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Program Details: Complete Program PDF, Sessions, Films, Children's Activities
Main program overview
9:30am: Registration opens, Humanities Lobby
10:00am-2:10pm: Bioneers Plenary Sessions, live simulcast* note: 30-min lunch break ~12:15-12:45
(note: short lunch break ~11:50-12:15pm)
JAY HARMAN- Designing the Next Golden Age: A Progress Report
JUDY BACA- The Interactive Digital Mural: A Tool for Social Reconciliation from the Local to the Global
JUDY WICKS- Local Living Economies: A Just and Sustainable Alternative to Corporate Globalization
JOHN ABRAMS- Thinking Like Cathedral Builders
VAN JONES- Toward A Green Growth Alliance: Birthing A New Politics
Opening Remarks by Michael Brownlee, Boulder Valley Relocalization
11:00am-3:00pm: Bioneers Marketplace
2:10-3:00pm: Open Space (performance, exhibitors, refreshments, campus ecoarts)
3:00-5:00pm: Sessions and workshops (4 concurrent sessions)
Restorative Justice
Beyond Carbon Neutral: Local and State Initiatives
Local Government Involvement in Fostering Agriculture
EcoArts Tour
5:00-6:00pm: Opening Mixer
6:00-10:00pm: Bioneers Plenary Sessions, video rebroadcast
6:00-10:00pm: Films (Sister Bee, Last Supper to Go outtakes, 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama)
7:30pm: Native American Star Knowledge, Fiske Planetarium (admission not included with registration)
9:00am: Registration opens, Humanities Lobby
9:00-9:50: I Am Awake- morning dance and movement session
10:00-10:10: Colorado Bioneers Ceremony
10:10am-2:10pm: Bioneers Plenary Sessions, live simulcast
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note: 30-min lunch break ~12:20-12:45)
PAUL ANASTAS- Green Chemistry: From Here to Sustainability
MAJORA CARTER- Green the Ghetto
EVON PETER- An Indigenous Perspective on How to Survive the Next Hundred Years
EDWARD TICK- Return of the Ghost Dancers: Modern War's Devastation...and Healing
EVE ENSLER- V to the 10th
Short Performance by Vox Feminista
10am-5:30pm: Children's Eco-Activities
12:00pm-3:00pm: Bioneers Marketplace
2:10-3:00pm: Open Space (yoga, music, dance, art, conversation café, marketplace, refreshments)
3:00-4:10pm: Sessions and Workshops (4 concurrent sessions)
Activism through Art and Music
Biofuels of the Future
Survivor 2030
Educational Applications of Food and Farming
4:20-5:30pm: Sessions and Workshops (5 concurrent sessions)
Redefining Community with Green Development
The Changing Face of Finance: Microventure Enterprises
Environmental Justice
Youth Leadership
Earth Visions
6:00-8:00pm: Discussion Dinners (on your own in groups), town
6:00-10:00pm: Bioneers Plenary Sessions, video rebroadcast
7:00-10:00pm: Films (White Lies outtakes, Turning Prayer into Action, 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama)
8:00pm: Rebel Alliance Benefit, Boulder Theater
featuring Chris Berry and Panjea with Michael Kang and special guests.
A benefit for Conscious Alliance and Our Future Now, in conjunction
with Colorado Bioneers. (not included with registration; purchase tickets at bouldertheater.com)
9:00am: Registration opens, Humanities Lobby
9:00-9:50am: I Am Awake- morning dance and movement session
10:00am-2:00pm: Bioneers Plenary Sessions, live simulcast note: 30-min lunch break ~12:15-12:45
WALLACE J. NICHOLS- A Brave New Ocean or an Ocean Revolution?
CAROL BEBELLE- Culture And Re-building...Re-membering New Orleans/Re-weaving its Social and Cultural Fabric
CHARLOTTE BRODY- How Chemicals Are Changing What It Means To Be A Woman (or a man)
WINONA LaDUKE- Seeds the Creator Gave Us
KA HSAW WA & KATIE REDFORD- Earth Rights: Linking Human Rights and Environmental Struggles in the Age of Globalization
Colorado Bioneers ceremony to close the plenaries
10am-5:30pm: Children's Eco-Activities
12:00pm-3:00pm: Bioneers Marketplace
2:00-3:00pm: Open Space (yoga, music, dance, art, conversation café, marketplace, refreshments)
3:00-4:10pm: Sessions and Workshops (4 concurrent sessions)
Permaculture: Changing the Land Stewardship Paradigm
Web 2.0 Activism: Harnessing the Internet for Social Change
Linking Environmental, Labor and Immigration Issues
Personal Sustainability
4:20-5:30pm: Sessions and Workshops (4 concurrent sessions)
Ecological Medicine
Relocalization Strategies
Creative, Effective Approaches to Environmental Education
Talking Staff Council
5:30-6:00pm: Closing ceremony
Friday:
Restorative Justice
Beyond Carbon Neutral: Local and State Initiatives
Local Government Involvement in Fostering Agriculture
Saturday:
Biofuels of the Future: Algae to Biodiesel
Educational Applications of Food and Farming
Activism through Art and Music
Survivor 2030
The Changing Face of Finance: Microventure enterprises
Environmental Justice
Youth Leadership Forum
Redefining Community with Green Development
Earth Visions
Sunday:
Permaculture: Changing the Land Stewardship Paradigm
Web 2.0 Activism: Harnessing the Internet for Social Change
Linking Environmental, Labor and Immigration Issues
Personal Sustainability
Ecological Medicine
Talking Staff Council
Educator’s Forum: Creative, Effective Approaches to Environmental Education
Relocalization Strategies
Admission to films is included with Bioneers registration. The films are also open to everyone else for a $10/evening fee ($7 for students). Location: Humanities Building, CU-Boulder. "10 Questions for the Dalai Lama" screens both evenings (Friday and Saturday) in conjunction with A Weekend of Unity & Peace.
