Greenagers is proud to announce the arrival of its super duper organic t-shirts. The t-shirts are provided by American Apparel and are locally designed and silk-screened by MoHo Designs;. Available in a variety of sizes and colors. Come check them out at the Greenagers office (Great Barrington); also carried at The Marketplace Cafe (Sheffield). The cost is $20; checks or cash accepted.
James Howard Kunstler Appears at the Mahaiwe
“Living in the Long Emergency”
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Tickets are $11 and $6 for full-time students with ID
Berkshire Community Radio announces an evening with celebrated social commentator, James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere. Kunstler will give a talk titled “Living in the Long Emergency” on Sunday, September 20 at 7pm. To purchase tickets, visit http://www.mahaiwe.org or phone the Mahaiwe box office at 413.528.0100. The event will raise funds for WBCR-LP, 97.7 FM, the volunteer-based, noncommercial, community radio station in the town of Great Barrington, Mass.
Bestselling author James Howard Kunstler is an outspoken critic of suburban and urban development trends throughout the United States and is a leading proponent of the New Urbanism movement. A one-time staff writer and editor for Rolling Stone magazine, Kunstler has written four nonfiction books and nine novels, but he is perhaps best known for his observations about the urban landscape and life in big cities. In The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-made Landscape, he offers an irreverent critique of the suburbanization of America, arguing that endless highways and nondescript strip malls are in part responsible for the deterioration of civic life and the growth of social and economic problems.
A native of New York City who has no formal training in architecture or city planning, Kunstler also addressed urban life issues in the books, Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century (1996) and The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition (2001). In 2005, he published The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century, in which he asserts the world has passed its peak oil production and reflects on the implications of living in an industrialized world with diminishing energy resources. His most recent book is a novel, World Made By Hand (2008), depicting the post-oil American future.
The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is located at 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington, Mass. Box Office Hours: Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6pm and 3 hours before show times. Tickets can also be purchased online at http://www.mahaiwe.org or via phone at 413.528.0100.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE is back on the big screen! At the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, September 22nd, 7 pm. Tickets are just $8. This special screening of the newly released 35mm film version is hosted by Greenagers; sponsored in part by Greylock Federal Credit Union. All proceeds support Greenagers programs for the 2009-2010 year.
Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, Battling Rodents of Unusual Size, Facing torture in the Pit of Despair. – True love has never been a snap.
Many thanks to Greylock Federal Credit Union for their generous sponsorship and to The Mahaiwe for their ongoing support.
