If you don’t have fun this weekend, it’s not our fault. Don’t forget Friday! Buffalo Tears at TSI. Correction!! Poster show in Springfield is NEXT WEEKEND. Silly Joey.
Sunday May 25th is the Community Community Community Festival at the Springfield Community Garden and The Pearl.
Community Community Community Festival releases lineup
From 12 to 6 at the Springfield Garden and the lot next to it, we’ll be hanging out, eating food and listening to some awesome music. Really, Khalid and his crew will be playing some ancient afghan music, the Naughty Pines String band will be plucking some beautiful Bluegrass. The Homesteaders will also be jamming out.
Ultimate Picnic is a Community Garden program that plans to share food all day, so bring a dish to share. Even if you don’t want to eat, you can still bring food in the form of a non perishable food type to donate to future ultimate picnic gatherings. There will also be workshops in the garden and Seed Bombs.
Seed bombing, also known as “Seed Grenades” is a technique of introducing vegetation to arid soils or otherwise inhospitable terrains. A seed bomb is a compressed clod of soil containing live vegetation that may be thrown or dropped onto a terrain to be modified.
The term “seed grenade” was first used by Liz Christy in 1973 when she started the “Green Guerillas”. The first seed grenades were made from balloons filled with local wildflower seeds, water and fertilizer. The seed grenades were tossed over fences onto empty lots in New York City in order to make the neighborhoods look better. It was the start of the Guerrilla Gardening movement.
Art Sparks Saturday Night at Eclipse
Featuring: Miwa K. Fiore, Ali Isabelle, Sarah Colado, Crash The Satellites, Chris Estes, Our Name is Legion, Jonah Whalebelly & many more!
Not only is ART SPARKS! an event featuring art local to its respective city, ART SPARKS! showcases art of ALL mediums including visual, photography, live music, deejays, dance, comedy, culinary, gaming and film from those artists who, typically, may not garner the recognition they deserve.
More details on Art Sparks
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Earth Day at Gateway Saturday during the day
The local non-profit, War on Poverty-Florida is having an Earth Day at Gateway Celebration on Saturday May 24, 2008 from 10am-3pm at The Gateway Town Centre 5000 Norwood Avenue Jacksonville, Fl 32208.
The event is packed with great events for the community- including- urban gardening, environmental educational sessions, free weekend give-away for the Wyndham Hotel, Eco-Friendly craft Making Contests for the Kids, Step Shows, Story Telling and much more.
A big component is the Open Air Market. We are inviting local artists, churches and schools to bring their art or crafts and sell it as a way to increase community building and the regional economy.
