USM Hosting Earth Day Events All Month Long
April 1, 2004
Editor's Note: To reach Nancy Artz, USM's Duclos Convocation
Scholar, who has organized events on environmental sustainability
during the 2003-04 school year, please call Bob Caswell or
Judie O'Malley at 780-4200. We can also be reached at home,
839-2026 (Caswell) or 839-6402 (O'Malley).
Earth Day takes place on April 22, but the University of
Southern Maine has been celebrating the environment all school
year long with a host of events that included films, discussions,
workshops, conferences, demonstrations and lectures. USMÕs
2003-04 Gloria S. Duclos Convocation on Environmental Sustainability
began last fall and will run through the end of the spring
semester. This year's Convocation Scholar is Nancy Artz, a
USM associate professor of business administration.
Highlights for April include a lecture with Rev. Paul Bortz,
founder of Vermont's Spirit in Nature, an organization that
encourages religious and spiritual groups to use their faith
to make an environmentally safer world. Bortz's lecture takes
place at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 29, in Luther Bonney Auditorium,
Portland.
Other April events range from an ecopsychology workshop on
healing through nature, a chance to win a free home energy
audit, and a conference on sustainable development.
A schedule of Earth Day events held in April appears below.
All events are free and open to the pubic unless otherwise
noted.
ART EXHIBITS/ARTIST'S LECTURES
Tuesday, April 6-Tuesday, August 20
Exhibition: "Maine Rivers: Sustaining Soils and Souls." Opening
reception 5-7 p.m., Tuesday, April 6. Area Gallery, Woodbury
Campus Center, Portland, free and open to the public Hours:
8 a.m.-10 p.m., Mondays-Thursdays, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Fridays,
9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturdays.
Contact: 780-5009
LECTURES/FILMS/WORKSHOPS
Wednesday, April 7
Duclos Convocation Film: "The Grapes of Wrath" starring Henry
Fonda. 6:30 p.m., Room 10, Bailey Hall, Gorham, free and open
to the public.
Contact: 780-4321
Thursday, April 8
Gloria Duclos Convocation Conference: "Sustainable Development
as a Tool for Responsible Decision Making: A Land Use Perspective,"
featuring speakers from USM, GPCOG, and PACTS. 7:30 a.m.-4
p.m., Luther Bonney Auditorium, Portland. $10 morning session,
$15 entire conference including continental breakfast and
lunch.
Contact: Elizabeth Trice at etrice@yahoo.com or 780-4321
Friday, April 9
Duclos Convocation Documentary Film Series: "Who's Counting?"
4:20 p.m., Room 209, Luther Bonney Hall, Portland, free and
open to the public.
Contact: 780-4321
Saturday, April 10
Duclos Convocation Workshop: "Council of All Beings," Mary
Kay Kasper. Room C, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland, reservations
recommended.
Contact: 780-5139
Friday, April 16
Duclos Convocation Documentary Film Series: "DAM/AGE." 4:20
p.m., Room 209, Luther Bonney Hall, Portland, free and open
to the public.
Contact: 780-4321
Friday, April 16
Duclos Convocation Workshop: "Toward a Sustainable Future,"
Douglas McKenzie-Mohr. 7-9 p.m., Luther Bonney Auditorium,
Portland, free and open to the public.
Contact: 780-4321
Monday, April 19
Duclos Convocation Energy Information Table: bring questions/enter
drawing for home energy audit. 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Luther
Bonney Lobby, Portland.
Contact: 780-4321
Monday, April 19
Earth Week Documentary Film Series: "Blue Vinyl" 12 noon,
Boiler Room, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland, free and open
to the public.
Contact: 780-4321
Tuesday, April 20
Earth Week Documentary Film Series: "DAM/AGE." 12 noon, Boiler
Room, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland, free and open to the
public.
Contact: 780-4321
Thursday, April 22
Earth Week Documentary Film Series, "The Man Who Planted Trees."
12 noon, Boiler Room, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland, free
and open to the public
Contact: 780-4321
Thursday, April 22
Duclos Convocation Celebration of Earth Day: 10-11 a.m., "Comforts
of Home" workshop, Room 302, Luther Bonney Hall, Portland.
12 noon-1:30 p.m., Ecopsychology workshop on healing through
nature with Mary Kay Kasper, Husky Hut, Gorham.
2-3 p.m., "Comforts of Home" workshop, Room 108, Bailey Hall,
Gorham.
4:30-5:30 p.m., Book discussion, "Consumer's Guide to Effective
Environmental Choices." Room 429, Glickman Library, Portland.
All events are free and open to the public.
Contact: 780-4321, www.usm.maine.edu/~prov/convocation/events.htm
Wednesday, April 28
Duclos Convocation Environmental Perspectives in Cinema Film
Series: "Winged Migration." 6:30 p.m., Room 10, Bailey Hall,
Gorham, free and open to the public.
Contact: 780-4321
Thursday, April 29
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute/Duclos Convocation Lecture:
"Slowing Down in a Busy World, Then What?" Rev. Paul Bortz,
founder of Vermont's Spirit in Nature. 1:30 p.m., Luther Bonney
Auditorium, Portland, free and open to the public.
Contact: 780-4406
Friday, April 30
Duclos Convocation Documentary Film Series: "Smart Growth:
Greening America Production," and "Building Sustainability
with the Natural Step." 4:15 p.m., Room 209, Luther Bonney
Hall, Portland, free and open to the public.
Contact: 780-4321
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