If you were at the October 19th Earthwork Musicians concert you heard the premier of May Erlewine’s “A Letter from Downstream“. May has made the song available on the Save the Wild Up Website.
We all live downstream, so while you are at their site, please donate to help stop sulfide mining. Below are some additional images from the Earthwork Musicians concert.
Images By Gary L Howe
A transcript of Marty Heller’s keynote address from the Great Lakes BIONEERS Conference-TC is now available online.
To read online or to download a PDF, visit the following link:
“Reconnecting a Local Food Culture“
Note: No, Marty was not attacked by massive basket of tomatoes.
There will be more images from the 2007 Great Lakes Bioneers Conference online soon, but we wanted to share the local news coverage we received this past weekend–The links are below. Here, our farmer-chef extraordinare, Todd Springer, takes a moment out of lunch to talk with 9&10 News.
You can also find images from other Bioneers sites on the Bioneers Flickr
Watch Online: TV 9&10 News
Local Newspaper: Record Eagle
And, Thank you to the Record Eagle for including us in their weekly Cheers section on the opinion page.
– To the Great Lakes Bioneers, who held their sixth annual conference at NMC over the weekend to spread the word about organic farming, alternative energy, the environment, social issues and more. Events included sessions on challenges facing migrant workers in northern Michigan, wind energy in the state and integrating social activism into family life. Weekend programs were to include sessions on natural and healthy foods, green building and marine ecology.
Peter McCreedy rocked our world with his stories of children learning with dirt, stone tools and chucking homemade spears. His key note, and workshop, highlighted the amzing work he is doing as directory of ecology at his school in South Michigan.
Jenee and Kai were two of the humans getting radicalized listening to Peter McCreedy on Saturday. Traverse City’s Great Lakes Bioneers has had some seriously committed moms and pops step-up and make the conference truly family friendly. Is everyone getting their baby fix?
Once again, Glenn Wolf’f directed participatory art space is developing well–this year based on the concept of Fairness. The piece will be hung at Higher Grounds Trading Co.
And, it isn’t time to rest yet Jeremy Truog. We won’t get on his case for taking a well deserved nap, but there is still one day left–so get to work! Thank you to all of the volunteers and NMC staff who make this conference run ever so smooth.
All of us at the Great Lakes Bioneers send a massive shout-out to the other satellite conferences, the headwaters and all the other creatures sharing this planet with us-four legged, two legged and no-legged alike. Spectacular energy.
Click image for larger file. More photos later when our photographer actually gets to work.
For images from the headwaters and other satellite conference, go to: Bioneers Images
Food and music. I guess that’s our favorite subject.
Here’s some of Gary Howe’s shots of the first day of the Great Lakes Bioneers Conference in Traverse City. Marty Heller was our first local keynote reminding us that the local food movement is very radical and also very alive in Michigan.
There were more kids than ever running around with the new family friendly space and workshops.
Todd Springer mixes a mess of local greens for our lunches. We ate them along with corn pone and, yes, some tofu chili.
Sally Neal was first in line for lunch. She is one of the many amaaaaazing Sally’s who work on our conference.
Ten musicians graced our stage Friday evening for the Earthwork Concert. Make that 13 with three surprise - and somewhat shy - guest stars (not pictured here). Songs were medicine tonight. From the ice age to the future and back again; literally. It’s never too late to take back the future.
We are kicking off the 6th Great Lakes Bioneers Conference in Traverse City today. We will start with a keynote address by local farmer Marty Heller about “Re-creating a Local Food Culture and Why We All Need to Get Involved in Reshaping the Federal Food Bill“.
After that, we break into workshops covering subjects like Social Justice and Michigan’s Migrant Community, Wind Energy, How to Incorporate Activism into Family Life and many more opportunities for synergy. Of course, at mid-day there is an deee-lisious locally envisioned and produced lunch before the afternoon plenary speakers who include Jay Harman, Judy Baca, Judy Wicks, John Abrams before we are blown away by Van Jones. (Complete profiles).
All followed by a concert by a collective of Earthwork Musicians. Actually, I think I missed many of thethings happening today, so you might just want to come down and check it out for yourself.
It’s BLOG Action Day…did you know that? Over 12,000 BLOGS are blogging about the environment today. Here at the Great Lakes Bioneers, where everything is connected, we were already planning to do that. We wanted to let you know that with only 4 days to go before the 2007 conference, that pre-registration options are now closed. If you want to participate, and we know you do, just come on the day (s) you can and we will fix you up.
On site registration will take place in Scholars Hall on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College beginning at 8:00 am on Fri. Oct. 19, Sat. Oct. 20 and Sun. Oct. 21. Arrive early to ensure that you don’t miss any of the morning speakers.
There is room, and we would love to see you.
The Great Lakes BIONEERS made the front page of the B section in today’s Record Eagle. Pioneering healthier living: Great Lakes Bioneers convene by Cymbre Foster gives a rounded description of what we are offering at the 2007 conference–”from local farmers, green builders, water keepers, small business owners, teachers, healers, artists”.
Read the full article here: Pioneering healthier living: Great Lakes Bioneers convene
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Jan-Michael Stump/Record-Eagle
Less than two weeks to go…Are you registered?
We can no long accept registrations that are mailed in, because we just can’t guarantee that they will get to us in time. You can certainly still register online at our secure online registration (until the 14th), or simply come and register on site.
Downloads you might want:
1. Registration Brochure (PDF)
2. Registration Form (PDF)
“It is difficult to believe our story, but if we don’t tell you, you won’t know.”
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to screen WAR/DANCE for our Saturday night film. This documentary tells the story of Dominic, Rose, Nancy and their school in the Patongo Internally Displaced Persons camp as they take an historic journey to compete in Uganda’s national music and dance festival. This powerful and vivid film received the Best Non-Fiction Film award at the 2007 Traverse City Film Festival. It is schedule to hit theaters nationally on November 2, and so this is an opportunity for people in Northern Michigan to once again see this film before its official release.
The film is presented by the Great Lakes Bioneers as part of the annual Great Lakes Bioneers Conference held on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College October 19-21, 2007. Its open to everyone, so even if you can’t make the conference, come join us for a movie.
We will be accepting donations at the event on behalf of the Patongo Scholarship Fund, which is overseen by the co-director of War/Dance, Sean Fine.
BIONEERS at the Movies!
October 20th in the Milliken Auditorium
$7/$5 students
Doors open at 7PM, Film at 7:30PM
For more info: ART meets EARTH
Student Registration available here on September 1. Printable poster here (PDF)
Registration brochures have been sent out and we are beginning to receive a your registrations. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
We also offer secure online registration. It helps us save some paper and it even helps us with some of the adminstration time, so we encourage you to register online.
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