[Scpg] City Repair: A Street Corner Revolution / Tues Dec. 7, Ojai

[eric werbalowsky]

please forward to all interested parties

How to improve quality of life through collective
hands-on reclaiming of space  around intersections and
other common spaces.

South Coast Permaculture Guild Presents

Tues. Dec. 7 with Mark Lakeman
5 pm Dinner at The Farmer and the Cook Cafe
339 W. El Roblar Dr., Meiners Oaks (near Ojai)
(please call for a dinner count 640-9608)

7 pm Slide Show & Talk at Help of Ojai, Little House,
Kent Hall
111 W. Santa Ana St. - next to Ojai City Hall
turn on Blanche St. btwn B of A and Starr Market

The Public Square is the Heart of the Community. We
create gathering places because sharing time and space
with each other is the starting point of
community. By helping people reclaim their urban
spaces to create community-oriented places, we plant
the seeds for better neighborhood communication,
community empowerment and revitalized local culture.

The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists
creating public gathering places and helping others to
creatively transform the places where they live. With
mostly volunteer staff and the help of hundreds of
volunteer citizen activists, our many projects:

? educate people about why most American neighborhoods
are socially isolating and culturally inactive, and
how we can transform them from the grassroots

? inspire people to both understand themselves as part
of a larger community and fulfill their own creative
potential, and

? activate people to be part of the communities around
them, as well as part of the decision-making that
shapes the future of their communities.

City Repair (CityRepair.org) was formed in Portland,
Oregon in 1996 by citizen activists who wanted a more
community-oriented and ecologically sustainable
society. Born out of a successful grassroots
neighborhood initiative that converted a residential
street intersection into a neighborhood public square,
City Repair began its work with the idea that
localization of culture, economy, decision-making is a
necessary foundation of sustainability.

Cosponsored with Santa Barbara Permaculture Network,
GreenHomesForSale.com

More City Repair / Mark Lakeman Shows Dec. 2 in SB &
Dec. 3-6 at LA Eco-Village
for more details contact Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network:
sbpcnet at silcom.com www.sbpermaculture.org 805-962-2571