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  • From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] City Repair Lecture - Only Bay Area Appearance October 13, 2005 Santa Rosa CA
  • Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:47:07 -0700

Mark Lakeman and Lydia Doleman of the City Repair Project

Also featuring Assemblywoman Noreen Evans
And Joe Kennedy - Village Renaissance Director

October 13, 2005
7:00 PM
First Congregational United Church of Christ in Santa Rosa
2000 Humboldt Street (Corner of Humboldt and Silva)
Requested Minimum Donation: $5.00
(Donations above that level are encouraged for those who can afford it.)

On Thursday, October 13 the Leadership Institute and Village Renaissance will sponsor a presentation by Mark Lakeman and Lydia Doleman with City Repair. They are visionary community leaders from Portland, Oregon who have sparked a nationwide movement that helps to recreate American cities, towns and neighborhoods by deeply connecting people to one another and to their community through what is generally referred to as "placemaking" in communities.

In addition to the presentations by the City Repair leaders, Assemblywoman Noreen Evans and Village Renaissance founder, Joe Kennedy, will speak.

This event is a kick-off fundraiser for the Santa Rosa Placemaking Project, initiated by Joe Kennedy. The Placemaking project will engage local neighborhood residents in the Junior College neighborhood of Santa Rosa to design and build a small local public art project such as a bench or kiosk to serve as a gathering place and symbol of neighborhood cohesion. This community building process will engage an inter-generational team of residents, students and kids of all ages to increase communication, learning, and local civic involvement.

Join visionary leaders Mark and Lydia as they inspire and guide us through the transformation of the typical roman grid structure of the American city into a vital social commons. They are successfully doing this through Portland's City Repair Project (www.cityrepair.org). Now a national movement, public place interventions and ecological prototypes inspired by City Repair are happening from coast to coast in the United States. City Repair is about communities rediscovering place-based democracy, creative ways to empower groups and individuals through ecological building projects, and, in some cases, involving homeless people in the process. City Repair is about literally recreating American cities, towns and grids so that people begin to speak with each other again and care about the larger world in which they live.

City Repair is multidisciplinary, combining architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform communities and the public space they inhabit.

Introducing Mark and Lydia will be Joe Kennedy, director of Village Renaissance and initiator of the Santa Rosa Placemaking Project. This project will engage local neighborhood residents in the Junior College neighborhood of Santa Rosa to design and build a small local public art project such as a bench or kiosk to serve as a gathering place and symbol of neighborhood cohesion. This community building process will engage an intergenerational team of residents, students and kids of all ages to increase communication, learning, and local civic involvement. Funding will support necessary planning, outreach, materials and project facilitation, as well as documentation of the process. This initiative will also lay the groundwork for more ambitious projects to be planned throughout Sonoma County in the future.

For more information please contact Joe Kennedy at jkennedy@sonic.net or call Ron Sundergill or Tanya Narath at 578-9133






  • [permaculture] City Repair Lecture - Only Bay Area Appearance October 13, 2005 Santa Rosa CA, Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson, 10/05/2005

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