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SUMMARY:Pre-Registration | Winter School 2025
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Pre-Registration for Winter School 2025. The program will be held December 26 through the 30th; Pre-Registration begins September 24th. This year’s program is designed to assist families make a unique contribution to the community building process developing at the local level through the lens of the March 19\, 2025 message from the Universal House of Justice. Learn more here. \n\n\n\nFor this program\, first priority will be given to residents of the Northeastern States\, and then those who haven’t attended Green Acre family programs previously or recently. Since these programs depend on volunteers to assist with the kitchen and in hospitality\, as well as teaching children’s classes\, those serving in this way will also be given priority. \n\n\n\nBecause of the high demand for these programs\, we are continuing with a multi-step registration process. The first step is pre-registration which allows families to indicate their interest in attending the program. This is then followed by three rounds of invitations where families will be invited to formally register for the program. For those who don’t receive an invitation in the first round\, they will automatically be placed on the waiting list. The same process will follow with the second and third rounds of invitations to formally register.  \n\n\n\nThe multi-step process will be as follows: \n\n\n\nThis simplified form will ask for only basic information for each family registering.\n\n\nPlease note: Filling out this initial form does not mean one has registered for Winter School.\n\n\nFor this program\, first priority will be given to residents of the Northeastern States\, and then those who haven’t attended Green Acre family programs previously or recently. Since these programs depend on volunteers to assist with the kitchen and in hospitality\, as well as teaching children’s classes\, those serving in this way will also be given priority. Because of this prioritization\, this is not a first come\, first served process.\n\n\nAfter the initial Pre-Registration period\, for those invited to the program\, we will send a separate link to formally invite you to register and you will have three days to register.\n\n\nWe will do three rounds of invitations beginning on October 1st and continuing to approximately October 31st.\n\n\nIf you haven’t received a formal invitation by then\, you will automatically be placed on the waiting list. Please be sure not to make any travel arrangements until you have formally registered.
URL:https://www.greenacre.org/event/pre-registration-winter-school-2025/
CATEGORIES:9 Year Plan,Community Building,Faith Based,Family Oriented,Featured
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SUMMARY:Youth Institute Camp (Subregion 1)
DESCRIPTION:This is a youth institute camp for existing youth study circles to advance their learning in an intensive format. It is open to already formed study circles from Subregion 1\, which includes the states of Massachusetts\, New Hampshire\, Maine\, Vermont and Rhode Island. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact either Hayon Thapaliya @ hayon.shin92@gmail.com or Samin Charepoo @ samincharepoo2@gmail.com
URL:https://www.greenacre.org/event/youth-institute-camp-subregion-1/
CATEGORIES:9 Year Plan,Community Building,Ruhi Institute,Service
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SUMMARY:WASTE LAND | Film & Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Doors open for gallery viewing: 5:30 PMFilm begins at 6:00 PM \n\n\n\nPart of our Created Noble: Worthy by Design art theme where we have been exploring the inherent nobility of each person\, this powerful film helps us expore this vital theme throguh unique lens. Filmed over nearly three years\, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump\, Jardim Gramacho\, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores” — self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However\, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND\, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and\, in the end\, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nYou’ll also have an opportunity to tour the art show: Created Noble: Worthy by Design which explores how we honor the inherent human dignity of every person ad move beyond prejudice and distrust. \n\n\n\nThis event is free. Registration is encouraged but not required. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/sNlwh8vT2NU?si=WkeezjguHVyKApTh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDIRECTOR’S STATEMENT\n\n\n\nI have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us\, and what we can’t bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day. I read about one woman’s crusade to show her appreciation for all the sanitation workers in New York by hugging each of them\, and I applauded the sentiment … and yet … there had to be some other way for me to show my appreciation. \n\n\n\nThen when I was a graduate film student at NYU\, I started training with the NYU Triathlon Club. As we endured the most grueling 6:00 a.m. workouts imaginable\, I bonded with fellow triathlete Robin Nagle\, a brilliant professor who was teaching about garbage. Listening to Robin talk about her work was so fascinating that I began sitting in on her PhD seminar\, and loved deepening my thinking about the sociology and implications and revelations and actuality of garbage. \n\n\n\nSo when Robin took her grad students to visit Fresh Kills\, the landfill on Staten Island\, I was curious and gatecrashed. These days it is best known as the resting place of the debris from the World Trade Center\, but this was back in March 2000. It was a shocking place\, with chainlink fences clad with teeming nightmare quantities of plastic bags making the nastiest noise imaginable\, and pipes outgassing methane poking up at regular intervals through the exaggerated contours of the grassedover giant mounds of garbage. It’s a parody of an idyllic hyper-landscaped city park\, with garbage hills 225’ high – taller than the Statue of Liberty. We looked at the rats and seagulls and dogs\, and at the palimpsests of layer upon layer of discarded possessions. And we tried to ignore the putrid smell.  \n\n\n\nI love great locations in movies\, and I couldn’t believe I’d never seen a landfill on-screen before. It was the most haunting place. And all of the garbage I’d ever generated living in New York City was in there somewhere. This was the graveyard of all my stuff. Along with everyone else’s. I immediately knew that I wanted to make a movie in a garbage dump. \n\n\n\nCut to 2006\, and I met producer Angus Aynsley and co-producer Peter Martin at BritDoc and again at the London Film Festival\, and instantly liked them enormously and wanted to work with them. Talking about possible projects\, Angus mentioned that he had met Vik Muniz and been impressed by his highly entertaining slideshow about art history and the social projects he was working on. Angus and Peter were already working on a short film on Vik but realised there was potential for something bigger. I had seen and loved Vik’s work\, and I was hugely excited about the possibility of working with him. So I read some of Vik’s writing and set off with Angus and Peter to meet Vik in Newcastle\, England when he had an opening at the Baltic in January 2007. \n\n\n\nWhen we met up again in Vik’s studio in New York two months later the conversation turned to garbage\, and I suddenly thought about my trip to Fresh Kills seven years previously. That was the lightbulb moment. Vik had previously done a beautiful series using junk\, and he had also done projects with street sweepings and dust. His creative use of materials is his signature — whether chocolate sauce\, sugar\, or condensation trails from planes — so this project would very much be an extension of his earlier work. After we’d started talking about it\, no other ideas were interesting anymore. I knew that a collaboration between Vik and the catadores would be potentially very dramatic. Vik had previously done some brilliant social projects with street kids in Sao Paolo and had a wonderful ongoing project in Rio which employed kids from the favelas\, and I was totally inspired by him. \n\n\n\nA month later\, Angus and I got exciting news that Fabio had found one landfill where the drug traffic was under control\, and the catadores were being organized into a co-operative by a charismatic young leader who might be open to collaborating with Vik. We were all very nervous — there were so many things to be afraid of\, from dengue fever to kidnapping — but we all wanted to go. We arrived in Rio de Janeiro in August 2007 — Vik\, Angus\, Peter and me. Seeing the extremes of poverty and wealth so ostentatiously displayed through the car window … the contrasts of mountains and oceans\, black and white\, garbage and art\, art stars and catadores … the contrasts couldn’t be more starkly drawn than in Rio de Janeiro\, and I realized that it wasn’t a coincidence that we were tackling this particular topic in Rio. It was perfect. \n\n\n\nFor me this film\, as with all of my work\, is about getting to know people who you do not normally meet in your life. And\, if I’m doing my job\, I aim to create an opportunity for the audience to feel they are getting under the skin\, to emotionally connect with the people on the screen. But you need people you can care about. And so when Valter first cycled into my line of sight\, I knew for sure that we had a movie. That day I had gone on my first recce to the landfill and was dressed head-to-toe in protective layers fit for a moon landing. His bike was decorated so creatively with odd trinkets from the trash and he honked his eagle horn with such sweet wit that I was totally smitten. \n\n\n\nI am Vik’s biggest fan. And this idea of “the human factor\,” about scales in portraiture\, and distances in getting to know people\, is what the movie is about for me. I’m not sure anyone will notice this unless I tell them\, but there are three references to ants in the movie: Vik says that when he is flying over Gramacho\, the people look like “just little ants\, doing what they do every day”; then Isis talks about the ant that she saw crawling over her dead son’s face; finally we see Vik playing with an ant with his paintbrush in the studio. That play of being so far away that people are just ants\, with no “human factor” is the opposite experience of being so deeply connected to your son that you will never forget “not the tiniest detail\, not a single single detail\,” not even an ant on his face in a single moment. And Vik\, as an artist\, plays between these levels of proximity and distance\, between showing the viewer the material and showing them the idea\, revealing the relationship between the paintstrokes and the scene depicted by the paint. The portrait is Isis\, it is a Picasso\, it is a bunch of garbage\, and it is a work by Vik Muniz – all at once. You can view things close in or further away. Likewise you can fear people from afar or you can go interact with them. I love the Eames’s POWERS OF TEN and I wanted to create a social analog. To start with we see the place from GoogleEarth\, then from a helicopter\, then from a car\, then from a safe distance\, then from a first meeting\, then from a growing friendship\, then from it having changed you fundamentally and permanently. \n\n\n\nJust as Vik wants the portraits to serve as a mirror in which the catadores may see themselves\, so I hope the movie serves as a means for us to see our journey to becoming involved with people so far from ourselves. To zoom all the way in to caring about someone who was previously as far away as it’s possible to be. \n\n\n\nQuestions poke through the fabric of the movie as things get messy. In WASTE LAND Vik and his wife start