Sunday is a day dedicated to new experiences- a teach-in and water summit.  As a Spring Renewal Event, Los Angeles is moving away from austerity into a discovery and motivational community event where many points of view ancient and new will help us sort out the hidden resources and water stewardship, we must cultivate during an unprecedented drought despite or because of our busy urban or suburban lives. 

The Southern California Parliament of World Religions has organized a Sunday event at Loyola Marymount University targeting the importance of water, spring, and a web of inter-denominational approaches to filling up our cup.  How can we care for our future and our present without leaving others without resources? Besides getting stipends to change from high water dependent lawns can we set out to meet the needs of the many while filling up ourselves?

Water has been fought about for centuries and lacking water has made civilizations fail. We live in a desert are we ready to meet the demand of this era?  The day will address the spiritual and practical elements of living within and beyond our means, entertain, inspire, and motivate.  Are their individual practical spiritual applications as well as new skills to acquire...come and find out.

With ideas that build community that are both ancient and new, Los Angelenos will be greeted with meditations to fill the heart, songs to transform broken spirits, new visions of how we will face the Drought in daily life.

Find clarity, poise, and purpose in an exploration to turn over the things that can wear out our resiliency and the resources that realign our willingness to hear and respond peacefully to others and to ourselves.

We are a city in motion with a bigger and bigger demographic. Many artists, poets, religious leaders, and scientists are gathering to create a kind of internal and external personal motivation that can give spring to one's step and face circumstances with high stakes that require reunion, relevancy, and rigor on the individual scale as well as on the regional, state and national levels.

Come and hear Stephen Fiske, Constance Demby, and Ron Yuval and transform your resignation. despair, or cynicism.

There are things we can do, must do, and will be able to do with new tools and the inspiration that comes from Spirit, Science, Systems, and small dedicated steps.

Bring your whole family and return home with a full heart and wider horizons. Restore your sense of wonder and your sense of making a difference.

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SMAP Globe Video Shares the Drought info into the world's ability to share STEM in classrooms round the world: (see video about being a SMAP Globe Partner or Teacher)

Be a Gardener of Hearts or a Gatherer of Butterflies and Bees- walk, sing, discover, share our parks, trails and gardens:

Walkways-

http://www.amigosdelosrios.org/the-emerald-necklace-vision-plan/

Greenways-

www.thevillagegardeners.org (adopt a river bank)

Cleanups-

www.folar.org

River Rover and FoLAR- be a river teacher or fan...help with the Spring Cleanups:

https://thesciencecollaborative.wordpress.com/river-teachers/folar-river-rover/

Connected Classrooms:

http://lagardencouncil.org/event/seeds-peace-2015-honoring-water-source-life-teach/

http://cleanet.org/cln/index.html

www.learner.org

Find tools from meditations and to walks with the biosphere through parks, gardens and our Natural History, Griffith Park, and Children's Museums:

Spirited Discussions and more:

http://theguibordcenter.org/gallery/finding-god/

Museums, Mountains, Coasts and more:

http://www.nhm.org/site/explore-exhibits/special-exhibits/butterfly-pavilion

http://abc7.com/archive/7955125/