Sunday, May 3rd International Permaculture Day - 4:30 - 6pm
Celebrating in downtown Santa Barbara at the Brasil Arts Cafe
International Permaculture Day is coming up, did you
know?
It's last minute, but to celebrate we have decided to
host an impromptu permaculture eco-film night at one of our
favorite downtown restaurants, Brasil Arts Cafe!
To have fun and go back to the roots, we will show parts of the great
Global Gardener BBC film, highlighting permaculture around the
world in all it's climates & cultures.
A chance to hang out, we will break between segments of the films to
talk, and hear about peoples current work and projects.
Bring your brochures, display materials, even design work! so much
innovative permaculture is happening around the world it makes your head
spin, and some fantastic stuff happening here locally too.
We were just at the two day Santa Barbara Earth Day celebration, and a
new wave of interested permaculture people visited our Santa Barbara
Permaculture Network booth. Many from the recent Lucidity Festival
where an intro to Permaculture course was taught, such enthusiasm from
that one 3 day course!
Some had attended the Polish Ambassador band's community work day where
Larry Saltzman and others hosted a stellar work project at Alpha
School. Recent grads from both Santa Barbara City College &
Quail Springs Permaculture Design courses visited, expressing so much
gratitude for this thing called Permaculture, that gave them a different
way of viewing the future.
Sweetwater Collaborative was next to us with their Earth Day booth, the
water design part pulling in mainstream residents new to ecological
design, but hungry for solutions, so open to new ways of thinking about
water, soil and all our resources, with the realities of a drought.
We have been involved with planning for the next International
Permaculture Conference & Convergence in UK/London , and will
happily share information about that, for we are indeed, all one big
global family, Permaculture from it's beginning days a global effort and
movement.
(
https://www.ipcuk.events/)
Brasil Arts Cafe has offered their Capoeira & Dance studio hall for
the evening, so we encourage all to come ahead of time and buy
something to eat preceding the event in their restaurant--- there are
lots of choices, snacks, smoothies, acai bowls, sandwiches, dinner
entrees. This is a "stacking functions" strategy in the
social arena, support local small business while they learn more about
all of us and Permaculture. we thank them for their
generosity.
Brasil Arts Cafe
http://brasilartscafe.com/location/
1230 State Street, Santa Barbara CA 93101
(near Granada Theater, between Victoria & Anapamu streets, Granada
Parking lot nearby)
Please join us! we look forward to seeing you -
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
- ***Speaking of gratitude, Bill Mollison's grandson Stuart was
recently in California and briefly stopped in Santa Barbara, he shared
his love of his grandfather with us. We are in touch with Stuart,
and through him will send a group note of thanks for walking round the
world in his flip flops, making sure permaculture didn't just stay in a
book, but got out to the far corners of the globe. We honor all the
PC teachers, but since he was ours, and has now traveled in time to his
eighties, devoted his life to Permaculture, we take this moment to say a
huge thank you. Bring your sentiments & thoughts to share with
him too if you'd like.
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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