Mark Lakeman returns to Santa Barbara! Don't miss the opportunity to meet the person who has inspired so many grassroots community efforts...

City Repair Project,
A Street Corner Revolution

with Mark Lakeman
Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7:00 PM
Santa Barbara Central Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
Donation $10
 

        Join visionary architect Mark Lakeman as he inspires and guides the grid structure of a typical American city into a vital social commons with Portland's City Repair Project ( www.cityrepair.org ), with a talk and slide show on Wednesday, September 16, 7:00 PM.
 
        Now a national movement, City Repair is about cities, towns, grids and the intersections where our lives can converge. Multidisciplinary, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform public space. Formed in 1996, City Repair was conceived as an "anti-virus" to combat isolation and over-commodification of conventionally designed cities, by literally inserting villages into cities.
 
        Trained as an architect, Mark Lakeman is a founding member of the City Repair Project, and the creative director of the ecological design firm Communitecture. Each Spring he coordinates the Village Building Convergence, an annual event sponsored by the city of Portland that brings architects, planners, and artists together for ten days of concentrated work with neighborhood residents and volunteers. He has traveled extensively in southern Mexico where his inspiration for community living came from living with traditional Mayan peoples.
 
        The lecture and slide show take place on Wednesday, September 16,  at 7:00 PM for a donation of  $10, no reservations are needed.  It will be held at the Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA.  For more information email lynn@sbfoodnotlawns.org.
 

Santa Barbara Food Not Lawns, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network & Hope Dance Media sponsor the event.

Mark Lakeman on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVq0exoGySc&feature=related