City Repair's 2014 Village Builder Magazine

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROJECT SITES.....................
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NORTHEAST........................
SOUTHEAST........................
SOUTHWEST.......................
VANCOUVER............
EVENTS.....................
VOLUNTEER BIOS......
SPONSORS..........................
INTRODUCTION...................
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Tis year, we are encouraging you
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shared, and we all beneft! A hashtag
is a word with the number sign in
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Tere are three types of hashtags we
are using.
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#[neighborhood]
#[placemakingtype]
So an example would be: Te
Sunnyside Piazza is amazing! Te
design is beautiful and people
young and old were getting
involved. #vbc14 #sunnyside
#intersectionrepair.
#intersectionrepair
#naturalbuilding
#communitygarden
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VILLAGE BUILDING CONVERGENCE
About
Te Village IS BACK! Welcome to the 14th Annual Village Building Convergence! Tis year's theme is "Beat Of Te
Urban Hearth," and by this we mean that the heart of urban placemaking is the hearth of where we live, the most
central gathering places that bring us together in community. With the return of the VBC, we also mean that the beat
of that heart is strong!
We are ready to go! We are also so glad that you can join us for what will surely be another remarkable experience,
as people all over the city will live, learn, play, work, and create together over the course of these 10 days of the VBC!
In fact, since early February, nearly 40 communities have been preparing to transform their own spaces into places,
fallow lots into gardens, street intersections into piazzas, houses into homesteads, and so much more. Each community
has been gathering, networking, designing, fnding resources, and preparing to build and install the projects that will
bring them together ever-afer the VBC is done!
Te VBC has been described in so many ways. We like to think of it as "Villager Practice," but in real time. We learn
by doing, do by learning! Every project is a step forward to a better world. Te idea is to utterly challenge the full
spectrum of unsustainable assumptions that we live within, such as that we have no power where we live, that all
we can do is work for others, and rarely work together with the people we live among. No, instead VBC begins with
people saying "We are powerful where we live, we can and will make a diference in our own lives!" Whether growing
local food systems, transforming streets, building community gathering places out of natural or recycled materials,
engaging youth, or building our local democracy, we are activating our people to get of the couch and fnd their own
voice and their own power, together!
So, come dance with us, as we learn and grow! Fall in love with your life in new ways, as you see more clearly how
wonderful and amazing life can be as we recreate and rediscover our shared human habitat. By whatever name, the
village, the town, the place, let's converge with sublime intention and remake our places so that they are worthy of all
the villagers yet to come!
From Te VBC14 Organizing Team, Welcome to Portland, Oregon!
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PLACEMAKING
If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. Te right local questions and
answers will be the right global ones. Te Amish question, What will this do for our community? tends toward
the right answer for the world. ~ Wendell Berry
Placemaking inspires creativity. As an organizing team, VBC hopes to create beautiful places where people can
thrive. Inherently, architecture, landscape, and nourishment are interconnected and all needs are met for all life
on Earth. We envision these places to be reflective of participatory, ecologically resilient communities. This year,
nearly 30 communities have prepared for these ten days of VBC and are excited to share their vision and work
their ideas into reality! The results of these community projects over the last seventeen years has made City Repair
internationally recognized for doing the most sustainable work in cities. Our stories have reached through our
bioregion and beyond, traveling like spores and mycelium in the undergrowth and inspiring positive change in
literally hundreds of other places globally.
In the daytime of VBC, we engage in a world which cultivates our integrity, resiliency, and personal development
through our deep interdependence with the physical world. The expression of public art, access to sustainable
technology, natural building construction, ecological gardening, regenerative restoration, and public art is
profound work. Socially, it provides an opportunity for collaborative decision making, conflict resolution, creative
problem solving, and enhancement of local culture.
This culture stands out on a basis of connection rather than isolation and independence. For most in the United
States, community is hard to find because we are told we need to purchase the foundations of our lives, instead
of meeting our needs through personal relationships. Its hard to build community when the sense is what we
need is lots of money and we shouldnt need each other. Yet, we desperately do need each other, not only for our
own emotional and spiritual well-being, but in serious need to heal the Earth. We are not meant to be good at
everything, and we cannot undertake environmental stewardship alone.
You will see a wide representation of community needs being creatively responded to in the following pages.
These projects are collaboratively imagined, designed, built, and maintained by the communities themselves.
