Red Clover member, Toma Solano, will be teaching a fundamental carpentry skills workshop for women on December 19th @ 11am – 3pm. We’ll be building window boxes (fer yur plants!).

If you’ve ever wanted to work with wood, but were intimidated or simply didn’t have access to the knowledge and/or tools to do so, this is the workshop for you.   If you’re afraid of power tools, there is no need. You will be briefed on simple, standardized precautions to keep yourself and those around you safe.

Tools, safety equipment, and materials will be provided. We’d like to suggest a $5 donation to cover materials. A potluck lunch will be served at noon. So please bring a side to share. Toma will make something tasty and vegetarian.

Though it makes us squirm a bit, we need to ask everyone to sign a waiver. We’d just like to preserve our ability to share such experiences with the community in the future.

Toma is a carpentry instructor at the Chesapeake Center for Youth Development and has 10 years of carpentry experience.

For additional information please call 443-286-6695.

Join us to learn how to keep yourselves and your friends safe in protest situations. The training includes how to be the best dressed activist, basic first aid with herbs and a wilderness perspective, how to get help in protest situations, how to stay safe when the police riot, and how to treat police weapons including tear gas, pepper spray, and tasers.

The trainer, Delyla Wilson, has been teaching Community Street Medic courses since 2000 and extensive experience working in riot situations, most recently in Pittsburgh. She has been trained as a Wilderness First Responder, EMT, and Red Cross instructor.  Currently Della is traveling the country in the Earth Activist Training Permaculture Demonstration Bus (Permibus) teaching a variety of sustainability skills. To learn more visit www.permibus.org.

The cost of the course is $10-$25 with No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds.

Space is limited, so please sign up using this form. Thx!

“Equal+Opposite”
July 22nd, 8:30PM
Red Clover Collective

About the film
From the early silents of Lubitsch to The Crying Game and beyond, gender-variant characters persistently provide cinematic shock upon the revelation of their “true sex.” Turning the focus away from the gender-variant body, “Equal+Opposite” instead explores the range of physical and emotional reactions by “protagonists” to transgendered bodies, from curiosity to revulsion. “Equal+Opposite” premiered at MIX21: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival in October 2008.

About Rahne
Rahne Alexander is a writer, musician and multimedia artist from Baltimore. She is the guitarist and songwriter for the girl garage band The Degenerettes and a senior organizer of the Charm City Kitty Club. Her video art has screened in galleries and film festivals across the country, and she is a frequent contributor to City Paper and Smile, Hon, You’re In Baltimore.

More video work by Rahne Alexander on YouTube.

April 25, 2009: 1-4 pm

Rain Barrels

Permaculture offers many simple, effective, and environmentally sound strategies for managing water in the urban environment. One technique is to collect rooftop runoff in a rain barrel and use it to water your garden or lawn. Learn how to set up a rain barrel by helping to install a rainwater collection system at the Red Clover Collective. You may purchase a rain barrel to take home for $60. Please place your order in advance.

The workshop will be led by Karen Stupski from the Heathcote Community and Ashley Traut from the Herring Run Watershed Association.

Sliding scale $10-$30. Workshops will take place at the Red Clover Collective in Baltimore, MD. Please RSVP – space is limited. For more information or to RSVP contact Karen at 410-357-9523 or karen@heathcote.org.

Can’t make it? The Heathcote Community has several permaculture workshops coming up.

Consensus is a group decision-making process that aims to be cooperative, inclusive, and egalitarian. It goes beyond majority rule—it works to include all voices, to address all concerns, to arrive at a decision that the entire group can support.

In this workshop, we’ll discuss the theory and practice of consensus. In particular, we’ll consider group process and the skills necessary to make consensus run smoothly. Finally, we’ll engage in exercises to practice those skills.

For more information, contact Marcos at the Red Clover Collective:
410-467-8614
mcocoves@riseup.net