a very easy way to be involved, help people, and make new friends in the process.

If interested, please call Rob Richards at 360.359.3293.

Don't Like Landfills?

Volunteer at The ReStore, South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity's new and used building supply store. All proceeds from the ReStore go to Habitat for Humanity. Last year we diverted over 150 tons of usable items from Thurston Co.landfills. If you volunteer more then 20 hours you get 50% off on your purchases.

Duties include:
* Doing pick-ups
* Accepting donations
* Customer Service
* Cleaning and organizing

We need all the help we can get, call, click, email or visit with questions Alex Bertolucci 210 Thurston Ave NE Olympia, WA 98501, Phone: 360-956-3456, www.spshabitat.org

Here's an opportunity to volunteer in the City of Olympia's Priest Point Park and clean up invasive ivy. From email:

NO IVY DAY AT PRIEST POINT PARK

Olympia Volunteers in Parks is sponsoring an English Ivy removal party at Priest Point Park on Saturday, April 26 from 10am till 1 pm. Join us for this fun, pre-Procession of the Species event and help preserve and restore the forest and shoreline of beautiful Priest Point Park. Meet at Shelter #2 on the Westside of Priest Point Park. Parking is in designated spots only. Bring your favorite gloves and dress for the Weather. Snacks and tools will be provided. No need to RSVP. Contact Volunteer Coordinator Todd Smith (753-8365) with any questions.

Tickets include up to
two consecutive movies
and a prize drawing The prestigeous Olympia Film Society, located at the Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia, offers a free ticket to up to two consecutive movies, free popcorn, and free coffee or soda to volunteer ticket sellers and ticket takers. I was recently granted the opportunity to interview Kendra Hadlock, OFS Volunteer Coordinator, and Barbara, who has volunteered at the OFS for over ten years, about the rewarding experience of ticketing at the Olympia Film Society:

C: Kendra, what are the opportunities available for those who want to volunteer to ticket at the Olympia Film Society?
Kendra: Ticketers can volunteer Monday through Saturday, at 5:45 & 8:15 and Sundays at 1:45, 5:45, & 8:15 - Find an open shift on the volunteer signup sheet on the west wall of the Capitol Theater lobby. Sundays are often open, but we really also need help with ticketing at live events. There is a live events sign up in the lobby as well. Available positions are selling tickets and tearing tickets.

C: How much time should a prospective volunteer plan to set aside for each volunteer opportunity?
Kendra: One hour for regular film screenings, longer for live events (but then you get in for free!)

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THE BIRTH ATTENDANTS would like to invite you:

April 19th from 3-6pm to an Prison Doula Project Orientation Workshop
and April 20th from 1-4pm to a Volunteer Training/Consensus Workshop

@ The Olympia Freeschool
610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501!!!

The Birth Attendants is a non-profit organization working to restore health and justice into communities in western Washington State.

Are you interested in: Social Justice?
The Reproductive Justice Network?
Non-Profits Organizations?
Creating Zines?
Community Education?
Prisoner Advocacy?

The Birth Attendants Is Seeking:
Volunteers to support community education and outreach projects and to participate in upcoming events:

• Reproductive Justice Week of Action - April 16th- 23rd, 2008
• Secret Cafe/Benefit Show- May 17th, 2008

Our community education project links our vital work inside prisons to the greater issues surrounding incarceration and works toward creating pathways of knowledge for western Washington communities about incarceration and its effects.

All New! Many Volunteer Positions With Stipends and Commission Available!

Come to the The Freeschool Community's new volunteer meeting!

Enjoy free VEGAN and VEGETARIAN pizza while you learn how you can help your community!

VENGAN A LA ESCUELA LIBRE DE OLYMPIA A UNA REUNION PARA VOLUNTARIOS NUEVOS.

Disfruta de una cena con pizza estrictamente VEGETARIANA mientras aprendes como puedes ayudar a tu comunidad!

Located downtown @ 610 Columbia St.

Ubicada en el centro de la ciudad @ 610 Columbia St.

For more information, visit: www.freeschoolcommunity.org

Facilitator - The Freeschool Community,Organizers
Schedule - 6:30pm-9:00pm, February 7th, March 6th and April 3rd!
Location - The Freeschool Community, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501

Volunteering was chaotic fun and good exercise...this was my first time to volunteer but am planning to go back for future sales...

My haul...

The Illustrated History of Oxford University, Ed. John Prest
Over Washington: A Companion to the KCTS-9 TV Series, Photography by Harald Sund, Text by Murray Morgan
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs
Whose Science? Who's Knowledge?:Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding
Food for Life by Neal Barnard, MD
Literature: Fifth Edition Ed. James Pickering and Jeffrey Hoeper
Evelina, or The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
Reading Skills Handbook by Weiner Bazerman
Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader Ed. Mary Eagleton
The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky
Life's a Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor Ed. Anne Safran Dalin
Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
The Story of English: A companion to the PBS TV Series by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sweet and Sugar Free by Karen E. Barkie (fruit juice sweetened baked goods...mmmm)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora neale Hurston
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Sisters of the Earth Ed. by Lorraine Anderson (women's writings on nature)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson
Save the Animals: 101 Easy Things You Can Do by Ingrid Newkirk