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Monday, April 20, 7-9 PM
Berkeley Partners for Parks Earthweek Symposium:
Citizens and Our Local Green Spaces:
Maximizing Your Input
Join Sue Ferrera, Berkeley Parks Supervisor, and experienced leaders in a conversation on how to start a project, work with government, get funding, and attract volunteers. Find out specifics on the upcoming UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Community Partnership Grants! Tell your friends! Put it on your calendar! West Berkeley Senior Center, 1900 Sixth St. (at Hearst).
Thriving Communities: Funding for Local Parks & Urban Greening
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
You are invited to attend Building Thriving Communities: Funding for Local Parks & Urban Greening, on Tuesday, December 9th,co-sponsored bythe Bay Area Open Space Council and the California Council of Land Trusts.
The workshop will include a session entitled "Environment, Race and PrivilegeLiving in Relationship" followedbypresentations on new funding opportunities for local parks and urban greening. Please see the attached agenda for more details.
The location for this workshop is still being finalized, but it will be in either San Francisco or Oakland and will be transit accessible. A follow-up email will be sent when the location is set.
A fee of $25 is necessary to cover the cost of refreshments, lunches and handouts. Checks should be made payable to Bay Area Open Space Council and either brought the day of the meeting or mailed to the address below:
Danny Margolis
Greenbelt Alliance
631 Howard Street, Suite 510
San Francisco, CA 94105
Please contact Elizabeth Adam by Today, Friday December 5th at elizabeth@openspacecouncil.org to RSVP.
(BPFP apologizes for the short notice)
AGENDA
10:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions Bettina Ring, Executive Director, Bay Area Open Space Council Chuck Mills, Associate Director, California Council of Land Trusts
10:10 a.m. Environment, Race, Privilege…Living in Relationship Kaylynn Sullivan Two Trees, Artist Carolyn Finney, Geographer
As an artist and geographer respectively, Kaylynn and Carolyn have extensively explored relationships shaped by perception, identity and landscape. Their combined research, artwork, presentations, writing and group facilitations reflect a unique cartography of experience that we wish to expand into broader circles of collaboration.
11:45 a.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. A New Era of Local Conservation
Assembly Member Anna Caballero
1:00 p.m. Partnerships and Opportunities for Greening the Bay Area
Amy Hutzel, Bay Area Program Manager, State Coastal
Conservancy
1:20 p.m. Housing-Related Parks Program – HCD (invited)
1:50 p.m. Strategic Growth Council
Marie Liu, Consultant for Senate Natural Resources
Committee
2:20 p.m. Statewide Park Development and Community
Revitalization Act of 2008 – DPR (invited)
2:50 p.m. Q& A and Next Steps
Chuck Mills
3:20 p.m. Wrap-up
Bettina Ring
Celebrate light in the darkness on Monday, Dec. 1, 3-6 p.m. at the Festival of Lights in Civic Center Park circling the fountain in Berkeley. Make a luminaria to light the walkways, build a gingerbread house, write a letter to Santa, draw your hopes for the future on Berkeley’s giant New Year’s Card, get your face painted, donate a warm coat or canned food. Enter a raffle for Twelve Nights Out in Berkeley – 12 free passes for two to a dinner out or performance from Buy Local Berkeley. There’s holiday music and entertainment, hot chocolate and cookies, and Santa and his elves arrive on a Fire Engine at 5 p.m. with treats for good little girls and boys. And when it gets really dark at 6 p.m., watch as the redwood tree behind City Hall glows in the night as Vice Mayor, Laurie Capitelli turns on the lights.
Sponsored by the City of Berkeley, Berkeley Business District Network, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Berkeley Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Buy Local Berkeley. Produced by Another Bullwinkel Show. Visit www.buylocalberkeley.com for more info.
Winter Solstice
Sunday, Dec 21st
Begins @ 4:10 pm
Sunset @ 4:55 pm
Ends @ 5:10 pm
Led by Alan Gould, Lawrence Hall of Science
Dress Warmly – The weather is part of the experience
While the Interim Solar Calendar site is primarily set up for citizen self inquiry and informal learning, a series of four seasonal gatherings are held at the site each year on the solstices and equinoxes.
These gatherings, led by interpretive specialists, will provide an explanation of how the site operates along with the overall educational purposes of the project. Each gathering will also include some aspect of the homage to César Chávez.
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Friends of Five Creeks had a busy Saturday, Nov. 8, volunteering in Eastshore State Park. In the morning, a dozen King Middle School 6th graders levered out broom bushes, pulled invasive ice plant, picked up trash, and planted native grasses, all in the course of an interpretive walk from Shorebird Park to the mouth of Strawberry Creek.
In the afternoon, more than 25 volunteers from UC Berkeley (Circle K and Roots and Shoots service clubs) and the community cleared a big broom thicket and masses of invasive weeds from the ecologically important Berkeley Meadow, north of University Avenue.
We’ll be planting natives at Cerrito Creek on November 22, and working on the waterfront again Dec. 6. See the calendar, or www.fivecreeks.org, and join us!