Getting Involved
Hi! There are a bunch of ways to get involved.
1. Come! Bring a blanket, umbrella, water, dancing shoes, mother, kids, pen, & art supplies!
2. Bring and display your favorite quote or piece of art that inspires, teaches, or provokes you. (Remember to take it home with you too, please).
3. Bring your summer events to put up on the community calender. We’re going to have a big calender for everyone to post up our summer plans to make this home great: concerts, bike rides, workshops, block parties, community bulletin board building parties, etc.
4. Join the bees! If you want to volunteer in general, we suiting a fleet of bees to keep the honey flowing. We are taking volunteers - bees, costume makers, general helpers. It’ll be as fun as first spring flights, and you’ll get some fantastic cred to brag to your drones; I mean children twenty years from now: ‘Oh yeah? First annual mudder’s day in the ‘Fax? I was there. Yeah, they couldn’t a done it without me.’ Please get in touch with Lis ‘Queen Bee’ Oakham; lis at scaiff dot ca.
5. Vend. If you make something as local, organic, ethical, & community-rooted as you can, then you are welcome to come display your scene at the event. It is a bring-your-own table or blanket event. Gary Skinner is coordinating this part: hands2wood at netscape dot ca.
6. Do a workshop, activity, or performance. If you want to offer something, email Jayme Melrose: garden at nspirg dot org. Also, you can check the list of workshops and activities happening to see if someone needs your help.
7. Play music! It would be so lovely to have people playing music all over the Common all day! Just set up and play somewhere, - as long as you are coming in a spirit of giving and humor, please come giv’er! There will also be a stage, (we hope), as we are planning to have a Musician For Farmers concert from 6pm to 10pm. Bring your dancing shoes! Jeff Torbert is organizing the stage part. You can email him at: jeff_torbert at hotmail dot com
8. Join the storytelling yurt. We have invited the Storytellers Association, and if you have Stories to tell, please come. Contact Lindsay Miller: lindsay.miller at hotmail dot com for the schedule. There will also be a Red Tent hosted by the Midwifery Coalition & Halifax Doulas. This is hosted as a traditional, women’s-only space to talk openly and tell our stories. If you want to help out with this, contact Jean Steinberg: jeansteinberg at gmail dot com
9. Bring your land use, food security, community democracy concerns. One of the yurts is dedicated to land use issues. It will host photos of the Common; maps to discuss community gardens, food and ecological security with; maps to discuss local planning issues with; and complete with some local community planners from the Cities and Environment Unit and Dalhhousie Planning students there to host. If there is something specific you wish to bring for this, please contact rebecca.butler at dal dot ca
9. If you want to help document this happening, please do. If you want to write, photograph, or post to the blog here, please do! Contact Gillian Hyde: gillian at muddersday dot com. If you want to interview someone, email Louise Hanavan: lugekaz at gmail dot com
If you have something that doesn’t fit tidily into one of these categories, or if you have a question, feel free to email: garden at nspirg dot org
In soldiritity.
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness-and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we have been brainwashed to believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling-their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevidability.
Remeber this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhanti Roy