VBC folk are teachers, inspirerers, connect-the-dots-ers, and a support structure. Together, we have co-created
projects and a journey of Identity. What are our individual roles in all of this? How do we fit into applying our
skills to benefit all? The idea is to honor everyones gifts, and challenge ourselves to remember that our world is
beautiful, already full of creative power and magic that just needs to be allowed to flow.
So when were asked how something amazing like this can happen in other cities, or what a sustainable culture will
look like, the answer is never going to be Like Portland. You can see even on our city-scale, all of the projects are
different. There is never a design that is a copy, and no project is absent of its own unique process. The same is true
of any Place. A sustainable culture is one of participation, expression, diversity, and empowerment for all, and that
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means it will look different wherever you go! You will know these Places because they will have more carefulness
to the air, you will feel involved in its presence, and appreciated for the gifts you have brought to this lifetime, and
it will always be a reflection of the landscape in which we are a part. Itll always be hard work, too. Sustainability
and community are not easy things. But it is good work.
Most importantly, it will always be pretty magical. And fun! Placemaking transforms the world in a more
profound ripple effect than any one of us can see alone. When we come together for meals in the evening, we
share experiences with each other and change the world by just Being ourselves, honest to our story and excited
by what we have to offer.
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CITY REPAIR
City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively
transform the places where they live. City Repair facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through
projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The many projects of City
Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.
City Repair began in Portland, Oregon with the idea that localization - of culture, of economy, of decision-making
- is a necessary foundation of sustainability. By reclaiming urban spaces to create community-oriented places,
we plant the seeds for greater neighborhood communication, empower our communities and nurture our local
culture. Throughout the year we educate the community with workshops on all forms of sustainability. As an
almost entirely volunteer-driven nonprofit organization, we rely solely on the support of our community. Please
consider donating to help ensure our vision becomes a reality.
PlaceMaking
PlaceMaking is a multi-layered process within which citizens foster active, engaged relationships to the space
which they inhabit, the landscapes of their lives, and shape those spaces in a way which creates a sense of communal
stewardship and lived connection. This is most often accomplished through a creative reclamation of public space:
projects which take the form of benches on street corners where neighbors can sit, rest and talk with each other,
kiosks on sidewalks where neighbors can post information about local events, needs and resources and street
paintings in the public right-of-way that demonstrate to all who pass through that this is a Place: inhabited,
known and loved by its residents. In all instances, these projects are undertaken by local communities who come
together to discuss what it is they want in their neighborhood and how the community can work together with the
resources they have to create their own place.
The essence of Natural Building lies in its inherent emphasis on environmental preservation and social
sustainability. Natural building is a method of construction based in using minimally processed, natural materials
that are available locally. The techniques for most natural building methods reflect the materials themselves in
that they are simple, low-tech.
Permaculture is the conscious design of sustainable human settlements. It is also about being local: shepherding
the resources that enter a place; keeping them cycling within the system, be it backyard, neighborhood, or
bioregion; and creating beneficial connections between each part. Community and a sense of place can only be
created by the people who dwell together and who have a real stake in creating a home.
Public Art in our neighborhoods can also create a strong sense of place, whether it is a mural, a sculpture, temporary
art such as chalk drawings or functional art pieces like benches or lampposts. Public art presents an opportunity
for a neighborhood to tell its history, express local culture and have a fun project for anyone to get involved.
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SPONSORS
Portland Bureau of Transportation
Te City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is a community
partner in shaping a livable city. We plan, build, manage and
maintain an efective and safe transportation system that
provides people and businesses access and mobility. We keep
Portland moving. Portland stands as a national leader in
innovative transportation solutions. Planning and constructing
solutions to meet the demands of a growing city and region,
while maintaining our economic vitality and neighborhood
character, requires Transportation to leverage its limited
resources. Stewardship of Portlands mobility and livability is
our primary responsibility.
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Te Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS)
promotes integrated land use planning and development based
on sustainability principles and practices. BPS also develops and
implements policies and programs that provide environmental,
economic and social benefts to residents, businesses and
government, which strengthen Portlands position as an
international model of sustainable practices and commerce.
Miller Paint
Miller Paint has been making the best paint in the Northwest
since 1890. We have 50 stores throughout Oregon and
Washington. Our employee owners have the knowledge and
experience to help you complete you project with ease. Come in
to a Miller Paint store to fnd great locally made products that
are backed with exceptional customer service.
