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COMMUNITY ART WORKSHOP with JANA LAIZ<\/strong> :: THE CLIMATE ISSUE IS A HUMAN ISSUE ART SHOW April 7-21st :: COMMUNITY CONVERSATION WITH CLIMATE SCIENTIST MICHAEL MANN :: PURPOSEFUL MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP with JENNIFER BROWDY :: TIME TO CHOOSE<\/em> FILM SCREENING<\/a><\/a> :: 2018 BERKSHIRE EARTH EXPO : environmental action fair :: <\/p>\n COMMUNITY ART WORKSHOP Emily Dickinson said it so well:<\/p>\n This is my letter to the world, <\/p>\n Come and spend a few hours writing a letter, note or poem to Mother Earth and creating a Vision Board of your vision for our planet. We will display our art\/letters at the opening of the art show.<\/strong><\/p>\n Open to anyone who loves our planet and wants to celebrate it! Art & Writing can bring change! No writing or art experience necessary, just a love of Mother Earth!<\/p>\n Bring magazines, glue sticks and your favorite writing utensil. Free!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n ART EXHIBITION <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n COMMUNITY CONVERSATION with MICHAEL MANN Join internationally renowned climate scientist Michael Mann for a community conversation about climate and activism. Bring your questions! Open to everyone! <\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n WRITING WORKSHOP with JENNIFER BROWDY Saturday, April 14th | 3 PM<\/span> – 5 PM | <\/span><\/span>$35<\/span><\/p>\n Through an inspiring, thought-provoking discussion and writing workshop, Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D. guides participants to explore a central question for anyone who is aware of the promise and peril of our current moment: how can I become a strong link between past and future, rising to the personal, political and planetary challenges of our time in ways that are at once grounded, fluid, fiery and wise?<\/p>\n Inspiration will be drawn from the work of writer-activists like Wangari Maathai, Thich Nhat Hanh, Llewelyn Vaughn-Lee, Terry Tempest Williams and Joanna Macy, and Jennifer will share the unique framework she has developed for what she calls \u201cthe elemental journey of purposeful memoir\u201d: using the four elements (Earth, Water, Fire and Air) to explore the stages of life experience, looking back at the past in order to better understand the present and envision the future we want to live into.<\/p>\n Bring your notebook and pen, and an open mind & heart! TIME TO CHOOSE film screening<\/strong><\/span> Saturday, April 14th | 6:30<\/span> PM | Free – donations accepted to be sent directly to Puerto Rico<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Academy award-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson\u2019s most recent film TIME TO CHOOSE <\/b>takes audiences on a breathtaking global journey to explore the comprehensive scope of the climate change crisis. The film shows the powerful solutions that are available and the entrepreneurs, change-makers and ordinary people who are helping to deploy these solutions. Most importantly, TIME TO CHOOSE delivers a message of empowerment and action – the solutions to climate change are here and that we all have the power to choose what kind of world we want to live in.<\/p>\n Entrance is free with donations greatly welcomed. All proceeds from donations will be sent to communities in Puerto Rico struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria.<\/strong> Manos Unidas held another fundraiser for Puerto Rico on January 23rd during which they raised $5,500 that was delivered directly to victims of Hurricane Maria by former resident of Puerto Rico and co-founder of Manos Unidos Con Puerto Rico, Miriam Orengo.<\/span>
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\nFriday, April 13th : 7 – 8 PM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nSaturday, April 21st : 10 AM – 5 PM PM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nLETTER TO THE EARTH with JANA LAIZ
\n<\/span><\/strong>Saturday, April 7th | 1:30 – 3:30PM<\/p>\n
\nWho never wrote to me –
\nThe simple news that Nature told,
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\n<\/span>Gallery Exhibition: April 7-21, with performances and events throughout<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nGallery at The Stationery Factory<\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n
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\nDr. Michael E. Mann <\/strong>is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. He is author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars<\/a>, <\/em>The Madhouse Effect<\/a> <\/em> and other works.<\/p>\n
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\nThis event is part of the Berkshire Earth Day Expo; all proceeds will benefit The Berkshire Environmental Action Team. <\/a>Register here. <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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