Recommendations To-Do This Weekend

Looking for something to do this weekend, while also becoming aware of environmental issues that affect us locally & globally?

FRIDAY - APRIL 17

• Eco-film: FLOW: For The Love Of Water (2008) NR, 7:30 pm
  
  Leffler House Livingroom @ Saint Mark's Cathedral - 1245 10th Ave E; Seattle
  FREE, but $1 donation is appreciated
  
  An urgent & unflinching documentary that focuses on the role of politics, pollution, corruption, and human rights in the often-invisible & under-reported global water crisis. Interviews illustrate a grim story about water piracy contrasted with activists who stay the course in their global battleground. For more information, contact Kevin Meadows, Friday Film Night Coordinator for Saint Mark's at filmnight@saintmarks.org.

SATURDAY - APRIL 18

• Earth Day Family Volunteer Event - Park Clean Up at Pine Lake Park, Sammamish, 10am-2pm
  
  During this annual Pine Lake Park clean up, you can be among the first to see the new park renovations. Help prepare for opening day by picking up fallen branches from winter storms, removing invasive ivy, and planting small plants. This family-friendly event is open to everyone. Dress appropriately for the weather and bring gloves. Please register by emailing City Of Sammamish Volunteer Coordinator Dawn Sanders at dsanders@ci.sammamish.wa.us or by calling 425-295-0556.
  
  
• DUWAMISH ALIVE! ~ EARTH DAY 2009, 10am-2pm, plus Volunteer Party 2pm-5pm
  
  Plant trees, pull weeds, and clean up trash at parks and beaches along Seattle's Duwamish River...12 sites to choose from! DRCC is hosting a kayak cleanup along the river itself. To sign up, email cari@duwamishcleanup.org. For a full listing of sites, see: www.duwamishcleanup.org.
  
  
• Nature Consortium 2nd Annual Earth Day Celebration - Cooper Elementary School, 9:30am-3pm
  
  1901 SW Genesee Street, West Seattle. Come join Nature Consortium and Earth Corps volunteers in further cleanup and development of the hilltop. The work party will be followed by Nature Consortium's own Earth Day Festival at Cooper Elementary, which is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. All are invited to come and enjoy free food, kids hands-on art activities, and performances by a wide array of artists. There will also be on-gong nature hikes, an arts and environment tabling area, a fantastic raffle, and more!
  
  
• Clean and Green Seattle! - Sustainable Wallingford's Clean Up of Burke Gilman Trail In Wallingford & Fremont, 9am-1pm
  
  Help clean up the Burke Gilman Trail in Wallingford and Fremont! Join the Mayor, friends and neighbors.
  • Pick up litter in and around the trail
  • Spruce up green spaces
  • Learn more about climate protection
  • Volunteers receive compact fluorescent bulbs
  
  Tools will be provided. Have refreshments and meet at Gas Works Park Parking Lot (Located at 2101 N Northlake Way)
  
  Contact: tim.durkan@seattle.gov 206-684-4054 Or ron.harris-white@seattle.gov 296-386-9765
  

SUNDAY - APRIL 19





Locally filmed eco-film: Broken Limbs
4pm @ Central Cinema - 1411 21st Ave; Seattle
$10 suggested donation.

A benefit for Clean Greens Farm & Market. CleanGreens is a neighborhood project of the Black Dollar Days Task Force, an organization dedicated to creating economic opportunity and equity in Seattle's low income communities. Clean Greens mentors people from the neighborhood in organic farming & returns fresh, delicious, nutritious, and affordable produce to the community. This innovative project providing education and good food is based on 22 acres of leased land in Duvall, WA. This past winter's crop was wiped out by a flood, but the spring planting is in progress now.

Central Cinema will be screening the documentary, Broken Limbs, a film based in Washington State. They'll be discussing how Clean Greens and YOU can work together.

Once produce is ready to be harvested for sale, CleanGreens Farm will re-open their Clean Greens Market @ The New Hope Baptist Church parking lot, 124 21st Ave, Seattle, every Friday & Saturday from 10am-5pm.