From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: scpg@arashi.com, sdpg@arashi.com, ccpg@arashi.com, lapg@arashi.com, permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc:
Subject: [permaculture] Village Building Convergence 2005 May 20-29 Portland Oregon
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:02:42 -0800
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.
*** 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.