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color="#000000"><b>Visit the Green Expo with more than 30 groups and
businesses sharing information about smart solutions for a cool
plane</b>t<b> and the organizational fair with more than 50 groups
sharing information about their work to make the world a better place
and enjoy.....</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Palatino" color="#000000"><b>Hope
Festival</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Performance Stage Schedule</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" color="#000000"><b>10:15-10:30 - Arnie
Neptune</b> opens the festival with Penobscot prayer<br>
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<b>10:30-11:00 - Native American Drumming with Eh pit sisok</b>
(Little Women) from Indian Island<br>
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<b>11:15-12:00 - A-Train Jazz<br>
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12:15-12:45 - International Student Dancers</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Palatino" color="#000000"><b>1:00 - 1:45 - The UMaine
Guitar Ensemble</b> with Nicholas Mather and Patrick
Sylvia</font></div>
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<b>2:00 - 2:45 - Zach Field's Amazing Juggling</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Palatino" color="#000000"><b>3:00 - 3:45 - Nasruddin
Puppet Show </b> wisdom tales and stories with Richard
Merrill</font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Children's Activities Schedule:</b></font></div>
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Left of Entrance)</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" color="#000000"><b>Sara's Sing Alongs with
Sara Yasner<br>
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10:00 - Workshop -</b> "make your own instruments"<br>
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<b>12:00 - Children's Performance with created instruments<br>
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1:45 - Workshop -</b> "make your own instruments"<br>
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<b>All day:<br>
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*Maine Energy Education Program -</b> play with and learn about
alternative energy from miniature solar panels and wind
mills<br>
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<b>*Green Team Maine -</b> learn how you can start a Green Team at
your school<br>
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<b>* Howling Thread's -</b> Fiber Art with Tree Heckler
"SunSpots"<br>
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<b>* The Hudson Museum -</b> Come learn how to play the Waltese, a
Native American bowl and dice game<br>
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<b>* Windover Arts Center -</b> Make hats from recycled<br>
newspapers and decorate them to show off your love</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" color="#000000">for the earth and the
environment.</font><br>
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color="#000000"><b>ENERGY FILMS</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Courtesy of Maine Sierra Guild</b></font></div>
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12:00- True Cost of Food<br>
</b>Like its title, this short animation shows with humor the
environmental and human costs of food production and distribution in
the US. <b> </b><br>
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<b>12:30- Toast<br>
</b>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. <br>
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<b>1:00 - Transforming Energy: What is Our Future After Oil <br>
</b>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.<br>
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<b>2:30-<u> Kilowatt Ours</u> (energy efficiency &
renewables)</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Palatino" size="+1" color="#000000">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. </font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Delicious organic locally grown/produced food for
sale</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Free admission</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Palatino" size="-1"
color="#000000">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. </font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Palatino" size="+1"
color="#000000">Celebrate Earth Day and Global Peace at HOPE
Festival</font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-1" color="#000000">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-1" color="#000000">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 .</font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-1" color="#000000">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.".</font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-1" color="#000000">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. </font></div>
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color="#000000">Children's Program</font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-1" color="#000000">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.</font></div>
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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."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-1" color="#000000">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Palatino" size="-1" color="#000000">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. </font></div>
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For more information about the festival or how you can help volunteer
call 942-9343 or visit</font><font face="Palatino" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><u> www.peacectr.org</u></font><font face="Palatino"
size="-1" color="#000000">.</font></div>
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<div>The Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine<br>
170 Park Street<br>
Bangor ME 04401<br>
(207) 942-9343<br>
fax 992-2288<br>
email: info@peacectr.org<br>
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