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This is the place to share your public Eco-Educational Events with the larger community. These may include local calls to action (such as scheduled beach clean-ups, letter writing campaigns or protests), environmental education programs (including organic farming, alternative energy, green/suatainable living, social justice, etc.) and related programs.
Please note: The opinions offered at these events are the sponsors' own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of SpiritLiving or its staff.
DECEMBER
December 6th • Brooklyn, New York, USA
Wild Food Talk & Gathering
Prospect Park
Join "Wildman" Steve Brill (www.wildmanstevebrill.com) for a foraging event and learn about wild edibles in your area! We'll be searching for wild carrots, sassafras, burdock, crabapples and wild Ginko biloba! • Call (914) 835-2153 at least 24 hours ahead to reserve a place.
December 6th & 7th • Falmouth, Maine, USA
Shamanic Journey Process Workshop
Maine Audubon Gilsland Farm Center
Join Evelyn C. Rysdyk (author of Modern Shamanic Living)and C. Allie Knowlton, MSW, LCSW, DCSW for a fun and enriching weekend that can lead you on the path of joy, connection and power! Shamanic journeying is an excellent way to begin or renew a conscious relationship with Spirit and your own soul's gifts as well as strengthen your own intuition. Practitioners report that journeying helps to reduce anxiety, brings more joy in living, helps you feel more powerful and can help to reduce pain.
This weekend workshop will introduce participants to the shamanic journey experience. We will explore this ancient method to safely contact the spirit realms of the Upper World, Middle World and Lower World for guidance, insight and healing. Drumming is used during the journey as an aid to shifting consciousness in the way our wise ancestors all across the Earth, have done for centuries.
Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., • $200 per person • No prerequisite. • Advance registration necessary! • Spirit Passages, PO Box 426, Yarmouth, ME 04096 • (207) 846-6829
December 7th • Mumbai, India
Live Earth India
This year’s concert for a climate in crisis, will feature world-renowned musicians and performers, environmental advocates and celebrities from India, the U.S. and all over the globe. The show will be broadcast throughout Asia live on the STAR networks, and will be streaming live and available on demand on MSN worldwide. How can you be part of what's happening in India? Host a Friends of Live Earth (http://liveearth.org/friends) event on or around December 7th... and educate yourselves and your friends about how India can help change the world and solve the climate crisis. • http://liveearth.org/india
December 7th • Manhattan, New York, USA
Wild Food Talk & Gathering
Central Park
Join "Wildman" Steve Brill (www.wildmanstevebrill.com) for a foraging event and learn about wild edibles in your area! We'll be searching for wild carrots, sassafras, burdock, crabapples and wild persimmon! • Call (914) 835-2153 at least 24 hours ahead to reserve a place.
December 7th
Waxing Crescent Moon
December 13th • Falmouth, Maine, USA
Owls of the World
Maine Audubon Gilsland Farm Center
Join naturalist Marcia Wilson and photographer Mark Wilson as they share their passion for owls! The program will start with a slide show to introduce you to the owls of New England and beyond; you'll then get a hooting lesson, tips on how to identify and find owls without disturbing them, and an opportunity to see six live owls, including a northern saw-whet, eastern screech, barred, great horned, snowy, and the newest member of the program, a spectacled owl. Three presentation times: 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., 1:30-2:45 p.m., or 4-5:15 p.m. (choose one) • Members: $10/adult, $5/child • Nonmembers: $12/adult, $8/child. • Advance registration necessary! • Maine Audubon, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, Maine 04105 • 207-781-2330, ext. 215
December 13th - 14th • Homestead, Florida, USA
Moonfaire: A Winter Solstice Celebration
28655 South Dixie Highway
Celebrate the season with our spiritual community. Bring your drums and a blanket to sit on and prepare for a day of family, spirituality and magick as you drum the day away within our inner circle located within our vendors village featuring south floridas best psychics, healers, artists and local spiritual shops. Bring your regalia and express your spirituality through costume and bring your crystals, wands and cloaks to be charged in the great vortex these grounds carry. Admission: $5 • (305) 953-5546 • http://www.thewitchsgarden.com
December 14th
Full Moon
December 19th
Waning Crescent Moon
December 21st • All Across Northern Europe and Scandinavia
Yule (Longest Night of the Year)
December 21st • Falmouth, Maine, USA
Winter Solstice Celebration
Maine Audubon Gilsland Farm Center
It's the fifteenth year of Allie and Evelyn facilitating the Winter Solstice at Maine Audubon! Come celebrate the longest night of the year -- the time that the Sun will begin its return to the Northern Hemisphere. It's an event people have observed since prehistoric times. Join us as we celebrate by:
• Honoring the directions
• Creating a community gratitude bundle
• Enjoying a tale about wildlife and the season by storyteller/naturalist Margi Huber
• Creating a seasonal craft
This is a lovely alternative to the hustle and bustle of the season, and a perfect opportunity to rekindle your connection to nature. Families are welcome! • 7-8:30 p.m.• Members: $8/adult, $3/child • Nonmembers: $10/adult, $4/child • Advance registration is necessary! • Maine Audubon, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, Maine 04105 • 207-781-2330, ext. 215
December 22nd
First Day of Hanukkah
December 25th
Christmas Day
December 26th • Across the United Kingdom
Boxing Day
December 26th
First Day of Kwanzaa (Principle: Umoja -Unity)
Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday consists of seven days of celebration, featuring activities such as candle-lighting and pouring of libations, and culminating in a feast and gift giving. Based on harvest festival traditions from across Africa, it was created by Maulana Karenga and first celebrated from December 26th, 1966 to January 1st 1967.
