AUGUST 2011

Based in Turners Falls, MA, The Thrive Project is a a not-for-profit learning, career, and community arts & cultural center for adults of all ages.

TUES – THURS3 – 7 PM

DROP IN DURING OPEN HOURS: Talk to a Thrive staffer about what you need, where you want to be & how you’re going to get there. We can help you take the next step!

Drop in any time to get immediate help, schedule some sessions, or just check us out!

• Use our laptops & free internet.

• Pick up materials from a range of Franklin County service providers.

• Get a referral. Discover cultural & career opportunities on our bulletin board & web site.

• Borrow a book from our Resource Library.

• get career and life coaching

• get resume and job-search help

• schedule or get on-the-spot GED tutoring & College paper/ homework help

• get FAFSA and other college financial aid advice

• get help setting up an email account, facebook page, etc.

• get help with writing and other creative/ entrepreneurial/etc. projects of all kinds

MOVIN’ UNITS: Thrive All-Star Haulers Anja Schutz, Jen Audley, and Nancy Holmes (and others!) worked with Mike Phillips to transport computers donated by Yankee Candle to the space above Hope and Olive in Greenfield, where they’ll be refurbished and given to people in need. Want to learn computer repair by working on prepping these machines for re-distribution? Contact us!

AND BYAPPOINTMENT

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MOVIN’ UNITS: Thrive All-Star Haulers Anja Schutz, Jen Audley, and Nancy Holmes (and others!) worked with Mike Phillips to transport computers donated by Yankee Candle to the space above Hope and Olive in Greenfield, where they’ll be refurbished and given to people in need. Want to learn computer repair by working on prepping these machines for re-distribution? Contact us!

This month’s answer to the eternal question, WHAT IS THRIVE?

SPECIAL EVENTS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 7PM – Local Food Systems Planning GCC Instructor Abrah Dresdale will discuss local food systems planning, based on a case study of Northampton as a template for other municipalities in the northeast. This even is also an into to her Food Systems course (EVS 118), which debuts Fall 2011 at GCC, and which will take Greenfield as the next case study. (GCC Food and Farm Studies Program info can be found at: http://web.gcc.mass.edu/foodandfarms/)

ONGOING EVENTS

PING PONG THURSDAYS - Come play on our new table, 7pm til we’re done, every week. Table tennis - it’s not just for kids!

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC DESIGN, with David May, continues, Mondays in August, 7pmThe tools that have become available to electronic hobbiests in recent years make proffesional results possible for the individual designer/builder. If you’ve no idea what the difference is between a resistor and a button head screw but would like to build a clapper for your grandmother or a distortion pedal for your local guitar hero; or if you’re wondering how to use the Smith Chart to move the power output of your linear supply closer to the transformer’s VA rating, these sessions are for you. Using design software, which is available for free on the web, we’ll be digging into designing and building whatever widgets catch our collective eye. Come join us in nerd heaven. (This is a preview to upcoming weekly sessions starting in august. For all geek levels.) BRITTANY BRUCE’S MAGICAL MONTHLY MOVIE NIGHT - Tuesday, August 23rd, 7pm. Our movie night hostess offers “Never Let Me Go,” based on the Ishiguro novel of the same name, which will be our monthly book club book. A short discussion of the book will proceed and follow the movie.

SHOW, our monthly performance afternoon, will be taking a summer vacation and will return in September.

ONGOING EVENTS (cont.)

Franklin County Drawing Posse - Come draw with Anja and Stash. Sundays 1-4 pm. All levels wicked welcome! (Also, on Sun. 8/7, come to a workshop and make a lantern for the 8/13 parade!)

The Hootenanny - Tuesday, August 30th, Out on the porch, in a summer evening, bring an instrument or even just your voice and play and sing some songs. From Led Zep to Patsy Cline, you name it. It’s like a campfire on the beach, without all that nasty sand. See our facebook page for the songs of the month.

Thrive Yoga at the Brick House Movement Studio, with Bobbi Minor. Rigorous flow yoga for all levels, Friday mornings at 10:30 am.

Thrive Book Group - Wednesday August 31st, 7pm .This month we’ll be reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Read the book, then come chat about it for a while. Then we’ll pick another book! Copies are being held at the TFPL.

AUG 2011 (open hours tues - thurs 3-7PM and BY APPOINTMENT! REALLY!)

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 2 3 4

7:00 pmPing Pong

5 10:30 amYoga

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7 87pm Electronic Design w/ Dave May

9 10 11 1210:30 amYoga

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14 157pm Electronic Design w/ Dave May

167pm Abrah Dresdale: Local Food Systems

17 18 1910:30 amYoga

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21 227pm Electronic Design w/ Dave May

23 24 25 2610:30 amYoga

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28 297pm Electronic Design w/ Dave May

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Check our FaceBook Page, Website, or the Bulletin Board at Thrive for updates, changes and additions. www.TheThriveProject.org

Tuesday specialists: Judith LoreiL interview and career development skillsWednesday specialists: Jamie Berger & Russ Brown: creative, academic, and practical writing; general listeningThursday specialists: Janel Nockleby, Ginevra Bucklin-Lane, Tupper Brown: academic writing, public speaking, the list goes on!

12-4 pm Drawing Posse; Lantern workshop

7pmBB’s Magical Movie Nite!

7:00 pmMusic Exchange

7:00 pmBook Group

7:00 pmPing Pong

7:00 pmPing Pong

1-4 pm Drawing Posse

1-4 pm Drawing Posse

1-4 pm Drawing Posse

7:00 pmPing Pong