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Feb 29 2012

Community Resilience Circles Introductory Session – Thursday, March 8 in Amesbury

Transition Newburyport and the Amesbury Friends Peace Center announce a new Introductory Session to Community Resilience Circles on Thursday, March 8th at 7 PM at the Amesbury Friends Peace Center, 120 Friend Street, Amesbury, MA.  This is your opportunity to join a growing group of people in the area who have gathered to learn and explore how to address the economic and ecological challenges facing us, strengthen our community resilience, and rediscover the abundance of a more humane and equitable society.
The 90-minute introductory session brings together people interested in the small-group learning process, and provides a flavor of the benefits of being together. At the end of the session everyone will have an opportunity to form one or more new Community Resilience Circles, committing to the full seven-session curriculum. The composition of each circle and the scheduling of the seven sessions will be determined by consensus.
Feb 3 2012

Browse The Transition Companion

Here’s a great preview of the newly released ‘The Transition Companion’ created by Green Books, which offers an immersion into the book, complete with audio bits and all sorts. Click on it and it blows up into a flip-throughable selection from the book

Jan 31 2012

Earth Port Film Festival, May 12, 2012


Earth Port Film Festival

May 12, 2012
Firehouse Center for the Arts
Screenings at 2 PM and 7 PM
Reception at 5:30 PM

Coming to Newburyport on May 12th …. a day of short films focused on inventing, discovering, inspiring, catalyzing, or documenting environmental action through the media of film and video. The inaugural Earth Port FIlm Festival, co-organized by PortMedia and Transition Newburyport, sponsored by The Beach and Nature Company and hosted by the Firehouse Center for the Arts is a not-to-be-missed event.

Journey from a family’s mission to save the California condor, to the depths of the Stellwagen Bank, from a community-owned solar power company in Germany to a Massachusetts garage built of recycled tires, from a delightfully quirky animation about waste to the amazing cinematography following the Colorado River from source to sea.

We are pleased to announce the film festival winners and finalists:

Youth WInner: Lights Out! (RubyCube Entertainment)

Adult Very Short Winner: River of Dreams (Mill Valley Film Group)

Adult Short Winner: Second Hand (Isaac King)

 The full schedule for the Earth Port Film Festival will be released shortly and tickets will be available through the Firehouse Center for the Arts at www.firehouse.org.

The Earth Port Film Festival was inspired by a desire to highlight and raise awareness of both pressing environmental issues and the important role of community media and was guided by the 2012 Earth Day theme “Mobilize the Earth™ Proceeds from the Earth Port Film Festival will be used to support the work of PortMedia, Newburyport’s community media center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides independent and original public affairs, arts, education, and government programming to Newburyport and the surrounding area.. Further information is available at the festival website, www.EarthPortFilm.org. For additional questions please contact PortMedia’s Director of Development, Joe DiBiase at joe@EarthPortFilm.org or (617) 701-7678. “Mobilize the Earth” is a trademark of the Earth Day Network.