Loading...Cultivating Connections, "a grassroots, not-for-profit effort offering community support and practical suggestions to facilitate positive change on planet Earth," is hosting programs this month and next that may be a 'must attend' for those wishing to express concern and grief over the Gulf Oil Crisis and would like to see the Sundance Award-winning documentary, "FUEL."
Gulf Oil Crisis
A "Community Gathering of Mourning and Loss: A Response to the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster" will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. (EDT) Monday, July 26, at First Unitarian Church (at Fourth and York Streets) in Louisville. The organizers say "the gathering will offer a rare opportunity to join in solidarity with others who share your grief and pain over the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster. As both theologian Matthew Fox and deep ecologist Joanna Macy have written, in order to be fully healthy and whole, we must afford ourselves the opportunities to feel and express our pain for the state of the world."
The gathering will include the chance for sharing, information about the deep ecology processes and music. Donations are requested.
'FUEL' screening
Later next month, the group will host a screening and discussion workshop on "Fuel: Change Your Fuel, Change the World," which has won the New York Times' Critic Pick and Jay Leno described as "fantastic!"
The workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (EDT) Saturday, August 21, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, 330 N Hubbards Lane. Participants are to bring their own lunch.
Organizers of the screening say that the film "offers a comprehensive and entertaining look at energy in America: a history of where we have been, our present predicament and a solution to our dependence on foreign oil. Rousing and reactionary, FUEL is an amazing, in-depth, personal journey of oil use and abuse as it examines wide-ranging energy solutions other than oil, the faltering US auto and petroleum industries, and the latest stirrings of the American mindset toward alternative energy.
The film will be screened in four segments, interrupted with time to process and discuss the educational and inspirational material along the way. Hosted by Cultivating Connections and the St. Matthews Episcopal Church Green Team, donations are requested.
