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- [[Indiana Holistic Health "Simply Healthy: Creating Sustainable Communities" Simply Living Fair and Wellness EXPO]]
- Simply Healthy
Things have shaped up quite nicely for the 4th Annual "Simply Healthy"!
The 4th Annual "Simply Healthy: Creating Sustainable Communities" Simply Living Fair and Wellness Expo focusing on Living Simply Well, Community Building, Eating Local and Eating Healing Meals will take place November 12-14th, 2009. This year’s keynote presenter is Diana Leafe Christian, Editor of Communities Magazine and author of "Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities and Transition Towns”. The Indiana Holistic Health Network has posted links to information about ecovillages (sustainable communities and transition towns – communities that are planning on how to shift in light of peak oil and global climate changes).
As in previous years there will be Vendors displaying and demonstrating wellness services, green businesses and products set up in the Showers Building; Workshops for mind, body and spirit that will take place in the Ivy Tech Depot; a four course Local Food Dinner, dessert, and beverages hosted and co-sponsored by Food Works for Middle Way House featuring foods from local growers and producers. This year a Moderated Community Conversation with Marcia Veldman, Farmers Market Director and Green Sanctuary Task Force member, Dave Parsons from May Creek Community, Lucille Bertuccio, President of the Center for Sustainable Living and keynote Diana Leafe Christian moderated by Marti Crouch; and our Healing Sound Concert with opening words by Rev. Mary Ann Macklin with Tom Roznowski, Alain Barker, Daryl Breeden, Steve Pollit, Patricia C. Coleman, Deb Phelps, and Karen Taborn at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
The keynote presentation by Diana Leafe Christian, the Vendor area and the Moderated Conversation are all free and open to the public! Simply Healthy organizers have kept other cost down to encourage participation by a more diverse population. Attend as many workshops as you desire. $15/17 general admission, Seniors and Students $10/12 for the day! Experience the delicious Local Food Dinner and hear Dr. Kellie Osmon speak on the healing properties of foods for only $35! Join in the Healing Sound Concert for $15/18, Students and Seniors only $12/15!
It is a goal of the Indiana Holistic Health Network and Local Food (Green Dove projects and other Simply Healthy Conveners to educate and inspire through the exploration of some of the many possibilities available locally and beyond that can be utilized to support our becoming a healthier, more sustainable community.
For more information visit the website at http://www.simplyhealthy.net If you have questions, contact Patricia at simplyhlthy@gmail.com.
