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Farley Center – Sunflower Paint Event with Muralist Rodrigo Carapia

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Dec.7, 2025

Sunflower Paint Event with Muralist Rodrigo Carapia

Cost: $35

Looking for something fun to do with friends? Join us on Sunday, December 7, from 1:00-3:00PM for our sunflower paint event with Muralist Rodrigo Carapia (the muralist who painted the Farley Center bee barn) ! The event will be held at the Farley Center, 2299 Spring Rose Road, Verona.

Our instructor, Rodrigo Carapia, will provide all the tools and supplies you’ll need. Price is $35 per person, and that includes your canvas and all the supplies. Please pay cash or check to Rodrigo Carapia the day of the event.

Please RSVP to programs@farleycenter.org to reserve your spot. Space is limited so sign up early.

So bring some friends and have some fun! Feel free to bring snacks to share! Please share this post

Natural Path Sanctuary Native Garden – Groundbreaking and Seeding Celebration

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Nov. 9, 2025

It’s time to plant the new NPS Native Garden, a designated area to grow native Wisconsin plants. Here, NPS cemetery members can engage and connect in various ways, such as tending the gardens, collecting seeds, or just enjoying the peace of the beautiful view. It will be an education and engagement resource, providing a regenerative, sustainable source for grave plantings. The goals of this project include demonstrating the importance of native plantings and providing an option for those who would like to plant on their own plot or around the grave of a loved one.

Please attend the “Groundbreaking and Seeding Celebration” on Sunday Nov. 9, 12:00 to 2:00 pm, to participate in leveling the ground, followed by scattering and tamping in the seeds that will overwinter to be ready to sprout next spring.

Questions? Please e-mail nps@farleycenter.org

Gun Sense Event at Brix Cider

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Event sponsored by

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP),
Linda & Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability
Mt. Horeb Area Progressive Trolls

at Brix Cider

Don’t miss this special event featuring three musical acts, united in a quest to raise awareness and demand better gun laws. Gunsense. Brix Cider is located at 119 South Second Street in Mount Horeb, WI. The musicians donating their time and talent to this event are: Red Door Duo, Don Greenwood, Scott Steiber, Katy McGrath Morkry. A free will donations at this event will benefit Mom’s Demand Action.

Farley Center Land Art Exhibit Walking Tour -Peace Songs 2025

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Sept 13 – 1:00-2:00

Farley Center Land Art Exhibit
Peace Songs 2025 (August 9 – October 31 – maps in the Farley Center kiosk)
2299 Spring Rose Road
Verona. Wi

Come join us at 1:00 PM on Sat, Sept 13 for the Farley Center Land Art tour during the Dane Arts/Farley Center/Visit Verona Art Festival (10:00-5:00). https://www.facebook.com/events/714939224673340

All participating artists will gather with visitors at the Farley Center kiosk at 1:00.

After a brief introduction, each artist will then take a small group to their own installation.

Artists will remain at their art installation from 1:00–2:00 PM to welcome visitors, talk about their work, and answer questions. Visitors will each have a map and will be free to explore at their own pace, choosing which installations to visit and in what order. This should help scatter visitors throughout the Sanctuary and avoid large crowds in one spot.

Support along the paths:

Caroline and Shedd Farley, along with Natural Path Sanctuary board members Brenda Emerson and Jayne Squirrell, will be stationed at key locations in the woods to help direct visitors and answer questions.

This is the seventh year (every other year since 2013) that area artists will create installations in the woods of the Natural Path Sanctuary on the Farley Center land. These artists are rising to the challenge of using only materials that can safely decompose back into the land. Thank you to Dane Arts and Visit Verona for your support of our artists, land art exhibit and Art Festival.

