An evening of culinary and creative delights. Stalls, music, and performance art. Shops open late.

Just some of the highlights

Performances:

• The Longdrops
• Ukeladies
• Vision Cultural Movement at 7pm
• Velociteers at 6 and 8pm
• Family Band – at Monterrey
• Craig the busker
• (full line up to be confirmed)

Special Promotions:

Dalston until 8pm drinks and nibbles and anyone who makes a purchase from Dalston on the night of the street party will go in a raffle to win a $100 Dalston voucher.

• Organic Candy floss at Nature Baby
• Wine tasting at the Wine Vault

Street stalls include:

• Pacific Island weavers
• Island food
• Manu Samoa Supporters club and the Grey Lynn RSC
• Blue September promotion
• West Lynn Meats organic sausage BBQ
• Grey Lynn Business Association
• Womens Centre
• Little Grocer BBQ
• Little Island Press
• Popo Hardwear
• All good bananas
• Art from Toi Ora and local schools

Thank you to the volunteers from Grey Lynn 2030, GLBA, Grey Lynn 2030 Waste Away, Grey Lynn Community Church.

Part of Grey Lynn Shout for Samoa and Grey Lynn Creates. Poster for printing :GLC-003-StreetParty2011_ART3.pdf

“You are invited to a festival of artistic, cultural and environmental events.”

Grey Lynn Creates is an eight day festival to be held during the RWC 2011, 25th September – 2nd October, celebrating creativity and sustainability in our local community.

With a programme of free events suitable for all ages, people of the community and visitors alike are invited to experience and participate in the local artistic, cultural, culinary and environmental happenings across the week.

Events in the festival programme are listed under Art, Performance and Community.

Grey Lynn Creates, aligned with the aims of Grey Lynn 2030, seeks to bring together and advance our community through positive, local initiatives.

Grey Lynn Creates is generously supported by the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board and is a part of the REAL New Zealand Festival.

If you would like a PDF version of the poster to print out – GreyLynnCreatesPoster.pdf and save a copy as pdf for printing.

The Grey Lynn Community Centre and Grey Lynn 2030 are hosting a Coffee Break this Fair Trade Fortnight as part of Oxfam’s Biggest Coffee Break.

Come and enjoy a Fairtrade cuppa (coffee generously provided by Kokako) with homemade biscuits and help raise money towards Oxfam’s work with struggling coffee growers in the developing world.

Date: Thursday 13th May
Time: 10 am – 12midday
Location: Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Road

All welcome
Choose Fairtrade and change the world, one cup at a time.

More information can be found at www.oxfamcoffeebreak.org.nz

Mantra Meditation is a simple technique of meditation involving chanting ancient Vedic “Mantra” in Sanskrit language which sages from ancient India have used since antiquity to achieve Detachment and Self Realisation.

Whether you are a beginner or an expert meditation practitioner, Mantra Meditation will give you the required strength to always remain happy and manage your Stress.

The Workshop is broken into four sessions:
Session 1: Quite/Detox time (preparation time)
Session 2: Deep breathing (“Pranayama” breathing technique)
Session 3: Insight in to Vedic wisdom (Science of Self Realisation)
Session 4: Mantra Meditation (Process of Chanting)
Session’s 1 & 2 gives us the tools to calm our senses and become peaceful (Some meditation teachings will stop at this level).

But for us it prepares us for Session 3 to get an insight in to the profound teachings of ancient Vedic books “Srimad Bhagavad Gita” and “Srimad Bhagavatam” and Session 4, introduction to the Mantra which we will chant and meditate on.

By regular use of Mantra Meditation the practitioners have found great benefit in managing Stress, Anxiety, attaining lasting peace, control harmful habits like excessive drinking & smoking, healing oneself and realising that one is a Spirit Soul.

Ambarisha Das has been practicing and teaching Mantra Meditation for over 8 years. He is teaching under the guidance of his Guru, His Holiness Srila Mahavishnu Swami the disciplic succession is coming down from antiquity.

full details – view the pdf here -Mantra Meditation Workshop

All are welcome to join the one and half hour session.
Event details:-
Date: Thursday 29th April, 2010
Place: Grey Lynn Community Centre
Venue: Garden Room
Time: Evening 6.30 pm to 8 pm
Entry by Donation.
Reserve your seat today: Call Ambarisha Das – 098284345, 0211464511

Talking Circle, Thursday 8^th April 7.00 – 9.30pm, Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre, 510 Richmond Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland.

From endangered peoples to endangered worldviews: the place of indigenous being in restoring ecological health

Dr Lewis Williams, Chair, Koru International Network and Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan.

• How and why is the recovery and re-visioning of ‘indigenous being’ relevant to all peoples and the planet today?
• What does the work of ecological alliance mean in a time of Post Colonial Trauma?
• What are the dreams that you hold for ecological well-being?

This talking circle introduces the Koru International Network (K.I.N.) – a growing international movement for Indigenous and Intercultural Development – and begins to explore these critical questions. KIN is a social action initiative whose main aim is to ensure the mutual flourishing of human diversity and biodiversity through the revitalization of indigenous worldviews within all cultures. At a fundamental level our global ecological situation is a crisis of relationship and perception; the endangerment is beyond people, beyond species – it is epistemological (worldview). Drawing on her own journey and work with communities Lewis will:

1. Discuss the current ecological situation – including the opportunities and limitations of current approaches;
2. Present research findings relevant to the current situation of recovering and re-visioning indigeneity within indigenous & non indigenous peoples and why this is relevant to planetary well-being;
3. Present the key ideas of the network and open the talking circle for your own reflections on the work that is before us.

Want to know more about KIN? Find us at: http://www.korunetwork.com

Koha / Dhana accepted to assist in covering costs