Carfree Chat: LA Transportation Viewed from L.A. Eco-Village, Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:30 at L.A. Eco-Village

At this event, we’ll provide an update on current transportation projects in LA and share the history of carfree transportation culture and projects at L.A. Eco-Village. For many years, Eco-Villagers have worked to raise awareness about the destructive ecological effects driving has on our region. Now we are moving to develop a more inclusive approach to changing transportation culture that takes race, gender, class and more into account. Presentations with Q&A to follow.

Hosted and moderated by Eco-Village member and Streetsblog LA editor,
Joe Linton http://la.streetsblog.org/
and
Eco-Village member and Street Anthropologist
Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D. www.urbanadonia.com

EVENT DETAILS:
Date and time: Tue, November 17, 2015 from 7:30 to 9pm
Location:            L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl, LA 90004
Cost:               FREE
Reservations:   Not required, but if you’d like: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 7:30pm: The Low Down on Pee and Poo: Composting Toilets & Urine Reuse – A talk at L.A. Eco-Village

Composting toilets offer a sanitary and ecological solution to the flush toilet. (Did you know that around 890 billion gallons of untreated sewage flows into US waterways each year?) Learn about waterless composting toilets, reusing urine, and considerations for installing a system into your home. This presentation will cover homescale composting toilets from urban to rural applications, large scale systems, operation and maintenance needs, codes, and common problems and solutions.

Learn about

Types of composting toilets
Benefits of using urine as a fertilizer
Maintenance requirements
Common problems and solutions
System costs
Codes and regulations
Artistic toilet designs

EVENT DETAILS:

Location:
Los Angeles EcoVillage
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004

Date/Time
Thursday, December 3, 2015 from 7:30 pm to 9pm

Cost:
$5 to $15 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Reservations:
Not required, but if you’d like: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

Sponsored by Greywater Action: info@greywateraction.org

TimeBank Crafts Fair – November 7, 2015 from Noon to 4pm at L.A. Eco-Village

This will be the 4th annual Arroyo Seco/West Adams TimeBank crafts fair. All locally handmade items such as tea towels, bar soaps, jewelry, jams, arts and crafts, and more. This is one of the best ways to support local and independent artists, designers and crafters making great stuff out of local and recycled materials.

Items will be for sale for time dollars and combinations of time dollars and U.S. dollars.

EVENT DETAILS

Date and Time:          Saturday, November 7, 2015 from Noon to 4pm
Location:                     Los Angeles Eco-Village Lobby, 117 Bimini Pl,
Los Angeles 90004
Food:                            Bring a snack to share or a brown bag if you’d like to
stay awhile and hang out in the gardens.
No charge to attend.

“Falling for the Mountain” an evening of film, veggie potluck and dialog, Thursday, December 10, 2015 at from 7 to 10pm

About the film: Falling for the Mountain, a film by Suzanna Knittel, is the intimate and urgent story of a family (her family) that must come together to steward their ancestral home in the majestic Swiss Alps in the face of climate change, and other modern challenges. Most of these relatives now live in cities, yet all have deep ties to this bucolic land. Now the next generation is coming to terms with the needs of land and of the ancient buildings housed there.

But never before has this family’s stewardship been more sorely tested.

This is not just the story of one family’s dilemma but an environmental crisis that is repeated all over Europe as contemporary lifestyles and urbanization affect alpine regions. What can be done to preserve this precious resource for all? We are introduced to the farmer who views it this way, and the brother who views it that way. Each must find a way to engage with the great turning from patriarchal ways of management towards more cooperative guardianship of nature. But what shifts need to occur in heart and mind for tending and caring to become the way they connect with one another and the earth? What about the life of the soil and the soul?

More info on the film

EVENT DETAILS
Location:
L.A. Eco-Village
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004

Schedule:
7 to 8pm:           Veggie potluck*
8 to 8:30:           Film screening
8:30 to 10:         Dialog about our own experiences and questions with thefilmmaker Suzanna KnittelReservations please: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254

Fee: $15 to $5 sliding scale

* Please bring your own non throw-away eating ware to make this a zero waste event.More about Susanna Knittel:
Susanna’s career as a filmmaker, writer and photo journalist spans 30 years in Europe and in the United States. After working in somatics, she returned to her first medium, Impelled by the culture’s rapid loss of connection with nature and the body. Raised in Switzerland, she divides her time between Santa Monica and Switzerland. www.susannaknittel.com

Bicycle Kitchen Party – Friday October 30, 2015 from 8pm on at the Bike Kitchen Los Angeles

It’s a Halloween costume FunRaiser party at the Bicycle Kitchen with:
music food dancing fun

R I D E O V E R

EVENT DETAILS:

Suggested Donation: $13

Date and Time:
Friday, October 30, 2015 from 8pm to the Witchen Hour

Location:
The Bicycle Kitchen 4429 Fountain Ave., LA 90029

Live Music by:
– La Tumba
– Whale Shark
– Pedal Strike
– Telematique
(Go Old Skool Cooks!!!)
– DJ Diskoe
– AutoKraft

“You Are Here Intentional Community Los Angeles” Forum, Thursday October 29, 2015 at 7pm at L.A. Eco-Village

Join You Are Here: Intentional Community Los Angeles and Lois Arkin, founder of the Los Angeles Eco-Village, for a panel discussion of what works and what doesn’t, in intentional communities.

