[Sdpg] CONTEST for CITY REPAIR / WIN a 10 day stay in Portland

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

CONTEST for CITY REPAIR
WIN a 10 day stay in Portland

Please forward this to your activist friends who want to go to Portland...
May 20th to the 29th to the 5th Annual

VILLAGE BUILDING CONVERGENCE 2005

Win a 10 day stay in Portland, includes lodging and meals (does not include
travel)
May 20th to the 29th [Amtrak is $150 round trip ticket, from SLO]

Check out the ad in the new hopedance on page 2 for details of the 10 day
convergence. See also Mark Lakeman's story on City Repair at
http://hopedance.org/new/issues/47/article7.html

or simply go to cityrepair.org and check out for yourselves the events this
year and see what they did last year.

We showed their 13 minute film (Creating Place from Space) last Saturday. If
anyone wishes to borrow the video, contact us asap.

Requirements for applicants for the CONTEST:
1. be able to write and take photos of your experience ;
2. to live in the tri-county area (SBarbara, Ventura, and SLO counties)
3. to be willing and have the desire to share what you have witnessed,
observed and experienced for possible publication in HopeDance (as well as 
other
publications, websites, etc.);

and
4. to answer the question: Why do you want to go and what makes you capable?

Please send application no later than Feb 15th so we can announce the winner
in the
March/April issue. (Value of the event: $270)

My new motto is:

"If you can't go to Cuba, then at least you can go to Portland!"

Either email (hopedance at aol.com) your application or mail to

hopedance
pob 15609
slo, ca 93406

thanks
any questions, call 544-9663. >>