Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Greetings Detroit and all who grace us here!
Welcome to the first Evolve Detroit of 2010. We've been quite busy behind the scenes organizing and fine tuning our work. As always, we are honored and humbled to share with you. Thank you all for your continued attention and support. Again, we wouldn't be here if it were not for you.
January Recap
January has seen some incredible Detroit Evolution events. We started out the year with a special Live Raw Yoga Music Brunch and we were pleased to share a New Year's New (Raw) You kitchen class at Irene's Myomassology Institute. We've also rolled out our new yoga offerings. With weekly Wednesday night classes at Bharatiya Temple in Troy and our first People's Yoga class on Thursday nights here in Corktown at Spirit of Hope Church (details below). We're grateful for the incredible folk who have been attending our recent events! We're honored to know you all!
Corktown Community Brunch
Sunday we helped host the greatly anticipated Corktown Community Brunch. We had a blast coming together with friends and neighbors to prepare healthy all local/organic food for other friends and neighbors. The brunch was a HUGE success with over 70 people partaking in INCREDIBLE food and lively mindful conversation. The next brunch will be on Sunday, February 21st! Please save the date, consider volunteering and join us next month! There are a number of items that will help us to grow this event so we're including our Community Kitchen Wish list below. Thank you for your help in growing this event that is so close to our hearts and our home.
Join us This Week!
We have an great week on hand and encourage you to join us for Consuming Kids, our Free Detroit Abides Movie on Wednesday, Angela's Raw Fundamentals class on Saturday and would be honored for you to attend one of our weekly yoga offerings. There are many other exciting and important events listed below as well.
Please give yourself a well deserved moment, shift your awareness and focus a bit and explore some of the information below. We strive to put our hearts into our "work" and encourage those of you interested to partake in this in kind. 2010 will be an incredible year for connection and collaboration. We are so thankful to share it with you.
Our Blessings to you and yours. We look forward to seeing you soon.
In Health, Joy and Liberation,
Gregg & Angela Newsom
Aya Eden, January 2010
January 19, 2010
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January:
Detroit Abides
This Month's FREE Movie: Consuming Kids Wednesday, January 20th 7-9pm Location:Eastern Market's Heated Shed 5
Shed 5 is located at the corner of Russell & Alfred
This month we are pleased to partner with Detroit Waldorf School to screen this powerful film. It was great to see everyone laugh and learn about the "Shopacalpse" in November. This time around we'll take a more detailed and sobering look at the marketing of mass-consumption to children. Please note that though the shed is heated, it is a large open space and quite drafty. Dressing warm, bringing a blanket and, as always, a few friends is advised. ~G
Note: We are actively seeking volunteers to help us keep Detroit Abides up and running. Please call or email Gregg to learn more.
Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit, Detroit Evolution, and Eastern Market Corporation come together on the third Wednesday of every month to present Detroit Abides, A Free Sustainability Gathering in Eastern Market's Shed 5. The event features a movie on a sustainable topic, explores the topic at the local level through discussion and support from regional groups and businesses, and creates a space to meet like-minded people from all walks of life & grow an active, healthy community.
Raw Fundamentals Saturday, January 23rd, 12:30-3:30pm - $25 Location:The Detroit Flyhouse in Eastern Market
In the FD Loft Building - 3434 Russell St. Loft #302, Detroit 48207
Let loving yourself be your new years resolution this year. A part of this is eating more raw foods. Angela will show you how to successfully incorporate more raw foods into your diet by sharing basic techniques and tips meant to inspire and empower. Learn how to blend, sprout and dehydrate with confidence!
Our Menu:
Super Immune Boosting Green Smoothies
Crispy Kale Chips with Spicy Tahini Marinade
Curried Sprouted Mung Bean Salad with Butternut Squash & Pecans
Borsht Energy Soup with Topping Bar including Raw Sour Cream
Crispy Pumpkin Falafel Cakes with Spiced Creamy Cashew Sauce
Angela's classes are about much more than just food preparation - meet like minded people, share great food, information and resources! To register please send an email or call 313.316.1411 and leave a voicemail. Angela is also available for private classes and classes geared towards specific dietary concerns.
