http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//calendar.php Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:18:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.calendarix.com/calendarix.gif Calendarix Logo http://www.calendarix.com/ Feed provided by Calendarix. Click to visit. CINEMA CURIOSA General The Traverse Area District Library Presents: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse The magic and madness of making Apocalypse Now Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' and Francis Ford Coppola's struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Hearts of Darkness is an unforgettable, unflinchingly honest account of a landmark film that was a miracle in the making. “filmmaking has never been documented with more penetration and truth than in Hearts of Darkness" - Roger Ebert "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane." - Francis Ford Coppola “The most engrossing, most revealing film about the making of a movie ever produced.” – Hal Hinson, The Washington Post (1991) 96 min. 7 7 2008 Monday http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=199 19:30 21:00 IndyFlix@theState: "POPaganda" General IndyFlix at the State Theater presents "POPaganda" at 7:30 pm It’s hard to go wrong with a film about Ron English, the brilliant guerrilla artist notorious for replacing corporate billboards and advertisements with satirical and pointed attacks on consumer culture, and one of the key figures of the culture-jamming movement. Pedro Carvajal’s colorful documentary—a highlight of the “Howl!” festival—doesn’t exactly get intimate, but it’s still a riveting look at a fascinating subversive and his work. (1 hr. 18 mins.; NR) (1 hr. 51 mins.; R) — LOGAN HILL AND BILGE EBIRI 14 7 2008 Monday http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=192 The Guantanamo Story with H. Candace Gorman General The Guantanamo Story with H. Candace Gorman Thursday, July 24th 7PM at Friends Meeting House 5th and Oak in Traverse City Hear H. Candace Gorman, a Civil Rights and Human Rights attorney from Chicago and visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, speak on her experiences at Guantanamo Bay prison and her representation of two detainees being held there. Sponsored by Campaign Against Torture, ACLU of Northwest Michigan, Neahtawanta Center, MidEast:JustPeace, Traverse for Peace and Justice, Progressive Lawyers, Veterans for Peace and Friends of the Light-Quaker Meeting Free/Public Invited Coffee and desserts provided to lighten this difficult topic. 24 7 2008 Thursday http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=206 19:00 21:00 Healthy Lakes Tour General HEALTHY LAKES HEALTHY LIVES TOUR COMING TO TRAVERSE CITY The Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives Tour will be coming to Traverse City this summer, and we would love to get you involved! In short, the Healthy Lakes Tour will be taking a high profile boat (the Earth Voyager) to 12 port cities from Buffalo to Chicago to raise awareness for Great Lakes restoration and the need for federal funding to accomplish the task. The Healthy Lakes Tour will be in Traverse City on July 24-27, 2008. We would like to thank the City of Traverse City for partnering on this event. For those of you who have been involved in our initial planning stages of the Healthy Lakes Tour, THANK YOU and please read below for an update. For those of you who are just learning of this event, please read below for ways in which you can get involved. BACKGROUND To give you a little background, the purpose of the Healthy Lakes Tour is to: Raise the importance of Great Lakes Restoration to a national priority Use press conferences to have legislators voice support for the Great Lakes Regional Strategy http://epa.gov/greatlakes/collaboration/strategy.html. Have the keynote speaker refer to the Brookings Institution report Healthy Lakes, Strong Economy: The Benefits of Restoring the Great Lakes Ecosystem, which cites a short-term 2 to 1 return on investment, and a long-term 3 to 1 return on investment. http://www.healthylakes.org/site_upload/upload/GrtLakesCostBenefit.pdf Mobilize public opinion for restoration Unite Industry and Conservation groups to support restoration based on the mutual benefit of economic and environmental revitalization. Highlight and celebrate successful restoration projects in and around the ports of call. Give ports the unique opportunity to network organizations that don’t usually cross paths. Please take a look at the attached file from the Healing Our Waters Coalition for more information on the rationale behind the Healthy Lakes Tour. TRAVERSE CITY ACTIVITIES We have several activities planned as part of the Healthy Lakes Tour in Traverse City this summer. The tentative schedule is as follows: Thursday, July 24 - Earth Voyager arrives at the Great Lakes Campus - Dockside public outreach by Earth Voyager crew and Healing Our Waters representatives Friday, July 25 - Morning reception at the Great Lakes Campus with speakers addressing the Great Lakes Restoration Strategy - Dockside public outreach by Earth Voyager crew and Healing Our Waters representatives Saturday, July 26 - Earth Voyager moves to Clinch Park Marina - "Bay Day" events in Clinch Park, including a beach cleanup, information booths and hands-on activities presented by a variety of local water-related nonprofit groups - Dockside public outreach by Earth Voyager crew and Healing Our Waters representatives Sunday, July 27 - Flotilla send-off for the Earth Voyager Throughout the Earth Voyager’s visit to Traverse City, public outreach opportunities will be provided dockside. HOW TO GET INVOLVED There are a variety of ways for you and your organizations to become involved with the Healthy Lakes Tour. Here are just a few: Plan to join us for the morning reception on July 25 at the Great Lakes Campus. We will be in touch with a formal invitation that will include more details on this event. Consider hosting a booth and/or hands-on activity as part of the Bay Day event on July 26 in conjunction with The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay. This is a great way to highlight the work of your organization, promote Great Lakes stewardship and celebrate the water resources in our own community. Sarah U’Ren and I will be refining some of the details of this day, and would appreciate your input. If you are involved in a sailing/boating operation, or if you have a personal boat, join the flotilla send-off on July 27. We’ll be in touch with more details on this as the Earth Voyager schedule is finalized. Join the planning team. We could use some additional help in planning the events of the Healthy Lakes Tour. You may have ideas of additional activities that you would like to incorporate into the event and that would be fantastic. If you are interested in helping with the planning process, let me know and we can talk about specific needs. Spread the word! Please forward this information on to others that you think might like to become involved, and post it on your community calendars. THANK YOU’S We would like to extend a special thank you to the Healthy Lakes Tour organizers, Janice Littlefield and Peter Alexander, for selecting Traverse City as one of their ports of call. We would also like to thank the City of Traverse City for partnering on this event with us. Thank you to the participants of the April 10 planning meeting from Michigan SeaGrant, Inland Seas Education Association, The Watershed Center, Michigan DNR and Bioneers, and to those of you who could not attend the meeting but who have since made a commitment to help make this event a success. Thanks also to Sarah U'Ren for taking the lead on the Bay Day events. This is a great opportunity to bring attention to the Great Lakes and to our community – and we couldn’t make it happen without all of you. We will be in touch with more details as these events are further developed. We just wanted to give you all some background on the Healthy Lakes Tour and to encourage you all to get involved! Take care, Colleen Masterson Colleen Masterson Education Coordinator Great Lakes Water Studies Institute Northwestern Michigan College 1701 E. Front Street Traverse City, MI 49686 (231) 995-1722 phone (231) 995-1794 fax cmasterson@nmc.edu TILL 27 JULY 2008 24 7 2008 Thursday http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=167 Critical Mass Community Bike Ride General Join your neighbors and friends on a group bike ride through Traverse City. Feel the joy at zero gallons per mile. More information: http://TraverseAlive.com 25 7 2008 Friday http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=184 17:30 19:30 CINEMA CURIOSA [Date: 7 July 2008, Monday, From: 7:30pm To: 9:00pm] http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=199
Hearts of Darkness:
A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

