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Featured events

First Monthly Gathering

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2009-11-06 17:35

Monday, November 23

7:00 Introduction to Transition
7:30—9:00 Main Gathering
@ Barrios Unidos, 1817 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz
near Walgreens, next to Folks Cafe (map)

"When's your next meeting?" We finally have an answer to that oft-asked question...something that's not a special event, but a place for people to come and get involved with Transition Santa Cruz.

We are excited to launch our new Monthly Gathering. The gathering is a response to several needs: A way for newcomers to learn about Transition, a place to build community and be connected with others interested in our movement, a place to incubate new ideas, a venue for continuing our education and awareness-raising, and a way to get more actively involved.

Can we do all this in one Gathering each month? We think so, but we need your help with suggestions about how to use this special time. Use the Contact page to let us know your ideas.

Two events from Pachamama and Inner Light Ministries

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2009-10-08 14:06

Wake Up! Social Justice in Action
Fri, Nov 6 – 7-10 pm
Inner Light Center, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel
$15-25/$10 Students and Seniors 62+

Pachamama Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
Sat, Nov 7 – 10 a.m. to 5 pm
Inner Light Center, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel
$20 includes Conscious Consumer Lunch

Special price for both: $30

Neighborhood Organizing Made Easy

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2009-10-08 08:35

Wednesday, October 28

Neighbors7-9 pm
Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz
Free with optional donation

If you are even considering building community in your neighborhood, this evening workshop is not to be missed.

You will meet in small groups with people in your neighborhood area, enjoy some delicious food, socialize a bit, and hear practical ideas from panelists:

  • Reyna Ruiz from Beach Flats Community Center
  • Matthew Marichiba from Seabright Neighbors
  • Sheila Carrillo from the Neighborhood Support Group

There will be Q & A time with each panelist as well.

Also, visit our website's resources page for neighborhood organizing, which has been expanded and improved, including excerpts from the City Repair Project's Placemaking Guidebook.

For more information, contact Aviva Longinotti by email or at 425-0341.

International Day of Climate Action

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2009-10-07 14:10

Saturday, Oct. 24
Rally at Town Clock, 2-4 pm
Music, potluck, film event at Live Oak Grange
4-9 pm

Thanks to 350.org, People Power, Maria Vaz, and others, Santa Cruz will not be lacking in action on this important day. At 2 pm, a junked automobile, pulled by bicycle, will be "put on trial" for charges of crimes against the climate....the rally will continue there until around 4.

At 4, festivities will begin at the Live Oak Grange, between Capitola Rd. and Rodriguez on 17th Ave., in an event organized by Maria Vaz, producer of "A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil." There will be live music and a potluck (bring your own utensils). Transition Santa Cruz will make a presentation; probably some other fine groups as well. The evening will close with a showing of Maria's excellent film. Don't miss it! (Flier below)

Reskilling Expo

Submitted by admin on Fri, 2009-09-25 16:10

Saturday, October 17

10:00 - 4:00
United Methodist Church, 250 California St., Santa Cruz
Admission by donation      $0-$25

A day full of demos on how to reduce food costs and conserve water including:

beekeeping, fruit trees, propagation of culinary and medicinal herbs
backyard berries, chickens and ducks, canning, and foraging
edible green spaces/huertos concretos,  roots, rhizomes and tubers
traditional compost, vermicompost, compost tea, anerobic compost
jam-making, bread-making, seed saving, year-round edible garden
fermenting, solar cooking, incubation, graywater, rainwater catchment
earthworks (swales, berms and basins) and plenty more!

Plus Good Food and Live Bluegrass Music!


Rail Cleanup and Art Day

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2009-09-15 15:02

Sunday, September 27, 2009

What good is a rail corridor?

A lot of good, say our friends at Friends of the Rail Trail and People Power, if we the people own it and put it to good use. We tend to agree, especially in light of a future in which cars will play a diminishing role.

While the Regional Transportation Commission is likely to approve the 11th hour purchase of the corridor (before funding disappears), it doesn't hurt to let them know that we really care.

For this reason, a Rail Cleanup and Art Day has been planned for Sunday, September 27th, at 1PM, to help us put our sentiments into action. We will be cleaning up trash and making art...maybe even painting our visions of what we will do with the rail line in the near future.

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