NY Green Fest is coming up next weekend! We have lots of excellent
speakers, artists and musicians--many of them from the Ithaca area.
Hope you will be able to join us. Reservations for meal and lodging on
campus must be made by August 1.
NY Green Fest, Aug. 7-9, 2009, Alfred, NY
*http://nygreenfest.org*
NY Green Fest 2009 will be held the weekend of Aug. 7-9 on the campus of
Alfred University in Alfred. Green Fest, which was held in the Ithaca
area in 2003 and 2007, offers a wide range of activities with workshops
and forums, music and poetry, hiking, swimming, yoga, lakeside camping,
dancing, star-watching and drumming.
What distinguishes NY Green Fest from other Green festivals are the many
workshops and forums on political, economic and environmental issues.
Five plenary sessions and 50 breakout workshops will be offered. 75
presenters will participate.
Although Green Fest will not be held in Ithaca this year, several of the
keynote speakers and many of the presenters and exhibitors are from the
Ithaca area.
Art Weaver will be a keynote speaker at Saturday's morning plenary
session. Art will speak on "Renewable Energy, the Audacity of Hope, the
Reality of Change." Art is President of Renovus Energy, a renewable
energy systems design and installation company in Ithaca. Prior to
founding Renovus Energy, Art was a staff scientist at the Cornell High
Energy Synchrotron, conducting research in x-ray biophysics and
proteomics. Art spoke at the first Green Fest in Freeville in 2003 and
at the second Green Fest in 2007 in Ithaca.
Peter Jemison and Lyn Gerry will be keynote speakers Sunday morning,
speaking on sovereignty and sustainability. Peter will also offer a
workshop on the Treaty of Canandaigua and Lyn will participate in a
Green media panel. Peter is the manager of Ganondagan State Historic
Site, a recreation of a 17th-century Seneca village, located in Victor,
New York. He is the editor of Treaty of Canandaigua 1794: 200 Years of
Treaty Relations between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States
(2002), and the director of the film, " Hanondagonyes 'Town Destroyer,'"
in which Seneca tribe members re-enact events of the 18th-century
colonial wars. Peter represents the Seneca Nation on repatriation
issues. He is an artist whose work is been widely shown. Lyn is the host
and producer of the Unwelcome Guests radio program about wealth, power,
and peoples' resistance to the corporate world order. Unwelcome Guests
is broadcast on 20 radio stations across the US, including WEOS Geneva,
WXXE-FM Syracuse and Ithaca Community Radio.
A musical performance by Crow Weaver will open the Saturday evening
plenary before the talks by Joel Kovel and Tony Gronowicz on
revitalizing the relationship between humans and nature. Crow is the
founder of Native Earthling Band in Ithaca. All the outdoor
performances at Green Fest will take place on Crow's solar-powered stage.
Other presenters from the Ithaca area include the following: Joey Gates
from the Center for Environmental Sustainability in Ithaca will offer a
workshop on approaches to landscape for food production and will join a
panel on spiritual aspects of sustainability. Steve Nicholson from
Caroline will do a workshop on living off the grid, Steve Calkins and
Bob Nape from Ithaca will lead a drumming circle. Lee Riddell from
Positive News will speak about Green media.
Five workshops will address issues related to gas drilling in the
Marcellus Shale. Andrew Byers and Dirk Trachy from Newfield will offer
several workshops on gas drilling issues, Chris Burger from Whitney
Point will give a Marcellus Shale overview, Mary Jo Long, Mike Bernhard
and Rachel Treichler from Afton and Hammondsport will speak about local
sovereignty and gas drilling, Meg Krywe and Burton Stein from Arkport
will speak about what gas drilling activists can learn from the Allegany
County anti-nuclear campaign.
Beth Harris from Ithaca will speak about Palestinian Homes and
Communities, Dr. Ismail Mehr from Hornell will speak about Gaza's
Dilemma, Dianne Roe from Corning will present on organizing for peace.
Darin Robbins from Corning will speak about the importance of political
theory, John Doscher from Lockwood will speak about Economics as a
Cultural System and Out of Time: Global Warming, Extinctions, and
Energy. Lee Welles from Corning will read from her Gaia Girls books.
Jennifer Bertron from the Southern Tier Food Bank in Elmira will speak
about local food availability. Steve Lewandowski from Rushville, Program
Director of the Lake Ontario Coastal Initiative, on watershed protection.
Green Fest's Green Fair opens at noon on Friday. Over 45 artists,
craftspeople, farmers, authors, publishers, alternative energy
consultants, alternative fuel vehicles, activist organizations and live
alpacas will exhibit and sell on the Alfred campus green.
Twelve workshops will be offered Friday afternoon on topics ranging from
how to grow nut trees in New York to nuclear is not green. Friday
evening's plenary session features Virginia Rasmussen speaking about the
politics of sustainability and Cyril Mychelako speaking about rights for
nature. Deborah Magone's music will introduce the evening.
