Please join us every Sunday for a community meditation. This is a sitting meditation in the Buddhist tradition. These offerings will be mostly silent sitting, but we may do traditional prayers in Tibetan and English. We will be gathering from 5:00-6:00pm at the GWI Greenhouse (65 St. James Street, Kingston). For more information, please contact David McCarthy (845) 389-4903.
Community Meditation
Please join us every Sunday for a community meditation. This is a sitting meditation in the Buddhist tradition. These offerings will be mostly silent sitting, but we may do traditional prayers in Tibetan and English. We will be gathering from 5:00-6:00pm at the GWI Greenhouse (65 St. James Street, Kingston). For more information, please contact David McCarthy (845) 389-4903.
Wandering Wednesdays
Wandering Wednesdays is a traveling potluck dinner party designed to connect neighbors! This gathering is an 8 year old tradition, birthed in Rosendale, centered on a traveling potluck dinner party. WW promotes the boundless potential of sharing meals with neighbors and friends and all the good things that brings, as well as the values of inclusivity, kindness, and mutual respect.
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Wandering Wednesdays
Wandering Wednesdays is a traveling potluck dinner party designed to connect neighbors! This gathering is an 8 year old tradition, birthed in Rosendale, centered on a traveling potluck dinner party. WW promotes the boundless potential of sharing meals with neighbors and friends and all the good things that brings, as well as the values of inclusivity, kindness, and mutual respect.
Sign up for the weekly newsletter at the registration link below.
Music to Be Remembered By
This is a workshop/music performance exploring the transformative power of music centered around grief and loss led by violinist, Death Doula Concetta Abbate. For more information, click the link below.
Wilder – A Kids Workshop Series to Raise Awareness and Funds for Cetacean Sanctuaries Part 5 : Ecological Systems, Change Making
For our final session of this series, we’ll be talking about how whales and dolphins fit into their/our ecosystems. How do they keep change moving along so that the system is healthy? How about humans in ecology, and humans in social systems? How do you affect your social and environmental systems? Like Whales and Dolphins, humans are very communicative creatures. One way we promote change is by writing, and by letting others read our writing! Today, we are going to write letters to seaquariums, aquariums, and government officials — and encourage them to get on board with ending captivity practices, and with freeing these remarkably wise and powerful creatures to appropriate sanctuaries.
This 5-part series is full of whale and dolphin science, artistic expression, and everyday activism in support of cetacean sanctuaries! A portion of proceeds will go to the whalesanctuaryproject.org. This program is geared towards children 7-11 years old. For more information, click the link below.
Wilder – A Kids Workshop Series to Raise Awareness and Funds for Cetacean Sanctuaries Part 4 : Biomagnetism, Intuition, and Dance
Today, we’ll discuss terms “freedom” “captivity” and “intuition”. What are some examples of when you feel these words?
We’ll also discuss how cetaceans use biomagnetism (an inner, magnetic compass!) as an important and strong sense of navigation. We will make a simple compass as a class example. We’ll try imagining what it might be like to use this special sense – we will try to feel what it might feel like, and allow ourselves to be guided by that feeling. We will conclude by making up two dances – one as if we are cetaceans in captivity, and one, in our wild natural, ocean habitat , using echolocation, guided by our inner compass, and living with the ones we love.
This 5-part series is full of whale and dolphin science, artistic expression, and everyday activism in support of cetacean sanctuaries! A portion of proceeds will go to the whalesanctuaryproject.org. This program is geared towards children 7-11 years old. For more information, click the link below.
Wilder – A Kids Workshop Series to Raise Awareness and Funds for Cetacean Sanctuaries Part 3 : Family Pods and Model Making
Cetaceans are known to have close knit families. Many whales and dolphins travel in ‘pods’ of family members – singing together, hunting together, playing together, and even hugging in their whalish ways.
Today, we will be exploring how different cetaceans organize their families, spend time with extended family, and teach their children important survival skills, as well as how to carry on traditions. Then, using clay, cardboard, and materials that could otherwise end up in landfills, we will make models of a cetacean family pod, swimming freely in their natural habitat.
This 5-part series is full of whale and dolphin science, artistic expression, and everyday activism in support of cetacean sanctuaries! A portion of proceeds will go to the whalesanctuaryproject.org. This program is geared towards children 7-11 years old. For more information, click the link below.
Wilder – A Kids Workshop Series to Raise Awareness and Funds for Cetacean Sanctuaries Part 2 : Echolocation and Communication
Today we will learn about the senses of cetaceans (dolphins, whales, porpoises) and how these highly sensitive and intelligent creatures use sound and echolocation as their main* source of communication and navigation. We will listen to different examples of whale and dolphin sounds and get curious about what they may be singing about. Then, we will explore how humans use sound to communicate. We will write and sing a song dedicated to freedom for cetaceans, and their lives in the sea.
This 5-part series is full of whale and dolphin science, artistic expression, and everyday activism in support of cetacean sanctuaries! A portion of proceeds will go to the whalesanctuaryproject.org. This program is geared towards children 7-11 years old. For more information, click the link below.
Wilder – A Kids Workshop Series to Raise Awareness and Funds for Cetacean Sanctuaries
Cetaceans have personal identities, and so do humans. As they work together to take care of each other and live life, they clearly have unique styles and personalities.
Today, we’ll be making t-shirts that express your personal style and your activism to end captivity practices! Materials will be provided, but if you have a t shirt you’ve been wanting to decorate, bring it along!
This 5-part series is full of whale and dolphin science, artistic expression, and everyday activism in support of cetacean sanctuaries! A portion of proceeds will go to the whalesanctuaryproject.org. This program is geared towards children 7-11 years old. For more information, click the link below.
Moms Demand Action NYS Retreat
Moms Demand Action works toward gun violence prevention and uplifts survivors. Please join as our NY chapter plans for 2025.
BLOK Party
Come join us at the Good Work Institute Greenhouse Kingston for an afternoon of music, food, and community vibes! This is more than just an event; it’s a community experience where art, music and culture interset. Whether you’re here for soulful tunes, the inspiring art, or the sense of community, the Greenhouse is where you want to be. Connect with fellow art lovers, support local talent and be a part of something special.