The magic and madness of making Apocalypse Now

Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' and Francis Ford Coppola's struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Hearts of Darkness is an unforgettable, unflinchingly honest account of a landmark film that was a miracle in the making.

“filmmaking has never been documented with more penetration and truth than in Hearts of Darkness" - Roger Ebert

"We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane." - Francis Ford Coppola

“The most engrossing, most revealing film about the making of a movie ever produced.”
– Hal Hinson, The Washington Post

(1991) 96 min.
]]> aaron General Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:07:10 +0100 CA1720070707-0-20080118-1-199 IndyFlix@theState: "POPaganda" [Date: 14 July 2008, Monday] http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=192
It’s hard to go wrong with a film about Ron English, the brilliant guerrilla artist notorious for replacing corporate billboards and advertisements with satirical and pointed attacks on consumer culture, and one of the key figures of the culture-jamming movement. Pedro Carvajal’s colorful documentary—a highlight of the “Howl!” festival—doesn’t exactly get intimate, but it’s still a riveting look at a fascinating subversive and his work. (1 hr. 18 mins.; NR) (1 hr. 51 mins.; R) — LOGAN HILL AND BILGE EBIRI
]]> rob General Tue, 27 May 2008 08:43:09 +0100 CA1720070707-0-20080118-1-192 The Guantanamo Story with H. Candace Gorman [Date: 24 July 2008, Thursday, From: 7:00pm To: 9:00pm] http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=206
Thursday, July 24th 7PM at Friends Meeting House
5th and Oak in Traverse City
Hear H. Candace Gorman, a Civil Rights and Human Rights attorney from Chicago and visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, speak on her experiences at Guantanamo Bay prison and her representation of two detainees being held there.

Sponsored by Campaign Against Torture, ACLU of Northwest Michigan, Neahtawanta Center, MidEast:JustPeace, Traverse for Peace and Justice, Progressive Lawyers, Veterans for Peace and Friends of the Light-Quaker Meeting

Free/Public Invited
Coffee and desserts provided to lighten this difficult topic.

]]> marian General Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:43:53 +0100 CA1720070707-0-20080118-1-206 Healthy Lakes Tour [Date: 24 July 2008, Thursday] http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=167
The Healthy Lakes, Healthy Lives Tour will be coming to Traverse City this summer, and we would love to get you involved! In short, the Healthy Lakes Tour will be taking a high profile boat (the Earth Voyager) to 12 port cities from Buffalo to Chicago to raise awareness for Great Lakes restoration and the need for federal funding to accomplish the task. The Healthy Lakes Tour will be in Traverse City on July 24-27, 2008. We would like to thank the City of Traverse City for partnering on this event.

