Social Action: TONIGHT: Author on Cities, Inequality, Pluralism

[Sarah Klepner]

please see below for more upcoming events (new one added)

Visiting Writer- Garnette Cadogan

 On the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism

Tuesday, March 28

7:00 PM at Brookdale Community College 

765 Newman Springs Road in Lincroft, New Jersey

Warner Student Life Center - call # below for directions

Garnette Cadogan is an essayist and journalist who focuses on history, culture, and the arts. He is editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro) and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Harlem Renaissance (with Shirley E. Thompson; forthcoming).

The Visiting Writers Series is presented by the Creative Writing Club;

all talks and readings are free and open to the public, with a $3 suggested donation. Coffee and biscuits will be served.

For additional information please contact Suzanne Parker at 732-224-2650or sparker@brookdalecc.edu

Upcoming Events

Tuesdays (ongoing) - Noon Meditation for Earth                 Evening Drumming for Water Protection, Long Branch

Wed. 3/29 - Let's Talk About Women in the Workforce, RB

Wed. 3/29 -Clean Water Action, Restoring the Navesink,RB

Sat. 4/1 - BACK TO EARTH, kid-friendly                     gardening/cooking demos, LB

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WATERSPIRIT’S "Meditation for Earth"

Tuesdays 12:15pm – 12:45pm

Stella Maris, 981 Ocean Avenue, 

Long Branch, NJ 07740.

Join WATERSPIRIT at Stella Maris for a “Meditation for Earth”. WATERSPIRIT leads a simple meditation followed with music and silence for a flourishing Earth.  The meditation, music and silence will be for approximately 30 minutes. We hope you can join us!

WATERSPIRITS'S "Drumming for Water is Life”

Tuesdays 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Stella Maris, 981 Ocean Avenue, 

Long Branch, NJ 07740.

We will be praying and drumming for the Water is Life Movement on Tuesday evenings. Join us in solidarity, prayer, and drumming, for all who are actively trying to STOP new destructive fossil fuel infrastructures and who are advocating for a just transition to renewable energy sources. We will continue to pray to protect Mother Earth and her lands, people, water, and sacred sites. Drumming will be led by Tommy and Abby Anton and John Eustor. We hope you can join us! Suggested donation is $5.

 For more information, please call WATERSPIRIT at 732-923-9788 or email: wa...@waterspirit.org. 

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Let's Talk About...Women in the Workforce

Wed. March 29

7-8:30 pm

Red Bank Library

84 West Front Street

Red Bank NJ 07701

In honor of Women's History Month, this month's Let's Talk About.. will focus on the experience of women in the workplace. Registration is requested: call 732-842-0690 x 111. 

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Clean Ocean Action Update on Local Waterways and the Restoring the Navesink Initiative

Wed. March 29

7 pm

Flipping Fun Studios

23 East Front Street

Red Bank

Please RSVP to mere...@flippingfun.com or call 732-450-9065

Sandwiches from Jimmy John's will be served.

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WATERSPIRIT’S  “Back to Earth” Family Friendly Program
Saturday, April 1, 2017
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Stella Maris

981 Ocean Avenue,

Long Branch, NJ, 07740. 

Join us for a morning of interactive workshops covering the topics of organic gardening, nutrition and cooking and how they relate to a greater connection to the Earth and spirituality and cultural connectedness.

 $30 per family by March 24, after March 24 - $35 per family. $10 per individual by March 24 - $15 per individual after March 24. Send checks payable to “WATERSPIRIT” to address above. For more information please call WATERSPIRIT at 732-923-9788 or email: wa...@waterspirit.org, Stella Maris, 981 Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, NJ 07740.