[Scpg] Wed Mar 15 6:30- 9:30pm Common Vision Dinner , Drumming, Story Telling and Slide Show, Goleta and Mar 14 Goleta Valley School

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network.
(805) 962-2571, email: margie at sbpermaculture.org

SANTA BARBARA PERMACULTURE NETWORK AND GOLETA FAMILY SCHOOL PTA 
Presents:
An Evening with Common Vision: Dinner,Drumming, Story Telling  and Slide Show

Celebrating the Transformation of Concrete Jungles into Urban Fruit Tree
Forest
by Tree Planting at  Schools in California  

Wednesday , March 15, 6:30 pm, donation $10 (Children Free)
Goleta Valley Community Center 

3rd Annual California Common Vision FRUIT TREE TOUR 2006 February 20-April 25
Celebrating the transformation of concrete jungles into urban orchards.
www.commonvision.org. Thirty volunteer earth educators from northern
California,
travel to schools from Los Angeles to San Francisco in the largest known
vegetable oil-powered caravan: six vehicles, including three busses. The all
volunteer crew travels as a nomadic community visiting schools to plant 1000
fruit trees with urban youth. The three month tour is divided into day-long
programs at each school featuring cultural story-telling, West African
agricultural drumming, earth-conscious hip-hop, and hands-on involvement in
the
stewardship of the students school yard.

Common Vision infuses public schools and spaces with inspiration,
infrastructure, and experience to support solution-focused environmental
education for urban youth. Common Vision facilitates hands-on projects with
students and community leaders that serve to retrofit public schools and
spaces
into models of sustainability.

Students of all ages are awed and inspired by three vegetable oil-powered
school busses, hand-painted in landscape murals depicting indigenous
communities, rolling into the schoolyard and breaking the monotony of their
regular school routine. Symbolic storytelling, strong West African Dun-Dun-Bah
agricultural rhythms, and the planting of fruit trees explodes into a
celebration of 
life and interconnectedness focusing on respect for the earth. 

In the spirit of native oral tradition, FRUIT TREE TOUR storytellers bring to
life tales from the past of living in harmony with the earth and the
process of
how society forgot our connection with the earth. Dancers draped in African
mud-cloth fabric and drummers ornately dressed set the stage for the
storytelling to unfold. A bold cast of characters and musicians brightly
portray these 
events with minimal words from a narrator and an elaborate display of culture
and color.

In a tree planting celebrations students will drum earth rhythms, while
working
in intimate groups with FRUIT TREE TOUR facilitators to dig holes, prepare the
roots, and plant the trees. Facilitators will engage students in dialogues
around key ecological and cultural concepts such as nutrient cycles,
interconnectedness, diversity, and respect. 
Students, teachers, principals, and FRUIT TREE TOUR volunteers gather for a
closing circle. The circle takes a moment to give thanks for the day's
experience.

FRUIT TREE TOUR cultivates the students appreciation for the earth that can
serve as a foundation for environmental responsibility, a key element of the
next generation. The participation in creating and maintaining a school yard
orchard provides a space to engage a 
stewardship ethic as something personal and local, not a distant abstraction.
Students are able to 
provide their school and extended community with beauty, health, and
abundance.

Last Year Common vision came to Santa Barbara to Monte Vista Public School and
planted over 20 Fruit Trees and created the first Orchard Garden in a
school in
Santa Barbara , this year they are coming to Goleta Family School to  have a
Tree Planting Day on  March 14, please contact the Goleta Valley PTA
organizer
Jennifer Ja <zenjennja at yahoo.com> 729-2524

Founded in 1999, Common Vision is a solution-focused nonprofit organization, a
project of International Humanities Center. Common Vision's mission is to
cultivate ecological awareness and respect for the Earth while generating
social and environmental changes towards sustainable lifestyles. We integrate
concepts of ecology with the traditions, music, and art of cultures that live
or have lived in harmony with the Earth.

The evening celebration to welcome Common Vision will take place at the Goleta
Valley Community Center 5679 Hollister Ave, Wednesday March 15 6:30-9:30
dinner
followed by story telling ,drumming and slide show , Donation of $10 for
adults
Children free (no reservations needed) to help raise funds for the 2006 FRUIT
TREE TOUR .  The Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and Goleta Family School
PTA  sponsor the event. For more information, please call (805) 962-2571
margie at sbpermaculture.org , visit www.commonvision.org, or
www.sbpermaculture.org. 

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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet at silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to
grow." - Anonymous

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