For those of you who have been involved in our initial planning stages of the Healthy Lakes Tour, THANK YOU and please read below for an update. For those of you who are just learning of this event, please read below for ways in which you can get involved.
BACKGROUND

To give you a little background, the purpose of the Healthy Lakes Tour is to:
Raise the importance of Great Lakes Restoration to a national priority
Use press conferences to have legislators voice support for the Great Lakes Regional Strategy http://epa.gov/greatlakes/collaboration/strategy.html.
Have the keynote speaker refer to the Brookings Institution report Healthy Lakes, Strong Economy: The Benefits of Restoring the Great Lakes Ecosystem, which cites a short-term 2 to 1 return on investment, and a long-term 3 to 1 return on investment. http://www.healthylakes.org/site_upload/upload/GrtLakesCostBenefit.pdf
Mobilize public opinion for restoration
Unite Industry and Conservation groups to support restoration based on the mutual benefit of economic and environmental revitalization.
Highlight and celebrate successful restoration projects in and around the ports of call.
Give ports the unique opportunity to network organizations that don’t usually cross paths.
Please take a look at the attached file from the Healing Our Waters Coalition for more information on the rationale behind the Healthy Lakes Tour.
TRAVERSE CITY ACTIVITIES

We have several activities planned as part of the Healthy Lakes Tour in Traverse City this summer. The tentative schedule is as follows:

Thursday, July 24
- Earth Voyager arrives at the Great Lakes Campus
- Dockside public outreach by Earth Voyager crew and Healing Our Waters representatives

Friday, July 25
- Morning reception at the Great Lakes Campus with speakers addressing the Great Lakes Restoration Strategy
- Dockside public outreach by Earth Voyager crew and Healing Our Waters representatives

Saturday, July 26
- Earth Voyager moves to Clinch Park Marina
- "Bay Day" events in Clinch Park, including a beach cleanup, information booths and hands-on activities presented by a variety of local water-related nonprofit groups
- Dockside public outreach by Earth Voyager crew and Healing Our Waters representatives

Sunday, July 27
- Flotilla send-off for the Earth Voyager

Throughout the Earth Voyager’s visit to Traverse City, public outreach opportunities will be provided dockside.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED

There are a variety of ways for you and your organizations to become involved with the Healthy Lakes Tour. Here are just a few:
Plan to join us for the morning reception on July 25 at the Great Lakes Campus. We will be in touch with a formal invitation that will include more details on this event.
Consider hosting a booth and/or hands-on activity as part of the Bay Day event on July 26 in conjunction with The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay. This is a great way to highlight the work of your organization, promote Great Lakes stewardship and celebrate the water resources in our own community. Sarah U’Ren and I will be refining some of the details of this day, and would appreciate your input.
If you are involved in a sailing/boating operation, or if you have a personal boat, join the flotilla send-off on July 27. We’ll be in touch with more details on this as the Earth Voyager schedule is finalized.
Join the planning team. We could use some additional help in planning the events of the Healthy Lakes Tour. You may have ideas of additional activities that you would like to incorporate into the event and that would be fantastic. If you are interested in helping with the planning process, let me know and we can talk about specific needs.
Spread the word! Please forward this information on to others that you think might like to become involved, and post it on your community calendars.
THANK YOU’S

We would like to extend a special thank you to the Healthy Lakes Tour organizers, Janice Littlefield and Peter Alexander, for selecting Traverse City as one of their ports of call. We would also like to thank the City of Traverse City for partnering on this event with us. Thank you to the participants of the April 10 planning meeting from Michigan SeaGrant, Inland Seas Education Association, The Watershed Center, Michigan DNR and Bioneers, and to those of you who could not attend the meeting but who have since made a commitment to help make this event a success. Thanks also to Sarah U'Ren for taking the lead on the Bay Day events.

This is a great opportunity to bring attention to the Great Lakes and to our community – and we couldn’t make it happen without all of you. We will be in touch with more details as these events are further developed. We just wanted to give you all some background on the Healthy Lakes Tour and to encourage you all to get involved!

Take care,
Colleen Masterson

Colleen Masterson
Education Coordinator
Great Lakes Water Studies Institute
Northwestern Michigan College
1701 E. Front Street
Traverse City, MI 49686
(231) 995-1722 phone
(231) 995-1794 fax
cmasterson@nmc.edu ]]> admin General Fri, 09 May 2008 10:08:43 +0100 CA1720070707-0-20080118-1-167 Critical Mass Community Bike Ride [Date: 25 July 2008, Friday, From: 5:30pm To: 7:30pm] http://www.traverseareaprogressives.org//cal_popup.php?id=184
More information: http://TraverseAlive.com]]> watc General Tue, 13 May 2008 12:39:18 +0100 CA1720070707-0-20080118-1-184