Kiss the Earth: Days of the Dead/Samhain Celebration

Kiss the Earth

Days of the Dead

Samhain Celebration

Sunday October 26 FREE

Soup & Cinema limited space rsvp

6pm-9pm, Theme: Home Wakes & Funerals / Days of the Dead

Community Altar rsvp

Bring candle, poem, object or other symbolic memorial of your ancestors and place them on the community altar.

Friday October 31 HALLOWEEN FREE

Family Mask & Lantern Making / Lantern Blessing Procession rsvp

Halloween, October 31, Friday 3pm til dark, procession at dusk

Community Altar building continues (through Sunday evening) no rsvp required

Make and offering out of materials provided and weave it into the community memorial loom.

Saturday November 1

Kiss the Earth Natural Burial Retreat 9am-5pm, $150 pre-registration required

In this workshop we will gather together to consider how we would like to be honored in our (or how we might honor another in their) final passage from earth.

learn more at http://www.generacion.nu/

Sunday November 2

Samhain, 10am-4pm, $50/session or $75/all day pre-registration required

Bread & Winter Gardens: wild sourdough starter, winter saunas and

garden infrastructure in preparation for the deep winter hearth.

Winter Light Beeswax, candles, oil lamps, and lanterns.

Community Altar Closing Ceremony FREE no rsvp necessary, DUSK

Join us in song as we burn our fabric, paper, earth weaving as a symbol of release.

visit: http://www.generacion.nu/

email: info@generacion.nu

call: 503.750.1415

Celebration takes place at:

Generación

857 N. Prescott

on the corner of Mississippi & Prescott

across from the Albina Triangle

Compassionate Communication Group Wait List

Our monthly compassionate communication group is currently full. If you would like to be on the wait list, contact Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or mychelle@nurturepdx.com. We are considering starting a second group if the waitlist fills-up.

This is a self-led group to practice compassionate communication, with an emphasis on parenting/family. The compassionate communication practiced in the group is a communication approach using techniques and ideas inspired by Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg.

It is a way to communicate peacefully while addressing the needs of everyone involved and models gentle, empathetic, and assertive communication to our children. For more information and other local resources on Compassionate Communication visit the Oregon Network of Compassionate Communication and Wise Heart.

Facilitator: The group will be self-led, but coordinated by Mychelle Moritz and Rebecca Andersson

Description: Focus on families who want to support each other with compassion and in giving our children tools in unconditional love and freedom.

Prerequisites: none, all levels of experience welcome.

Format and Structure: To be determined by the group. Children are welcome.

Meeting Day/Time: *note change of day* 2nd Sunday of each month from 2-4pm, future meeting times negotiable by group.

Location: Nurture, 1614 NE Alberta St., Portland, OR 97211

Starting Date: August 31, 2008

Fees: Suggested donation $5/ group meeting

Group Maximum: 15 Members

Contact: Mychelle at 971-344-7527 or mychelle@nurturepdx.com

Fall Harvest Festival Hoe Down

Join Portland Green Parenting and Friends for a

Fall Harvest Festival and Hoe Down!

Sunday, October 26th

from 1-6 pm

at the Pumpkin Patch

on Sauvie Island

Featuring the toe-tappin', knee slappin' sounds of

listen to them here

with caller Caroline Oakley

listen to her here

in the Big Red Barn from 3-6 pm!

Tickets are $25 per family (2 adults and their own children)

or $12.50 per adult

must be purchased before the event...there will be no tickets sold at the door

The ticket includes admission to the square dance, all you can eat corn, 2 bracelets to the corn maze (kids under 6 are free to the maze, kids over 6 are $4), games, face painting and a costume contest with cool prizes by Klean Kanteen, Oaks Park and more!!

Everyone is welcome to show up as early as they want since there will be lots of other fun things to enjoy at the farm from 9 am until 6 pm:* animal barn FREE* hay pyramid & hay maze FREE* hayrides FREE* cow train for $2.00 per person

Make sure to arrive by 2 pm to get your bracelets for the Corn Maize-- this is about a 45 minute activity from about 2-3 pm, after which we can have some games and face painting. We will roast corn and grill burgers from 3-5:30 pm right outside the barn.

At 6 pm the corn maize turns into a haunted "field of screams" that the older kids might like. We can get a discount to this activity if we have 15 or more people interested. Please e-mail Rebecca rebecca@portlandgreenparenting.com if you want to do the "field of screams" at an additional cost.

Purchase Tickets

Fertility Awareness Workshop

Sunday, Oct 19th
2-5 pm
@ Nurture
http://www.nurturepdx.com/
1614 NE Alberta St.

Fertility Awareness is a natural method of birth control that involves observing, charting, and analyzing a woman’s natural fertility cycle. The method may be used to prevent or achieve pregnancy, or just to become familiar with the cycle. There will be a follow-up workshop, date TBA. Facilitated by Katherine Murphy and Christy Hall.

For more information or to register:
murky81@hotmail.com

Vegan Secret Cafe: Brunch Benefit

Christy of Lily Toad (and Two Little Feet Doula Services...and one of Nurture's Fertility Awareness workshop facilitators...and lots more) and Morgan of Dovetail Bakery are hosting a brunch to benefit the Birth Attendants: Prison Doula Project.

Brunch details:

September 21, 2008

8:30am-12:30pm

9015 N. Clarendon (cross st. Hudson), Portland, OR 97203

Full breakfast including coffee $10
Pastry and coffee $5

(stop by on your way to the Brain, Child reading group!)