Twenty eight workshops will be offered on Saturday in four sessions
throughout the day beginning at 8:30 am. There will be two plenary
sessions: Saturday morning's plenary with Art Weaver and Dan Miner on
the reality of renewable energy, and Saturday evening with Joel Kovel
and Tony Gronowicz on revitalizing the relationship between humans and
nature. Musical offerings by the Lucky Pluckers and Crow Weaver will
introduce the plenaries.
Ten workshops and two plenary sessions on Sunday round out the event.
Sunday morning Bill Kauffman will speak on why localism matters , Peter
Jemison and and Lyn Gerry will speak on sovereignty and sustainability,
and Mike Czarnecki will read his poems. Green Fest's concluding session
begins at 1:45 on Sunday with a concert of political songs by Leonard
Lehrman and Helene Williams and talks on visioning a Green future by
Steve Welzer and Jason Nabewaniec. Jason, from Rochester, is co-chair of
the Green Party US.
*Getting to Green Fest*
Green Fest 2009 will be held on the campus of Alfred University.
Activities will be centered in the Powell Campus Center, 1 Saxon Drive,
Alfred, NY.
*Where to Stay and What to Eat*
Meals and lodging on the Alfred University campus and Foster Lake
campground must be reserved before August 1st. Participants may register
and reserve camping spaces, dorm rooms and meals online at
http://nygreenfest.org/registration.html.
Registration in advance is $85 for the weekend. An additional $20 fee
will be charged for walk-in registrations. One day passes are also
available. Camping is $11 per adult per night, dorm rooms are $25 per
adult per night, apartment suites are $35 per adult per night and rooms
at the Saxon Inn are $89+ per night.. Meals prepared from locally-grown
food are available in the Alfred University dining hall. Three meal
options are available: six meals $75, four meals $50 or Saturday dinner
only $20. Lodging and meals for children are less. Meals and lodging at
Alfred must be reserved by August 1!
For more information or to register online, visit
http://nygreenfest.org/ or call 607-569-2114.
*Green Fest Schedule*
Friday, August 7, 2009
10:00 am, Registration opens
12:00 noon, Exhibits open
1:45 pm, Workshops and Panels, Session 1
3:00 pm, Workshops and Panels, Session 2
4:15 pm, Swimming, hiking, yoga, drumming
5:30-6:30 pm, Dinner in Dining Hall
7:00 pm, Forum on the Politics of Sustainability
Saturday, August 8, 2009
7:30-8:30 am, Breakfast in Dining Hall
8:30 am, Workshops and Panels, Session 3
9:45 am, Forum on Sustainable Energy
11:15 am , Workshops and Panels, Session 4
12:30-1:30 pm, Lunch in Dining Hall
1:45 pm, Workshops and Panels, Session 5
3:00 pm, Workshops and Panels, Session 6
4:15 pm, Swimming, hiking, yoga, drumming
5:30-6:30 pm, Dinner in Dining Hall
7:00 pm , Forum on Politics and Nature
9:30 pm, Music and Dancing
Sunday, August 9, 2009
7:30-8:30 am, Breakfast in Dining Hall
8:30 am, Workshops and Panels, Session 7
9:45 am, Forum on Regionalism and Sustainability
11:30 am , Workshops and Panels, Session 8
12:30-1:30 pm, Lunch in Dining Hall
1:45 pm, Concert, Forum on Visioning a Green Future
3:30 pm, Adjourn
Workshops, Panels and Forums
Allegany Anti-Nuclear Campaign
Approaches to Landscape for Food
Battle for Progressive Media
Build Your Own Wind Turbine
Building Pollywogg Holler
Celebrating Elie Siegmeister
Communities and Hydro Fracturing
Drawing Political Cartoons
Drumming Circle
Economics as a Cultural System
Empire to Earth Community
Feltmaking Workshop
Gaia Girls Readings
Gas Drilling and Local Sovereignty
Gaza's Dilemma
Green Campaign Lessons
Green Media Panels
Hatha Yoga
Importance of Political Theory
Intro to 9/11 Issues
Liberation Ecology Workshop
Living off the Grid
Local Food Supply Systems
Low Cost Solar Collector
9/11 Truth Workshop
Marcellus Shale Overview
Natural Gas 101
Nature Walks
Nonviolent Communication
Nut Tree Growing Workshop
Organizing for Peace
Out of Time: Global Warming
Post Carbon Economies
Poetry from Place Workshop
Political Organizing on Campus
Politics of Sustainability
Rainwater Catchment Systems
Reality of Renewable Energy
Rights for Nature
Small Wind Consumer Education
Sovereignty and Sustainability
Spiritual Basis for Green Living
Sustainability in School Dining
Sustainable Cities Panel
Swimming
Third Party Ballot Access
Third Parties in U.S. Experience
Tickletown Sustainability Projects
Tofumaking Workshop
Treaty of Canandaigua
Visioning a Green Future
Watershed Protection
What is Sustainability
Why Localism Matters
Zero Waste Workshop
/Green Fest is a benefit for the Green Party of New York
and other state Green parties in our region./
*NY Green Fest*
http://nygreenfest.org
PO Box 363
Hammondsport, NY 14840
607-569-2114
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