Join us for an afternoon of activities, workshops, and radio fun! Stay for a delicious dinner and silent auction, followed by an evening of lovely live music and a DJ dance party! This event is a joint benefit party for WGXC, and to sponsor low income shares for Fog and Thistle CSA (formerly known as Germantown Community Farm CSA.) Come have a great time and help deliver homegrown radio and food to our community! Suggested donation is $10-$25 Camping in the orchard is welcome! Bring tents, bedding, flashlights. Accomodations in the house and barn are limited; let us know if you need them. Children are welcome! We also need volunteers to help before, during and after the event, as well as items for the silent auction. Anything you can throw in is most appreciated! For details contact Kaya at kaya@wgxc.org.

TUNE IN LIVE WEBSTREAM
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3 p.m.: Welcome to all - party round up and meet up game.
Silent auction opens
3:30-5 p.m.: workshops and activities (descriptions below)
Making radio: real live tools for real local radio
Joining the airwaves: The WGXC radio station "barnraising"
Food and farmland: Our regional resources and strategies
Farm Tours
Labor of Love: get yer hands dirty!
6 p.m.: Dinner
7:30: Silent Auction Closes
8 p.m.: Performances begin
Lady Moon and the Eclipse (Evan Randall, Peter Lindstrom, Ngonda Badila, Milandou Badila)
Moonlight in Paris (Lady Moon and Young Paris)
Hi NRG with Giorgio
10:00 DJ Dance Party
(Sound by Tom Morini)

WORKSHOPS

Making radio: real live tools for real local radio meet upstairs in the barn From asking good questions to pressing the right buttons, we'll be producing some short interviews and field recordings while engaging the skills needed to make radio that really represents. Dharma Daily and Emily Bennison will share their expertise and lead us through.

Joining the airwaves: The WGXC radio station "barnraising" meet downstairs in the barn. Capacity Building for Community Building:

WGXC community radio is really rolling. The station launch date is set for late September, and Prometheus Radio Project has chosen us to collaborate with to produce a huge event called a Radio barnraising. Radio barnraisings are weekend-long radio building and movement building events. Individuals from the local community and participatory media folks from around the country come together to share ideas, experiences, and skills in the launching of a community radio station. This is an extremely exciting opportunity for those interested in community radio to get involved and get trained! Come find out more about this event, see a couple short films of other barnraisings, and become a part of making it happen. Cory Fischer-Hoffman of Prometheus Radio Project and Kaya Weidman of WGXC: Hands-On Radio will guide us through.

Food and farmland access:

Our regional resources and strategies meet by the tables or in the house With Ashley Loehr of Fog and Thistle CSA and some other farmers.

Farm Tours

Meet by the washstand next to the barn. Cruise around the property with the farmers here on the land and hear of the successes, as well as the trials and tribulations of the soil, the seasons, breaking new ground, marketing, and various earthly forces that affect what they grow, how they grow, and what happens.

Labor of Love: get yer hands dirty! meet at the greenhouse

With the farmers: Don't feel like going to a workshop, and just want to get your hands in the dirt? Luckily, there's plenty to do! Come see the glamorous side of farming by picking rocks and planting potatoes, and help the farmers enjoy the party by getting some big work done.