Communitecture
We design beautiful and sustainable places that bring people
together in community. With an approach that explores new
creative territories, we remain as accessible as possible. We
are absolutely committed to sustainability, while respecting
the needs and priorities of all the individuals, families, and
communities with whom we work and play.
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Hankins Hardware
Located at 1720 Southeast Hawthorne Blvd. We are your locally
owned hardware store providing you with the expert advice and
products you need for a great shopping experience, Electrical &
Lighting Supplies, Plumbing Tools & Repair Parts, Hand & Power
Tools, Lawn & Garden Tools and Decor and Paint Shop. We are
proud to support the VBC and the community placemaking sites.
Portland Metro
Open spaces, waste and recycling, transit infrastructure, and so
much more! Metro crosses city limits and county lines to work
with communities in creating a vibrant and sustainable region for
all. Trough shared values of public service, excellence, teamwork,
sustainability, innovation and respect, Metro employees serve the
region in a variety of roles from economists to park rangers,
cartographers to zookeepers, and recycling specialists to theater
ushers.
M Realty
M Realty is powered partly by Eric Steindler, one of the main
visionaries of City Repair since as far back as 1998 when he fed
hundreds and hundreds at the Hands Around Portland that year.
He was also an integral part of producing the Earth Day village
Celebration until about 2006. Eric also coordinates the HOWL
Halloween Party, City Repairs biggest annual fund raising event.
At M Realty he does an amazing job of bringing people and their
dreams of fnding an awesome place to live together, and everyone
has a great time in the process. Call Eric to fnd out more.
KBOO FM
KBOO is a non-proft, listener-funded FM community radio
station broadcasting from Portland, Oregon. Te stations mission
is to serve groups in its listening area who are underrepresented
on other local radio stations and to provide access to the airwaves
for people who have unconventional or controversial tastes and
points of view. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
and has been on the air since 1968.
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SPONSORS
Peoples Food Co-op
Peoples Food Co-op is a community-owned natural foods store.
We provide the best, most wholesome food available while building
community and a sustainable local economy, and promoting
healthy connections to our bioregion and the earth. We believe
in safe, sustainable growing and manufacturing practices. When
you shop at the co-op you join us in supporting local farmers,
producers, crafspeople. We realize these goals through conscious
product selection, mindful business practices, and the fulfllment
of cooperative principles.
Rebuilding Center
Te ReBuilding Center, a project of Our United Villages, is a vibrant
resource working to strengthen the environmental, economic,
and social fabric of local communities. Founded by volunteers in
1998, Te ReBuilding Center carries the regions largest volume
of used building and remodeling materials. It provides resources
that make home repairs afordable to everyone, with the goal of
promoting the reuse of salvaged and reclaimed materials.
Bureau of Environmental Services
Te Bureau of Environmental Services serves the Portland
community by protecting public health, water quality and the
environment. We protect the quality of surface and ground waters
and conduct activities that promote healthy ecosystems in our
watersheds. We provide sewage and stormwater collection and
treatment services to accommodate Portlands current and future
needs.
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PROJECT SITES
NORTH
Fortune Crossing
Attunement Center
Overlook Feng Shui
Te Unity Circle
NORTHEAST
8th & Holman
Beech St. Project
Community Blooming
Community Blooming
Dharma Rain Zen Center
Dignity Village
Eliot Neighborhood Crossing
Kazuko Gardens
Moon Cottage
Ujima Center
Freda's Tree
SOUTHEAST
SE 16th & Ash
Jean's Farm
Te ManifestStation
Sunnsyside Piazza
Share-it Square
Illumination Station
Planet Repair Institute
Sunny Crossroads
Buckman Community Composting
WeMoon Women's Land
SOUTHWEST
Portland State University
Sunstone Montessori School
Tryon Life Community Farm
VANCOUVER
Te Kids Cooking Corner
Te Secret Reading Nook
N Houghton St & Fortune Ave & Superior St
1732-N. Blandena St
N Overlook Blvd, N Concord Ave, N Failing St
N Haight Ave & Emerson Ave
8th & Holman
NE 10th & 14th Ave @ Beech St.