For more information call Christy 503-285-5944 or Morgan 503-288-8839

Nest Midwifery Open Nest

Laurie Perron-Mednick, Kimberly Kincade, and Jen Warnock, the lovely midwives at Nest Midwifery, are celebrating their grand opening by welcoming you to their nest on Saturday, September 20th from 4-8pm. The Nest is located at 2225 NE MLK, above Echo Cafe. There will be treats to eat, drink, and see (including some special artwork)...activities for the wee ones...everyone is welcome!

For more information about Nest Midwifery, check out their gestating website at

www.nest-midwifery.com

tiny time based arts festival PICA

PICA's (Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts) annual Time Based Arts Festival (TBA) this week. On Sunday from 11am-2pm, there will be a tiny festival within a festival, or tiny TBA, packed with all ages fun, art, film, music, performance, and dance including Greasy Kids Stuff, Indiekid Films, Hot Little Hands, Anna Oxygen, Elizabeth Mitchel, art with CHAP (the Children's Art Project), and paint chip poetry with PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art)...

Tickets are $8 (members) or $10/adult and children get in free with a paying adult. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

For more information check out the tiny TBA webpage.

Infant Massage Classes

Infant massage is a gentle and loving way to bond with your baby. Massage teaches your baby relaxation at a young age, which is an important tool that your baby can use throughout his or her life. By spending this special one-on-one time with your baby, you will be more in-tune with your baby and begin to recognize your baby’s cues more quickly. Massage has the benefit of increasing circulation, which enhances the absorption of nutrients into the bloodstream, in turn, strengthening the immune system. Massage can also relieve your baby's discomforts caused by teething, gas, colic, and constipation.

Join us for one focused class or attend all three classes to learn techniques for a more in-depth, full body massage. All supplies will be provided. Ages: Birth to 3 years, older siblings are always welcome to join us and learn.

October 15th 3:00pm-4:00pm ~ Getting Started, Legs, Tummy, & Chest

October 22nd 3:00pm-4:00pm ~ Chest, Arms, & Face

October 29th 3:00pm-4:00pm ~ Back, Stretching , & Putting it all together

$35 per class or take all 3 classes for $100

Instructor: Tiffany Ueltschi, LMT, Doula (OR LMT#12737)

To register contact Tiffany at: (360) 600-5869 or Tiffany@nurturepdx.com

BIRTH: the Play

The Oregon Midwifery Council presents:

BIRTH a play by Karen Brody from BOLD (Birth on Labor Day)
on September 20, 2008 at 2pm
at the Delores Winningstad Theatre in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts.

All proceeds support the Oregon Midwifery Council.

If you are familiar with The Vagina Monolouges, BIRTH is similar but with a focus on childbirth.

Birth is a play based on over one hundred interviews Karen Brody conducted with mothers across America who gave birth between 2000-2004. It tells the true stories of 8 women painting a portrait of how low-risk, educated women are giving birth in America today.

To learn more about the play, visit BOLD's website. Watch a promotional video.

Tickets are $18 presale and $22 at the door.

Following BIRTH the play, Nurture hosts BOLD Red Tent

Calling all Mothers

Gather…tell your birth stories…gain support inside

the BOLD Red Tent

Hosted by Nurture

October 11, 2008 12pm-3pm

FREE

Pre-registration is required, space is limited

For more information, please visit Nurture's webstite

To register, please e-mail

or call Mychelle at 971-344-7527

You are invited to join us for the powerful experience of sharing your birthing story in a safe, intimate and nurturing space surrounded by mothers. We will share, honor, and preserve our stories by creating a collaborative birth experience sculpture. We welcome mothers to be part of this opportunity to speak, create, listen, heal, and celebrate themselves as birthing women.

Through the gathering of birth stories in the form of visual art, film, or written word from world-wide BOLD Red events, BOLD will create a traveling exhibit to educate, tell the truth and inspire people around the world to take action to make maternity care mother-friendly. The BOLD Library of Birth Truths will also be available for researchers to access.

Your story can be a part of the collaborative sculpture to be included in this library and help inspire change for mothers.

Nursing Mothers Counsel of Oregon Announcement

The Nursing Mothers Counsel of Oregon (NMC) is a nonprofit organization that strives to improve health in our communities by advocating a women's right to breastfeed her child. We are developing free breastfeeding classes and other services to provide to our communities.

The Nursing Mothers Counsel of Oregon is actively seeking new volunteers. If you wish to become a phone counselor and have had at least six months of breastfeeding experience, or you do not have the breastfeeding experience and wish to volunteer in other ways, please come to our free training held at Legacy Emmanuel Hospital.

Learn how to counsel women on common breastfeeding issues, train to teach breastfeeding classes, and help improve the rates of breastfeeding in our communities. We are reaching out to diverse populations and really need volunteers that represent these communities. Women of diverse ethnic backgrounds and bilingual women are in very high demand!

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.nursingmotherscounsel.org/ and click on the “Promote” button or call Madia at 503-516-6471. You can also email her at raddoula@yahoo.com

Fall Session
Saturday, October 4th 9:00am-4:30pm
Monday, October 6th 6:30pm-9:30pmMonday,
October 13th 6:30pm-9:30pmMonday,
October 20th 6:30pm-9:30pmMonday,
October 27th 6:30pm-9:30pm