Current and former residents of communities in Southern California will share their experiences with important issues like governance, shared space, decision-making, getting along, privacy, food and sharing.

Bring your questions and curiosities, this will be your chance to get a sense of what it might be like to live in a functioning community, navigate challenges and avoid common pitfalls.

The Los Angeles Eco-Village is one of the city’s largest and longest-running intentional community.

EVENT DETAILS:
Date and Time:     Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 7 to 10pm
Location:                Los Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Lobby,
Los Angeles 90004 directions
No Charge:             Donations accepted
Reservations or more info:         crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254 or just come.
Light Refreshments:                    Bring something to share if you’d like.
More info on “You Are Here Intentional Community”

MORE INFO ON PANELISTS:

Elektra Grant, Lecturer Otis College of Art and Design and associate of the The Regenerative Co-op of Pomona, an intentional community of approximately 30 residents distributed among 4 homes. The Community strives to incorporate sustainable and regenerative principles in an urban/suburban environment. Most members are students or recent graduates of various local colleges, including organizers, teachers, technicians, students, business people, philosophers and artists. The group has vegetarian community meals 5 nights a week, uses solar power, and maintains a gray water system, edible landscaping and organic gardens. Community decisions are consensed upon during monthly community meetings. In addition to hosting skill shares throughout the year, the Community organizes a Sustainability Seminar every Spring with workshops and speakers on topics from solar power and making bio-diesel to activism and social justice.

Watch for more details.

Starhawk Halloween/Samhain Spiral Dance Ritual & “Stories for the New Era” Workshop – Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 2 – 9pm in Los Angeles

Workshop and Ritual. Tickets available on-line at:
http://StarhawkLA2015.eventbrite.com

Sponsors:
Reclaiming LA
Code Pink
Gaia Green
The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education
The Readmond Company
Cross Pollinate
Way2Much

Read about Starhawk here: http://starhawk.org/

MORE DETAILS:

WHEN

Saturday, October 24, 2015

2:00pm-9:00pm

[come for all or part of the day]

WHERE

Fais Do Do Ballroom
5257 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
http://www.faisdodo.com

*Carpooling and biking encouraged!

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ~ “Stories for the New Era”

Stories tell us who we are and who we can be. Stories can limit us… or liberate us. The stories we share are integrally part of the magic we weave – they determine what images fill our minds, what possibilities we believe in, what forces we set in motion. Magic teaches us that to make a change, we must first envision it. In this half-day workshop, we will use ritual, trance, meditation, and song to identify our underlying personal and collective stories and transform them into tales of liberation that can heal the world (and us, too).

RITUAL DESCRIPTION
After the workshop and a delicious organic dinner, we will anticipate Halloween with a Samhain RITUAL & SPIRAL DANCE led by Starhawk and Reclaiming LA. For modern witches, Samhain is the time to honor one’s ancestors and celebrate the cycle of death and rebirth – the beginning of the spiritual new year. Join us in sacred space as we dance the spiral with the Star Goddess, celebrate community, and rebirth our selves and our world. [In support of those in recovery, this ritual is drug and alcohol free.

SCHEDULE
2:00-2:30pm – Doors open for workshop, socializing, music by Amy Clarke & Gaia Grove (with Rene Collins, Devon Rachelle Kouadio & more guest artists)

2:30-5:30pm – “Stories for the New Era” Workshop with Starhawk

5:30-6:30pm – Delicious Organic Vegetarian Dinner

6:30-7:00pm – Doors open for Spiral Dance

7:00-9:00pm – Halloween/Samhain Spiral Dance

(come for all or part of the day)

ADVANCE TICKETS DISCOUNTS!

http://starhawkLA2015.eventbrite.com/

COST

Workshop + Ritual + Meal :: $60 in Advance by Friday, Oct. 23 | $75 Door

Workshop + Ritual [No Meal] :: $50 in Advance by Friday, Oct. 23 | $65 Door

Workshop + Meal :: $45 in Advance by Friday, Oct. 23 | $60 Door

Workshop Only [No Meal] :: $35 in advance by Friday, Oct. 23 | $50 Door

Ritual + Meal:: $30 in Advance by Friday, Oct. 23 | $45 at the Door

Ritual Only [No Meal] :: $20 in advance by Friday, Oct. 23 | $25 Door

Delicious Vegetarian Organic Dinner :: $12

PARTNERS

The Readmond Company, Gaia Grove, Cross Pollinate, The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education California Branch, Way 2 Much Entertainment, Code Pink Women for Peace

