Join a Cottage Grove City Council member and SCEC board members as we award prizes to the local youth who won the poster art contest. The two categories are 2nd -3rd grade, and 4th – 5th grade. Prizes include new scooters and gift certificates to local businesses. Celebrate the youth and the Earth! Learn more about the contest here: https://www.singingcreekcenter.org/save-the-earth-poster-contest-coming-to-cottage-grove/

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Join EcoGeneration board members with a screening of the movie “Plastic Paradise” which is an independent documentary film that chronicles Angela Sun’s personal journey of discovery to one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll, to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, celebrities, legislators and activists who shed light on what our society’s vast consumption of disposable plastic is doing to our oceans — and what it may be doing to our health.

Join local fiber artist and MECCA volunteer, Kyr Westwind for a fun introduction to circle weaving! We will be using embroidery hoops, yarn, and a variety of fabrics and fibers to create unique wall art. Each participant will leave with their own masterpiece made from reclaimed materials. All materials provided, no experience necessary, just bring your curiosity and enthusiasm!

Learn from local brewmaster Stephen about how to make all kinds of home fermented products. Watch and demo and ask questions! Presented by the Coast Fork Feed Store in Cottage Grove.
Schedule:

• Fermentation overview

• Fermentation to produce ethanol vs other types of fermentation

• A brief history of human alcohol production

• Mead & its variations

• Ale & Beer (to hop or not to hop)

• Cider & Perry

• Wine vs Fruit Wine

• Easy historical fermentations to make at home

• Yeast

• Active examples of historical and modern fermentations in progress (Mead/Gruit/Cider/Ale)

• The raw ingredients of these examples, how they’re produced & their availability

• Basic fruit wine/cider recipe handout with simple instructions/equipment list

• Q&A

For ALL ages. All art materials provided free.

Overview: Mindful observation and creative drawing from nature helps us to connect with ourselves and other living things. Participants get to keep permanent artwork they create.

What and How: Starting with the basics of mindfulness, participants will have the opportunity to hone awareness through observing and relating to natural forms through creative, fun drawing activities. Using mindful movement, breathing, and the physical feedback loop, we’ll engage all of our senses while creatively exploring our connection with all living things. After experimenting with a disappearing water-painting technique, we’ll move on to making drawings on paper to take home. There will be an option to extend the art activity to make a visual statement about one’s own agency as change makers for the planet.