[Lapg] City Repair Slideshow w/ Mark Lakeman Fri Nov 9 @ 7pm

[camille cimino]

opps!   1 correction already.............

please add $5-15 suggested donation


--- camille cimino <camcim at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> The Los Angeles Permaculture Guild and SAJE present:
> 
> City Repair Slide Show and Social with Mark Lakeman.
> 
> Friday November 9
> 
> Doors open @ 7 pm
> Slide show starts @ 8 pm
> 
> Social gathering and conversation afterwards.
> 
> Please bring snacks and/or beverages to share.
>
> $5 - $15 suggested donation
> 
> 
> SAJE
> 152 West 32nd Street
> Los Angeles, CA
> 
> Contact: Beverley Keefe
> tel: 213.745.9961 x214
> email: bkeefe at saje.net
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> 
> ABOUT SAJE
> SAJE is an economic justice, community development,
> and popular 
> education center that has been building economic
> power
> for working class 
> people in Los Angeles since 1996.
> 
> Our accomplishments include creating the nation's
> first welfare-to-work 
> bank account and, through the Figueroa Corridor
> Coalition for Economic 
> Justice, negotiating the nation's most comprehensive
> community benefits 
> agreement.
> Currently SAJE works on a platform of Urban Land
> Reform, a solution to 
> the ever-increasing problem of gentrification and
> displacement in the 
> Figueroa Corridor. 
> Our goals are to:
> •	Eliminate slum housing conditions and
> criminalize
> slumlords.
> •	Create universal tenants’ rights.
> •	Reform and restructure redevelopment.
> •	Increase people’s control over land use.
> •	Build capacity and skills for leadership and
> employment.
> 
> www.saje.net
> 
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> ABOUT CITY REPAIR
> As both an organization and a larger movement, The
> City
> Repair Project inspires and guides the
> transformation
> of the grid infrastructure of the typical American
> city into a vital social commons. The
> multidisciplinary nature of City Repair defies
> categorization. Similar to Permaculture design, it
> has
> become a national movement for social and ecological
> restoration operating in a landscape characterized
> by
> isolation and compartmentalization.
> 
>  www.cityrepair.org
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> 
> The story of The City Repair Project, in Portland,
> Oregon.
> 
> A 1.5 Hour Visual Media Presentation by Mark
> Lakeman,
> Co-Founder.
> www.cityrepair.org
> 
> As both an organization and a larger movement, The
> City Repair Project inspires and guides the
> transformation of the grid infrastructure of the
> typical American city into a vital social commons.
> The
> multidisciplinary nature of City Repair defies
> categorization. Similar to Permaculture design, it
> has
> become a national movement for social and ecological
> restoration operating in a landscape characterized
> by
> isolation and compartmentalization. The project
> takes
> Fritjof Capra's 'Tipping Point' as a model for
> paradigm change by intentionally focusing upon
> intersections in space and time. City Repair is
> directly reclaiming those intersection points,
> converting spaces of collision into places of
> convergence, and opening the field for what
> automatically happens when people reunite with their
> Place: everything.
> 
> This presentation compares the historic settlement
> patterns of village societies with the dominant
> forces
> of Western colonization as a context for describing
> City Repair's work. As revealed through this
> visually
> stunning event, the multidisciplinary culture of
> City
> Repair combines architecture, urban planning,
> anthropology, community development, public art,
> permaculture and ecological design in projects that
> transform space and transfer power to local levels.
> The presentation is chronological, proceeding from
> the
> most elementary and accessible project scales to
> enormous visionary collaborations involving
> thousands
> of people. Each project restates the same essential
> principles of localization, community participation
> and placemaking, but the forms always change and
> grow.
> As an overall movement, each project builds upon
> previous successes to manifest larger and larger
> impacts.
> 
> Through a restorative process in which citizens
> re-imagine and literally re-build their own commons,
> City Repair is engendering relationships that
> revitalize the fabric of our local community within
> the existing context of social isolation. By
> re-asserting localized village patterns in the city
> grid, City Repair establishes both the physical and
> social foundation for sustainable culture.
> 
> 
> 
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>
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