Sister Bee
A lyrical documentary about six beekeepers who encounter startling
beauty and spiritual truth in their work with honeybees. 30 minute film
followed by discussion with the film’s subjects.
Last Supper To Go: Vox Feminista Outtakes
Hungry? What should you eat? Food: every day we get to choose. In The
Omnivore's Dilemna, Michael Pollen says, "Eating industrially requires
a heroic act of not knowing." Well, what if we did know? Would we
change? Vox Feminista is betting on it. The 2007 Vox Feminista show,
The Last Supper To Go, explores industrial food processing from the
field to the factory, as well as the promise and reality of hi- tech
food, organic food, local food, community gardening, farming, and the
true cost of eating in the 21st century. Vox directs your gaze past the
pervasive mechanized whir to look with care and consideration at the
origins of our food. Always in good taste, Vox considers eating, and
the many by-products of the military industrial food chain that holds
us tightly in it's grip. The good news is that we're not forced to buy
any of it. It is possible to feed people without sickening or deceiving
them. Choosing what to eat is not the same as ending the war, fighting
imperialism, or stopping global warming, but it encompasses all these
issues of peace and justice that Vox regularly examines.
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose
its traditions in order to move into the future? How do you reconcile a
commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? These are some of
the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and
explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of
our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys
throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an
extraordinary spiritual leader.
In an era when many religious and political leaders are viewed with suspicion, and when cynical agendas rule both government and clergy, the Dalai Lama is undeniably authentic. Along with Martin Luther King, Gandhi and Jesus, this great leader inspires millions and has influenced the world in so many ways.
This is his story, as told and filmed by Rick Ray during a private visit to his monastery in Dharamsala, India over the course of several months. Also included is rare historical footage as well as footage supplied by individuals who at great personal risk, filmed with hidden cameras within Tibet. Part biography, part philosophy, part adventure and part politics, 10 Questions For The Dalai Lama conveys more than history and more than answers - it opens a window into the heart of a great man. 85 min
White Lies: Vox Feminista Outtakes
Vox Feminista's vision has been to challenge systems of oppression and
domination. Vox recognizes, as white women, that one of the heaviest
lynchpins of the meta machine of domination for the past 500 years has
been white supremacy. Their 2003 show, White Lies, looks at the many
cultures that struggle today within this nation because of racism. From
appreciation of culture to appropriation of culture, from Columbus Day
to Palestine, from world trade to white trash, this show shows us the
everyday genocide we forget or politely ignore in our never ending
quest to assimilate as "proud Americans." Vox believes we can redefine
our world by releasing from holding closed the unconscious gates of
power and privilege. We can recreate cultures and the world we want to
inhabit, beyond our white communities, beyond U.S. borders. This show
strives to open new spaces, break old silences, critique lying
stereotypes, and shatter comfort in difference and sameness found in
the old frozen labels. Vox’s goal is to deepen and expand the desires
of whites to be allies, to connect, to change ourselves so the world
may change. White people are at a crossroads of exiting from an old
worldview. Will we choose to enter and cross over the threshold or do
we want to continue clinging desparately to white lies? May this show
challenge us to choose to cross over. With great discomfort and
ambivalence Vox sends it out there into the world to be owned by
others. 30 min.
Turning Prayer Into Action: Indigenous Grandmothers Meet the Bioneers
Tame your television? Or, unleash its power to positively shape and
influence culture? A co-production of Link TV and Cynthia Jurs, Turning
Prayer Into Action soars as it guides us through unusual topography for
television — indigenous wisdom, the voice of the feminine, different
ways of knowing, and prayer.
This powerful made-for-television movie combines highlights from last year’s Bioneers Conference with the wisdom of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers gathered in Dharamsala, India. The two groups were linked in three live “spacebridges” for dialogues across time, space, and cultures to move us all to heal ourselves, heal our relationships, and heal the Earth.
“Where do we begin? "What can we do?” asks one Bioneer. The Grandmothers have some answers. This hour-long program weaves ancient insight and modern needs, contemporary dance and indigenous prayers, visionary speakers and shamans, the hope of youth and the experience of elders. It is a call to prayer and action not-to-be-missed. 58 minutes.
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
see description under Friday films.
Colorado Bioneers Schedule of Children's Activities:
While the adults immerse themselves in Bioneers, so can the kids! Children’s Activities provide exciting and interactive activities for kids to learn about the natural world! Here is a tentative schedule of kid’s activities for the weekend of Bioneers. Produced by the CU Environmental Center’s Earth Education program. Cost is $10/day per child. Activities appropriate for ages 4-14. Advance registration is requested.
Saturday Oct. 20: What is a Naturalist?
*10:00-11:00 Who is who: Fun Intro Games
*11:00-11:30 What is a watershed?
We will create a huge map of our watershed and fill this map in
over the next two days with all the new plant and animal species we
learn.
*11:30-12:00 Naturalist Skills
We will learn new ways of observing the natural world, using all of our five senses to uncover nature’s mysteries.
*12:00-12:45 Fun lunch on the campus Green: Please pack your own lunch!
*1:00-2:30 Mini Field Trip around Campus
We will be learning how to identify local trees, playing naturalist games and searching for animal tracks!
*2:30-3:30 Making Tracks
We will make plaster casts of tracks found in nature. Children will be able to paint them and take them home.
*3:30-4:30 Animal Sign Scavenger Hunt
Using their new knowledge of animal tracks, we will go on a scavenger
hunt around campus looking for other signs of animals, stopping to
discuss habitats and ecosystems.
*4:30-5:30 Games on the green: If there is good weather, we will end each day on Norlin Quad