Nat’l Earth Month & Poetry Month To Dos 2008

The highlight of Earth Month AND National Poetry Month locally will be the visit to Ventura College by Al Young, California’s State Poet Laureate.Links and more details ASAP!

FSS 3/28. 29, 30 SB Poetry Conference w/Phil Levine $325

F 3/28 Emy Reynolds at Zoeys Cafe

S 3/29 Food Crew Party Artbarn

S 3/29 1-8pm Create an artists’ book that looks like a good old fashioned matchbook. Print on two presses, score and cut! At Lettre Sauvage.

S 3/30 Homeless film fest, Artbarn

M 3/31 7pm Primal Circus, Accolades, El Jardin Courtyard
An evening of avant garde music, performance and film to celebrate the closing of gauvin’s art show. Work by Send My Regards, Opal Gann, gauvin, Sophia Kidd as Astra III, Allen D. Glass II & M.A.H.O. at Accolades Gallery in Ventura.

T 4/1 730pm Dorothea Grossman & Michael Vlatkovich Artists Union April Fools!

T 4/1 Lucy in the Sky’s Fantasy Haircuts aka Puplicious the Victorian Clown’s grand re-opening on Fir

W 4/2 Cover 101? workshop 6-9p Crowne Plaza where C st meets the sea

S 4/5 7-9pm Poetry, jazz, print: Poets Jackson Wheeler, Lois Klein, Paul Lobo Potugeus & AJ Ford with Colter Frazier on jazz sax, print work by lettre sauvage, Santa Barbara Public Library $5

T 4/8 730pm Diana Raab + O Artists Union

W 4/9 noon & 2pm Amalio Madueno VC

S 4/12 from the Margins reading Artists Union

S 4/13 Earth Day Ventura

M 4/14 Laynie Browne reading & discussion on modern sonnets

T 4/15 Lois Klein + o Artists Union

T 4/17 6pm Dengue Fever instore at Salzers

S 4/19 7pm Adrianne Marcus & Carol V. Davis, Carnegie Art Museum $3

S 4/19 Calque – Suzanne Jill Levine, Stephen Kessler, Craig Santos Perez & Jen Hofer 7:30 pm Beyond Baroque (LA) $10

SS 4/19, 20 Chumash Days Malibu Bluffs Park

S 4/20 Santa Monica Pier Earth Day Concert

M 4/21 CA Poet Laureate Al Young noon, 130, 730pm VC

T 4/22 Sojourner Kincaide Rolle +O 7:30 pm Tuesday Night Poets – Artists Union Gallery

W 4/23 Earth Action Day, VC

FSS 4/25, 26, 27 COACHELLA Music and Arts Festival

SS 4/26, 27 LA Times Book Festival

SS 4/26, 27 Ventucky Artwalk

S 4/26 Poet’s Seder – Laurel Ann Bogen, Ellyn Maybe, Larry Colker, Rachel Kann, Claudia Handler & Rick Lupert 7:30 pm Beyond Baroque, Venice $10

S 4/26 Sherman Pearl +O 7:30 pm Bell Arts Factory, Ventucky

W 4/30 Al Young, Oxnard College

BTW, any of these events would count toward a cultural/literary/eco event; help out and it will count toward service learning. make-up or extra credit!

5th grade Eco Service Learners Win Big

Today we announced the winning fifth grade class for the Disney’s Environmentality Challenge–a Sacramento-area school which did a project on restoring the American River. Watch these kids’ excitement after learning they’ve won a trip to Disneyland for their year-long environmental project efforts and tell me if you don’t get misty too!

Marialyce Pedersen
Disney’s Environmentality
http://cbs13.com/local/students.disney.contest.2.686382.html

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/816620.html

Earth Day on Campus: Call for Climate

Earth Day on Campus: CALL FOR CLIMATE!

Now more than ever, youth activists are playing a vital role in the political process. On Earth Day, April 22nd, 1,000 college campuses will be sending a clear message on climate change. Make sure the voices of your campus community are heard by joining Earth Day Network in our global Call for Climate by contacting your national leaders and demanding bold, swift and fair action to tackle climate change. And from now until Earth Day, take action and sign Earth Day Network’s Sky Petition.

If you are in the United States, help us generate one million phone calls to Congress on April 22nd. Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your representative or Senator. Tell them the current global warming proposals in Congress are inadequate. Tell them you want:

• A moratorium on new coal-burning plants,
• Renewable energy,
• Carbon-neutral buildings,
• Protection for the poor and middle class in the new green economy.

Buy the official Earth Day 2008 poster and t-shirt and support EDN.

Tell five friends about this campaign – have them enter the Capitol number into their phones now. And make sure they call on Earth Day, April 22nd!

This Earth Day, it’s time to change the forecast for global warming.

CONTRIBUE AN OP-ED TO YOUR CAMPUS NEWSPAPER

You can help make sure that people on your campus are taking notice by contributing an op-ed to your college or university paper on global warming and the Call for Climate campaign. It’s easy to do, and your local paper WILL print them! Start with our template, add information about local Earth Day activities, and hand deliver it to your local college or university newspaper. That’s it! Let us know if you’d like a copy of our draft.

DOWNLOAD CELEBRITY PSA’S TO PLAY ON YOUR LOCAL AIRWAVES

You can help spread the word about the Call for Climate by delivering one of our celebrity Public Service Annoucements (PSA’s) to your campus or local radio station. New this week,Chevy Chase says “Congress has been on a long vacation on climate change!”

Remember, we want to hear about what you’re doing! Contact your regional organizer for advice, tips, or just to let us know what’s going on.