Snapshots from the 2nd compost-making workshop and preview of the 3rd workshop in September

Photos: RH/ NA


Stavroula and Rheinhold were excellent hosts of this second compost-making workshop. There was a good group with a healthy mix of neighbors and locals, friends from other areas and new people! The evening had many different parts and all contributed in generating a spirit of community, knowledge exchange and learning, communal food and fun with great music and dance!...

An exciting 3rd workshop on compost-making is in the works for September 5th that will take place in a garden in Marathon! Make sure to attend this one! Details will follow.

Compost making workshop: theory and practice Ecology, Economy, Philosophy

A cycle of three workshops addressing home compost-making is designed as a holistic approach to the issue of recycling at the source. The topic will be addressed in theory and practice with hands-on opportunity and it will address the practicalities of composting as well as its application and place in the philosophical movements in life.
Bring with you all organic remains collected during the previous week in a plastic bag. These may include peels, leaves, weeds as well as egg shells! We will provide the carbon-rich materials in the form of paper, carton, dry leaves, etc.

Dates:
Sunday, March 28th
Registration deadline 26/3
Sunday, May 30th
Registration deadline 23/5
Sunday,September 5th
Registration deadline 29/8

Instructors: Nicholas Anastasopoulos and George Loudos both practice composting with several methods for more that one decade. Philosopher/ writer Fotis Terzakis will illuminate the aspects of human thought and belief systems through various religions in relationship with the meaning of death and rebirth, the life cycle and nature through the different traditions.

We highly recommend participation in all three workshops which form a conceptual and practical unit and complement each other. At the end of each workshop there will be refreshments and snacks served prepared from local produce.

Attention:
Meeting places will be gardens in Nea Makri.
We ask for a donation of 5 euros per person.
Maximum number of participants: 30 persons

For direction and any last minute changes please visit the site one week prior to the scheduled event.

First workshop will take place on Sunday, March 28th at 4:30 pm at Nea Makri. You can reach the garden where 1st workshop takes place if coming from Athens or anywhere else more distant than a few kilometers from Nea Makri either by car or public transport. We generally favor reduced use of cars, therefore it is always a good idea to share a ride with someone else. If you drive, you must park on Argostoliou street and then walk on foot to Olympou 2.

Buses leaving from "Pedion toy Areos" with indications Marathon, Grammatiko, Agia Marina, all make a stop at "Agios Konstantinos", one stop past the Nea Makri square. From the stop you can walk to the house and it takes about 10 minutes to get there.
Please study and print the diagram below for directions and reference.




You may register for the first workshop until March 26/3 by e-mail: gloudos@teiath.gr mentioning the 1st compost workshop as title to your mail.

Permaculture2: Diagnosis, ideas and actions, Monday 5/10

< -Earth Care<-->People care <--> Reinvest the surplus->

Once more (and for the last time!) after the Introduction to permaculture event at Nea Makri, we will have Mark Krawczyk with us and this will be a good opportunity to further discuss what was initiated on Sunday 27/9!

Pikermi is an area in Attica that used to be the vineyard and productive region for all of Attica. Here, we will attempt to read the landscape and the place together with Mark and we will attempt to formulate some initial diagnosis.
As we already know, proposals are not to be made before we acquire a deep understanding of the place, something that also requires a knowledge in time (allowing at least the four seasons full cycle observation). Nevertheless we will attempt to express thoughts and ideas. We will then have a group discussion that will lead to the option to break into smaller special interest groups and in the end the re-grouping of all participants.

As on Sunday, we ask everyone to bring something that they may have prepared themselves in order for us to share in closing the evening with a communal meal!

Schedule:

3:00-4:30μμ Whoever has the option may join us for a walk through the area with Dina Koussouri as our guide.

4:30-6:00μμ We all meet at the estate and together with Mark Krawczyk we discuss once again the principles of Permaculture while attempting to focus and get inspired by the land that hosts us tonight.
6:00-8:00μμ Group Discussion

8:30- Communal meal followed by whatever develops…so bring what you have made with care (needless to say you are welcome without bringing anything also, if you can’t prepare something this time...) Also, if you play a musical instrument-guitar, accordion, flute,etc-bring it along –your voice of course will also do!)
Directions in order to get there:

< -Earth Care<-->People care <--> Reinvest the surplus->

Urban Permaculture and the right to the city / Urban Void

Here you can check out excerpts from one of the three acts that took place as part of "The Path":

An Invitation to participate

Urban Void/The Path/ For the right to the city, 2009.
The Urban Void group invites you to participate in an action defending public space and the right to the city through a proposal for uninterrupted passages cutting through the block where EMST is temporarily housed and through institutional properties in the center of Athens with the temporary inscription of a path.

Join us tonight (October 1st 2009) in this urban walk through this "path". During this exploration we will discover together what urban permaculture is -or could be- in the center of Athens and we will discuss about public space, participation and the future of cities...
Meeting point is the Evangelismos Metro at the Rizari exit at 7:00pm. Please be there at 6:45 since the action will start at 7:00 sharp!

This event is part of the Expanded Ecologies/ Perspectives in a Time of Emergency exhibition Duration: 11/6/2009-4/10/2009
curated by Daphne Vitali
The exhibition showcases work by 27 mostly Athens-based artists, architects and artist collectives who propose works for the outdoor public spaces of the Athens Conservatory. The exhibition is cast in the form of an open narrative that juxtaposes themes and approaches pertinent to the many-sided issue of ecology. It features sculptural and sound installations, in situ works, evening video projections, landscape interventions, participatory and community-based projects.

Permaculture Sunday with Mark Krawczyk and walk through the ex-american base

(photos NA/EG)
TREE wishes to thank Mark Krawczyk and all participants in Sunday's event for their contribution in making it a success.
A public dialog on permaculture, on Nea Makri, as well as on community-related issues has just opened up!
So, as a development to this beginning a new appointment was made for Monday October 5th at a friend's farm in Pimermi for further development of the concepts discussed during the presentation, during the walk and afterwards...

Tune in towards the end of the week for details.