Hope Festival Program!
Vist the Green Expo with more than 30 groups and businesses sharing information about smart solutions for a cool planet and the organizational fair with more than 50 groups sharing information about their work to make the world a better place.
Hope Festival
Saturday April 19, 2008
Field House, U Maine, Orono
Performance Stage Schedule
10:15–10:30 Arnie Neptune opens the festival with Penobscot prayer
10:30–11:00 Native American Drumming with Eh pit sisok (Little Women) from Indian Island
11:15–12:00 A-Train Jazz
12:15–12:45 International Student Dancers
1:00–1:45 The UMaine Guitar Ensemble with Nicholas Mather and Patrick Sylvia
2:00–2:45 Zach Field’s Amazing Juggling
3:00–3:45 Nasruddin Puppet Show wisdom tales and stories with Richard Merrill
Children’s Activities Schedule:
(Back and Left of Entrance)
Sara’s Sing Alongs with Sara Yasner
10:00—Workshop—Make your own instruments
12:00—Children’s Performance with created instruments
1:45—Workshop—Make your own instruments
All day:
*Maine Energy Education Program— play with and learn about alternative energy from miniature solar panels and wind mills
* Green Team Maine— learn how you can start a Green Team at your school
* Howling Thread’s— Fiber Art with Tree Heckler “SunSpots”
* The Hudson Museum— Come learn how to play the Waltese, a Native American bowl and dice game
* Windover Arts Center— Make hats from recycled newspapers and decorate them to show off your love for the earth and the environment.
ENERGY FILMS
(Courtesy of Maine Sierra Guild)
12:00—True Cost of Food Like its title, this short animation shows with humor the environmental and human costs of food production and distribution in the US.
12:30—Toast This video demonstrates our underlying and continuing dependence on fossil fuels, using the production and distribution of a commonplace item, bread, as its example. It documents all the fossil fuel inputs from the oil well head (to make the fertilizer to grow the wheat, etc.) to the toaster.
1:00—Transforming Energy: What is Our Future After Oil This video is about the hope of alternative energy as a solution to global warming and the end of cheap oil and gas. It takes us into the lives of scientist, visionaries, students and activists who are on the ground now creating a new energy paradigm.
2:30—Kilowatt Ours (energy efficiency & renewables) An uplifting and sometimes humorous documentary by filmmaker Jeff Barrie who takes viewers on a journey from the coal mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida, as he discovers solutions to America’s energy related problems.
Delicious organic locally grown/produced food for sale
Free admission
Co-sponsors are the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, University of Maine Peace Studies, Cool Bangor, Maine Partners for Cool Communities, Green Campus Initiative, the Maine Peace Action Committee, University of Maine Women’s Studies/Women in the Curriculum.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 8:19 pm under
I don’t see any speakers listed. No keynoters??
April 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am