If you come to anything this year come to this! Bring people you know and tell others who may be interested.
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Pitzer College
invites you to an evening with
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Ms. Sunflower Andrew founder of Aura Omelet, Cultural and environmental educator, Spiritual and Herbal Healer and Love Practitioner, Jahba her son and a brilliant young person, and Emily Allan the Gulf Coast Organizer for the Youth Coalition for Community Action and a leader in creating the Aura Omelet and liaison between Aura Omelet and Our School at Blair Grocery.
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Aura Omelet a Feast of Universal Vibrations:
Stories, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Practice in the creation of a
Vision for Freedom and Love
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Friday * November 5, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Founder's Room McConnell
Pitzer College
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Our project is called Aura Omelet: A Feast of Universal Vibrations and is the vision of Ms. Sunflower Andrew and her son Jahba. Ms. Andrew grew up on a ten acre farm in Hammond, Louisiana where her father and grandfather grew strawberries. Aura Omelet is in the process of conversion from the out of use farm to an interactive outdoor classroom with farm animals, a homeopathic herb garden, cultural events, outdoor education programs for youth and workshops for urban and rural farmers focusing on local and regional food security.
This year She and her son Jahba began to work with Our School at Blair Grocery- an independent school and urban farm in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. This summer, students from OSBG as well as hundreds of high school and college from New York, Arizona, Philadelphia, California, Mississippi, Vermont, and Florida worked in Hammond clearing weeds, building homes for 40 chickens and 3 goats, planting seeds, tilling for the farm field, and repairing the stage to turn the land into a thriving organic farm and community space. Since the summer, we have begun to work with retired agriculture teachers, contractors, electricians, musicians, farmers, and teachers from local schools who have donated their time to develop the space and work closely with young people from Hammond and New Orleans teaching skills that they can pass on to others as our community expands.
We envision...
A 10 Acre Outdoor Classroom for Healing , Cultural Expression, and Local Food Security . We Envision a Diverse Community of Learners, Healers, Artists, Farmers, and Empowered Young People Who Continue to Vision, Grow and Build on Our Center.
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Sponsored by:
Strategic Initiative Fund, FemCo, BSU, DIning With Democracy, and YCCA
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With help from everybody who has contributed to spreading the word about this very special event and who make projects like these possible.