permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

Calling All Actionaries for The Earth!      Natural Builders, 
Permaculturists, Visionaries!    Please pass this on to all friends!

**** News Flash!****
March 23, 2005

Village Building Convergence 2005
May 20 - 29, Portland, Oregon

Come change the world with us this May! For ten days VBC5 will transform 
the urban grid, sparking ecological and societal visions into action, going 
beyond mere sustainability and into creative, living culture.

Come build with us, you makers and seers. Be with us when neighborhoods 
come outside and into the streets to build and laugh, design and dance as 
they remake their worlds.

Permaculture, Natural Building, Public Art, Participatory Democracy, 
Localization of Economy - there will be more simultaneous ecological 
place-making during this year's VBC event than ever before! Evening 
presentations and actions involving brilliant and passionate people and 
their movements, music and dance, food and fun!

More information regarding projects, site leaders, and event and workshop 
schedules will follow soon. This year, event registration will be only $270 
per person for all ten days, which will include on site lunches, dinner at 
the central venue, access to all sites and events, and accommodations. To 
find out more or register to participate in VBC5 just email 
<mailto:vbc@cityrepair.org>vbc@cityrepair<mailto:vbc@cityrepair.org>.org.

VBC5 is sponsored by The City Repair Project, SE Uplift Neighborhood 
Coalition, KBOO 90.7 FM Community Radio, and the City of Portland Office of 
sustainable Development. For more information on the Village Building 
Convergence 2005, you can go to 
<http://vbc.cityrepair.org/vbc5/static.php?page=aboutthevbc>http://vbc.cityrepair<http://vbc.cityrepair.org/vbc5/static.php?page=aboutthevbc>.org/vbc5/


*** Past presenters include Johnathan Rowe, Penny Livingston, David 
Eisenburg, Starhawk, Joeseph Kennedy, Becky Bee, Rob Bolman, Amber Wiggett, 
Tom Bender, Elke Cole, Kiko Denzer, Janell Kapoor, Lydia Doleman, Stuart 
Cowan, Sukita Crimmell, Joshua Klyber, Scott Howard, and many, many more!

***Would you like to help out? If you keep a blog, Live Journal or List 
Serve, tell your friends and readers that you are wondering about the 
Village Building Convergence - VBC5, May 20 - 29, 2005. You can copy this 
announcement and web address ( 
<http://vbc.cityrepair.org/vbc5/>http://vbc.cityrepair<http://vbc.cityrepair.org/vbc5/>.org/vbc5/ 
) into your musings.

!! beautiful flyer online > > 
http://vbc.cityrepair.org/vbc5/flyer_hotchstein.jpg