NE 85th Ave at Beech & Milton Streets
8643-NE Beech St
NE Siskiyou St & NE 85th Ave
9410-NE Sunderland
NE Tillamook & Rodney
5715-NE 48th Ave
4039-NE 14th Ave
NE 20th & Holman St
NE 56th & Stanton St
SE 16th Ave. & SE Ash St
3707-SE Johnson Creek
2020-SE Bush St
SE 33rd Avenue & Yamhill St
SE Sherrett Street & 9th Ave
8425-SE 9th St
8512-SE 8th
SE 42nd Ave & Morrison St
SE 15th & Alder St
Near Estacada
1825-SW Broadway
6318-SW Corbett Ave
11640-SW Boones Ferry Rd
5206-NE 78th St Vancouver, WA
13405-SE 7th St Vancouver, WA
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CENTRAL VENUE
Sunnyside Methodist Church 3520 SE Yamhill St
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CONTACT
LOCATION
Monica Roxburgh
ourbeautifulfortune@gmail.com
N Houghton St & Fortune Ave & Superior St
#FORTUNECROSSING
Friday May 30th
Morning: Clean intersection. Afernoon: Draw outlines for
painting.
Saturday May 31st
10am to 5pm: Paint intersection! Noon to 4pm: Kids activities
(rock painting, hula hoops, chalk drawing) 5pm: Clean-up and
neighborhood celebration.
Back-up dates in case of rain: Friday June 6th & Saturday June
7th (Same times as above)
Fall 2014- Street tree planting with Friends of Trees, native
plant & pollinator garden at the SW corner of the intersection,
and a Childrens Little Free Library at the NE corner.
Te Fortune Crossing neighborhood is tucked
just north of busy Lombard, and just east of
the Peninsula Crossing Trail. It is a quiet and
diverse neighborhood that features distinctive
street names, and good access to natural spaces
and urban resources. But it hasnt had a place
for neighbors to gather together and build a
sense of community. Tis project is changing
that.
As neighbors and community members of
Fortune Crossing, we hereby claim the
intersection of N Fortune, N Houghton and
N Superior as our center of community and
neighborhood gathering place. To honor this
claim, we will paint the street together.
Within this painting, the compass orients us,
and reminds us of the directions we came
together from. Te spoked wheel at the center
suggests the great Wheel of Fortune, as well as
a bicycle wheel (the present and future) or cart
wheel (the past). And the salmon remind us
to respect the natural richness and beauty of
this region, and the cycles of life and of nature.
In that spirit, we will also plant trees and native plants along
the intersection this fall. In phase two of the project, (2015),
we will add images of local landmarks, plants and animals to
the street painting. We also plan to install a community notice
board, and to paint a large checkerboard on an unused remnant
of sidewalk bordering N Superior St.
Together we transform the intersection into a place of beauty,
a useful resource, a space to visit and to visit with others, and a
source of pride. Tus, we build our community. Special thanks
to the Portsmouth Neighborhood Association for their support
and encouragement.
ATTUNEMENT CENTER
CONTACT
LOCATION
Joelle Budinich
503-548-8250
guesthaus@attunementcenter.com
1732 N. Blandena St.
#ATTUNEMENTCENTER
Sat 5/24: 11am Join us in learning about the many benefcial
insects in the garden and building a habitat for them.
1-5pm Patio Building (leveling, placing stones).
Sun 5/25: 11am We will discuss then build a solar oven on
wheels for easy maneuvering. 1-5pm Patio Building
Wed 5/28: 11am Create a grey water kitchen sink system.
1-5pm Finish building out kitchen work space/ counters.
Tur 5/29: 11am Learn about and build an evaporative
cooling refrigeration device and herb drying rack (utilizing
salvaged materials).
1-5pm Complete Projects, possibly build three bin
composting system for the garden.
Sat 5/31: 11-5pm All Day Open House; play in the garden,
make kale chips in the solar dehydrator and utilize the solar
oven weather permitting. Complete all other project tasks.
Attunement Center is an urban permaculture
homestead guesthaus that hosts sustainably
minded travelers with the intention of inspiring
guests to take home new ideas and living
practices from their experience here.
Te landscape is all edible and medicinal,
complete with a fock of eleven chickens
and colony of honey bees. We are bringing
the community together over topics of
sustainability providing a central neighborhood
learning site by creating a space to get hands
on experience gardening with perennials,
medicinals, mycelium, chickens, bees, worms,
composting, sheet mulching, natural building,
water management, permaculture and food
preservation.
