2nd Annual Maypole Dance
Saturday, May 01, 2010 — Filed in: Events
Last year’s
event was so much fun, we just had to do it again!
Join us on Sunday, May 9, from 2-4 pm at the Farmhouse at 45 Edgecomb Road, off Rt. 3, two miles west of Belfast, to welcome in the spring with a Maypole Dance, featuring live music. Take a look at plans for the Common House and the individual home designs for the community. Catch up on the latest developments in our environmentally-sustainable, farming-based neighborhood-in-the-works. The event is free.
Maypole dancing is an ancient European folk dance with where dancers circle a tall pole holding onto colorful ribbons, which intertwine and braid around the pole. Maine musicians and community members will play a variety of folk songs and the dances will be taught, so family members of all ages can joy in the fun!
Join us on Sunday, May 9, from 2-4 pm at the Farmhouse at 45 Edgecomb Road, off Rt. 3, two miles west of Belfast, to welcome in the spring with a Maypole Dance, featuring live music. Take a look at plans for the Common House and the individual home designs for the community. Catch up on the latest developments in our environmentally-sustainable, farming-based neighborhood-in-the-works. The event is free.
Maypole dancing is an ancient European folk dance with where dancers circle a tall pole holding onto colorful ribbons, which intertwine and braid around the pole. Maine musicians and community members will play a variety of folk songs and the dances will be taught, so family members of all ages can joy in the fun!
Let's Build a Treehouse!
Saturday, April 03, 2010 —
Belfast
Cohousing & Ecovillage will host free family events
on Sunday, April 11, starting with: Building a
Treehouse in a Day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Belfast
Cohousing Dad and master home-builder, Alan Gibson,
will lead kids with tool-wielding ability and their
parents in assembly, construction and decoration of one
sturdy treehouse at 45 Edgecomb Road, the Belfast
Cohousing & Ecovillage site. Kids and parents will
learn location selection techniques, explore design
ideas, and work with their hands to build a fine
treehouse. Bring lunch and your tool(s) of choice—a
hammer, saw or paintbrush—and join the fun!
Younger children and adults of all ages are also invited to build fairy houses with Emily Gable, mother of two and expert fairyfolk housing specialist, starting at 2 p.m. “Using bark, moss, leaves, sticks, seeds and whatever else we may find, we will create homes for our fairy friends of the land,” says Emily. This activity is fun for all ages. Feel free to bring treasures from your own land or seashore. For more information and to rsvp for these two free workshops, please call: 338-9200 or send an email to: info@mainecohousing.org. Parent involvement welcome.
Younger children and adults of all ages are also invited to build fairy houses with Emily Gable, mother of two and expert fairyfolk housing specialist, starting at 2 p.m. “Using bark, moss, leaves, sticks, seeds and whatever else we may find, we will create homes for our fairy friends of the land,” says Emily. This activity is fun for all ages. Feel free to bring treasures from your own land or seashore. For more information and to rsvp for these two free workshops, please call: 338-9200 or send an email to: info@mainecohousing.org. Parent involvement welcome.
Winter Fun at the Farmhouse
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 — Filed in: Events
Belfast
Cohousing & Ecovillage is holding its 2nd Annual
Winter Fun Open House on Sunday, January 10th, from
2-4pm at the farmhouse on 45 Edgecomb Rd in Belfast.
This event will feature a slide presentation about
cohousing in general, and an update on the growing
Belfast project in particular. Children (and the young
at heart!) are especially welcome to join in
weather-permitting sledding, skating, bonfire and hot
cocoa taking place at the same time and location.
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is creating a 36-home multi-generational cohousing community that is rural but just 2 miles from downtown Belfast, will cluster its homes, practice sustainable agriculture, and be an innovative housing development model for rural Maine. Living in community is the centerpiece of this project with sustainability and the many benefits of a vibrant, old-fashioned neighborhood among its goals.
The project currently has 21 Equity Member households (committed to the project) and an additional 22 Exploring Member households (not yet committed), as well as an interested “Friend” list of over 600 individuals nationwide. The goal is thirty-six households of families with children of all ages, couples, and single adults. For more information go to www.mainecohousing.org or call 207 338-9200.
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is creating a 36-home multi-generational cohousing community that is rural but just 2 miles from downtown Belfast, will cluster its homes, practice sustainable agriculture, and be an innovative housing development model for rural Maine. Living in community is the centerpiece of this project with sustainability and the many benefits of a vibrant, old-fashioned neighborhood among its goals.
The project currently has 21 Equity Member households (committed to the project) and an additional 22 Exploring Member households (not yet committed), as well as an interested “Friend” list of over 600 individuals nationwide. The goal is thirty-six households of families with children of all ages, couples, and single adults. For more information go to www.mainecohousing.org or call 207 338-9200.
