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Date: Thu Nov 17 2011 - 03:37:08 MST
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:37:08 -0700 (MST) From: Student Buff Bulletin <memofrom@Colorado.EDU> Subject: Student Buff Bulletin 11/17/2011
SUBJECT: Student Buff Bulletin 11/17/2011
Student Buff Bulletin
17 November 2011, Thursday
A Boulder Campus digest of current events
In this issue:
--- Vedic Harvest Festival Tonight
--- Register Your Thanksgiving Weekend Party by Nov. 23
--- Colorado Shakespeare Festival - $10 Rush Tickets Available!
--- Alternative Break: Urban Poverty
--- Animal Rights with Alternative Breaks: Applications Open Until Trip is
Full
--- Nutrition and Wellness Alternative Breaks Applications Open Until Full
--- Hallet Hall Residents: Applications Open until Full for Alternative Breaks
--- Child Advocacy in Missouri: Alternative Breaks: Applications Open Until
Trips Full
--- Alternative Breaks: Applications Open Until Trips Are Full
VEDIC HARVEST FESTIVAL TONIGHT
Don't miss the free vegan and vegetarian feast, live music and more tonight!
Stop by the CU Rec Center conference rooms from 6-8 p.m. and learn about
sustainable living, mantra meditation and bhakti yoga as taught in the ancient
vedic scriptures of India. RSVP for a free gift: bhaktiyogaclub@colorado.edu
Contact: Bryan Bolen
REGISTER YOUR THANKSGIVING WEEKEND PARTY BY NOV. 23
If you intend to register a party for Nov. 25 or Nov. 26, you must register your
party by 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 23. The university will be closed
Thursday and Friday, but our office will accept registrations Monday-Wednesday.
We've had over 200 parties register this semester, and no one has received a
ticket! Don't chance it.
Contact: Off-Campus Housing & Neighborhood Relations
Additional information: http://offcampushousing.colorado.edu
COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL- $10 RUSH TICKETS AVAILABLE
Colorado Shakespeare Festival is presenting It's a Wonderful Life: A Live
Radio Play, and we're offering students last-minute tickets for $10! Just show
up to Will Call at the University Theatre one hour before any performance Dec. 1
15. Show your student ID and get the best available seats for the oh-so-cheap
price of $10! Visit http://www.coloradoshakes.org for the calendar of
performances and more information. Subject to availability.
Contact: Pamela Johnson
Additional information: http://www.coloradoshakes.org
ALTERNATIVE BREAK: URBAN POVERTY
The Alternative Break trip with the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the
Homeless is a phenomenal trip! Participants are provided with a wide
arrange of speakers and activities, as well as eye-opening service opportunities
at homeless shelters, urban gardens and innovative businesses designed to
help those with financial hardships begin careers. Over the Rhine is a great
location for this trip because of its interesting history, character and
political pertinence to broader societal patterns. Apply today.
Contact: altbreak@colorado.edu
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/altbreaks
ANIMAL RIGHTS WITH ALTERNATIVE BREAKS: APPLICATIONS OPEN UP TRIP IS
FULL
If animals are your passion then this is the trip for you! Spend Spring
Break at SARA Animal Sanctuary, a no kill facility in Texas that has cats, dogs,
steers, goats, burros, hogs, roosters, chickens and mustangs. During the week:
assist with an adoption event, bring animals to nursing homes, and
play/exercise with the animals. We'll spend a half day in Austin along the
River Walk and another half day in San Antonio.
Contact: altbreak@colorado.edu
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/altbreaks
NUTRITION AND WELLNESS ALTERNATIVE BREAKS APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL
FULL
Come and learn about nutrition and wellness in the Live Music Capital of
the World! Austin is home to an amazing variety of experiences all of which we
will be exposed to on our trip. More importantly, volunteer with Urban
Patchwork, a neighborhood-based, community-run urban agriculture network.
Urban Patchwork helps small communities turn unused yard space into farmland
that provides fresh, organically grown produce, fruits, nuts and eggs to
residents. Help make Austin's neighborhoods sustainable!
Contact: altbreak@colorado.edu
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/altbreaks
HALLET HALL RESIDENTS: APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL FULL FOR ALTERNATIVE
BREAKS
Spend a week in the Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community in New York! Days are
spent on the reservation doing renovations, working in communal
households/gardens and on the farm. Evenings are spent with the tribes'
spiritual leader learning about the history and traditions of the tribe and their
relationship with the land. Gain insights about the tribe as they reestablish their
relationship with the natural world around them, while restructuring traditional
values and revitalizing their language.
Contact: altbreak@colorado.edu
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/altbreaks
CHILD ADVOCACY IN MISSOURI: ALTERNATIVE BREAKS: APPLICATIONS OPEN
UNTIL TRIPS FULL
Operation Breakthrough is a nationally accredited, nonprofit corporation
that began in 1971 as a response to requests from parents in Kansas City for
quality childcare for children of the working poor. Spend Spring Break reading to
preschoolers, monitoring grade-school children, and helping with miscellaneous
community service projects such as painting rooms and cleaning up areas
that the kids live and learn in. All of our efforts will be directed towards
children from underprivileged communities.
Contact: altbreak@colorado.edu
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/altbreaks
ALTERNATIVE BREAKS: APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL TRIPS ARE FULL
One week, 10 trips, 120 students. What are you doing for Spring Break? Be a
part of the solution and volunteer for one of ten amazing issues: animal rights,
urban poverty, youth education, diversity, youth advocacy, nutrition and
wellness, human rights, environmental conservation, disaster relief, youth
and Illness. Financial aid and Scholarships are available. Trip applications
are open and will remain open until all trips are full. Do something amazing.
Volunteer with Alternative Breaks.
Contact: altbreak@colorado.edu
Additional information: http://www.colorado.edu/vrc/altbreaks
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