Get Out: Mansion Ghosts, Challenge Your Mind, Play Ball for A Cause, and More

What do you want to get out of your weekend? Expanded consciousness? Spring birds? Ghosts? The ability to help others? This weekend has it all.

• MIND IN MOTION: THE CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE OF PROPRIOCEPTIVE WRITING
  Where/When: on Saturday, April 2 from 2 to 5 p.m.
  Why Go: Challenge yourself with this seminar on Proprioceptive Writing, a form of journal writing and other process writing done in 20-minute intervals that is said to take your writing “to a new level.” The class is taught by a 20-year veteran of this form of writing.
  Pricing: $45
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  Where/When: on Sunday, April 3 at 8 a.m.
  Why Go: Head out on the sanctuary grounds to enjoy the native birds in spring on a guided walk led by Jay Manning. Bring your own binonculars.  
  Pricing: Free
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  Where/When: on Sunday, April 3 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  Why Go:  Play basketball for a cure. This all ages 3-on-3 tournament will donate all proceeds to cancer research.
  Pricing: $100/team
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  Where/When: Colony House on Thursday, March 31 at 5:30 p.m.
  Why Go: Join local landscape architect and author of “Estate Gardener’s of Newport: A Horticultural Legacy,” Harry Eudenbach in a lecture focused on the estate gardeners who tended Newport and Aquidneck Island’s renowned gardens of the well-off.  
  Pricing: $5; $1 for Newport Historical Society members
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  Where/When: on Saturday, April 2 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
  Why Go: Take advantage of free screenings by physicians and other health care professionals and help your children become more comfortable with going to the doctor by having them bring their favorite stuffed animal to the Teddy Bear Clinic for treatment.
   Pricing: Free
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  Where/When: on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2 at 5:30 p.m.
  Why Go: Harle Tinney, owner of Belcourt Castle offers tours of mansion along with her own ghostly experiences within it.
  Pricing: $25 adults; $15 seniors/children; Advanced reservations suggested.

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