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Save the date for Thursday December 13th! It is a benefit show for the CA food system film-in-the-making, "In Search of Good Food", at El Rio (Cesar Chavez & Mission Streets). insearchofgoodfood.blogspot.com
Plus, Conspiracy of Venus (unique women's choir), in which I happily participate, will perform! conspiracyofvenus.blogspot.com
Debut show of Cotillion as well - psychadelic folk project with some members of the botticellis and bright eyes. http://myspace.com/yocotillion
Jeremy Dalmas and You (interactive musical experimentation) open. http://myspace.com/jeremydalmas
Keep scrolling to see more food & farming, music, dance, and miscellaneously themed events and announcements.
Hope to see you SOON!
UPCOMING EVENT SUMMARY:
11/28 Wednesday Food Security & Urban Agriculture Talk @ Counterpulse 7:30pm, Free (donations welcome)
11/30 Friday Conspiracy of Venus Women's Choir, Singing at A.Muse 9pm
12/1 & 12/2 Saturday & Sunday Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop in SF 11-3:30 (w/ break), $65
12/2 Sun Alemany Farm Workday 12-5pm free
12/11 Tues California Food & Justice Coalition Meet-Up 3-6pm free
12/13 Thursday Benefit Show for "In Search of Good Food", Cotillion & Conspiracy of Venus at El Rio, 5-9pm, $5-$1000

DETAILS:
11/28 Wednesday
Food Security & Urban Agriculture Talk @ Counterpulse:
7:30pm, Free (donations welcome though), Description: Our food system is being refashioned by new urban farmers, farmers markets and community-supported agriculture, and importantly, by savvy shoppers who demand local, organic and safe food. Still, food security is tenuous for too many of our neighbors. Speakers: Amy Franceschini (Victory Gardens, past and present), Willow Rosenthal (City Slicker Farms), Jason Mark (Alemany Farm, and editor of Earth Island Journal).
11/30 Friday
Conspiracy of Venus Women's Choir, Singing at A.Muse, 9pm:
this will be our first performance of the new season. we have a couple of new songs (soldier's things by tom waits, venus as a boy by bjork), and a few old songs (blue by joni mitchell, i'm your man and who by fire by leonard cohen, and karitas habundat by hildegard) to sing to you if you are able to join us.
12/1 & 12/2 Saturday & Sunday
Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop in SF:
DANCE DETAILS & FLOW STUDIES
a x i s s y l l a b u s - workshop with kira kirsch
dec 1st & 2nd in san francisco

"As a student of the Axis Syllabus I experience the A.S. classes as highly celebrated moments with potential for deep physical and spiritual experience. I find the fusion between empowering physical dance training and dance class as a communal ritual itself extremely powerful and particular for the Axis Syllabus Teachings." Julia Caprez (dancer & clown)
Times: 11am - 3.30 pm (with 1/2 hr break) Location: @1345 A 17th Street (@Conecticut), SF Muni Bus 22 Costs: $ 65 or $ 50 (for dancers and if you register before nov 15th)
I would like to offer three places for 25$ each. This is for those of you who really cannot efford the entire fee. Please apply with short letter of motivation.
Pre-registration is highly recommended & deeply appreciated!!!
[email protected] 415-724-6778
Learn more about concept and philosophy of the Axis SyllabusTM and see info video clip at
www.axissyllabus.com
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Focus of the first part is dedicated to dance/movement fundamentals. Theoretical examinations are directly blended into physical relevant applications. We will explore and analyze healthy parameters for joint and muscle function, logical falling and walking reflexes and kinetic efficiency regarding conditions imposed by gravitational, centrifugal, centripetal and coriolis forces.
Precise study of transitions, sequential moving or side-bending principles will stimulate your analytical mind and establish healthy ninja reflexes.
Recognizing our skeletal architecture and further the whole universe as non-linear entities we will encounter the sensation of flow, ease and liberation when moving in tri-axial and undulatory patterns proposed in floor and standing case-studies (phrases).
In the second part the practice is extended with more electric, dynamic challenges, You are invited to accelerate into spinning, upside downs, higher falls, breaks or jumping.
12/11 Tuesday
California Food & Justice Coalition Member Meet Up in Oakland: 3pm – 6pm

