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Community Gardening at the Common Earth House - April 29, 2008
On Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 from 10am to 12pm, Manos Unidas will be holding the first monthly urban community gardening day of the season at the "Mother Garden"/"Madre Jardin", located at the Community Justice Center we are creating at the Common Earth House/Casa Tierra Comun at 335 Fenn St. in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsfield, MA.
The goal of the monthly workshops, entitled "Earth in Our Hands", is to integrate children, youth, and other underheard community citizens in an environment where they can learn about sustainable agriculture, caring for the earth, living arts experiences, and stewardship for one another, while incorporating bilingual Spanish/English conversation.
Mother Garden/Madre Jardin aims to be a place where all community citizens, but especially those on a low income, can have shared experiences in sustainable agriculture, by sowing and reaping their own organic and local harvest, while crossing class, culture, linguistic and ability differences to find commonalities.
The schedule for the May 3rd "Earth in Our Hands" workshop is as follows:
10:00-10:15am: opening ritual to honor the earth and "Madre Jardin"
10:15-11:15: hands on gardening cleanup and youth-based teach-in about sustainable agriculture
11:15-12:00: living arts experience: this month: "Earth Flags"/'Banderas de la Tierra" (if you wish, you can bring a symbol to share from another culture that honors the earth)
12:00-12:30: light snack and conversation...bring your own if you wish...Stay if you can, go if you must! Please try to attend as many seasonal workshops as possible so as to give the youth, and ourselves, a sense of continuity!
Info and RSVP/Reservas: (413)-243-9121 o manosunidasorg@gmail.com, www.unitedmanos.blogspot.com
Manos Unidas is a multicultural, community based organization that seeks to uplift Latino, immigrant, low income, youth, and other underheard community citizens through popular educaton, living arts, cooperative economy, and bilingual shared resources empowerment. Crossing borders of class, race, culture, language, ideology, ability, and geography, we are building a culture of "beloved community" hand in hand. |
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