Please Save the
Date!
1st Annual Southern
California Permaculture Convergence
August 29-31, 2008
Dear Permaculture Community,
We would like to invite PDC graduates to the 1st Annual
Southern California Permaculture Convergence, August 29-31, 2008,
hosted by the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and Quail Springs
Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm.
We hope to kick-start this effort of a Regional Convergence, allowing
others to take over in the future. As organizers for this first
convergence we hope to move past any barriers caused by lack of time,
available sites, or even teacher territories that might exist, and
instead just recognize the work and accomplishments of all, and proceed
from there with the important work around connecting individuals and
communities in the region. We feel a certain urgency in these
times, but feel permaculture and this amazingly creative permaculuture
community that exists in Southern California is up to the task!
We have been working hard to accomplish organizing this event with little
time, so we ask for your patience. We have a Convergence website
that will be up soon with a registration process designed to be easy and
efficient for everyone
(hopefullyJ
).
We will share an invitation with
details about the event to this list when registration opens sometime in
the next couple weeks. If you are concerned that you might miss the
announcement on the general list, you are welcome to email Kolmi Majumdar
at
info@quailsprings.org
to join the Convergence interest list. A discount is offered with
full payment when you register online before July
1st. Those on the Convergence interest list will be
emailed when the Convergence website is up to register online.
Please note that the Convergence will be limited to 50, because of site
restrictions, and you must have a Permaculture Design Course
certificate (72 hour Curriculum certificate) to attend.
If you have any images you would like to share (with captions)
of your permaculture site or projects, we would love to highlight
those by having them be a part of the Southern California Convergence
website. Please forward images to our webmaster, John Calvert
jc@virtualtribes.net
.
An ad is in the current issue of the Permaculture Activist (see
attachment), placed to meet their deadline, but a little early for
us! Again, thanks for your patience, and we hope you can join us at
a groundbreaking event for our region.
From the Convergence hosting team-
Kolmi Majumdar
Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm
Program Coordinator and Caretaker
Email
info@quailsprings.org,
www.quailsprings.org, Phone 805-886-7239
and,
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network