[HCCN] HOPE Festival Schedule and directions

[Matthew Baya]

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> From: Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine <info at peacectr.org>
> Date: April 15, 2009 11:01:34 AM EDT
> To: peacectr_list at lists.peacectr.org
> Subject: [Peacectr_list] HOPE Festival Schedule and directions
>
> There's something for everyone at the l5th Annual HOPE (Help  
> Organize Peace Earthwide) Festival on Saturday, April 25th from  
> 11-4.  We look forward to celebrating  our connection to the earth  
> and to each other on this day of information sharing, entertainment  
> and interaction.
>
> Here is the link to  the Peace & Justice Center  website for the  
> HOPE Performance and Activity schedule: http://peacectr.org/wp/calendar/hope-festival-schedule-of-activities-performances/ 
> . See below for schedule and  directions to the University of Maine  
> Student Recreation and Fitness Center in Orono.
>
> HOPE Festival  April 25th, 2009
> University of Maine Recreation and Fitness Center
> Schedule of  Performances and Activities
>
> 5 K fun run 10:00 (registration 9:30 - 9:45) Children's 1 mile Fun  
> Run  10:45
>
> Downstairs Stage
>
> 11:00 Opening Ceremony with  Native American Drumming and blessing  
> with Arnold Neptune, Penobscot Elder
> 11:30 HOPE Festival Singers
> 12:00 Zachary Field's Amazing Juggling
> 12:45 Improvisational Theater Performance from workshop with  
> Penobscot Theater  (Workshop upstairs 12:00 - 12:45)
> 1:15 Peregrine Puppets perform "Marty's Dream"
> 2:00 International Student Dancers will perform Belly Dance, Indian  
> Dance and African Dance
> 2:30 David Mallett, nationally  renowned folks singer
> 3:30 Community Dance of HOPE
> Upstairs Stage
>
> 12:00 Improvisational Theater Workshop with Penobscot Theater,  
> followed by
> performance at 12:45 Downstairs Stage 1
> 1:00 Eliot Coleman, Keynote:  Food and Farm Security
> 2:00 Yoga with Bunny Barclay
> Talking Circles in Conference Room
>
> 12:00 Becoming a Global Citizen in the 21st Century
> 1:00 Finding and Fostering HOPE
> 2:00 Creating a Sustainable Community
> Workshops and Demonstrations in Food and Activity Court
>
> 12:00 Create Postive Change through Community Gardening with Lots to  
> Gardens.
> 2:00 Recipe for recovering good health care and good jobs for   all  
> Mainers
>
> On going demonstrations:
> Bike Clinic with Jim Rose of Rose Bicycle;
> Create a Solar Cooker with Maine Solar Energy Association and SEADS  
> of Truth
> Reducing Home Energy Costs  with Ralph Chapman;
> Making Newspaper seed pots and planting seeds in potting soil with  
> MOFGA;
> Plastic Bag Crafting with Mary Mahoney of H.O.M.E. Coop
>
> Workshops and Activities in or near the Children's Area
>
> 1:00 Fun with Wind and Solar: Maine Energy Education Program
> 2:00 Interactive African Children's Games with Laurie Cartier of the  
> Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor
> On going activities in the children's area
> Maine Discovery Museum
> Making paw prints with  Fields Pond Audubon Center
> Creating hats from recycled materials with Windover Arts Center,
> Face painting
> Making collages
> Talking circles
> Creating a "wall of hope"
>
>
> Here is the link on the Peace & Justice Center  website for the HOPE  
> Performance and Activity schedule:
> http://peacectr.org/wp/calendar/hope-festival-schedule-of-activities-performances/
>
> Directions to the Universityof Maine Student Recreation and Fitness  
> Center:
>
>  From I-95, take Kelley Road Exit #191 in Orono.
>
>  * If coming from the South, turn right at the end of the exit ramp.
>  * If coming from the North, turn left at the end of the exit ramp.
>
> Drive 1 mile to the red þashing light at the T  intersection.
> Turn left onto Route 2 / Main Street Orono.
>
> Drive 2.5 miles to the third set of traffic lights.
> Bear right through the 3rd set of lights (just past the University  
> Inn) and watch for Bangor Savings Bank
> Turn left into the Rangeley Road entrance.
> Bear right at the Y to follow Rangeley Road.
> At the sharp left turn, Rangeley Road becomes Hilltop Road. Follow  
> Hilltop Road to the left.
>
> The parking area is on your right and the Rec Center is in front of  
> you on your right.
>
> If you Þnd yourself at the University of Maine Memorial Gym, take  
> Long Road toward the Hilltop " Complex. Turn left on left on Gannett  
> Road and then right on Hilltop Rd. The Student Recreation " Center  
> will be on the left. Park in the large parking lot to the right of  
> the building.
>
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> Bangor ME 04401
> (207) 942-9343
> fax 992-2288
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