Come on down to Barker Hanger in Santa Monica
Heel the Bay is holding their 18th annual Bring Back the Beach benefit dinner. A unique event connecting Southern California's environmental, political, business, and entertainment communities. Bring Back the Beach is a great opportunity to meet and mix with environmental leaders in various sectors as well as the annual fund raiser for Heal the Bay. This exclusive event to celebrate Heal the Bay and their honorees has sold out for each of the last four years. So grab your beach-chic attire and check out more at www.healthebay.org
When: Thursday, May 28,2009 at 5pm
Where: Barker Hanger in Santa Monica
Ca Strawberry Festival
When: Saturday & Sunday May 16,2009 & May 17,2009
Time: 10 am to 6:30 pm
An estimated 1.5 million strawberries will be consumed Festival weekend, and the best part is that the multitude of non-profit groups hosting food booths benefit with every bite from 100percent of the proceeds. Taking the new "Green Path"at the festival gives you access to resources to help you "grow in a green fashion" The festival has taken a true leadership role in striving to become a sustainable event. An extensive outreach campaign courages attendees to carpool and use the free shuttles in order to reduce the carbon footprint on our local community. This year there is even more incentive with a $5.00 parking fee for vehicles. in 2008, the City of Oxnard, awarded the Festival with the WasteWatch award for their remarkable green efforts. With live entertainment, an award-winning Fine Arts & Crafts showcase with over 300 artisans, contests, free attractions, and more the heralded weekend event has something special for everyone. Check out the newly designed website for more information at www.strawberry-fest.org
Here's a perfect way to celebrate Mother's Day weekend. The festival has two stages providing non-stop world-class music, theater, dance, storytelling, and circus performers from nearby and across the globe. Stop by thechldren's area with face painting, a "Recycling Sculpture" , and craft activities where kids can make a handmade gift for mom. This is a fund raiser for the Topanga Co-op Preschool, find out more at www.topangachildrensfestival.com
Sunday, May 3, 2009 5:00-6:00 pm
Loving Kindness Meditation - Celebrating Mother’s Day
Description: Loving Kindness (or compassion) is a value common to all spiritual traditions. It is the love that a mother gives a newborn child … an encompassing, deep feeling that is boundless, nurturing, and most importantly, unconditional. What would the world be like if we could direct this quality of love to everyone in our life, even those teachers who incite anger and annoyance within us?
Ancient Buddhist teachers would assign this meditation to students who experienced uncontrolled anger with the awareness that patterns can change. Current research in neuroplasticity support this practice … the brain is capable of growth throughout our lives.
This meditation will be guided … all you need to do it show up, follow the instructions, and open your heart. Bring your friends and loved ones to be touched by the collective, transformative energy of loving kindness.
Please RSVP through the calendar on www.integrative-insight.com or by calling Meenal at 805-504-6640.
Bio: Camarillo resident, Meenal Kelkar, CYT, CPRYT, CTYT, MBA, founded Integrative InSight to offer services developed from her own efforts to quiet an active mind in today’s fast-paced, high-pressure world. Since 2007, Meenal has regularly hosted community meditations on interfaith topics because she believes that meditation provides an interpersonal experience of interdependence that can change the world, one person at a time.
Meenal has been a featured speaker at The Living Purpose Institute and Conejo Valley’s first Psychic Healers Festival. The Ventura County Star has twice featured articles about the unique services she offers through her business, Integrative InSight (http://www.integrative-insight.com). She serves on the advisory board of the Camarillo Health Care District’s Healthy Attitudes, and teaches throughout Conejo Valley and Camarillo. Meenal is a regular contributor to Healthy Attitudes magazine and most recently, Green Home and Family magazine.
Website: www.integrative-insight.com
Price: Donations will be appreciatively accepted for Lighthouse Women’s & Children’s Mission
Location: Camarillo Center for Spiritual Living, 340 Mobil Avenue, Camarillo, CA 93010
We want to thank you for your commitment to fighting Lung Cancer! The previous L.A. Lung Cancer Walk achieved its most successful year in history, raising over $225,000 in donations!
The 3rd Annual L.A. Lung Cancer Walk will take place on May 17th on the beautiful Manhattan Beach Pier.
Register as a Walker today! Your participation in the L.A. Lung Cancer Walk is a critical part of our overall mission to save lives and to ease the burden of lung cancer on patients and their loved ones.
If you have questions about the 2009 L.A. Lung Cancer Walk, go to our website at lalungcancerwalk.org today or contact Mimi Sabo or Ilene Eskenazi at [email protected].
Proceeds benefit the LUNGevity Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that relies on donations and volunteers to help save the lives of the thousands of people diagnosed with lung cancer each year.
Thank you, again. We are excited to walk together again!
6th Alternative Building Materials and Design Expo 09! Saturday, May 9, 2009
at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA
The 6th annual Alternative Building Materials & Design Expo (AltBuild Expo) is Southern California’s most substantive and extensive showcase of green and sustainable building materials. It is the only regional event of its kind that allows the eco-minded professionals and public to meet and discuss green opportunities with serious green conscious figures in the design and construction communities.
Presented by the City of Santa Monica, this event features over 150 exhibitors displaying the latest in green building technologies and practices, landscape and water conservation products and interior design products and furnishings.
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