Friday, June 19, 2009

Friday through Sunday, the “Midwest Clean Energy and Sustainable Living Fair” will be held in Custer, Wisconsin, just east of Stevens Point. Last year’s fair was a record breaking success. With over twenty-two thousand attendees, it remains the largest such event in North America! Hundreds of exciting speakers, workshops, exhibits, live music, and more are planned. Shuttle buses and other transportation will be available from Madison, Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay, La Crosse, and Minneapolis. Pre-registration is required. For more information contact the-mrea.org or call by phone at 715-592-6595.

Saturday from 7 to 4, the Arcatao Sister City Project Annual Garage Sale will be held at 4406 Somerset Lane in Madison. Proceeds from the sale will help support educational and solidarity activities with our sister community in El Salvador. Participants can drop off items to donate for the garage sale at 4406 Somerset Lane Friday by just leaving them on the front porch. Pick ups of large items may be arranged. For details call 556-0717

Sunday at 2 pm, the Madison Infoshop, 1019 Williamson Street will host “Madison Radical Mental Health Collective”, a weekly peer-led support and discussion group, inspired by the “Icarus Project”. Participants envision a new culture and language that resonates with their actual experiences of 'mental illness' rather than trying to fit their lives into a conventional framework. For details e-mail MadRMHC@gmail.com

Sunday at Olbrich Park, a Procession of the Species Parade will begin at 6 pm, followed by a Summer Solstice Bonfire and Celebration at dusk. Large puppets will include: sun, deer, owl, bear, flatworm, dragon, eagle, among others. Those interested in helping make and/ or carry puppets may call 241-0959.

Saturday the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation will continue its series of informative and entertaining walking tours through Madison’s most distinctive historic neighborhoods. This week they will offer the State Street tour at 10 am and the Mansion Hill West neighborhood tour at 11 am. No reservations are required. Participants may simply show up at each tour’s designated starting point. For designated meeting place and more info visit the website madisontrust.org or call 441-8864.

Friday night around 9 PM, “Rooftop Cinema” continues its fourth season in the “Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s” rooftop sculpture garden at 227 State Street in Madison. The screening is “Cane Toads: An Un-natural History”, an offbeat and entertaining documentary about, as George Ebert put it, “the assault of sex-mad giant toads munching their way across Australia ". The film will be preceded by more frog fun in “A Frog on the Swing”. For details contact mmoca.org or 257-0158.