“My One Square Mile” & the Travelling Coffehouse

June 27, 2007

In a unique combination of traveling roadshow and fundraising for educational projects in poverty stricken locations, the “My One Square Mile” project presents Brewster’s Traveling Coffehouse on August 4th at the Sauble Beach community centre, located behind the tourist information booth in Sauble. My One Square Mile is the brainchild of Sharon “Zappha” Barfoot who, according to the website, thought, “if I could inspire people to adopt one square mile (metaphorically) of our planet and become stewards of that square mile, then we could make a difference……one square mile at a time.”

A prime example of the sort of difference My One Square Mile hopes to make is their partnership project with the Jai Dee Children’s Fund which involves the refurbishing a kindergarten school in Southern Laos, located on Kong Island in the middle of the Mekong River. This refurbishing has thus far resulted in the building of washrooms, and the beginnings of a lunch program in which the students themselves learn to grow and maintain a garden. The organization has built a fence to protect the precious veggies from water buffalo. Extra produce will be sold locally to help maintain the school. In addition, My One Square Mile produces photo novellas that transcend language to educate about poverty and the potential for improvement. They hope to send the photo novellas out to galleries and coffee shops to help raise awareness.

To fund these fantastic projects Zappha combined her My One Square Mile concept with her desire to help independant musicians get exposure. In the name of raising funds and giving exposure to indie musicians, the Brewster’s Traveling Coffehouse was created.

Brewster’s is a coffeehouse with a difference. We still bring excellent coffee, food and entertainment to you, but we do not have a permanent location. We bring the coffeehouse to your town; your location.

Our mandate is to support indie musicians by featuring them at various locations. Our roster of musicians is growning each day.

All the profits go to support the My One Square Mile Project. Currently, our projects take place in Central America, Nepal, India and Laos. Our focus is education in each of these locations.
~Zappha Barfoot

Performers for the evening include: Peter J. Slack, Royal Wood, Terry Golletz, Jon Brooks, David Rankine and Gillian Thomas, and Marianne Girard. Tickets for the evening are 15$. The evening is sponsored by MacBeth’s Cafe and Bakery in Sauble Beach and Peninsula Ford in Owen Sound.

For more information visit the My One Square Mile Website, email info[@]myonesqaremile.com or phone Zappha at (519) 422-0007.

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Written by adam · Filed Under Sauble Beach, Music, Get Out, Community, theOwen

“Music for Toilets” - Electric Eclectics 2007

June 26, 2007

Electric Eclectics Logo As part of this year’s Electric Eclectics event creative sound installations will be put into various area coffee shop washrooms, including Ulrike (Josh Richardson)’s piece. Ulrike’s sound installation “Waterworks” will be open from this Sunday, July 1st to August 5th in the washrooms of the Espresso Post Cafe in Collingwood, Ontario, as part of the 2nd Annual Electric Eclectics Festival. The sound installation consists of a single drop of water, which is overdubbed repeatedly, eventually building into a heavy rainstorm. It is intended both to act as a kind of auditory hallucination, making the listener believe there is a leak somewhere in the washroom, and a meditation on the many individual water droplets that go into the making of one rainstorm.

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Written by adam · Filed Under Music, Get Out, Events, theOwen

A little Align-ment from Ange

June 26, 2007

Editor’s Note: This post marks the beginning of a partnership between theOwen.com and Angela Wright of Align Nutrition. Angela Wright is a registered Nutritional Consultant, who focuses her efforts on educating people about the role of whole food in wellness, and how small, positive changes over time can lead to big changes in health. Her business, Align Nutrition, offers personal consultations, grocery store tours, cooking classes, and educational seminars on topics including Nutrition 101 and Detox for Beginners. Find out more at www.alignnutrition.com. Many thanks to Ange for her contributions. If any other readers have topics of special interest that they would like to contribute content for, please contact us.

Angela Wright of Align Nutrition I teach a class called ‘Detox for Beginners’ - it’s not an AA thing, but more of a forum for learning about all the toxins that we are exposed to from our food supply, personal care products, cleaning supplies, cooking methods, clothing, furniture, air, water, etc, etc, etc. As with anything that I teach, it’s not in an apocalyptic manner, but all about the education. The more you learn about something, the more often you can make a conscious decision to avoid or embrace that particular fact. It’s all about the baby steps - one change at a time. So anyways, the students in my class really wanted to get together on a regular basis to share their new findings - recipes, products, articles - with other people that are also looking to better their nutrition and lifestyle through these baby steps. The more I mentioned this idea, the more people outside the class wanted to attend.

So now it’s open to everyone and anyone that wants to get together, talk about holistic lifestyle changes they have made through small steps, and eat good food. Our first night is on June 28th, from 5:30pm ’till whenever, at Kinexions Holistic Health Studio (970 3rd Ave West O/S - two doors north of the Billy Bishop Museum). Come bearing a healthy potluck dish (with recipe - I’ll post them for everyone after); a plate, cup, and cutlery (so we don’t throw out paper or plastic); a lawn chair; any new products you’ve discovered, article, info etc. to share with the group; and $5 to cover incidentals. For more info, email me at ange@alignnutrition.com. Hope to see some new and old faces there!

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Written by Angela · Filed Under Guest Post, Wellness, Get Out, Events, theOwen

Exhibit of Art Inspired By the Farmers’ Market

June 26, 2007

Along with all the amazing Canada Day events that we listed yesterday, we would also like to make you aware of a unique exhibition of original local art going on from Friday June 29th to Tuesday July 2nd at Mudtown Pottery. The Owen Sound Farmers’ Market has been accepting submissions of local art for their 2008 fundraising calendar project. Artists were asked to produce works of any medium formatted to fit a horizontal 11 x 8 1/2 inch page. The creations will be up for sale at the Mudtown exhibition. For those interested in supporting this project by submitting a creation you have but one precious day left, and your submission must be brought to Mudtown pottery after 12 noon and before 5 p.m. on Wednesday June 27th.