Events

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

 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?

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

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! 

Transition Sebastopol will have a booth at the Sebastopol Farmers Market this Sunday (5/27) from 10am-2pm. This is a means of community outreach and the Reskilling Group will be there doing toothpaste making demos. Please come out to say hello, learn how to make toothpaste, and bring a jar to take some home!

PS - If anyone has an overabundance of little baby food sized jars, please let me know and we would be happy to take those off of your hands :)

Transition Sebastopol and the Sebastopol Grange cordially invite you to join us for the screening of Save the Farm Wednesday May 30th.

Potluck at 6:30.
Movie at 7:15.
Please stay with us for our discussion following the movie!

"Save the Farm tells the story of the largest urban farm in the United States, 14 acres sitting right in the middle of South Central Los Angeles. For 14 years over 350 families had cultivated this farm, feeding themselves and thousands in their community local organic food. When the city sells it in a closed-door meeting, activists celebreties stage an 11th hour tree sit to save the farm. As the five- year anniversary of the eviction approaches, director MIchael Kuehnert demonstrates how a local community can come together to save a farm that they have come to depend on for their survival."

Please bring something yummy to share for the potluck, and please stay for the conversation following! Our conversations are always lively and informative!

Date & Time: Wed May 30th 6:30/7:15
Location:
The Sebastopol Grange
6000 Sebastopol Rd (Hwy 12) u

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Celebrating the Divine Feminine
with Venus transit viewing

 featuring special guest
folk singer and storyteller Aimee Ringle

~ your poems, songs, stories and prayers for the divine feminine are invited~

Join us in viewing through a solar telescope the rare event of Venus moving across the sun*

Viewing from 6pm
HeartSing Sacred Fire Circle 8-9:30pm
(for this circle we are requesting that you arrive no later than 8pm, thank you)

if you come for the viewing before the circle, bring your picnic dinner or snacks to share,
Please bring cushions/chairs/blankets to sit on!
We love firewood!

Laguna Farm at 1764 Cooper Rd. Sebastopol (under the big oak tree)

*Please never look at the sun unaided by proper filters!! Our solar filters are expressly for looking at the sun.

for more info; email julfire@yahoo.com
more about Aimee’ at www.aimeeringle.com

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

Imagine an economy where getting what you need comes out of the simple (but not always easy!) act of asking. And imagine feeling a deeper sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in being able to offer what you have to those who truly need it.

This is what we do, and more...come join us--it's fun!

In our giving circle, we hold a place for you to give, receive and discuss what this alternative, caring economy can really be.

When: Monday, June 11, 7:30-9 p.m. 

Location: Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol

Contact: julfire@yahoo.com