From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
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