From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] EUPC10 and permaculture festival Nethen - Belgium./17, 18 and 19th of August
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:59:56 -0700
EUPC10 and permaculture festival Nethen - Belgium
August 17, 18 and 19th
Hello everybody,
We are very glad to meet you soon at EUPC10 in Nethen - Belgium.
The EUPC10 is designed this way : 17, 18 and 19th of August : the
convergence for pc certificate holders followed by the Permafest' -
permaculture festival open to everybody - we expect to host up to
800-1000 people. Hoping you will all stay for the 6 days !
The 3 first days of the convergence will be quiet intense - 1rst day
presentations/discussions, 2nd day visits of projects and 3rd day
workshops but all workshops/discussions can continue during the
festival - a place/tent will be available for us.
Convergence :
You'll find the pre-program of EUPC10 - all comments, suggestions,
propositions are welcome to design it together.
Here are a few propositions to design this convergence. We have all
realised over the years (this is the 10th time) that it is difficult
to gather permaculture people from all over Europe in one place at a
certain time for various reasons. We would like to make this
convergence inclusive and participatory. We therefore propose to
start the dialogue among the participants before the actual meeting
and possibly continue the work together afterwards. We also propose
that online/offsite connections will be possible during the on site
convergence, using skype. These propositions were suggested by Stella
from Spain, founder of the Chaordic Institute. Practically we propose
that if interested :
The program of the festival is designed this way according to the
petals of the permaculture flower of David Holmgren : sorry not yet
in english ! - the idea is that the multiple aspects of permaculture
be represented.
At the heart of the flower, we would like to have many presentations
- possibly kind of continuously - of permaculture from 30 min to 2
hours as you like. We would very much appreciate that you participate
in this project - in the language you prefer as the festival will be
multilingual. If you have documents, information panels, posters,
images you would like to share, please bring them - we are preparing
an exhibition on permaculture.
The place of the festival has been choosed because the community of
Grez-Doiceau/Nethen has initiated a process of transition.
If some of you have experience in designing at a bioregional scale we
would very much welcome a workshop on this notably to help transition
projects.
We hope this late communication will not prevent you from coming.
See you soon
[permaculture] EUPC10 and permaculture festival Nethen - Belgium./17, 18 and 19th of August,
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 07/31/2010