Greetings,
Here’s what’s coming up for Transition Ann Arbor for the month of November.
Great to see some of you at last week’s Ann Arbor Fall ReSkilling Festival that we co-sponsored with Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor. About 160 people attended over 30 sessions on topics ranging from building hoop houses to composting, making herbal remedies, canning, starting a root cellar, dancing, singing, creating community art, goat-milking, spinning, and starting neighborhood action groups. See below for our 350.org photo. Here are photos from the day by Tamara Wendt. Hand-outs from some sessions are posted at http://a2reskill.blogspot.com. Feel free to log in with a google account and add your own.
Warmly,
The Transition Ann Arbor initiating team: Nathan Ayers, Lisa Dugdale, Jeannine LaPrad, Jeanne Mackey, Jeannine Palms
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? Upcoming events:
o 11/5--Nathan Ayers speaks at Washtenaw Community College’s 2nd Annual Environmental Series
o 11/7—Living Lightly Presents Transition Towns: Use Less, Live More. MI Friends Center, Chelsea
o 11/11—The Ecology Center Presents Bill McKibben. $5 discount for Transition Ann Arbor supporters. Rackham Auditorium
o 11/19—Introduction to Transition. Presentation and open space discussion. Tappan Middle School
? Call for neighborhood organizers and other volunteers
Upcoming Events
11/5, Thursday, 1:00 PM. Transition Ann Arbor at Washtenaw Community College's Second Annual Environmental Series. WCC Health and Fitness Center, 4833 East Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor. Nathan Ayers talks about the Transition Towns movement. Info: bjakubows@wccnet.edu or visit http://www.wccnet.edu/news-events/articles/view/77/
11/7, Saturday, 8:30-4:00. Michigan Friends Center (Chelsea). Living Lightly presents Transition Towns: Use Less, Live More. The day includes an intro to Transition Towns, followed by world café: small-group conversations to share our visions of the possible future. Afternoon workshops include beekeeping, hoop houses, worm composting, insight meditation, acupressure, pickling, solar ovens, and poultry raising. Flyer is here: http://www.transitionchelsea.org/LivingLightlyPresents3.pdf
Conference is free, donations accepted. A delicious lunch of local foods will
be available for $10. Presented by
Transition Town Chelsea,
Michigan Friends Center, and Transition Ann Arbor. To register: call
734-475-1892 or see
http://michiganfriendscenter.org/registration.html
11/11, Wednesday, 8 p.m.: The Ecology Center Presents Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. Stop by and say hi at the Transition Ann Arbor table! SPECIAL OFFER: The Ecology is offering the member discount of $5 for Transition Ann Arbor supporters. Mention this when you send it in your check or pay online and pay $20 instead of $25. (Tix for students are $10.) Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St. Ann Arbor. http://www.ecocenter.org/events/mckibben.php
11/19, Thursday, 7 p.m. Introduction to Transition. Presentation followed by group conversations (open space format) to explore our visions, strategic questions, next steps. Free. Tappan Middle School media lab. For more info, contact nate [at] transitionannarbor.org
Call for volunteers and neighborhood organizers
Volunteers. Would you like to be part of Transition Ann Arbor? Do you have any of the following skills: tech skills (work on web site), public speaking skills, pr and graphics skills (write press releases, create flyers)? If so, we’d love to talk with you. Please contact transitiona2 [at] transitionannarbor.org
Neighborhoods. At the ReSkilling Festival, we had a session on Transition Together: setting up neighborhood groups to explore ways to support one another and share skills and resources. Here’s the flyer. http://www.transitionannarbor.org/Transition_Together.pdf. If you’re interested, please contact jeannine [at} wetmeadow.org. We’re especially looking for people who can take on some level of leadership for their area.