to argue on-camera about whether the project is hurting the catadores by taking them out of their environment and then\, when it’s over\, expecting them to return. Likewise\, should documentary filmmakers interfere with their subjects’ lives? But how could they not? I don’t believe in objectivity. I observe the observer’s paradox every moment I’m filming. Your presence is changing everything; there’s no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility. \n\n\n\nMy heartfelt thanks to the catadores. I can’t help seeing WASTE LAND as the third in a triptych with my earlier films DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND and BLINDSIGHT\, and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us — and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all. We dedicate the movie to Valter\, and remember him saying that 99 is not 100. A single can\, or a single catador\, can make the difference. \n\n\n\n—Lucy Walker\, January 2010
URL:https://www.greenacre.org/event/waste-land/
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit,Created Noble,Dialogue,Featured,Film Series,Justice,Social Discourse
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SUMMARY:Relational Intelligence Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In a world that presses us to move fast and isolate from each other\, this workshop is about how to slow down\, connect\, and discover powerful ways that a group can think well together. \n\n\n\nLike this sculpture\, the world offers far more than Either/Or choices\, yet we need more people to help us wrestle with our narrow perspective and see the new doors opening with the current ones are closing. Getting to the depths is where we have a chance of uprooting the patterns that keep us stuck and find the wisest creative responses. \n\n\n\nInstead of artificial intelligence\, we can tap relational intelligence – the ability of a group of people to listen and connect their different perspectives to generate something ‘emergent’ and new from the combination. With the right conditions\, a group can hold levels of complexity that might overwhelm an individual trying to cope alone. \n\n\n\n\n“Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.” – Atul Guwande  \n\n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn group listening and peer support practices that open up space for expression. People bring a current challenge or threshold they’re dealing with and practice a variety of approaches to gain new clarity on the situation. You’ll learn: \n\n\n\n\nThe art of resonant listening – specific ways to listen so that people feel deeply heard\, supported\, and they unravel the nuances of a situation\n\n\n\nPractical tools for peer support to work within complexity and see fresh possibilities\n\n\n\nA process called constellations that helps us see the larger web of relationships in a situation in a way that can unlock stuck patterns and reveal wise paths forward\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop is for: \n\n\n\nSocial changemakers\, facilitators\, business and non-profit leaders\, community builders\, and artists who want to enhance how they work with people and groups to activate the best thinking and forward movement. \n\n\n\nThe workshop is facilitated by Beth Tener and is held at Green Acre in Eliot\, Maine. Green Acre was founded in 1894 and has hosted conferences and gatherings for over 100 years on subjects related to unity\, social action\, and building community. \n\n\n\nThis workshop continues the spirit of the SeaCHANGE Conference\, a participatory conference\, which weaves conversations\, community\, and creativity to explore timely questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuotes from Previous Participants \n\n\n\n“I continue to process the time we had together – which had a fairly profound and deeply grounding impact on how I was thinking about my next professional step. The path became much clearer in the 24 hours after our gathering.” \n\n\n\n“The resonant listening practice is such an important skill that you can take into any part of your life – in work\, personal relationships\, and with yourself.”   \n\n\n\n“The constellation experience was really helpful. It was a different pathway to get answers. A room full of people could sense things in a way the person alone couldn’t.”   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe fee for the workshop is $150. Please contact Beth if cost is a barrier to participating and we can offer discounts to ensure you can participate.
URL:https://www.greenacre.org/event/relational-intelligence-workshop-oct-2025/
CATEGORIES:Featured,Green Acre,SeaCHANGE Conference,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Creating a Noble Story: Mixed Media Collage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Part of our Created Noble: Worthy by Design art theme where we have been exploring the inherent nobility of each person\, this workshop led by Gordon Arzú will explore the simple joy of artmaking by using a catalogue of magazines and other materials to put together a one of a kind collage. Participants will choose the face of a person\, preferably from a cultural background different from their own\, as well as a connecting animal and plant or flower to complement the composition and create a collage of images that tell a story focusing on the inherent nobility and dignity of their chosen person. \n\n\n\nNo experience necessary\, just bring your creative spirit and walk away with a unique collage and lasting inspiration. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is limited to 15 participants and registration is required. There is $15 workshop fee to cover cost of materials.
URL:https://www.greenacre.org/event/creating-a-noble-story-mixed-media-collage-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Art,Art Exhibit,Art Workshop,Community Building,Created Noble,Featured,Social Transformation,Workshop
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