ECA Mass Event Calendar

For details, link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tarsands-songbook-tickets-58454188050

TICKETS: $25

All proceeds go to Better Future Project and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate

The Tar Sands Songbook asks us to reconsider our unseen relationships with oil. Creator Tanya Kalmanovitch was born in Fort McMurray, Canada, near the site of the Athabasca Oil Sands, the world’s largest bitumen reservoir. She decided to become a musician as a teenager because “it had nothing to do with oil.”

Kalmanovitch's piece weaves together a chorus of clashing voices with an original, improvised score. The words of indigenous activists, engineers, heavy equipment operators, elders, oil patch workers, scientists, and those of her own family fuel discussions of our past and the powerful forces that shape our future.

Named 'Best New Talent' by All About Jazz when she emerged from New York’s vibrant downtown scene, Kalmanovitch has continually stretched the boundaries between classical, jazz and improvised music. The Irish Times called her “an exceptional musician,” writing that her music possesses “austere beauty and remarkable unity between the written and the improvised.” She completed her conservatory training at the prestigious Juilliard School only to debut as a jazz violist with the Turtle Island String Quartet soon after. Her stylistically fluid recordings have garnered critical acclaim. Hut Five (2003) was hailed by the Montreal Gazette as “an exceptional recording.” Heart Mountain (2007) with venerated pianist Myra Melford won France’s “Choc” award and topped many critics’ year-end “Best of” lists. Pianist Ethan Iverson (Do The Math) praised her most recent release Magic Mountain (2016) with fellow violist Mat Maneri as “an exceptionally surreal and beautiful performance.”

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_aWkZnIits

ECA Mass is co-sponsoring the Sunrise Movement’s Green New Deal Road Tour, which will be launched in Boston on April 18. The launch will take place from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Strand Theater, 543 Columbia Rd, Dorchester. You can sign up at bit.ly/bos-gnd ($8 for adults).

We’ve agreed to get word out to our members and bring as many with us as we can. We are also committed to contributing to a coordinated social media blast.  This social media toolkit 
contains hashtags and sample tweets. There will be two more social media blasts before the event, about which we’ll keep you posted.

This is a great opportunity to partner with an organization led by Millennials on the first initiative to emerge with the potential to mobilize a national movement. Please come if you can and let others in your network know about it.

The Jamaica Plain Forum, First Church in JP UU. and Institute for Policy Studies will be bringing Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and Rev. Mariama White-Hammond to Jamaica Plain for our “Green New Deal Town Hall Forum” SAT, APR 20th 3-5PM. We know this is Easter/Passover weekend, but this is the only date Congresswoman Pressley was available.

ECA is a co-sponsor of this event, and we will be tabling there. If you can assist, please contact MaiyimBaron@gmail.comFor details, link here: https://greennewdealtownhall.eventbrite.com

The League of Women Voters of Massachusetts' Environmental Action and Advocacy Committee is sponsoring this timely and important webinar:
“Driving Down Emissions: Massachusetts and the Regional Transportation and Climate Initiative,” Tuesday, April 23, 4-5 p.m. EDT.

Registration for the webinar is required. You will receive an email with a link to join, after registering.This webinar will be recorded and available to participants and the public.

Click here to register. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zKSKBXB1SSKczOh7NHDewg

To view and download the flyer, click here.
https://lwvma.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-LWVMA-TCI-Webinar-flyer.pdf

Cap and Trade is Alive and Well: Carbon Markets Around the World

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how cap-and-trade works. Sign up now for this informative webinar: Thursday, April 25 — 2:00pm EDT, 1:00pm CDT, 12:00pm MDT, 11:00am PDT

Cap and trade is growing fast. And it’s working.

Learn the facts about cap-and-trade and why it is an effective way to put a price on carbon.

Join us for a webinar by Nat Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund, Senior Vice President, Climate

Cap and Trade is Alive and Well: Carbon Markets Around the World

Sign up here!

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/89912961066926861