Please help get the word out! to any and all community organizers and neighbors who would like to create an even stronger community spirit in Santa Barbara. Mark Lakeman and www.cityrepair.org has been very influential in my work with nurturing Neighborhood Garden Exchanges and www.sbfoodnotlawns.org

This is not about reinventing all we are doing but perhaps encourage ways to strengthen, share and further connect all we are doing.

Let me know if you or anyone you know would like to have a table that shares their community work.

Thanks!

Lynn

www.sbfoodnotlawns.org

Press Release

Can copy, add to, use/PR City Repair Project Talk,

September 16, 2009

 

Contact: Lynn Seigel-Boettner

SB Food Not Lawns and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

(805) 966 6522

Lynn@sbfoodnotlawns.org

 

Slide Show & Talk with Mark Lakeman

Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7:00 PM

Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery

Donation $10

 

        Join visionary architect Mark Lakeman as he inspires and guides the grid structure of a typical American city into a vital social commons with Portland's City Repair Project ( www.cityrepair.org ), with a lecture and slide show on Wednesday, September 16, 7:00 PM.

 

        Now a national movement, City Repair is about cities, towns, grids and the intersections where our lives can converge. Multidisciplinary, City Repair combines architecture, urban planning, anthropology, community development, public art, permaculture and ecological design in projects that transform public space. Formed in 1996, City Repair was conceived as an "anti-virus" to combat isolation and over-commodification of conventionally designed cities, by literally inserting villages into cities.

 

        Trained as an architect, Mark Lakeman is a founding member of the City Repair Project, and the creative director of the ecological design firm Communitecture. Each Spring he coordinates the Village Building Convergence, an annual event sponsored by the city of Portland that brings architects, planners, and artists together for ten days of concentrated work with neighborhood residents and volunteers. He has traveled extensively in southern Mexico where his inspiration for community living came from living with traditional Mayan peoples.

 

        The lecture and slide show take place on Wednesday, September 16,  at 7:00 PM for a donation of  $10, no reservations are needed.  It will be held at the Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA.  For more information email lynn@sbfoodnotlawns.org.

 

Santa Barbara Food Not Lawns, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and Hope Dance sponsor the event.