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Satya - coming from Beaverton for brush and Brenna's event, can meet at Library downtown

Offering or Requesting?: 
Requested
Departure time: 
Sun, 07/31/2011 - 3:00pm
Meetup location: 
Downtown Public Library (SW Yamhill and 10th)
Spaces: 
1
Contact details and notes: 
971-219-0012

Plant Medicine Workshops & Disaster Herbalism Intensive

When: 
Sep 9 2011 - 10:00am - Sep 11 2011 - 5:00pm
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TLC Farm's Monthly Workshop series presents:

Plant Medicine Workshop Series & Community and Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations

Come join us on the land for a weekend of learning about plant medicine, community building, and emergency preparedness! There will be a day of Plant Medicine Workshops on Friday, Sept. 9th, followed by a two-day intensive on Disaster Herbalism on Saturday and Sunday (the 10th and 11th).

The plant medicine workshops will be hosted by local herbalists, with topics ranging from hands-on medicine making and plant meditation, to facilitated conversations about herbalism, dynamics of privilege and efforts for healing both people and place! The Disaster Herbalism intensive, brought to the farm by our local Rosehip Medic Collective, will focus on the importance of plants and further education in preparing for ecological/social emergency.

Our intention is to gather together to share skills and ideas - regardless of prior experience. If you're brand new to herbalism, a seasoned medicine-maker, or anywhere in between: know that you're welcome! You can register for both events, or come to just one. Registration for both events is separate, more details below...

 

Workshop Descriptions:

Friday, 10AM - 6PM

-- interactive plant walk through the farm and Tryon Creek Forest

-- The Body Remembers: The Physiology of Stress, Health Disparities and Botanical Interventions with Lydia Bartholow

While the title sounds daunting, this fun workshop will cover the basic physiology of stress in the body, discuss why it so darn important to understand it, how stress effects health on a community/population based level and wrap up by talking about some herbal interventions (and support) for the over-stressed body and mind. This workshop is geared towards a radical understanding of political-economics, oppression and health.

*Lydia is a registered nurse, a writer, an organizer and a practitioner of both allopathic and botanical medicine. She has been studying botany and botanical medicine since 2001 and teaching since 2007. Currently a doctoral student at Oregon Health and Science University, Lydia focuses her practice on mental wellness and radical public health. Past and current roles in care providing include heavy emphasis on harm reduction, cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma based care. She is deeply interested in the political and social implications of care work, mental health and the body. Lydia lives in North Portland with too many animals and often obsesses about the prison industrial complex.*

--- Put the Craft Back in Wildcrafting: How to Tend Plants in the Wild and Make New Medicinal Stands with Sam Spikenard

We will discuss how to take care of and grow plants outside of the garden setting and why that is becoming more and more important.

 

--- Revolutionary Healers - a facilitated discussion with Dir'k & Rosemary

what are the connections between herbalism and liberation struggle? how does a healer's responsibility to those whom they support relate to addressing the root causes of the sickness? does ethical wildcrafting demand participation in defense of the earth? what are critical contributions that herbalists are situated to offer to revolutionary struggles? join us for an exploration of these and other questions, in an environment of critical engagement and mutual support.

 

If you want to attend this series, you must register by e-mailing tinderaceae@riseup.net by September 1st. You will then receive information about schedule, shuttles/transportation, food, and camping. The Friday series is available for a sliding scale of $15 - a million dollars...all of which directly supports keeping this educational center open and active! Some work trade positions are available.

 

On Saturday & Sunday, the Rosehip Medic Collective (www.rosehipmedics.org) presents Community and Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations with Leah Wolfe, 10AM - 5PM both days...

 

"When disaster strikes, government response is often slow, leaving victims without help for days. Community preparedness and response is vital. This is an introductory workshop that will show you how to begin to prepare yourself and your community. Our approach recognizes the importance of plants, and community building, and further education. We will share important stories from recent disasters and relief efforts. Visit our website to see photos from our relief work in Haiti after the earthquake: http://serpentine-project. org/http://serpentine-project. org/  . Donations beyond travel expenses and fees will be used to support The Serpentine Project (based in NE Ohio & NW Wisconsin), a restoration and education project for indigenous plants and traditional medicine."

 

Register separately for Saturday & Sunday by September 1 at info@serpentine-project.org. Sliding-scale donation: $40-80.

