iCreate Board Meeting, Saturday afternoon

#Mountainair Online has been unofficially notified of an iCreate board meeting tomorrow afternoon, Saturday April 27.  Presumably, the meeting will be at Lenora Romero's as usual, although neither that nor the agenda have been confirmed.

For times, more specific information and meeting agenda call Lenora Romero 847-2419 or Kay Stillion, 847-2301

Saturday is also a Community Garden workday, starting at 9 am, followed by a planning meeting at 1 pm. Logically, the iCreate meeting would be later in the afternoon. Whether or not it will be after the Musical Theater Improv class (3 pm, MAoB) or if the class will be cancelled on account of the meeting was not specified. Call Kay to find out.

Using Improv to Help Scientists Communicate

Interested in iCreate's Saturday improv classes? Learn more about improv to improve basic and professional communication skills. Call Kay Stillion for more information about classes at Mountain Arts on Broadway (MAoB)

Actor Honored for Using Improv to Help Scientists Communicate

State U. of New York at Stony Brook

Alan Alda shows medical and nursing students at Stony Brook how to use acting techniques to explain science to a general audience.

By Paul Basken

Alan Alda came to the State University of New York at Stony Brook one summer night in 2006 to help celebrate its annual film festival and to talk about Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, his just-published memoir.

The actor managed to accomplish another task that evening: raising the likelihood that scientists will be able to convey their knowledge to the many people who need to understand it....

Everybody Eats: How Gardening Can Feed the Soul

In The Backyard Parables (Grand Central Publishing, 2013), author Margaret Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her. In short, she learned how the garden feeds the soul. Roach has harvested thirty years’ worth of backyard parables—deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper—and has distilled them all in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, and at-home pickling. 

The following excerpt is an introduction highlighting her early gardening experiences and the road to finding spirituality in nature.

iCreate notes: Lenora Romero and Kay Stillion are sending a listing to a(n unspecified) local weekly to promote the free Music Outreach program. Classes (guitar, ukulele and violin) Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at the Shaffer Hotel. Board member, Pegeen (We Do Music), who also teaches in the music program, will be starting classes at the Sanctuary Zone in Estancia, starting day yet to be set. To learn more about the Sanctuary Zone and its programs, take a look at Winter 2012 newsletter.