[Peacectr_list] Electric Cars, Solar Power, films & Fun at HOPE Festival this Saturday!

Wed Apr 16 19:39:13 UTC 2008

Visit 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 and enjoy.....

Hope Festival
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. 

Celebrate Earth Day and Global Peace at HOPE Festival

Orono -- The 14 annual  HOPE (Help Organize Peace Earthwide) festival 
to be held on April l9th at the University of Maine Field house will 
provide a wide range of activities for people of all ages to 
celebrate Earth Day and  their connections to the earth and to each 
other and to  learn how they can become involved in reducing their 
own "footprint". The festival will feature a Green Expo along with 
live entertainment , films and an organizational fair with more than 
80 groups. After the opening ceremony with Penobscot Elder, Arnie 
Neptune and drumming with Eh Pit Sisok (Little Women) from Indian 
Island, people will be able to  browse among the information tables, 
pick up buttons, bumper stickers and t-shirts, they will also be 
entertained by  the lively jazz of A-Train at 11:15, International 
Student Dancers at 12:15,  the peaceful music of the U Maine 
Classsical Guitar Ensemble at 1:45.  Children and adults will enjoy 
the amazing  juggling of  Zackary Field at 2:00 p.m. and the 
Nasruddin Puppet wisdom stories with Richard Merrill  at 3:00 p.m.
		Green Expo

This year's festival will feature a "Green Expo" along with displays 
by more than 80 organizations  and businesses working  for 
sustainability and to create a better world.  Maine Partners for Cool 
Communities consulted with HOPE Festival organizers and Cool Bangor 
members to strengthen the environmental component of the festival .

Participants will be able to test drive an electric vehicle, learn 
about solar and wind power, consider the delights and benefits of 
bicycling and recycling, talk to  Peter  Baldwin about living a 
modern life  entirely off the grid, find out how to travel green with 
Earth Routes  and  purchase  locally grown organic  food and 
products. At a Food Court/mini farmers market  those who come will 
be able to  choose to purchase  from   many varieties of wholesome 
bread created by "Daily Bread",  take home some of   Olde Oak Farm's 
fresh and aged goat cheese or organic cow milk cheese and yogurt or 
try delicious wraps at the Vagabond Cafe.".

Entertaining Energy Films courtesy of the Maine Sierra Guild will 
include "The True Cost of Food" at 12:00 p.m. "Toast" at 12:30, 
"Transforming Energy:  What is our Future after Oil?"at 1:00 p.m. and 
conclude with "Kilowatt Ours" at 2:30. 

Children's Program

In the Children's area kids will be able to learn from and play 
throughout the day with  miniature solar panels provided by the Maine 
Energy Education Program and find out how to start their own 
environmental club at their school from Green Team Maine.   Or they 
may create their own percussion musical instruments from recyclable 
and natural materials  with the guidance of Sara Yasner  who will 
also lead children in a performance with the instruments they have 
created. The workshop will at 10:00 a.m. and the performance at 
12:00.  The workshop will be repeated at 1:45. Hats made from 
recycled newspapers and decorated with the help of the Windover Arts 
Center  or Fiber Art "Sun Spots" they make  from felt and sequins 
with the assistance of Howling Threads and Tree Heckler  will show 
off  children's  love for the earth and the environment. The Hudson 
Museum will once again teach children how to play the Waltese, a 
native American bowl and dice game.

		Organizational Fair
.
Festival organizers  say living sustainably also  involves the caring 
work of many be  organizations.  According to Ilze Petersons, program 
coordinator for the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, which is 
sponsoring the HOPE Festival, celebrating the caring work and making 
connections is one of the purposes of the festival.  The festival 
will also include organizations such as Spruce Run and Rape Response 
Services working to end domestic violence as well as organizations 
such as the Orono Peace Group and P ICA (Peace through Interamerican 
Community Action) working for global peace.   "Organizing peace 
earthwide may seem ambitious, but we see each day how interconnected 
we are in the clothes we wear and the food we eat," said Petersons. 
"We see that actions and decisions   made here do have worldwide 
impact and decisions  made thousands of miles away impact us. 
Sometimes as individuals  we can feel powerless, but at the HOPE 
Festival, we can affirm the power of positive change efforts."

Petersons says the Festival is a celebration, but also a great way 
for people to find out how they can  support the work of these groups 
.Sandy Tardiff , a coordinator of the HOPE Festival points out that 
people need to get involved to make democracy work. "The HOPE 
Festival is a fun way to support  the caring  work being done  and to 
learn about  the many  ways you can  participate.   Whether its 
learning about the work of  the NAACP or the Eastern AIDS Network, 
There's something for everyone.  And thanks to volunteer efforts and 
sponsorships  its free." said Tardiff.

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. 

For more information about the festival or how you can help volunteer 
call 942-9343 or visit www.peacectr.org.

-- 
The Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine
170 Park Street
Bangor ME 04401
(207) 942-9343
fax 992-2288
email: info at peacectr.org
check our website:  <http://www.peacectr.org/>www.peacectr.org
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