Dining Out For a Cause

VIP Midsummer Magik

All the Earth’s a Stage

“Going Green at Home” Tips

Oktoberfest Harvest Jamboree

Dorothy in Wonderland

Sponsors

MissionTo enhance community involvement, education and support for organizations, causes and messages that promote positive change, social and cultural awareness and community spirit through providing forums,

community events and other opportunities to bring people and the messages together.

Beginning in June 2016, Mercury Momentum will begin scheduling

restaurant fundraisers each month to help us reach our goals and promote positive change in the community! All you have to do is eat out and bring in

the flyers to make sure your contribution goes to the cause.

June’s fundraiser will be on June 27th at Panda Express on Kietzke Lane in Reno. Please bring in this flyer printed or digital and Mercury Momentum will receive 20% of the purchase! See you

all there!

RenoJuly 31st

10am-3pm

SparksAugust 20th10am-3pm

Our Restaurant Fundraiser for July is at BJ’s on Virginia, all day long. Bring this flyer

and 20% of the meal goes to supporting the Oktoberfest

Harvest Jamboree on October 15th, 2016 in

Victorian Square.

VIP Party for Mercury Momentum Volunteers, Sponsors and all who have supported us through the year.

Wednesday, June 22nd 6pm to 8pmRail City Ale House Restaurant, Victorian Avenue, Sparks, NV

10 Small Steps You Can Take to Make your Home “Greener”

1. Leave your shoes at the door. Think of removing your shoes when you enter a home as the equivalent of washing your hands. First, it couldn’t be easier. And second, it prevents the outside gunk like car exhaust, chemicals, and pesticides from being tracked all over your home.

2. Upgrade your insallation. Adding insulation to prevent leaky ducts, walls, windows, and doors can improve your home’s energy draw by 20 to 30 percent. If totally redoing your insulation isn’t in your budget, try thermal shades, which block the sun in the summer and retain heat in the winter, or even something as low tech as a draft guard on your outside doors.

3. Swap to environmentally friendly household cleaners to reduce air pollution, and minimize exposure to harmful chemicals. Look for plant-based products from companies that have a complete list of ingredients on their labels.

4. Go meatless on Mondays! Having pasta or a vegetarian soup on Mondays might not seem like a big deal, but adding one meat-free meal per week (for a family of four) has the same impact as driving a hybrid car. Raising livestock produces a large amount of greenhouse gases, so cutting back, even one night per week, makes a big difference.

5. Shopo for sustainably raised meat. While sustainable isn’t a term certified by the USDA like organic is, it generally means that the animal was given ample room to roam, and wasn’t treated with hormones or antibiotics. Look for labels like free-range and organic as well as no-hormone and no-antibiotic.

Our All the Earth’s a Stage program focuses on bringing the arts to all groups in our community, building the area's future artists and education for both the public and aspiring artists in music, theatrical, performing and all other types of art. One of the ways we do this by providing all inclusive events and productions for local artists to participate in such as Reno Earth Day and the Oktoberfest Harvest Jamboree. As a part of this program we plan to produce a musical play “Dorothy in Wonderland” with performances the first two weekends in December in Reno, Nevada. The purpose of the Nevada Arts Council grant would fund production expenses: costumes, makeup etc. as well as bring in professional Music and Choreography Directors to educate the crew in a true musical production environment.

The purpose of this program is to bring opportunities to performing artists in a production that may be missed in our other forums. We wish to create a production that focuses on the potential of participants rather than skills that are already there and assist in the development of local artists with experienced directors and assistance in building an arts resume.

October 15th, 2016Victorian Square

We will be hosting the 2nd Annual Oktoberfest Harvest Jamboree in Victorian Square on Saturday, October 15th from 11am to 6pm.This year will feature games and activities for all ages, cultural

music, educational booths, prizes, giveaways, contests and more. Please contact us to volunteer!

December 10th, 11th, 17th and 18thCargo Concert Hall, Whitney Peak

We are producing a play!Dorothy in Wonderland, the Musical at Cargo

Concert Hall in December 2016! We need assistance with sets, props, artwork and

costumes - and auditions will begin at the end of August. If you are interested in volunteering or

participating in any way, please let us know. Stay tuned for more details and information on

tickets.

www.mercurymomentum.com

10 Small Steps You Can Take to Make your Home “Greener” - Continued

6. Microwave glass, not plastic. Heating plastics can cause leaching into food and many contain hormone-disrupting compounds (not just the much maligned versions made with bisphenol-A or BPA). Plastics that are labeled “microwave-safe” can simply withstand a higher temperature before losing their shape. So when popping anything in the microwave, opt for glass or microwave-safe ceramics

7. Dont dump, donate. By some estimates, for every item of clothing donated, 27 pounds of carbon emissions are reduced based on the fact that you don’t another item being produced while one is headed to the landfill. Take items to a thrift store or a charity that accepts donations.

8. Choose safe pots and pans. The materials you cook with do have an impact on your food. The three safest options are cast iron, enamel coated cast iron, and stainless steel. Non-stick pans, while convenient, can be problematic if you scrape the coating and it gets into your food.

9. Use fragrance free products. Conventional fragrances often contain chemicals believed to disrupt hormones, and they can be harmful to the ecosystem when washed down the drain. If you like perfumed soaps, cleaning products, or cosmetics, read labels to find those made with essential oils.

10. Reduce the use of bug sprays and pesticides. To control pests, prevention is your best bet. Keeping your kitchen crumb-free and sealing any holes in the walls or cracks in the foundation means you won’t have to use harmful chemicals in your home. If you do require pest-control, reach for greener alternatives or home remedies first.

We would like to invite all other events in the area to utilize any of our events to help promote their own programs, celebrations and activities - as a gesture of overall support for the special events environment. The space for promoting these events would be FREE, and we have several events taking advantage of this program already - we just ask that they support the our event in some way like having interactive activities at the booth, demonstrations, fundraising that supports both events, cross-promotion at other events throughout the year, prize giveaways or something we can highlight. If anyone is interested, please contact us directly, and we will work out the space you need and any activities.

Space for the fellow events program is now available for the Oktoberfest Harvest Jamboree

in Victorian Square on October 15th, 2016.

Interested in sponsoring one of our events or programs? Please contact Anastacia Sullivan for more information at anaangsul@gmail.com-support

culture, arts, education & volunteerism!

Reno Earth DaySunday, April 23rd, 201720,000+ Est. Attendancewww.renoearthday.com

Oktoberfest Harvest JamboreeSaturday, October 15th, 2016

4,000+ Est. Attendancewww.oktoberfestnv.com

Midsummer MagikSaturday, June 22nd, 2017

1500 Est. Attendancewww.midsummermagik.com

Dorothy in WonderlandDecember 2016

2000+ Est. Attendancewww.dorothyinwonderland.com

www.mercurymomentum.com