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:
• Umoja (Unity) To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
• Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
• Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
• Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
• Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
• Kuumba (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
• Imani (Faith) To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
December 27th
New Moon
December 27th
Second Day of Kwanzaa (Principle: Kujichagulia -Self-Determination)
December 28th
Third Day of Kwanzaa (Principle: Ujima -Collective Work and Responsibility)
December 29th
Fourth Day of Kwanzaa (Principle: Ujamaa -Cooperative Economics)
December 30th
Fifth Day of Kwanzaa (Principle: Nia -Purpose)
December 31st
Sixth Day of Kwanzaa (Principle: Kuumba -Creativity)
December 31st • Scotland, United Kingdom
Hogmanay Celebrations Begin
Hogmanay (pronounced hog-ma-NAY) is the Scottish holiday that celebrates the New Year. (Observed on December 31 and into the early part of January.)
December 31st
New Year's Eve
January 1st
Have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2009!!
January 1st
Final/Seventh Day of Kwanzaa (Principle: Imani -Faith)
And For Those of You Who Plan Ahead:
March 20 -29th, 2009 • Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Birding Trip With Maine Audubon!
Asa Wright Nature Center and Lodge
Based at a world-renowned, 200-acre wildlife sanctuary in Trinidad's rain-forested northern mountain range, and at the charming Blue Waters Inn in Tobago, birders will travel to several unique natural areas on both islands. While sipping your morning coffee or afternoon rum punch on the verandah you may not even need binoculars to see 25 to 30 species visit the feeding station. Excursions to view red-bellied macaw, scarlet ibis, oilbird and common potoo are highlights. On Tobago , your days combine swimming, snorkeling and cruising in the glass-bottomed boat. Daily birding targets species such as red-billed tropicbird, red-footed and brown boobies, manakins, jacamars, honeycreepers and more. Eric Hynes, host. • Advance registration is necessary! • Maine Audubon, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, Maine 04105 • 207-781-2330, ext. 215
June 26-July 7, 2009 • Newfoundland, Canada
Newfoundland: In the Footsteps of the Vikings
A Natural and Cultural History Journey with Maine Audubon
Walk in the footsteps of the New World's first peoples and explore the home of the first Viking explorers. This exciting holiday starts and ends in Deer Lake, Newfoundland , and explores the nature and geology of the country's western coast. Gros Morne National Park, a United Nations World Heritage Site; L'Anse aux Meadows, North America's only known Viking settlement; and Red Bay, the Labrador home of over 1,500 Basque whalers during the 1540s, are some of the highlights of this unique vacation. This trip also features the northern terminus of the Appalachian Mountains , many birds and wildlife, a Viking feast, and a short journey to the “center of the Earth” (hills formed by the uplift of a deep portion of the Earth's crust). Enjoy Newfoundlanders, their culture, and landscape on this unforgettable holiday as they celebrate the 1,109th anniversary of the Vikings walking our shores. Bob Bittenbender and Margi Huber, hosts. • Advance registration is necessary! • Maine Audubon, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth, Maine 04105 • 207-781-2330, ext. 215
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