The Future of Food Friday, January 29th, 6:30-9pm - FREE Location:Detroit Waldorf School
I'm pleased to be a part of the post-screening panel. We're honored to share with the Detroit Waldorf community. ~Gregg
The Future of Food, a groundbreaking documentary released in 2004, distills the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the troubling changes happening in the food system today—genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food—into terms the average person can easily understand. It empowers consumers to understand the consequences of their food choices on our future.
The film screening is a free event, open to the public, for ages 18 and over.
Light refreshments will be served before the film and a panel will speak after the film.
To reserve seats RSVP with Melanie Reiser, Outreach Director, Detroit Waldorf School 313-822-0300
February
This class is part of Irene's ongoing Veggie Meet-ups. To save your space in this class please RSVP through meet-up.com
Sweets for your Sweetie Tuesday, February 9th, 6:30-9pm $10 Location:Irene's Myomassology Institute
26061 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48033
Give your sweetie the gift of health this Valentine's Day! Join Chef Angela Newsom at Irene's Myomassology Institute and learn how to make your own raw chocolates and desserts for that special person in your life. (And that special person could be YOU!) We will be preparing a White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake and Chocolate Almond Butter Cups using raw cacao. Raw cacao has many health benefits including:
Antioxidants - Raw cacao has more antioxidants than any food including blueberries, red wine and green tea! In fact, it has 4 times as many antioxidants than found in green tea!
Neurotransmitters - Raw cacao raises the level of seretonin in the brain, acting as a natural antidepressant!
Essential Minerals - Raw cacao is rich in essential minerals like magnesium and sulfur, great for building strong bones, a strong heart and beautiful hair!
Detroit Abides
This Month's FREE Movie: Food, Inc. Wednesday, February 17th 7-9pm Location:Eastern Market's Heated Shed 5
Shed 5 is located at the corner of Russell & Alfred
Food, Inc., the critically acclaimed 2009 hit documentary from Participant Media, Magnolia Pictures and River Road Entertainment, gives audiences a vivid view of industrial food production, a system that in the last 50 years has drastically changed the American diet. Scrutinizing our national agriculture and food policies, the film examines why soda and fast food are now significantly cheaper and more accessible then fresh fruits and vegetables, and how this change has directly contributed to soaring rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other health problems. For more information, visit www.foodincmovie.com.
Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit, Detroit Evolution, and Eastern Market Corporation come together on the third Wednesday of every month to present Detroit Abides, A Free Sustainability Gathering in Eastern Market's Shed 5. The event features a movie on a sustainable topic, explores the topic at the local level through discussion and support from regional groups and businesses, and creates a space to meet like-minded people from all walks of life & grow an active, healthy community.
In Detroit, food access issues and their related health outcomes are notorious. In an effort to educate and mobilize community members around the flaws of our country's prevailing food economy, EcoZoic Detroit will partner with Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit, Eastern Market Corp. and Detroit Evolution to host a free movie screening and educational event on February 17th, featuring the film Food, Inc.
The event kicks off Detroit’s participation in the Ingredients for Change Campaign, a nationwide initiative to address America’s alarming rates of obesity and other major health problems directly linked to our country’s food system.
Detroit Evolution Yoga sessions are always dedicated to the health, joy and liberation of all beings. Special attention is paid to the act of practicing yoga in Detroit and sharing the personal change achieved in yoga with change in the community. Our classes are taught specifically for the students in attendance. Yoga is first and foremost about the breath and does not refer to our experience or physical flexibility. We strive to find common ground and practice from that point. This practice will benefit those new to yoga and seasoned veterans.
Gregg Newsom has studied and practiced yoga since 1994. In 2004, he began to teach at yoga studios and medical centers across the Metro Detroit area. Though teaching many and varied styles of yoga his personal practice is Ashtanga. In 2006, Gregg traveled to Mysore, India to study with Ashtanga guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. His time in India enhanced his connection to the traditional practice of yoga and he strives to share this with all of his students. He's also been blessed to practice and study with Maju Jois, David Life, Sharon Gannon, Tim Miller and R. Sharath Rangaswamy.