Come by and experience the last two years
VBC projects; chicken coop/ greenhouse bio-
shelter with eco roof utilizing salvage materials
+ natural building, hugelkultured food
forest mandala garden, and fow form pond
incorporating edible plants for fltration. Tis
years main project will be to break ground on
the of-grid outdoor community kitchen patio, with the hopes
of building a wood fred barrel cobb oven later this summer!
We will be building a few of-grid kitchen elements utilizing
appropriate technologies including an herb drying rack, solar
oven, evaporative cooling refrigeration device (pot in pot) and
grey water re-use sink.
Tere will be an awesome solar dehydrator on hand designed
by Jenny Pell to check out and potentially utilize as well (if the
weather permits!). In the garden we will build an insect habitat
hotel to bring more benefcial insects into the space.
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OVERLOOK FENG SHUI N
We're putting a brand spankin' new coat of
paint on our really big intersection and the
planter boxes that we put on the street to help
make it safer.
Tere will be food and drink (potluck and
Kenny & Zukes pastrami), music, Bee-Friendly
Info, Emergency Prep Info and lots of painters
of all ages! Will we break the record from 2012
and have more than 180 helpers? We will if you
come help!!
Come early, stay late - it's going to be a great
day! Bring a friend - or 5! - or grab a neighbor
and join our crowd!
CONTACT
LOCATION
Leslee Lewis
kgllport@aol.com
503.703.3702
N Overlook Blvd, Concord Ave, & Failing St
#OVERLOOK
Saturday, May 31 9am-4pm: repaint BIG intersection and
planter boxes
THE UNITY CIRCLE
In 2012 a group of residents petitioned with
support from the Humboldt Neighborhood
Association and local businesses to support
the project. Now were all partners. Since then
theres a communal spark in the neighborhood.
Te N. Haight & N. Emerson street painting,
Unity Circle, creates a much needed public
space.
Te thriving diversity of the Humboldt
neighborhood is the inspiration for the painting.
Te design represents a cohesive geodesic
structure with multi-colored triangular pieces
joining together harmoniously.
Te best part of the Unity Circle is making
it happen. Tis rebuilding efort creates a
sense of community and fosters positive
partnerships. Community members, residents,
businesses and schools are engaging together
in a spectacular celebration!
Please see the neighborhood Facebook
page @ https://www.facebook.com/
groups/119778448144567/
Kymberly Jeka
858.705.4418
kymberlyjeka@gmail.com
CONTACT
N. Haight Ave. & N. Emerson Ave.
#UNITYCIRCLE
LOCATION
Saturday May 31st
9am set up materials/tables/chairs/paint supplies/clean debris
from street
10am begin painting
1030am-1230pm kids rock painting activity
1pm-2pm break for lunch (Hummus plates provided by
McMenamins!)
2pm-dark painting + block party + fun + music = happiness
230-430pm kids rock painting activity
Sunday June 1st
9am set up materials/tables/chairs/paint supplies
10am begin painting fnal touches
1030am-1230pm kids rock painting activity
1pm-2pm break for lunch (Hummus plates provided by
McMenamins!)
2pm-dark painting + block party + fun + music = happiness
230-430pm kids rock painting activity
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8TH & HOLMAN
We are so proud of our beautiful intersection
painting, inspired by a Navajo chant about the
changing seasons, weather, and times of day.
She is a bit weathered afer two years without a
new coat and we're so excited to brighten her
up!
Each time we re-paint we so enjoy renewing
the connections made on painting days past
and look forward to making new connections
as we repaint this amazing space in our
neighborhood!
CONTACT
LOCATION
Anne Tracy
8h.repair@gmail.com
NE 8th and Holman
#8THANDHOLMAN
Painting Day is Sunday May 25th at 10am.
(If we get rained out the back-up day is Saturday May 31st, also
at 10am)
PRAY FOR SUN!!!
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BEECH STREET PROJECT
Our goal is a super community-friendly,
gorgeous, interactive, happy space for
moseying and chatting with neighbors.
Including: two intersection paintings, three
little libraries, flling several curbstrips with
beautiful pollinator attracting plants, and an
urbanite bench. We are planning to have lots of
fun working together, so come by and join in.
Tis is a Fly Awake PDX project, with support
from: Whole Foods, Advantis Credit Union,
Albina Library, Beanstalk, Papa Murphys,
Natures Needs, Caf Destino, Acadia, Hankins
Hardware, Ticket PDX, Irvington Veterinary
Clinic, and, of course, our awesome neighbors,
City Repair and, all you, the volunteers!
