villagevibe December 2010
News and views from the heart of Fernwood
Sunday Swap ’n Shop— Coming in January Official Communiqué for the People of Fernwood, and beyond: Calling all traders, urban farmers, artisans, musicians, entertainers, radical recyclers and connoisseurs of gently used goods… Fernwood NRG is excited to launch the new Sunday Swap ’n Shop— Fare, Finds, Fun & Future at the Fernwood Community Centre, January 2011.
›› Kate Naugler The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a giant garbage gyre, a spiraling vortex of a trash heap composed mostly of tiny plastic pieces, amassed to the size of a small continent. Ceaselessly growing, this trash monster floats only six years travel via ocean currents from our shores… The good news is this repulsive Giant Garbage Gyre has an adversary, a group of radical revolutionary community building liberators named The People of Fernwood. … Got a cool way to radically recycle? Got a political message to help encourage the radical revolutionary reshaping of our world one neighbourhood at a time? Got a skill you’d like to share with your neighbours? (bike building from used parts anyone?) Find yourself up-cycling garbage into beautiful and useful items, like candy bar wrappers turned into shiny wallets? Have some old treasures you no longer need that others could love? Then head down to the centre and trade away! Mark your calendar to save the date and bring yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbours, and your acquaintances to Fernwood’s new Sunday Swap ‘n Shop. You will encounter treasures, fare, music, finds, and friendly neighbourhood folks. Bring the stuff you would like to offer up for reusing and recycling, and in the name of fighting the Growing Giant Garbage Gyre—Bring it. Sell it. Swap it.
Fernwood Square acts as an unofficial goods exchange. Photo: Lenore Rankin.
Fernwood Sunday Swap ’n Shop When: Time: Where: Cost:
Every Sunday, starting January 16th, 2011 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. Fernwood Community Centre gym, 1240 Gladstone Loonie per person, kids free
If you’d like to reserve a table please email Swapnshop@fernwoodnrg.ca for table rates. Local growers, we want you there, email us to make arrangements. Volunteers, entertainers and musicians, we want you too. If you want to have some fun, meet some neighbours and find some treasures email us. So Fernwood, let’s take action and have some fun while supporting the local economy through community and gathering together in the spirit of abundance. Let’s show we care about our earth, our world, our community, our homes, each other and ourselves, and of course let’s stop the trash mass and let’s do it in style! For more information visit www.fernwoodnrg.ca
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Au Revoir Mary page 3
Short Fiction Contest page 4
New Programs at the Centre page 7
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