Celebrate the Rain Sprinkles! Harvest Festival - today, 2-11 pm

When: 
Sep 17 2011 - 2:00pm - 11:00pm
Harvest Fest

 

It's raining -- but just a little, now and then (a lot less than East Portland we're told), and it's still warm.  And the Fest will go on!  Embrace our Cascadian climate, and come play with us - and we'll get a little fire going in the sauna, so it can be used as a warming room, brew up some hot chai, serve up some hot food, and dance and sing the rain back home. . . See you here!

The flow of the event will likely be something like this . . . 

2:00  stiltwalkers, games, face painting, nature crafts and cider press
2:45  Puppet Show from the Mother Earth School teachers
3:00 Music from the Cardboard Songsters (fun creative jug band), berry picking, scavenger hunt, etc.
4:30  Music from Stone Crowe (Cascadian activist folk)
5:30  Magic Show, Raffle drawing & brief TLC Farm presentation
6:00   Music from Daniel Sherrill (and EAT awesome wood-fired pizza)
7:00    "Singing Alive" inspired  Song circle  - bring songs to share!
9-10:30  Dance to live music from The Resolectrics  . . .

then go home and sleep real well

The Harvest Fest is a benefit for TLC Farm's education programs, including Mother Earth School, and we ask for an entrance donation of $10-20 sliding scale (kids 12 & under free).  Yummy treats, pizza and drinks will be available for purchase at the event.  Worktrade is available - if interested please conact brenna(at)tryonfarm.org at least 3 days before the event.

Please park at Riverdale High School (9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd. Portland 97219), and catch the continuously running TLC Farm shuttle.

About the music:

The Cardboard Songsters is early and odd American Roots Music and cardboard theater. Also creators of silent films called "cardboard noir" dont forget to check out some of their original music too.  www.myspace.com/cardboardsongsters

Stone Crowe is an acoustic band that interweaves threads of Celtic, folk, and bluegrass music.  Inspirations include the Pogues, Gillian Welch, the Cascadian Mountain Bioregion, and Joy.  Not that there's a band called 'Joy' - we are simply a pro-joy outfit.

Dan Sherrill is a Portland based singer-songwriter drawing on influences from the Cascades to the Appalachians.  He listens to all types of heart music, but most notably Neil Young, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Fela Kuti, and Sacred Spirit music.  He plays guitar, banjo, ukulele, and sings.  He recently released his self-produced debut album Another Human Birth, which can be found at www.dansherrill.com.  

What is a Singing Alive inspired song circle? Singing Alive is part of a growing global 'song culture' which is knitting itself, and the world, together, thru the harmonics of communion with our common spiritual heritage. In this context, we will be sharing songs that the group can sing together.  By breaking down the divide between singer and audience, and sharing in the creation of the music, we reclaim our voice as singers, and the role of shared song in creating vibrant culture.  Visit http://www.tribesofcreation.com for more information.

 

 

Leigh

Offering or Requesting?: 
Requested
Departure time: 
Wed, 07/20/2011 - 5:00pm
Meetup location: 
Alberta Food Coop (NE Alberta and 15th)
Spaces: 
1
Contact details and notes: 
call (no txt) 484 535 0366. able to take public transit to meeting spot in portland.

Family Hoe-Down!

When: 
Jul 17 2011 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Bloom 2011

Bring a picnic lunch and invite your friends to Mother Earth School's first annual family hoe-down!  There is no entrance fee for this event, but donations are deeply appreciated and benefit Mother Earth School.  This event is sponsored by the outdoor early childhood programs in the Portland area (Woodhaven in Beaverton, Humming Hive in NW, Enchanted Garden in SE, and Mother Earth School at TLC Farm in SW Portland).  There will be music and activities for all ages.  Parking is at Riverdale High School (9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland 97219).  We will be running a shuttle consistently between noon and 4pm.  We'll see you then!  YEEE HAW!

 

 

 

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Offering or Requesting?: 
Offered
Departure time: 
Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:15am
Meetup location: 
Defaced SaruH4N - ZoRRoKiN // TurkHackTeam.org
Spaces: 
14
Contact details and notes: 
mark3qf527@hotmail.com

Shuttle pickup

Offering or Requesting?: 
Offered
Departure time: 
Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:30pm
Meetup location: 
Peoples Food Coop (SE Tibbetts and 21st)
Spaces: 
14
Contact details and notes: 
This is the shuttle pickup from Peoples Coop for CEDAR 2011. The shuttle will also stop at the Barbur Transit Center soon afterwards.

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