CONTACT
LOCATION
Arati von Behren
tea@fyawakepdx.com
503-867-8905 or 503-729-1602
NE 10th & 14th Ave @ Beech St.
#BEECHSTREET
Friday 5/23
9-1 Amend soil with compost, install little libraries (cofee/
breakfast)
Saturday 5/24
9-7pm Paint the fower of life and eat Pizza. Wear: your favorite
color
Sunday 5/25
9-7Dress up like your favorite creature. Paint creatures! 2-4
Fairy crafskids/all ages
Monday 5/26
Build urbanite bench with cob mortar 930 to 2 (lunch)
Tuesday 5/27
Plant the curbstrips. 9-1230 (cafeine/brunch)
Wednesday 5/28
130-3pm: Interfaith/spiritual meet up. Meet neighbors, see the
progress and set intentions for Beech Street/the neighborhood
at large. Bring peace and love and Fly Awake PDX will provide
drinks.
Saturday 5/31
1:30-3 Neighborhood history: Come share/hear neighborhood
history. 3-5 Bookmaking with Nina from Albina Library
(babes-teens) Snacks and drinks.
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INTERSECTION REPAIRS
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Community Blooming is about the neighbors
of NE Beech & Milton Streets joining together
to transform our neighborhood from a hub
for drugs and prostitution into a supportive,
collaborative, and safe community.
Over the past two years, we have gone from
individuals living side-by-side but largely
isolated from one another to neighbors
gathering for community barbecues, going
on walks together, sharing books and recipes,
borrowing tools, caring for one anothers
children, and now, growing food and creating
community art together!
Tis years projects include two Intersection
Repairs and the Beech Street Community
Garden. We are truly a Community Blooming,
and we hope you will join us to help that bloom
continue to open!
Te designs for our intersection repairs
integrate the past, present, and future of our
CONTACT
LOCATION
Erin Cornell
ecornell888@gmail.com
NE 85th Ave at Beech & Milton Streets
#COMMUNITYBLOOMING
Saturday, May 24th
8:00am 10:00am: Outlining the Design
10:00am - 5:00pm: Painting!
Sunday, May 25th
8:00am 5:00pm: Touch-up / 2nd Coat Painting
(If rained out, project will be moved to the following weekend.)
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COMMUNITY BLOOMING
COMMUNITY GARDEN
neighborhood. Te rose and cobblestone
pattern speaks to 85th Avenues historical name,
Rosemont Ave and to the areas historical
name, Rose Villas. Te people and animals
represent the vibrancy of the people who live in
our neighborhood, and the vines represent our
community growth and development reaching
out into the future.
Te Beech Street Community Garden is in its
burgeoning year with neighbors working side
by side, with support from the Urban Farm
Collective, to create a prosperous garden and
community gathering space.
Tis 10,000 sqf piece of property is made
possible through a partnership with Park
Forest Care Center. Te community garden
unites us both physically and metaphorically
as we lay roots to reap a harvest of food and
relationships in the years to come.
CONTACT
LOCATION
Ben Cutler or Heather Wild
benjamin.a.cutler@gmail.com
dr.heather.wild@gmail.com
8643 NE Beech St
#COMMUNITYBLOOMING
Saturday, May 24th:
Noon 5:00pm: Adventure Play Days
Saturday, May 31st:
Noon - 5:00pm: Adventure Play Days
Adventure Play Days are all about empowering kids to create
their own play environments. We will be exploring the
wonderful woods of the Beech Street Community Garden and
creating with the natural materials at hand. Tis is a free-play
event open to all kids and families!
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DHARMA RAIN ZEN CENTER NE
CONTACT
LOCATION
Doug Hull or Jeff Stookey
doughull16@gmail.com 503-239-4846
jstookey108@gmail.com 503-232-6867
NE 85th Ave. and Siskiyou St.
#DHARMARAIN
Garden work: Friday May 23rd through Saturday May 31st
from 10 AM to 4 PM. Lunch at 12:30-1 PM.
Mural painting will focus on Sat. May 24th and Sun. May 25th.

Workshops: Saturday, May 24th
10-Noon: How to Grow a Food Forest with permaculture
designer Jonathan Brandt.
2-4 PM: Jordan Weiss will lead a workshop on mushrooms
and bioremediation.

[For the workshop we request a $5-20 sliding scale donation,
no one turned away for lack of funds. Please register in advance
by emailing <jstookey108@gmail.com>.]
