Collage event to honor Earth this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — The public is invited to join in collective collage making from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Port Townsend Community Center.

The collage-making event, scheduled for the day before Mother’s Day, will focus on the theme that “the Earth is our only true mother,” hosted by Local 20/20 and the Jefferson County Earth Institute at the center, 620 Tyler St.

The event is free to the public although donations will be gratefully accepted.

The two organizations want to “offer to the community a chance to honor our mother with cards, concerns, hopes and dreams through the art form of collective collage making,” according to a news release.

This will be a largely silent experience, “to invoke reverence and awareness of what is on our minds and in our hearts about our relationship to the Earth,” they said.

Supplies will be provided, but donations of “earth imagery” magazines are encouraged the day of the event.

Each participant can spend as long as he or she wishes putting together a collage. Collage boards will be cut to similar size, small enough so that the overall work can be a patchwork “quilt” that can be assembled and disassembled so it can move to be shown in a variety of locations.

In the lobby, tables with information about Local 20/20 and samples of the Earth Institute discussion courses will be available.

Other Earth related organizations or nonprofits are welcome to provide tables if they wish.

For information, contact Judith Alexander at 360-385-5794 or email lightenup@olympus.net.

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