Upcoming Events

Events

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Barn Dances with Musicians Ingrid Noyes and Friends and Caller, Erik Hoffman

Barn Dance at Toby’s Feed Barn

in Point Reyes Station

Saturday, June 5, Western Weekend!

Past Events

Past Speakers of Illuminating Landscapes Speaker Series:

 

Nick Tipon – Southern Pomo Elder (September 25, 2009)

Ignacio Chapela – UC Berkeley Scientist (October 9, 2009)

Lillian Vallee – Poet, Writer, Teacher, Translator, Restorationist from the Central Valley (December 13, 2009)

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The Low Carbon Faire and 350.org Teach-in (October 24, 2009)

Shown above are Bing Gong, Elizabeth Barnet, Mark Butler, Madeline Hope, and Megan Matsen with thermometer of Climate Action at 350.org event on Saturday, October, 24, 2009. More photos by Michael Keefe available here: http://iammike.smugmug.com/Other/350-Day/10084803_gB84y#692088551_9pmDj

Activities: a Natural Dye Demonstration with Ecological Artist Rebecca Burgess, Electric Bike explorations with Michael Bock; a CLAM open house showing the recent energy-efficient renovation; a group photo with Art Rogers which can now be found on the 350.org website.

Speakers: Jerry Mander, Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, Paul Fenn and Julie Peters, Madeline Hope and Fred Smith, and more. Video footage can now be viewed at http://transitionwestmarin.wordpress.com/.

Food and Drink: Thanks to Straus ice cream for donating ice cream, the Latino Photography Project’s delicious and simple tacos and tortillas; Rufus Blunk and Mark Butler facilitating a Community Apple Pressing!

Music: Stitchcraft, Antioquia, Michael Stocker, Peter Asmus

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The GMO Crises: Politics and Prophecy

An evening with Traditional Mayan Elders,
Tata Tomas and Tata Cecilio
Tuesday, October 20th, Point Reyes Station

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Barn Dances

2009 January, April, August, December (in Point Reyes Station) and October (in Tomales at Tomales Town Hall).

2010 February (in Tomales Town Hall) and more upcoming.

Compost Project

Joseph Jenkins presented The Humanure Handbook (Monday, November 9, 2009) .  Co-sponsored with Point Reyes Books.

Ecological Artist Rebecca Burgess

Community Dye Workshop using Native Plants in the Livery Stable Native Garden in Point Reyes Station  (August 10, 2009 in the Livery Stable)

Emily Levine

Comedian, philosopher, political analyst, Emily Levine, entertained and enlightened a full audience at the Dance Palace Main Space in August 2008. (http://www.emilylevineuniverse.com/)

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben offered this fundraiser to the West Marin Commons. He spoke on Easter Sunday in April 2008 at the Dance Palace Community Center in Point Reyes.

David Morris

David met for an open discussion about local self-reliance on the community level in March 2008 at the Old Schoolhouse in Point Reyes Station. David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and New Rules Project: Designing Rules as if Community Mattered  (http://www.newrules.org/ and http://www.ilsr.org/).

Sandor Katz

Author of The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved and Wild Fermentation gave an information-packed workshop on the traditional art of making sauerkraut and a history of fermentation, to a full audience at the Dance Palace in the fall of 2007.