ABOUT STARHAWK
Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern Goddess religion and earth-based spirituality. She has authored or coauthored twelve books, including the classic The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing, now in development as a feature film. A veteran of progressive movements, and deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism, Starhawk directs and teaches Earth Activist Training, which combine a Permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. http://www.starhawk.org/

ABOUT RECLAIMING LA
Reclaiming LA is a community of women and men in the greater Los Angeles area who celebrate earth-based spirituality in support of justice in all its forms – environmental, social, political, racial, gender, and economic. http://reclaimingla.org/

Tickets & More Information

http://starhawkLA2015.eventbrite.com/, info@reclaimingla.org

Diana Leafe Christian gives a public talk on “The Three Aspects of a Healthy, Thriving Community,” Monday. October 5, 2015 at 7:00pm in Westchester CA

Popular lecturer and trainer on diverse aspects of ecovillages, cohousing and intentional communities, Diana makes a rare visit to Southern California.

Author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities and Finding Community: How to join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community, Diana is also the former editor of “Communities Magazine.”

Tonight, we ponder the topic of how to create “community glue” to generate feelings of gratitude, how to develop good communication skills, and how to set up effective project management within a community.

Diana’s expertise on community decision making and governance processes has brought international attention to “sociocracy,” which means governance by peers and colleagues using feedback loops to help an organization continuously improve.

More about Diana here: www.dianaleafechristian.org

EVENT DETAILS:

Date/Time:          Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7pm
Location:              Holy Nativity Parish
6700 W. 83rd Street
Westchester (Los Angeles) CA 90045
Suggested Donation:      $15
No reservations required

Los Angeles Eco-Village Neighborhood Potluck & Movie Night, Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 6pm

You’re invited:

Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 6pm

127 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004
(adjacent to our big building)

Bring a vegetarian dish to share and your own
eating ware to make this a zero waste event.
You may also want to bring along a blanket for
picnic style event.

Movie at 7:30pm:
“The Exterminating Angel”, the award winning
1962 macabre comedy by Luis Bunuel, in
Spanish. Review here. Note: may not be suitable
for children.

FREE EVENT

Introduction to Exploring Your Senses, Thursdays Oct. 22 & 29, 2015 at L.A. Eco-Village

Exploring Your Senses Introductory Workshops and Registration

Parents, educators and all who work and play with children

Learn fun activities that make teaching & parenting more fun

that empower children to experience relaxed awareness
that overview the body’s response to distracting activities and stress
that explore sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and body centered awareness

Each topic about the body’s response to stress and distractions will be matched with short, fun, re-focusing and stress management activities.

For instance, imagine what your life would be like if taking brain brakes throughout the day was an integral part of your teaching job.

Imagine what your life would be like if introducing your children to sensory awareness during household activities was a regular part of your parenting.

In case it’s hard to imagine, we’ve structured these workshops so that, as you learn the information and engage in activities, you also have time to note: what changes in you as you listen and engage.

Taking time to notice is basic to

refocusing attention
self-regulating behavior
conscious interactions

Growing these capacities in children – and their adults – is essential for shifting away from punitive discipline and creating co-operative relational and learning cultures.

In 3 or 4 hours, you’ll sample fun, sensory, self-regulating activities that adults can do with children. You’ll overview how these activities reverse the bodyʼs response to distracting activities and stress.

The 4 hour Introduction, (two sessions), includes safe touch training. You will be encouraged to practice new skills between sessions and discuss your experiences with the group.

Where: Los Angeles Eco Village
When: October 22nd & 29th, 2015, 6:45 – 9 pm
January 23rd & 30th, 2016, 1:30 – 3:45 pm

Cost: Early Bird Special $35
for registration and full payment 2 weeks before first class (Oct 8th or Jan 9th). Partial scholarships may be available for early birds.
$48 registration with full payment 1 week before 1st class (Oct 16th/ Jan.17th).

To Register or be added to our mailing list: Please send us the following information
* Name
* Phone #
* How are you involved with children? what ages? how many?
* Occupation(s) include parenting
* Workshop date
* Is the suggested donation affordable for you? If not, how much is?

Maximum class size – 10 people.

Please register 1 week before start date. After we accept your application, Carol will send you a pay-pal invoice with logistical details. The paid receipt is your registration confirmation.

Want to help us make teaching and parenting easier – more fun?

Recommend a group that hosts an Introduction to Exploring Your Senses and you will receive our deepest gratitude for helping us grow our business, and, a discount for a future workshop.

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