What would you like to do? Here are some ideas.

1 BECOME A MEMBER

Take out a membership in the Greenspace Alliance. Here is a Membership Application form.

Become a member of the Poets' Pathway Committee. Please contact the co-chair, George Wilson, at 613-421-9313.

Look over the tasks described below. Then fill out the Volunteer Form and mail it to Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital, P.O. Box 55085, 240 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1A1, or e-mail it to this address.

2. ENVIRONMENT

Clean up

Construction

Put up signs, poems etc

3. POLITICAL

Write letters to newspapers or to individuals

Research politics: who does what in Ottawa, (federal, municipal, provincial, NCC) significance for PP

4. COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Contact community groups – community associations, green groups, other arts groups, e.g. Arts Court, visual artists, for shows etc., writers, poets, theatre, music,
community groups like guides, brownies, seniors’ residences, museums, history and heritage, schools and " institutions" near the pathway

5. EDUCATION

Contact schools- elementary and high schools – make modules – lessons— writing competitions

Contact universities for research or for speaking or judging – what about Carleton’s English Society?

Judge poems or art works for competition

6. FUNDRAISING

Events

Grants

Contact businesses

7. PLAN EVENTS

8. DO PUBLICITY

9. MAKE ART

Photography

Videos, film

Writing of poems, fiction

Articles

Music

Visual Art

Performance

Design logo, posters etc.

AND CRAFTS

Make poems/plaques

10. RESEARCH

Pathway: physical: mapping

Other communities ie Manotick’s AY Jackson Park

Nature: land, living things

Poets: lives, works

Practical ideas

11. LEGAL HELP

12. WEB SITE

Designing

Maintaining

Getting materials

13. VOLUNTEERS

Getting

Using/Keeping

14. ODD JOBS

Typing

Driving

Delivering .

Delivering

Telephoning

Taking tickets

House manager etc.