[Sdpg] L.A. Eco-Village Special Event Fri 9/27 at 7:30 pm "Visions of Utopia" Multi-Media Presentation, other events & news

Tue Sep 17 22:06:12 PDT 2002

You are invited to a Special Event at L.A. Eco-Village
with

GEOPH KOZENY

on

VISIONS OF UTOPIA:
Experiments in Sustainable Culture
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A Multi-Media Presentation
about today's social & cultural laboratories ...
Intentional Communities

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2002 AT 7:30 PM

at
Los Angeles Eco-Village
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004

(Directions:  From the intersection of First St. and Vermont Ave. in Los 
Angeles,
go one block east on First St., turn right on Bimini Pl. to first building
on right.  This is a few blocks south of the Beverly/Vermont Metro or a
short block east of the #204 bus stop at First/Vermont).

Please RSVP to Lois Arkin, 213/738-1254 (space is limited)

Suggested Donation: $10 (sliding scale ok)

NOTE:  If you would like to add or delete someone from this list, please
notify me.  Thanks.  Lois

More about the Special Event (see info about other upcoming events below):

Today many people are looking for ways to bring
more community into their lives. Ordinary people
with extraordinary visions tell their stories of
living and working together to build a better world.

Ever since the 6th Century BC--when Buddha
instructed his followers to live in community--
people have been living together "intentionally"
based on shared visions of a better world.
In the ensuing 2500 years there have been
an amazing array of visionary social experiments:
egalitarians, anarchists, Christians, Quakers,
Eastern spiritual groups, back-to-the-landers,
environmentalists, psychologists, artists,
urban homesteaders, land co-ops, student
co-ops, and much more.

Today there exist thousands of these
visionary groups, living their everyday lives
in ways that reflect their values and visions.
Geoph's multimedia presentation will feature
an overview of the wide range of histories,
philosophies, and lifestyles currently available
in shared living communities-including footage
from his newly released video documentary
"Visions of Utopia." An open discussion will follow.

Geoph has lived in communities of one kind or another for
30 years.  He has been on the road for 15 years visiting
communities of all stripes--over 350 so far--getting
involved in the daily routine of each group, asking about
their visions and realities, taking photos and video clips, and
giving talks about the diversity and vitality of the communities
movement.  He is a featured columnist for "Communities Magazine,"
and is a co-creator of the Communities Directory ("the Bible of
the communities movement").

IF YOU CAN NOT MAKE IT TO L.A. ECO-VILLAGE FRI 9/27
AT 7:30 PM, TRY TO CATCH GEOPH'S PRESENTATION AS FOLLOWS:

Sat Sept 28, 7:30 pm
Workman's Circle
1525 So. Robertson Blvd
(near Pico &Robertson)
310-203-0162 Marty Oaklander
Donation Requested.

NOTE:  If you would like an Acrobat formatted flyer on these events,
please email your request to me.  Thanks, Lois <crsp at igc.org>

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS AT L.A. ECO-VILLAGE:

Sat., Sept. 28, 11 am - 1 pm.  L.A. Eco-Village Tour, $10 donation,
RSVP to 213/738-1254

Sun. Oct. 20, 11 am - 4 pm , 6th Annual Homes for the Future Tour at
L.A. Eco-Village and other sites.  See <www.ecohome.org> for details

Debriefing from the Johannesburg Earth Summit with Eco-Villagers and
others who were there.  Watch for the date in October.

L.A. ECO-VILLAGE IN THE NEWS

LAEV is featured in the current issue of Communities Magazine,
Summer 2002 Issue #115 (see <www.ic.org> for ordering info) or
ask for it at your local bookstore.

LAEV was the topic of noted journalist Alan Weisman's "Living on Earth"
segment on NPR in June 2002.  Go to <www.livingonearth.org>.  Click on
<Archives> and scroll down to <June 2002>

The L.A. Times featured LAEV on March 30, 2002 in Sue Fox's "Out There"
column.  Search for "Eco-Village:  An Outpost in Urban Core" on the
L.A. Times Website <www.latimes.com>.

OTHER NEWS FROM L.A. ECO-VILLAGE:  THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE CORNER
Lois has relocated from the LAUSD owned corner four-plex to the large yellow
building owned by CRSP across the street.  LAUSD officials state that they do
not yet know what they will do with the corner (where the birth of Eco-Village
took place starting in 1993), a corner that has been saved from LAUSD 
bulldozers
three times in the past 12 years.  We would like to permanently remove the 
corner
from this risk by acquiring it from the school district for a visionary 
school use!

We have submitted a draft proposal to our school board member Jose Huizar to
eco-retrofit the four-plex for a small public charter school.  The Ecovillage
Neighborhood Learning Center charter would serve up to 40 children within 
walking
distance in grades 3-5.  These children would become expert in place based 
education
and provide interactive place-based and urban infrastructure tours to the 
approximately
5,000 additional children in the 15 public schools within walking distance 
of L.A. Eco-Village.

Through working with other close-by schools--children, teachers, staff,
parents--there is the potential to grow an eco section of our city!

Jose Huizar needs to hear from as many people as possible who know that 
this vision
of place based integrated learning can be ideally manifested in LAEV in the 
corner
four-plex.  Write him at 333 S. Beaudry, 24th floor, Los Angeles CA 90004, 
or email him
at <jose.huizar at lausd.net>.

If you would like to be involved in the design and development of this 
visionary
charter concept, please contact Lois at 213/738-1254 or <crsp at igc.org>.  We 
are looking
for two experienced environmental teachers of passion and hope (bi-lingual 
in Spanish)
who will work with us on manifesting this vision.  We will be submitting 
our final proposal
to the California Department of Education for a planning grant early next year.

Best to all,
Lois

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Lois Arkin
Los Angeles Eco-Village/CRSP
117 Bimini Place #221
Los Angeles CA 90004
email:  crsp at igc.org
web:  http://www.ic.org/laev
phone:  213/738-1254
fax:  213/386-8873

Western U.S. Urban Ecovillage Contact Office
Ecovillage Network of the Americas <http://www.ecovillage.org>
Los Angeles Eco-Village is a demonstration urban sustainable
community-in-process, founded 1993.  CRSP is a resource center for small
ecological cooperative urban communities, founded 1980.  CRSP is the
sponsor of the L.A. Eco-Village.
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