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Potluck

Time Trade Circle: Creating a Local Economy

Event info: Sunday 20 March 2011 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm

RSVP and Invite your friends to join you on Facebook, Click Here After the economic crisis, more people are bartering with friends and neighbors and forming time banks to share goods and services locally. Come meet local members of the Time Trade Circle, a Boston-area organization with more than 700 members, to learn how you [...]

Tagged as: community, economics, Potluck, urban sustainability

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The Time Trade Circle: A local, recession-proof economy

Event info: Sunday 21 February 2010 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm

What’s a time bank? A time bank is an organization where members have a bank account of time, and exchange time-based services with other members.  It’s a pool of members, and operates like a circle, not a one-to-one swap or barter.  In  a time  bank, for example, Lara makes a cake for Aldo, Keren gives [...]

Tagged as: climate change, community, Potluck

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Spring Songfest and Potluck!

Event info: Sunday 16 May 2010 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Featuring: Ken Ward A family-favorite, singing together helps to bring us into community, learn history, and share a folk-language that can pass through the ages. They give us a way to build and express community, calm the heart, and share emotions that defy ordinary conversation. More information to come!

Tagged as: community, food, Singing

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Songfest! Songs of Thanks

Event info: Sunday 15 November 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

This year we’re kicking off the holiday season with a songfest!  Join us for a potluck, followed by songs of gratitude and thanks. More information to come!

Tagged as: community, Potluck, Singing

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Earth Day Community Songfest

Event info: Sunday 19 April 2009 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Singing together helps to bring us into community, learn history, and share a folk-language that can pass through the ages. They give us a way to build and express community, calm the heart, and share emotions that defy ordinary conversation. This special Earth Day program will focus on songs about our big blue planet! Lead [...]

Tagged as: community, environment, kids, Singing

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Singer-Songwriters of the Seventies: Community Songfest

Event info: Sunday 22 March 2009 – 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Singing together helps to bring us into community, learn history, and share a folk-language that can pass through the ages. They give us a way to build and express community, calm the heart, and share emotions that defy ordinary conversation. Local musicians Ken Ward and Peter Thornton will bring down the house with their rousing [...]

Tagged as: community, kids, Singing

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JP Family Songfest & Singalong

Event info: Sunday 16 November 2008 – 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Singing together helps to bring us into community, learn history, and share a folk-language that can pass through the ages. They give us a way to build and express community, calm the heart, and share emotions that defy ordinary conversation. As we head into the winter darkness, let’s join together and light up from the [...]

Tagged as: community, kids, local, Singing

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“Pete Seeger and The Power of Song” Film and Singing

Event info: Sunday 19 October 2008 – 5:00pm to 7:30pm

Communities are created and strengthened through singing together: no one knew this better than one of America’s most beloved folk singers, Pete Seeger. Come watch parts of the inspirational film, “The Power of Song” and observe Seeger’s ability to bring great social issues into popular discussion through song. and sing a few tunes about social [...]

Tagged as: art, community, elderly, kids, Singing, social movements

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The Global Warming Cafe: Concrete Steps to Decreasing your Carbon Footprint

Event info: Saturday 29 March 2008 – 1:00pm to 5:00pm

  Please note that the day and time of this event is different than other Jamaica Plain Forum Events Saturday, March 29th from 1:00-5:00pm If you were not able to RSVP for this event, please come!  We still have plenty of space for you! Scientists overwhelmingly agree that human activity is dangerously warming the earth. [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, economics, greening, local, politics, social movements, urban sustainability

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“King Corn” Potluck (6:30) and Screening (7:30)

Event info: Friday 14 March 2008 – 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Thanks to the resounding response from parents, our childcare slots available for this screening are now full.  Join our email list to stay updated on future events with childcare! Join us for this potluck (at 6:30), documentary screening (at 7:30), and discussion with “King Corn” subject Ian Cheney. Have you been wondering why Americans are [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, environment, food, greening, social movements, urban sustainability

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Food For Thought: A Case for Local Food

Event info: Wednesday 19 September 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 7:00pm Community Potluck (bring a dish to share!), 7:30pm discussion First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist Parish Hall There many be nothing better than picking a ripe tomato out of your garden in late summer, or bighting into an apple right off the tree in the fall. As we observe [...]

Tagged as: food, greening, local, social movements

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