Thank you to all the Farley Center Land Artists:

Mona Cassis*
Kate Heiber- Cobb*
Cat Coberly*
Gene Delcourt*
Lester Dore
Thomas Ferrella*
Steve Heuer
Ruthanna Hutton-Okpalaeke
Katrina Krueger*
Efrat Livny
Jon McComb*
Erin McWalter*
Billy Morgan*
Karen Reppen*
Sue Schuetz*
Barry Sherbeck*
John Steines*
Lindy Wilson*

* artists participating in the Land Art Walking tour

For more information, please contact programs@farleycenter.org

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Farley Center Farmer Julie Plotkin/Root to Bloom Flowers Tour and Workshop

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Tour and Workshop by Farley Center Farmer Julie Plotkin/Root to Bloom

Date and Time: Thursday, July 31, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Charge: No cost
SPACE IS LIMITED – must RSVP to programs@farleycenter.org to attend

Join us for a delightful evening of flowers at The Farley Center! Starting with a tour of the sweetly tucked back flower field, Julie, owner/farmer of Root to Bloom, will talk with folks about her growing methods. We will then gather under the oaks or in the barn for a bouquet-building demonstration followed by the opportunity to arrange your own bouquet to bring home with you!

Julie Plotkin earned her certificate of Organic Farming from Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in 2004. Since then she has worked on and with organic farmers and gardeners. In 2020 she started Root to Bloom, LLC, a cut flower grower-owned business. She sells at the Eastside Farmers Market, subscriptions to members (anyone can join), bulk flowers for weddings and celebrations, and wholesale to restaurants and businesses.

“Strings to Roam” at the Farley Fall Festival

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Oc. 5, 2025

Come enjoy some great live music by Strings to Roam from 1:00-2:30 at the Farley Center Fall Festival on Sunday, Oct. 5. Don’t miss it!

“Together since late 2019, Strings to Roam has so much fun playing unique arrangements of great bluegrass music. From old standards to new inventions and 3 – 5 part vocal harmonies, we honor the music and artists who inspire us. Healthy doses of gratitude, good humor, and your great company mix with the music for an experience all can enjoy!”
https://www.facebook.com/stringstoroam

For any questions, please contact us at 608-845-8724 or e-mail programs@farleycenter.org

Lanterns for Peace 2025

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August 6, 2025

The Farley Center is helping sponsor Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin (PSR WI) for their annual Lanterns for Peace event, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

This family-friendly gathering invites our community to reflect, create, and commit to a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.Together, we honor the memory of lives lost and unite in our shared hope for a more peaceful, just, and nuclear-free world.

6:30 PM – Gather at the Tenney Park, John Wall Family Pavilion & begin  lantern-making. Everyone is welcome and we have all the supplies to make a lantern.

7:30 PM – Commemorative program begins

7:45–8:00 PM – Lanterns launched at dusk onto the Tenney Park Lagoon

Questions? Please contact programs@farleycenter.org

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Farley Center Land Art Exhibit Opening Day Concert featuring Twila Jean – Peace Songs 2025

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August 9, 1:00-3:00

Farley Center Land Art Exhibit Opening Day Concert – with Twila Jean
Peace Songs 2025

🎵 Twila Jean Live! 🎵

Join us as Twila Jean, songwriter, music educator, multi-instrumentalist, and activist, shares her iconic acoustic folk and pop Peace Songs! Twila will perform from 1:00 to 3:00 pm in the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA) at the Farley Center

Learn more about Twila: www.twilajeansongstress.com

When: Opening day of the Farley Center Land Art Exhibit – August 9, 2025

Where: Farley Center, 2299 Spring Rose Rd, Verona, WI

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Farley Center with Musician Julien Kozak at the Natural Path Sanctuary Death Education Market

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6/21/25

Come join us for the Natural Path Sanctuary Death Education Market where we will feature music by Julien Kozak.

Julien Kozak
With a sweet, baritone voice reminiscent of a young James Taylor, soft-spoken singer-songwriter, Julien Kozak, has been walking the bridge between folk and pop. Hailing from Milwaukee, he takes influences from the likes of James Taylor, John Mayer, and Ed Sheeran. His soothing voice, intricate guitar melodies, and universally relatable lyrics seem to be catching everyone’s ear, including that of James Taylor himself. Julien has been featured on James’ instagram page, has opened for American Idol runner-up Clark Beckham, and completed a national tour of the US.