Come spend a weekend camping with great music, Elfin & Sylvan Folk, Wood Sprites & Faerie Folk, and All you Humans who still Believe in Magic…
Join Us in the Rolling Hills and Hollows of Rural New York for Central New York’s Faerie Festival!
A time of Escape from ordinary Reality… into Magical Play!
Glenwood, Worthington, MA (email openhouse@earthspirit.com or call 238-4240 for directions)
Open house tour begins at 1pm and the singing program runs from 3pm to 4:30pm.
Join Sarah singing simple songs and chants that will immerse us in the openness and expansiveness of nearly summer. A meditative and nourishing hour and a half, that will leave you singing songs that you can carry with you for the rest of the spring and into summer.
It went really well… was a lot of fun, very colorful and joyful, as well as straightforward about what we have to achieve in a very short time. My neighbor Rose Wessel (www.threesalamanders.com) filmed most of the event, so there will be links to youtube up shortly, as well as links to some cool stuff on the Earth Hour site… soon!!
“Living Sustainably in the Hilltowns,” the concert and Earth Hour event was lots of fun to promote, since people were really eager to hear about it! Here’s some of the media that happened:
WAMC Roundtable Interview with Sarah LaDuke on Mon. 3/23 — this is from the blog of my friends Josh and Kim Wachtel of Radio Free Earth: (you’ll have to copy and paste: I can’t figure out the link, sorry)
www.radiofreeearth.com/blog
Saturday, March 28 at 7 pm (lights out at 8:30 for Earth Hour)
West Cummington Congregational Church
27 West Main St., Cummington
Join us for a warm evening of music and face-to-face with some of the most vibrant, committed and passionate folks in the Hilltowns – People who are on the cutting edge of creating a more ecological, realistic, balanced, rooted, connected and nourishing way of life, right here.
Earth Hour has become one of the world’s biggest climate change initiatives. At 8:30 pm on March 28, people around the world will turn their lights off for one hour in a global effort to show that it’s possible to take action on global warming. Bring a candle in a jar! www.earthhour.org
$5 – $10 for employed adults/ $1-5 for unemployed adults and students. (Kids in a quiet mood are welcome!)
A portion of the proceeds goes to the Hilltown Food Pantry in Goshen
Sustainable Living Participants from the Hilltowns:
Radio Free Earth Hilltown Sustainability Group SnackTAXI – Reusable Bags for Snacks and Sandwiches The Old Creamery Grocery (Cummington) EarthSpirit Community– Events and Gatherings Honoring the Earth Sadie Stull – Environmentally-Conscious Builder Ravenwood – Freedom Farm and Learning Center Leni Fried – The Bag Share Project & Zero Waste Alpine Solar Heat – Hot Water and Heat from the Sun Cummington Community Dream Circle – Monthly Dream Sharing Brookwood Painting – Earth-friendly Interiors –Carolyn Moore Hawthorne Stephen Philbrick — Author of The Backyard Lumberjack EARTHDANCE — Improvisational Arts Center (artist-run) — Workshops and Retreats Martin Bridge—Teacher and Permaculture-inspired Artist Manda Farm—Naturally-raised, organically-fed Eggs, Pork, Beef & Turkey (Plainfield) Crabapple Farm – Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and farmstand (Chesterfield) Juniper Talbot – Doula (empowering birthing women) and weekly Sacred Dance (Cummington) Storey Publishing – Practical info that encourages personal independence in harmony with the environment Earthwork Programs – Frank Grindrod — Reconnecting You with the Earth Ed Stockman – Organic Farmer, former NOFA-MA Organic Agriculture Extension Educator
The Hilltown Community Development Corporation (www.hilltowncdc.org) is a great organization here in the hilltowns of Western Massachusetts — its annual Spring Festival is one of my favorite events of the year. I’ve been singing Dave Mallet’s “I Knew This Place” for a couple of decades (www.davidmallett.com). Reminds me of my family’s connection to my grandparent’s land.
