Community Groups at St. David of Wales
City Repair
City Repair began in Portland, Oregon with the idea that localization - of culture, of economy, of decision-making - is a necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places, they plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities and nurture our local culture.
Projects include the annual Village Building Convergence, where people gather at neighborhood sites throughout Portland to engage in intersection repair, natural building, and other forms of placemaking. They also host Earth Day, the Village Planting Convergence (also known as City Riparian), and operate a mobile tea house called the T-Horse.
Throughout the year they educate the community with workshops on all forms of sustainability and offer the invaluable placemaking guidebook and one-on-one consulting for those who want to repair their own neighborhood.
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Hands On Art and Play Preschool
The Hands On Art & Play is a preschool program designed so children can experience preschool without having to attend every day or a minimum number of days each week. At Hands On a child may attend one,two, three, four or five days a week.
The class ratio is one adult for every five children in our youngest class, and one adult to every six in our older class. This allows all children to receive the attention they deserve.
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Eastside Family Cooperative
Eastside Family Cooperative is a group of families who have come together to provide quality, part-time childcare for our children. For most of the children, Eastside Family Co-op is their first early school experience and serves as a pre-preschool.
Eastside Family Co-op is entirely parent-run. Each child attends three days: two days "on her own" and one day with her "parent teacher." In addition, they provide a network of support for parents and the chance for children to develop trusting relationships outside their immediate family.
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Portland Fiddle Camps for Kids
Portland Fiddle Camp for Kids is the only week-long fiddle camp in the Portland metro area. They offer five fun-filled days of fiddle, square dance, jam sessions, special guest appearances from bands and much more for campers ages 6 through 16.
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Southeast Portland Tool Library
We are very excited about our partnership with the Southeast Portland Tool Library, slated to open at St. David's in May, 2010. For more information, visit www.septl.org.
Zen Community of Oregon/Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple
The primary purpose of Zen Community of Oregon is to express and make accessible the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha’s teachings, as transmitted through an authentic, historical lineage and to support and maintain Zen Buddhist practice in order to realize and actualize our Buddha nature in everyday life.
The Zen Community of Oregon is hosting three exciting events at St. David's in the first part of 2010, all of which are open to all:
Life Vows Intensive on January22, 9am to 5pm. Abbot Hogen Bays will be teaching a one day class called Life Vows Intensive.
Our lives pass so quickly and yet we are drawn to the great questions: what kind of a person do we want to become, how can we
be of service to the world, How can we channel our energies into what is most important. This workshop will allow time for inquiry
and investigation into our life purpose.
"Just Enough" on February 6th, 9am to 5pm. Laura Jomon Martin and Patrick Bansho Green will present "Just Enough: Buddhism
and Debt, Mindfulness and Money" a workshop that explores how to increase awareness of money, spending and debt; to bring
ethics and wisdom to how we earn or spend money and to apply what the Buddha taught about money and utilize the tools of
Debtors Anonymous.
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Portland Threshold Choir
The all-women Threshold Choirs honor the ancient tradition of singing with people through threshold times: during birth, death,
sickness, and other passages. In presence and song, we bring attention and care to those in transition, sharing compassion,
comfort, celebration, and companionship. For more information, visit www.thresholdchoir.org. To learn more about the Portland
Threshold Choir contact Kri Schlafer at cricketsong@hevanet.com, or 503-236-2872.
Hosford Middle School
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