Help guide our work to transform California's food system
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We invite you to attend the California Food and Justice Coalition's San Francisco Bay Area Member Meet Up on Tue. ..h, 3pm – 6pm, 1000 Broadway, 5th floor, Oakland. (BART Stop: 12th Street, Oakland)
This meeting is for YOU – our members and allies - to learn about and help guide our coalition in its path towards becoming a more powerful political force and creating an equitable, just and sustainable food system for all of us.
Learn about and provide feedback on our coalition's new training and mentoring program.
How can our emerging training and mentorship program best support groups like yours?
Determine our campaign and policy priorities on a local, state and federal level for the next two to three years.
What should we advocate for over the next two years?
This meeting is one of up to a dozen member meetings that CFJC will be hosting around the state over the coming two months in order to answer these two questions. This event is co-hosted by Alemany Farm, Food First, University of California Cooperative Extension and the Eco Village Learning Center.
The California Food and Justice Coalition is a statewide membership coalition committed to the basic human right to healthy food while advancing social, agricultural, environmental and economic justice. Through advocacy, organizing and education, we collaborate with community-based efforts to create a sustainable food supply for the residents of California. We envision a California food system in which all activities, from farm to table, are equitable, healthful, regenerative and community-driven.
We encourage you to contact us prior to the meeting and give us your opinion on what our policy programs should be over the coming years. RSVP to [email protected] , 510-704-0245.
12/13 Thursday
Benefit Show (part 2) for "In Search of Good Food" (the film), at El Rio, 5-9pm:
Cotillion will be playing Psychadelic Folk (side project with members from Botticellis and Bright Eyes) ttp://myspace.com/yocotillion & Conspiracy of Venus (unique women's choir, see above) will be performing too. Jeremy Dalmas and You (interactive musical experimentation) opens. http://myspace.com/jeremydalmas
"In Search of Good Food" is a film-in-the-making about CA's emerging sustainable food system For details or if you want to help, contact Good Food Productions (Antonio & Jesse) at [email protected] , and check out their official webblogsite insearchofgoodfood.blogspot.com . Come early to this one (starts at 5); you may even have time to go to your next event afterwards (ends at 9 for Brazilian dance band)!

My Interests

axis syllabus dance (http://www.axissyllabus.com) , music, yoga, agroecology & organic farming (http://www.alemanyfarm.org) , raw food crafting, healing, paratheatre (http://www.paratheatrical.com), and the integration of all these things. i like finding uses for things that i think other people won't use. i choose to focus on whatever draws me in most at the moment.

I'd like to meet:

people who care, listen, share, and are nice enough.

Please read my blog about the Farm Bill: The Farm Bill, The Food System, and What You Can Do To Make It Better !!

Music:

some favorites: the botticellis , trainwreck riders , langhorne slim , two gallants , sean hayes , jolie holland , the deciders , drakkar sauna , brown recluse , michael hurley, dirty three, jump little children, the beautiful south, gillian welch, roscoe holcomb, the fifth wheel, elliott smith, the eels, cold war kids, little wings, lincoln, emmet swimming, athenaeum, holly mae band. Blue, the dude who plays harmonica at powell and market by the cable car turnaround.

Movies:

the devil and daniel johnston

Television:

we had free cable tv and now it doesn't work. can you fix it? i know we all hate tv, but occasionally it's nice to have the option.

Books:

to be healed by the earth (warren grossman, ph.d.). the axis syllabus universal motor principles (consolidated by frey faust). jivamukti yoga: practices for liberating body and soul (sharon gannon and david life). food politics (marion nestle). the fatal harvest reader: the tragedy of industrial agriculture (edited by andrew kimbell). archaeology of the soul (antero alli).

Heroes:

salvagers, composters, those who create out of chaos.

My Blog

seaweed sway dot blogspot dot com (events list)

i am going to try to post updates to my events list at seaweedsway.blogspot.com.  we'll see how it goes.  so, especially if the events list on this page looks outdated, please check the...
Posted by jessie on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:38:00 PST

patience

i don't think pretending to be patient helps... because then the impatience can just build up.  there are ways to disperse it, to forget about it, but it seems to return time after time.  i ...
Posted by jessie on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:32:00 PST

some tuba player

this spam was one of the highlights of my day. you have to take what you can get when you're staring at a computer for much of the time. anyone know what it's from? Some tuba playerSome tuba player ...
Posted by jessie on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:07:00 PST

these days are long

i'm feeling like there's a lot of shit to take care of lately, but also that i'm not as worried as i would have been in the past.  it's because of all the yoga philosophy i guess i've been trying...
Posted by jessie on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:29:00 PST

the washing machine effect

i think i've been experiencing the "washing machine effect" that my yoga teacher was warning us about.  she said that once you go into the training or start practicing more regularly, things star...
Posted by jessie on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:09:00 PST

learning to walk again

life seems to have picked up these days, but that's only because i'm trying to cram a lot into limited time.  trying to be efficient by doing too many things has its drawbacks, but it feels like ...
Posted by jessie on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:37:00 PST

Saturdays in Sept - Fall Axis Classes in San Francisco

hello,i know this message is long, but i wanted to make sure to get information out to anyone interested in taking this class on saturday. please forward it if you know anyone who may be interested a...
Posted by jessie on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:07:00 PST

staying home

this week, i have technically stayed home 4 out of 5 nights.  i have had guilt issues almost every night because there's always something going on that sounds like it would be fun, but i am makin...
Posted by jessie on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:14:00 PST

i should be doing laundry

it's friday night, and i feel guilty staying home.  i should have stayed out longer or should not have left so soon.  my landlord's son just went upstairs to have a party with his hometown f...
Posted by jessie on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:29:00 PST

reasons for eating raw (and vegan)

i've been trying to remember lately why i eat how i do, as it's become a habit that i feel the need to readdress, if only to refresh my memory.  i also haven't done any food journal type writing ...
Posted by jessie on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:23:00 PST