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WELCOME, AND INTRODUCTION
OUR MISSION
Welcome to the Intercultural Calendar page, the flagship activity of Geotrees.Com. This calendar, like Geotrees' other elements, addresses a fundamental perception and several corrolaries:
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If we are to live with understanding and skill now, and in the complex times to come, we will have to know more than we do about the histories, cultures, and traditions of others.
- Such knowledge - and the means by which we cultivate and share such knowledge - must stretch to engage the many ways we create civilization and the future.
- The national capital region is a rich, high quality concentration of people, experience, creativity, and resources with which to grow such knowledge and understanding.
- Geotrees' mission is to welcome and help share such knowledge in behalf of communication, knowledge, understanding, peace and unity.
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WASHINGTON, DC: A HOME FOR THE HUMAN FAMILY
The national capitol area is especially rich in human cultural wealth from around the planet. Over the past generation people have come here from virtually every nation on the globe, bringing with them their aspirations, their histories, their stories and traditions, ceremonies, music, arts, rituals, cuisines and more. Each of them has something to teach the rest of us - and something to learn, as well.
As we share knowledge, understanding can arise with which we can build transformation and peace in the world. The Intercultural Calendar supports this process by listing as wide a selection of local intercultural activities as possible. Top
AN INTERCULTURAL SMORGASBORD FOR THE HUMAN FAMILY TABLE
The calendar announces events throughout the national capital region - a diverse mix of events for people of all ages, for anyone in search of international news, knowledge, and activities. We especially encourage parents, teachers, and other adults to bring their young people to a variety of events and activities. And we pay special attention to activities arising from our local grassroots communities and peoples, especially those least visible to the conventional public eye.
Our community's events appear on the calendar in many subject areas, including:
- Music
- Drama
- Ritual
- Crafts
- Spiritual Life
- Technology
- History
- Negotiation
- Science
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- Storytelling
- Lifeways
- Social Organization
- Fashion
- Learning
- Agriculture
- Literature
- Discovery
- Intellectual Life
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- Sculpture
- Festivals
- Cuisines
- Fabrics
- Architecture
- Sport
- Painting
- Legend and Myth
- Languages
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- Poetry
- Religion
- Child Life
- Elder Life
- Ceramics
- Economics
- Cities
- Law
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USING THE CALENDAR
Calendar listings are given in ascending chronological order. New material is usually added within 24 hours of its arrival at Geotrees.
THE INFORMATION IN EACH LISTING
Each listing contains the date, basic description, host organization, and contact points for further details. Material in quotes is taken verbatim, or with very light edits, from the original. Schedule and location address are usually included, as available. If you don't see the contacts for the host organization in the listing, use the link in each listing's footer to visit the Intercultural Catalog, where details and contacts for a growing number of host groups are available. Top
TYPES OF LISTING
Events are listed in two ways: Month to Month, occurring over two or more months; and By Each Day, on one or more days in the same month. You can find events by date, keyword search, or scrolling.
If you are new to the Intercultural Calendar, we recommend that you browse the calendar listings to see typical keywords, and learn how the calendar is organized. Top
LANGUAGE AND SPELLING CONVENTIONS
While we welcome and retain the distinctive flavors of our sources when we quote them, Geotrees itself writes with the conservative, non-vernacular conventions of adult American Standard English.
The calendar uses our sources' original spellings, except where accuracy and clarity suggest edits. Please review and edit your notices before sending them to "The Tree;" readers often rely on your spellings for key word searches.
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FOR DETAILS ABOUT ORGANIZATIONS
Please visit the GeoLinks section, a growing directory of information with points of contact. There is a link to this catalog in each entry's footer, and most catalog entries include links to their groups. If a calendar listing does not include a location, you will find it in the catalog. Top
YOUR POSTINGS ARE WELCOME
We invite relevant items from all sources, from schools and neighborhood clubs to global institutions, and look forward to welcoming yours. Do you, your students, your teachers, club, congregation, etc. have an intercultural or historical event or activity to post? Please send it to us at events( AT )geotrees.com.
- We welcome notes of events and activities that support communication, knowledge, understanding, reconciliation, inclusion, and empowerment among persons, peoples and nations. This includes commercial or corporate activities of value.
- Geotrees' calendar and catalog alike welcome controversial, obscure, unpopular, smallscale, or other low visibility activities that contribute to our knowledge and understanding. Activities with strong, mutually opposed views are often found on "the Tree."
- We decline divisive, propaganda, exclusivist, and proselytizing work of any kind, as well as events destructive of life (human and other) and of the envirnoment.
- Use plain text. Give your readers the complete basic information, schedule, and contact points that they'll need in the body of your message itself. Web links are welcome, but not sufficent in themselves.
- Lengthy notices may be shortened for the calendar, as noted, but your notes are usually presented verbatim. Top
ADDITIONAL HELPFUL NOTES
The GEOLINKS CATALOG
The catalog of our resources and the links to them has grown to require a page of its own. Use the link below to visit that page. Please let us know if you'd like your organization or resource included. There is no charge. GeoLinks / Top
EMAIL DISCUSSION GROUPS
Geotrees.Com has two public email discussion groups. We invite you to participate. The Geotrees Group is devoted to intercultural and international issues and learning. The DrumSeed Group is devoted to grassroots empowerment, activism, and transformation along and across cultural lines. For details, visit our home page. Home Page / Top
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: METRO RAIL AND BUS
Try to avoid traffic and parking in the city. We strongly recommend Metrorail and bus for visiting your events. Like so much else in Washington, Metro works very well for those who know how to use it. Each listing has a link to the DC Metro interactive "RideGuide" page. Use the RideGuide to compute options for trips using both the train and bus resources throughout the area. NOTE: The RideGuide page has a link to the stylized Metro system map page, but that page does not have a direct link back to RideGuide. Use the Back function on your browser to return to RideGuide.
Accessibility: Metrorail is accessible to handicapped people, but as of May 2002 many of the elevators have come under lengthy repair, or simply fail to work. We recommend that you know your stops and times, and contact Metro, in advance of your visit.
Late Night Service: Late service by bus is not available in certain areas. Always check availability in advance. Visit system map and Metro RideGuide at these links:
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VIEWING EARLIER CALENDAR PAGES
We archive the pages for earlier months, going back to March of 2001. They provide reference material, as well as an overview of the rich intercultural activity that Washington supports. These pages are available on request. Direct links to the monthly pages since January 2003 are offered, below.
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Inspired by and dedicated - with great respect and great love - to the work and example of the loyal faculty of
St. Joseph College/International School, Yokohama, Japan
In particular, to Brother Aloysius Soden, of blessed memory, and to Father Jim Mueller, a principal of principle.
© Copyright 2001-2006 by Charles Stevenson and Geotrees.Com, except for sources' materials. Use with attribution.
"FOR THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE"
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