Book Signing & Slide Show with Author Ianto Evan and Linda Smiley of Cob Cottage Company Oregon for a rare visit to Southern California NOV.
Join authors Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley for a Southern California book tour/slide show of their newly released book The Hand-Sculpted House; A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage, which will be available for sale and signing by the authors.

Ianto Evans of Cob Cottage Company (www.deatech.com/cobcottage) is an applied ecologist, landscape architect and pioneer in earth structures (cob), with building experience on six continents. Linda Smiley is a director of The Cob Cottage Company, as well as a master cobber and recreational therapist. She also teaches workshops in cob, sculpting sacred spaces, intuitive design, and natural plasters and finishes.

November 2002 dates, times, & locations below:

Nov 4 Mon Arcata 6:30pm $3 Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT) Humboldt State University 14th and Union Streets ccat@humboldt.edu (707) 826-3551
Nov 7 Thurs. Marin 8pm Solstice Grove in Nicasio $5 Josiah Raison Cain (415) 453-1930 raison@nativesystems.com
Call 662-2686 for assistance to location of Van Shuttle site to be transported to Booksigning
Nov 8 Friday Santa Rosa to be announced Josiah Raison Cain (415) 453-1930 raison@nativesystems.com
Nov 9 Sat Santa Cruz 7pm Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St. at Laurel, Contact for Event info Vince Pastori permasc@sasquatch.com 831/763-3848
Nov 10 Sun Santa Cruz 7pm UCSC at 1156 High St, at "College Eight", rm 240 t please call 763- 3848 to confirm room number day before event! Contact for Event info Vince Pastori permasc@sasquatch.com 831/763-3848
Nov 11 Mon Fremont to be announced permasc@sasquatch.com 831/763-3848
Nov 13 Wed San Luis Obispo 7pm The First Presbyterian Church of SLO $3 hopedance@aol.com 805-544-9663
Nov 14 Thurs Santa Barbara 7pm Faulkner Gallery SB Library Downtown $3 sbpcnet@silcom.com 805-962-2571
Nov 15 Fri Ventura Patagonia Main Store 6:30 pm $3 : 235 West Santa Clara Street (805) 643-6074
Nov 16 Sat Los Angeles Eco-Village 8 pm , 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles $10 (Sliding Scale) RSVP Please to Lois Arkin,
213/738-1254, <crsp@igc.org> Space is limited.
Nov 18 Mon Laguna Beach 7pm Well Fargo Bank 260 Ocean Ave The community Room is on the third floor and it can be entered from the front stairway. contact Bill Roley DrRoley@aol.com 949-494-5843 Pc Institute of Southern Cal
Nov 19 Tues Ocean Beach 7- 8pm Ocean Beach Coop 4765 Voltaire Street, Ocean Beach Skip Fralick 858-513-4247 and San Diego Permaculture Center sdecc@igc.org (619) 298-8879 Donation $3
Nov 20 Wed date/location to be announced San Diego contact Skip Fralick 858-513-4247 and San Diego Permaculture Center sdecc@igc.org (619) 298-8879
Nov 21 Thurs Chula Vista Southwestern College 6 - 8:30 pm , Corner of H Street & Otay Lake Road, Chula Vista, (EHMT105, Room 553). contact see above
Nov 22 Friday Meiners Oaks 5:30 pm Farmer and the Cook Restaurant dinner with Ianto before Ojai talk 805-640-9808
Nov 22 Fri Ojai 7:30 pm Ojai Public Library 111 E Ojai Ave sbpcnet@silcom.com 805-962-2571
Nov 23 Sat Berkeley Ecology Center 7:30pm 2530 San Pablo Ave near Dwight Way Erin, 510/548-2220 x223, erin@ecologycenter.org.
Nov 24 Sun Vallejo 7 pm 800 Maine Street (at Alameda Street) donation $3 Also 2 pm to 4:30 pm 800 Mini cob workshop $25 (or trade) please call to reserve a place; Trina 707-558-0588 KRJArch@sbcgobal.net

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Organized by the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network-
contact info: 805-962-2571 sbpcnet@silcom.com.
Check website for updates in schedule and posters you can down load and post in your region to help promote the tour: http://islandseed.com/scpg.html

Sponsors Hopedance Magazine, Solstice Grove & the Permaculture Institute of Northern California, Santa Cruz Permaculture Guild, Earthflow Design Works, Sustainable Building Council of the Central Coast, Be Well Construction, The Terra Foundation,
Four Element Farms,Central Coast Permaculture Guild, Santa Barbara Permaculture Guild, Ojai Permaculture Guild, LA Ecovillage, San Diego Permaculture Center , Pc Institute of Southern Cal, Ecology Center, South Coast Permaculture Guild,Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT) ) Humboldt State University, Patagonia,Sustainable Earth Enterprises