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SIX MILE CREEK!</b></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville"></span></p>

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Event Kicks-Off Arts-Based Watershed Initiative</b></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville"></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Gallery Night on
Friday, August 5^th will feature a gala of music, dance, photography,
art and water fun from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. on the downtown Creek Walk, behind the
Tompkins County Library.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">The event kicks off <i>A
Year in the Life of Six Mile Creek</i></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville">,
a multi-year watershed initiative calling on the arts to invite folks of all
ages to join together to protect Cayuga Lake's waters for years to come.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">The occasion will
introduce Creek Walk banners of native plant images from photographer Nancy
Ridenour.  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Sora Jerderan
Shpack, winner of Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious Composer's
Competition, will premiere <i>Songs of Many Waters</i></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville">, a multi-movement work portraying the beauty,
grandeur and wonder of our world’s water systems. The work will be performed by
Octavivo – The New Violin Family - with vocalists and musicians from Ithaca.</span></span></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Mermaids and water
fairies of all costumed ages are welcome to join Zajal the Sugar Plum Fairy and
her Troupe as they premiere a new Mermaid Dance in honor of the Six Mile Creek
project.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Creek enthusiasts
are invited to contribute photographs and paintings for a slide and video show
and exhibit featuring works by the Cayuga Nature Photographers, stone sculptor
Rob Kauffman , former Cousteau filmmaker and Ithaca native David O.Brown and
pleine aire artist Nari Mistry.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Photographs should
be sent to <six</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"><a href="mailto:6milewatershed@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:Baskerville;
color:#001CCB">milewatershed@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:
Baskerville">>; art works and sculpture should be brought to the Creek Walk
by 4 p.m on August 5^th.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville"><b>Sponsors</b></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Launched with 'seed'
funds from the Park Foundation, <i>A Year in the Life of Six Mile Creek</i></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville"> is spearheaded by the Level Green Institute
and Cayuga Lake Watershed Network. Activities are co-hosted with members of the
new Creek Coalition, a growing group of artists working with City, campus and
community groups to create family-fun activities that celebrate – and document
- life in, under and around the Creek through a full round of seasons.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Coalition membership
is open to individuals, businesses and groups sharing its commitment to
engaging the community in learning about and getting on board the importance of
protecting the water so critical for our collective future.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville"><b>Future Activities</b></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville"></span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">A calendar of August
2011 - July 2012 Creekside activities can be found at <i><</i></span><span style="font-family:Arial-ItalicMT"><i><a href="http://sixmilecreek.wordsmith.com/"><span style="font-family:Baskerville;
color:#001CCB">sixmilecreek.wordsmith.com</span></a></i></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville"><i>></i></span><span style="font-family:
Baskerville"> and on Facebook, at <i>A Year in the Life of Six Mile Creek</i></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville">.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">One highlight of
upcoming August 2011 offerings is an open Headwaters Expedition, August 19-21.
Everyone is invited to explore the Creek's meander from the Inlet to Dryden's
Hammond Hill State Forest, with music and picnics along the way.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Everyone is also invited
to join in photography, history, geology and native plant walks; waterfall
music, dancing, drumming, improv theatre and singing; Creekside massage and
healing arts; pleine aire painting; natural stone sculpture; poetry and writing
workshops; a Lifelong seminar on “Flow” with Wally Woods; and working with
David Brown to video-document the Project to share online.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Starting in
September, volunteers are welcome to work with Ithaca College faculty and
students and the History Center to research and creating public programming for
a Haudenosaunee Winter Village located in the Creek gorge nearby downtown.</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville"><b>Context</b></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Known historically
to the Haudenosaunee as Teegastoweas, Six Mile Creek is one of Cayuga Lake's
most important tributaries. In addition to supplying the City of Ithaca's
drinking water, it touches the lives of diverse thousands of people as it wends
from the Dryden hills down through Slaterville and Brooktondale, through the
Six Mile Creek nature preserve, past the downtown business district, and and
through the Parkside and Northside neighborhoods before joining the Inlet.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">The Creek also
speaks for the many other streams that feed Cayuga Lake; and the lakes and
rivers that keep our communities, nation and the planet green and thriving.
Endangered by climate change, pollution and politics, scientists estimate that
over 20 countries will be without potable water by 2020. Scientists and
economists alike are calling the world's water the “next gold”.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">It is easy in
water-rich Ithaca to ignore this larger threat. David Brown sees Ithaca as an
“aquascape”, where water defines who we are and connects us across boundaries
as a community. This Project's goal is to focus attention locally, within the
global context.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">For further information:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Patricia Haines,
Level Green Institute</span></p>

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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">(607) 339-9472 <</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"><a href="mailto:levelgreen2010@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:Baskerville;color:#001CCB">levelgreen2010@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville">></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">Hilary Lambert,
Cayuga Lake Watershed Network</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Baskerville">(859) 421-3609 <</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT"><a href="mailto:steward@cayugalake.org"><span style="font-family:Baskerville;color:#001CCB">steward@cayugalake.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Baskerville">></span></p>


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