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  • Friday & Saturday, December 7 & 8, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm – RootSkills Conference

    Wondering how to start a zero waste, living economy, or land & water project in your neighborhood? Exploring how to deepen and get to root causes in your food systems, energy or environmental health work? Have questions about fundraising or group governance? Are you looking to center equity in your community efforts?

    The goal of the RootSkills Conference, to be held in the Hogan Center at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester on December 7 & 8 is to create synergy among community organizers working towards environmental, social and economic justice. Workshop sessions highlight trends, best practices, and solutions-based tools by and for community organizers. A planning committee representing a broad range of lived experiences helps design the event and an open call for workshops sessions creates space for new leadership, new voices to work towards co-created learning objectives. The event is sponsored by the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund. There are 11 workshop tracks with a total 33 interactive sessions. Keynote speaker will be Kali Akuno, Co-­Founder and Co­-Director of Cooperation Jackson. He served as the Director of Special Projects and External Funding in the Mayoral Administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, MS. Kali is also an educator, writer, and an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots movement.To register visit www.grassrootsfund.org. The conference is sponsored by the Appalachian Mountain Club, Barr Foundation, Food Solutions New England, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare Foundation, Kennebunk Savings, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Patagonia, Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC, Revision Energy, Solidago Foundation, Tamarack, and The Fine Fund.

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  • Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Ogunquit Museum 5th Annual Art in Bloom

    Join the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Shore Road in Ogunquit, Maine, on Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21, from 10 – 5, for the 5th Annual Art in Bloom, produced and presented by the talented arrangers of the Piscataqua Garden Club, a member of the Garden Club of America.  One of the Garden Club of the Back Bay’s members, Louesa Gillespie, is also a member of Piscataqua, and highly recommends this three day celebration of fine art and interpretive floral arrangements inspired by works of art from the Museum’s exhibitions.  On Saturday, June 20, from 11 – 3, Lars Turin Clayworks of York, Maine will be in the Shop at OMAA.  Turin’s works in clay are created using a number of different techniques and processes, and evoke patterns found in nature.  Sponsored in part by Maine, the magazine, Kennebunk Savings, and Art Collector Maine.