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Social Sustainability Month 2012: Line-up of Events
Opening Ceremony
Hosted By:
Social Sustainability Month Planning Committee
Monday November 5th, 5-7pm
Location: Womens Resource Center (WRC)
Join us for an evening of free food, freshly
harvested tea, and a collaborative envisioning of what it means to be socially
sustainable.
Restoring the Oak Savanna on PSU campus: One of the
rarest plant communities on earth
Hosted By Sustainability Leadership Center
Friday November 9, 1-2pm
Oak Savanna site: just south of the SRTC
building (across from Starbucks on 10th and Montgomery)
Join us in the dedication of the oak savanna. Learn the
history of the oak savanna its relationship with Native peoples and the decline
of these plant communities when Euro-American settled. Taste food and teas
created from native plants harvested in an oak savanna.
Come find out how you can get involved!
Indigenous Nations People and Food Systems
Hosted By: Eco Femmes and Food Action Collective
Friday November 9th from 5-7pm
Location: Native American Student and Community Center (NASCC)
Gather with our community as we
explore issues around accessing cultural food systems and food on
reservations, while enjoying warm conversation and a seasonal meal.
Natural Paint Making: Part one of a two-day event.
Come one or both days!
Hosted By: Environmental Club and Ujima Center
Saturday November 10th from 11am-4pm
Location:
WRC
Learn how to make natural paints and collaborate on artwork to be
displayed in sustainability hubs throughout campus. A natural builder will be
present to help and to speak on her experience with
sustainable technology. Snacks will be provided! This is the paint-making event
for the mural.
Natural Paint Making: Part two of a two-day event.
Come one or both days!
Hosted By: Environmental Club and Ujima Center
Location:
WRC
Sunday November 11th from 11am-4pm
Learn how to make natural paints and collaborate on artwork to be
displayed in sustainability hubs throughout campus. A natural builder will be
present to help and to speak on her experience with
sustainable technology. Snacks will be provided! This is the paint-applying
part of the mural.
Healthy Relationships Workshop
Hosted by: The EcoFemmes
Thursday November 15th from 3-5pm
Location:
WRC
We invite you to build healthy
relationship skills and learn how to apply them to create sustainable
communities.
Emotional Sustainability Workshop
Hosted By: The
Eco-femmes and Adrienne Graf
Friday November 16th 3pm-4:30pm
Location: WRC
Join us as we learn techniques to
better our emotional wellness, expand our notions of personal sustainability,
and explore ethics and values within self-care.
Interrupting
Oppression: Transformative Theater for Social Change
Hosted By Sustainability
Leadership Center
Friday, November 16 from 4:30pm- 7pm
Location: Multicultural Center
Interested in community building, self-exploration or
developing tools for interrupting oppression? Using Theater of the
Oppressed (TO) techniques, this workshop examines the impacts of oppression on
us both as individuals and as a community. In this interactive workshop we will
examine power, build connection, and create interventions that deepen our
activist work both personally and institutionally. No previous acting
experience is required!
Active Citizen Anthropology
Hosted By: Lambda Alpha
Beta and the Food Action Collective
Saturday November 17th from 10am-2pm
Location: Wisdom of the Elders, 3203 SE 109th Ave. Portland OR 97266
Active
Citizen Anthropology was birthed out of the work of undergraduate anthropology
students in the Spring of 2012 who sought to apply anthropological theory and
methods to service learning activities that equitably benefits the students and
Wisdom of the Elders.
Join us for a potluck and day of service learning.
Green Washed Out
Hosted
By: Sustainability Leadership Center
Monday November 19th from 6-8pm
Location: Lincoln Hall Room LH75
A panel of guests with expertise in
sustainability, marketing, advertising, communications, and art will be asked
questions and discuss the topic of effectively communicating truly sustainable
initiatives in a desensitized society saturated with green washed advertising.
After the event there will be a Q&A session with the audience. Refreshments
will be provided prior to the event and possibly during a break between the
panel discussion and Q&A session.
Thanks Giving; A Celebration and Exploration of Indigenous Traditions
Hosted
By: Sustainability Leadership Center
Monday November 19th from 11am-1pm
Location: Native American Center
Transitioning us into the holiday weekend, we hope to create
an open and celebratory dialogue highlighting indigenous traditions around food
and the holiday of Thanksgiving!
Ivy Pull
Hosted By: Environmental Club
Tuesday November 20 from 3-5pm
Location: WRC
Join us as we restore the landscape at the Women’s Resource Center
entrance while creating an emotionally positive space. We will provide tools
and light refreshments and we will work rain or shine.
Recycle Electronics while Helping the Community!
Hosted By: Environmental
Club
Monday November 26th from 3-5pm
Location: WRC
Not sure what to do with your old electronics? Feel like throwing
them away or hiding them in your closet? Instead, come to this event and learn
how to get rid of your electronics in a way that benefits you, your community,
and the environment. This event will be led by the local organization, Free
Geek. Come learn more about this amazing organization and bring any phones,
computers, cameras or printers you want us to recycle for you!
Maquilapolis
Hosted By: Eco-femmes
Tuesday November 27th from 4pm-6pm
Location: WRC
This film addresses the lives of
female sweatshop workers and the negative effects of globalization in a free
trade zone within Tijuana.
Black
Power Mixtape: An Anti-Racist Documentary
Hosted By: ISO and
Environmental Club
Wednesday November 28th from 5pm -7pm
Location: WRC
Social sustainability has been
gaining more and more attention in recent years. Join us as we explore past
social sustainability activism in the context of anti-racist struggle. We will
be watching a documentary called “Black Power Mixtape” and holding a discussion
about what it means for past and present social justice struggle. A discussion
will follow.
Cider Press
Hosted by: Environmental Club
Friday November 30th from 10am-3pm
Location:
Cobb Oven between Smith and Neuberger
Come celebrate Social Sustainability Month and the end of the term while we
press eight hundred pounds of apples into delicious cider. Bring your own jar,
jug, cup, growler or bucket!
Closing Ceremony
Hosted By: Social Sustainability
Month Planning Committee
Friday November 30th from 4-6pm
Location: WRC
Come reflect on this
year's events over freshly harvested tea and free food.
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