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Culture
Artist Welcomes Black News Magazine!
The
Culture Artist newspaper column is now available in Black News
Magazine, available online at: http://www.blacknewsmagazine.com.
Welcome
aboard!
News
Item of the Month: We’re Planning an Art Festival!
The
Culture Artist Organization exists to promote the principles of
green living and deep ecology. To achieve these goals, we will be
creating an intentional community whose guiding principle will be
sustainability. This community will feature an educational center,
to be called Tomorrow's Light Center (TLC). TLC will offer ongoing
classes in sustainable living, featuring topics such as organic
gardening, making your own biofuels, building with natural
materials, green burial, natural childbirth, art with recycled
materials, and a host of other topics. TLC will also eventually
offer mental health services for families, focusing on ecotherapy
(using the natural environment as a therapeutic tool through
wilderness adventures, meditative gardening, etc.).
The
Culture Artist Organization has begun the process of partnering
with several agencies throughout Upstate South Carolina and
Western North Carolina in order to make TLC a reality.
Additionally, we have begun plans for the First Annual Forest Moon
Art Festival. This festival will be held sometime in the Summer of
2009. Proceeds from the festival will be used to finance the
building of Tomorrow's Light Center for Sustainability and
Education.
The
festival will feature local musicians from the Greenville, South
Carolina and Asheville, North Carolina regions, as well as artists
from throughout the Southeast. Featured artists will be those who
use found objects and/or sustainable/natural materials in their
works. The event will also feature workshops on topics of
sustainability, green living and holistic health. Many of the
workshop facilitators are the same people who have agreed to
present workshops at TLC once it is completed! This will be a
chance for the local public to get acquainted with the work we're
doing in the community, and to allow people to share the vision of
Tomorrow's Light Center and the Forest Moon Ecovillage.
If
you are an artist, musician, or sustainable living speaker and
would like to add your name to the list of people being considered
for the First Annual Forest Moon Art Festival, email Chuck Hall
at: festival@cultureartist.org!
Culture
Artist Organization Board Members Needed
You
can help to make a difference by volunteering to serve on the
Board of Directors for the Culture Artist Organization! Board
membership is not necessarily restricted to residents of South
Carolina, although the organization is based here for now. We have
board members from as far away as New Hampshire who vote online.
The only requirements for board membership are as follows:
1. You have a sincere desire to promote sustainable living
2. You have a working understanding of the principles of Deep
Ecology
3. You have at least five to ten hours per month to
contribute to the Culture Artist Organization
4. You can travel to South Carolina/North Carolina at least
once a year to volunteer at the annual fundraising art festival
held in summer starting in 2009 or for other activities of the
organization
If
you are interested in serving on the Board of Directors of the
Culture Artist Organization, please contact Chuck Hall at: chuck@cultureartist.org
for a board member application.
Culture
Artist Organization: Moving Toward Nonprofit Status
The Mission Statement of the
Culture Artist Organization has been drafted. The initial draft of
our Mission Statement is as follows:
The
Culture Artist Organization shall strive to be a positive
force for change in educating the general public in the
importance of nature, ecology, and sustainable living
practices. The Culture Artist Organization will do this
through working with the local community and the world at
large to establish educational programs and practical
solutions to environmental problems, guided by the
philosophical principles of Deep Ecology and sustainability.
If you have any
suggestions as we enter into the planning phase of incorporation,
please feel free to contact me at chuck@cultureartist.org!
Progress
Notes on the Culture Artist Sustainable Community
Last month, members of the Design Committee voted on the name
of the Sustainable Community. Everyone who submitted a name got a
vote. The name selected was Forest Moon Ecovillage.
Remember, if you are receiving this newsletter, you have a
vote on any issues concerning the community or the Culture Artist
Organization! All you have to do is to respond by email whenever
an issue arises requiring a vote.
The first facility to be constructed at Forest Moon
Ecovillage will be Tomorrow’s Light Center (TLC). TLC will be a
center for sustainability education, featuring workshops from
artists and people who are involved in green living. If you would
be interested in conducting a workshop at TLC once it is
completed, please email Chuck at chuck@cultureartist.org with your
name, contact information, and title of your workshop.
Website
of the Month for October 2007
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: http://www.attra.org
Looking for the latest in sustainable agriculture and organic
farming news, events and funding opportunities? ATTRA features all
that, plus in-depth publications on production practices,
alternative crop and livestock enterprises, innovative marketing,
organic certification, and highlights of local, regional, USDA and
other federal sustainable agricultural activities.
Do you have a website on sustainability or green living
you’d like to see featured here? Email your suggestion to: info@cultureartist.org.
Chuck
Hall to Speak at Erskine College
Chuck will be speaking on Ecopsychology at Erskine College in
Due West, South Carolina on October 24, 2007 from 12 p.m. to 1
p.m. as a part of the 'Lunch and Learn' series at Moffat Dining
Hall. The lecture is: Ecopsychology: Using Nature to Enhance
Learning. Chuck will also be discussing the work being done to
make Forest Moon Ecovillage in general and Tomorrow’s Light
Center in particular a reality. The general public is welcome, so
if you’re in the area, stop by!
We’re
Looking for Land!
The Culture Artist Organization is currently seeking land for
the purpose of constructing a future educational center and
sustainable community. We are looking for 10 to 100 acres of land
somewhere in upstate South Carolina or western North Carolina. Of
course, we would prefer that the land be donated in trust, but we
would also be interested in owner-financed parcels that meet the
above qualifications.
If you are interested in donating or selling a parcel, please
contact: info@cultureartist.org.
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