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Friday, August 28, 2009

9025 The Urban Homesteaders

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Step into the 21st century by making your house, apartment and kitchen a center of production. This lecture/workshop by the authors of The Urban Homestead, Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen will introduce you to how to grow your own food, make pickles, ferment beer, keep chickens, bake bread and turn your waste products into valuable resources. By stepping into the DIY movement, we'll create a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community and our planet.

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Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead, have become increasingly interested in the concept of urban sustainability since moving to Los Angeles in 1998. In that time, they've slowly converted their 1920 hilltop bungalow into a mini-farm, and along the way have explored the traditional home arts of baking, pickling, bicycling and brewing, chronicling all their activities on their blog Homegrown Evolution [ www.homegrownevolution.com ]

In this workshop, we will be learning two projects ::

Project #1: Making a self-irrigating planter
Project #2: How to make sauerkraut!

Contribution:: $20 [ includes a delicious light vegetarian meal and drinks ]

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Location:
Project Butterfly Loft
821 Traction Ave #108
Los Angeles CA 90013


Blurbs:
“The Urban Homestead...touches on vegetable gardening, poultry, DIY cleaning products and beer making — all outlined with a sense of play and fun.
—Whole Life Times

"...a delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and preparing the food they eat."
-Boingboing.net

Thursday, August 13, 2009

9024 :: The Journey Book: Travels on the Frontiers of consciousness

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Project Butterfly and Evolver LA invite you to celebrate the launch of “The Journey Book :: Travels on the frontiers of consciousness” [www.thejourneybook.com].

The Journeybook is a collection of tales of altered states, essays, history and manifesto for psychedelic culture in the 21st century. It covers the modern usage of sacramental plants, offers insights into traditional and contemporary shamanism, as well as analysis of the current state of global psychedelic culture.

The Journeybook features interviews with Terence McKenna (previously unpublished), Dennis McKenna, Daniel Pinchbeck, as well as articles by Rak Razam, Erik Davis, Graham St John, Tim Parish, Tim Boucher, Dave Cauldwell, Des Tramacchi, Brummbaer and others. This is an essential map of hyperspace for the contemporary psychonaut and the uninitiated alike.

The evening will include readings by some of the contributors including:

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· Rak Razam [author of AYA :: A Shamanic Odyssey and editor of The Journeybook]

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· Tim Parish [Art Director & Assistant Editor of The Journeybook]

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+ a live musical Shamanic Sound Journey with Richard Grossman

This event is being presented in collaboration with

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www.evolver.net

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www.realitysandwich.com

as their August LA "Spore"

Contribution :: $20 ~ event only
$45 ~ event + journeybook [normally $30]

A delicious, light vegetarian dinner and drinks are included

Limited space, we expect to reach maximum capacity for this event.
To reserve your seat please click below::

Event + Journeybook

Event Only

Location ::
Project Butterfly Loft
821 Traction Ave #108
Los Angeles CA 90013

Monday, August 10, 2009

9023 :: "What About Me?" screening in Topanga

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Project Butterfly in collaboration with the Topanga Film Festival www.topangafilmfestival.com presents "What About Me?" www.whataboutme.tv outside on a big screen perched on a hilltop property in Topanga Canyon under the Full Moon on Friday, August 7th.

"What About Me?" is the latest project from the Creators of the Grammy Nominated film & album “1Giant Leap”. This visionary project took Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman to over 50 locations as they explore through music, the complexities of human nature on a global scale. The film aims to reveal how we are all connected through our creativity and beliefs, but most of all through our collective insanity. Featuring Eckhart Tolle, Lila Downs, Michael Stipe, Carlos Santana, Noam Chomsky, KD Lang, Baaba Maal, Ram Dass, Michael Franti and so many more.

The Topanga Film Festival is an open-air, 4 day, boutique festival that receives entries from around the globe and showcases a broad range of short films from documentaries, animation, drama, comedy and experimental.

Live Performances:
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Live Ambient Soundscapes by Deprogramming Division
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Spoken Word by Rich Ferguson :: www.myspace.com/richferguson
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Bollywood Dance Peformance by Jaya Vaswani :: www.mybollywoodstudio.com
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+ DJ Jun spinning an eclectic mix of funky worldly sounds :: www.junantazo.com

Hay bales and chairs will be available for seating or bring a low beach chair to sit on and something warm to wear. IT GETS COLD AT NIGHT.
Please carpool, as there is limited parking.
Also bring a flashlight to get from the parking area to the venue.


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Divine Vegan Soul Food provided by A Taste of Life www.atasteoflifellc.com

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Righteously Raw Chocolates by Earth Source Organics www.earhsourceorganics.com

and Drinks will be available for purchase

Time::
Doors Open with Live Performances @ 6:30pm
Screening begins @ 8:30pm

Tickets :: $15
To purchase tickets visit :: www.itsmyseat.com/Topanga.html

For more info please visit ::
www.topangafilmfestival.com
or contact :: info@projectbutterfly.org

Location ::
Trust Ranch
1291 Will Geer Road
Topanga, CA 90290