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John McDonagh WBAI host, actor - Cabtivist!!!  

Cabtivist is a funny, pithy social commentary told from behind the wheel of New York's most recognizable cab driver.  McDonagh, veteran WBAI personality and host of Radio Free Eireann and Talk Back We and Thee with Malachy McCourt and NY Times reporter Corey Kilgannon, has condensed thirty plus years of activism and observation into an hour and twenty minutes of side splitting comedy and heart-rendering social commentary.  

From the plight of the NY city homeless to the crazy demands of Upper East Side matrons, McDonagh brings the audience from laughter to tears and back again in the blink of a New York minute.Throw in his tales of brushes with the rich and famous while driving Stephen Fry to a Queens social club and teaching Top Gear's Richard Hammond how to drive a cab, and you have storytelling at it's finest. McDonagh, whose family hails from Pettigo and spends his downtime in Co. Donegal and the Boa Island in Co. Fermanagh, relates the hilarious story of how the Irish peace process cost him his shot at The Amazing Race.  

www.Cabtivist.com

Marie Ponce Actor and Native Hoop Dancer ~

Marie Poncé is an award winning actor of stage, film and television, published writer, singer, American Indian hoop dancer (Lucayo/Cherokee), costume designer, administrator, acting and arts instructor and program developer, who lived in 8 countries and 7 states in her childhood. Marie Poncé is an award winning actor of stage, film and television, published writer, singer, American Indian hoop dancer (Lucayo/Cherokee), costume designer, administrator, acting and arts instructor and program developer, who lived in 8 countries and 7 states in her childhood. 

July 29-31, 2016 The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers.host what Indian Country Today calls one of the Top 10 Biggest Pow Wows,  The 38th Annual Grand Mid-Summer Pow Wow at Queens County Farm Museum Floral Park, Queens,  NY 718-347-FARM or www.queensfarm.org This American Indian Pow Wow, with MC Louis Mofsie, has dance contests, including the American Indian Hoop Dance with Marie Ponce and Michael D Taylor, drums by Heyna Second Sons, SIlver Clouds and Wild Boys, crafts demonstrations with vendors of  bead, feather, leather and weaving work, pottery and turquoise.Opportunities to do Native social dances, get on a hayride,watch the bonfire, or  get organic vegetables 

Beekeeper Kelley ~ Kelley Edkins (consultant) is the owner of HoneybeeHerbs.com, a Beekeeper, Master Herbalist, Master Gardener and Stoneworker.

Kelley has been cultivating medicinal herbs, native plants, and endangered species for more than two decades in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Her organic farm, Honeybee Herbs, focuses on plants that provide food for honeybees, as well as plants that are endangered species.

She sells the herbal and honeybee produce from her farm and gardens at local farmer’s markets and festivals in the North East area. Past projects include: Driving the movement for the first DEC managed compost facility site in New York State, The Bee Green Community Garden. Her community service continued with driving the movement to stop a landfill expansion in her hometown.

Kelley has provided years of volunteer teaching and workshops on compost and gardening for the school systems and community organizations in the local area. Countless garden installations and large scale stone projects, have provided years of a deep connection with the Earth that is both genuine and benevolent. Most important to Kelley is her connection with her honeybees, their conservation drives both the content of her gardens and indeed her very existence   www.HoneyBeeHerbs.com

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