Thursdays: Community-Based Yoga with Gregg Newsom Every Thursday, 6:30 - 7:30p - Suggested Donation $10
Location: Spirit of Hope Church
1519 Martin Luther King, Detroit 48208
Evolutionary Yoga returns to Detroit thanks to the Spirit of Hope Church and all of our dedicated students who have continued to support and encourage our efforts to share yoga in Detroit. NOTE THIS CHANGE: Please park on MLK and ring the front door to enter. We will be practicing in the 3rd floor gym. Please give yourself extra time if you are new to this location. Call 313.316.1411 if you need assistance. There is no entry after 6:30p. Dress in layers or bring blankets for the pranayama (breath & meditation) that concludes our session.
These secrets of yoga are within the hearts of everyone.
~Yoga Rahasya III.29
The Corktown Community Brunch brings friends and neighbors together to prepare healthy all local/organic food for other friends and neighbors.
All are welcome and encouraged to inspire and inform discussions of local resilience, food security and environmental and social justice.
This Brunch is offered on the 3rd Sunday of every month for a requested donation of $5 - $15. Those who are able to give more help others and help to tip the scales in favor of the events continued success.
Will let this month's menu serve as inspiration for you to join us in February and spread the word about this important event.
Baked Polenta & Black Beans stuffed with roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions and spinach, drizzled with vegan cheese or local, raw & organic dairy cheese.
Hoop House Greens & Sunshoots tossed in our house dressing.
Homemade Kimchi, Pickled Tomatoes, Salsa and Habanero Hot Sauce.
Fresh baked Winter Squash Bread
House blend Herbal Tea, locally roasted Coffee and Apple Cider to refresh.
Wish List
We are working with others in our neighborhood on this brunch with the intention to reclaim or create a permanent Community Kitchen and to inspire and assist other interested communities in doing the same. We are seeking assistance to do so through donations of all kinds. Our current Wish List includes:
We're sharing contact info for these important year-round local food providers to encourage support of their vital work. Stay tuned as we create a seasonal working map of pesticide-free local and organic food purveyors in and around the city.
SELMA CAFE: This event has been actively inspired by SELMA Cafe, a successful Community Kitchen in Ann Arbor. We’re very thankful for their assistance.
ZERO WASTE: Through mindful purchasing, preparation and clean-up we are pursuing Zero Waste. This month we end up with a handful of actual non-recyclable and non-compostable WASTE while feeding 70+ people! Please support Zero Waste Detroit
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Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit
Dr. Douglas Graham comes to Michigan! Friday Night, February 19, 7pm-10pm and Saturday, February 20, 9am-5pm
Friday, Your Health Nutrition, and Fitness Questions Answered. Cost $25 in advance.
This night's focus will be on you. So bring your health, nutrition, and fitness questions to this personally motivating event! No matter what diet you are eating, or what aspect of your life you seek to improve, Dr. Graham will be there for you.
Saturday, Illuminating the Era of Raw Foods. Cost $125 until January 15; $199 January 16-February 19. Learn the pitfalls of the raw diet, how to avoid them and discover many of the current fallacies that keep you from achieving optimal health. A buffet lunch is included in this all-day event. For more details please see http://livingyoganow.com/events/index.html
or contact Ellen Livingston at 734-995-0875
Dr. Douglas Graham, world-renowned raw food authority and fitness trainer, and author of The 80/10/10 Diet will be giving a rare appearance in S.E. Michigan (Livonia), sponsored by Living Yoga.
US Social Forum
Detroit, June 22-26, 2010 The US Social Forum is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country, and changes history. We must declare what we want our world to look like and we must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
The purpose of the USSF is to effectively and affirmatively articulate the values and strategies of a growing and vibrant movement for justice in the United States. Those who build towards and participate in the USSF are no longer interested in simply stating what social justice movements “stand-against,” rather we see ourselves as part of new movements that reach beyond national borders, that practice democracy at all levels, and understand that neo-liberalism abroad and here in the US is not the solution. The USSF provides a first major step towards such articulation of what we stand for.