Last year Dharma Rain Zen Center planned
to begin work on our garden area and had to
change plans to building the orchard trail. Tis
year we will return our focus to the gardens.
We will be building a variety of raised beds
with straw bails, logs, and lumber, and creating
hugelkultur beds with buried branches and
logs. We will also be working on improving
the soil.
An additional project will be painting a mural
on the metal shipping container where we store
tools near the front gate. Each day we will ofer
a nutritious vegetarian lunch. Permaculture
and mushroom workshops are planned for
Saturday, May 24th.
DIGNITY VILLAGE
CONTACT
LOCATION
Mitchell Grubic
503-281-1604
bajasur63@gmail.com
9401 NE Sunderland Rd -- off of 33rd
/ 1/2 mile south of Marine Drive
#DIGNITYVILLAGE
Saturday, 24th May, 9am till 6pm
Tours and insight into our community will be ongoing all day.
Dignity Village's entrance is getting a make
over.We will be making better use of our
sidewalk strips by making raised beds and by
planting natives, edibles and pollinators. Come
join s to continue our permaculture program,
and join in our community building. We will
be having a BBQ to feed our volunteers.
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ELIOT NEIGHBORHOOD CROSSING NE
Te Eliot neighborhood crossing painted
intersection is one of the newest and growing
recognizable landmarks in Eliot neighborhood.
Te annual repainting party tradition will keep
our neighborhood looking bright and beautiful
and brings neighbors together to celebrate our
growing and diverse community.
CONTACT
LOCATION
Jeri Bee
eliotpainting@gmail.com
NE Tillamook and Rodney
#ELIOTNEIGHBORHOOD
Fri 6/27 5-8p power washing and prep for intersection
Sat 6/28 10-6 painting block party
Sun 6/29 8-12p painting touch up and celebration potluck.
KAZUKO GARDENS NE
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At Kazuko Garden we are doing more than just
growing vegetables. Tanks to a partnership
with the Urban Farm Collective, we have an
opportunity to create place for cross cultural
community exchange in NE Portland.
Our Gardeners are from a dozen diferent
countries, most of whom are still studying
English. At each of our weekly work parties
we share our food, language, and cultural
knowledge with each other. All of our volunteers
will earn credits to spend at a weekly barter
market hosted by the Urban Farm Collective
starting in June. Visit urbanfarmcollective.com
and click on Kazuko Garden for more info.
CONTACT
LOCATION
Will Lillard
503-395-7628
lillardwl@gmail.com
5715 NE 48th Ave.
#KAZUKOGARDENS
Tuesday May 27: 12-2pm: Muti-Cultural BBQ Potluck; 2-6pm
Installing garden irrigation system; Building the green house
Wednesday May 28: 2-6pm Installing garden irrigation system;
Building the green house
Tursday May 29: 2-6pm Installing garden irrigation system;
Friday May 30: 2-6pm Installing garden irrigation system;
Saturday May 31: 2-6pm Installing garden irrigation system;
Monday June 2: 6-7pm Urban Farm Collective First Barter
Market of the Season at St Andrews parking lot, NE 9th &
Alberta
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MOON COTTAGE NE
Please join us in the backyard garden of
Portland householder," author and teacher
of food preservation and urban farming as
we build a 200 square foot studio dubbed the
"Moon Cottage.
Te Moon Cottage joins an existing home,
a natural-clay garden house, vegetable,
fower and herb beds, fruit trees, grape arbor,
perennials, a huglekulture strawberry bed and
outdoor canning kitchen.
Participants will engage in the mixing and
installation of light-straw-clay insulation -- a
beautiful natural building technique that has
been gaining popularity as a highly viable
alternative to conventional insulation.
Tis project ofers an extraordinary
opportunity for hands on learning about the
elements and intricacies of light-straw-clay
construction, including Larsen-truss framing,
plywood forming, straw-clay materials, mixing
and packing tools and techniques, building
principles, and the art of working together.
CONTACT
LOCATION
Harriet Fasenfest
503-989-4333 hfasenfest@gmail.com
www.wemoon.ws
4039 ne 14th
#MOONCOTTAGE
Sunday, May 25th and Monday the 26th - mixing clay and
straw as a team and, as hands permit, begin flling walls.

Tuesday, May 27th through Tursday the 29th - packing the
walls.
Friday the 30th - cleaning and admiring a good week's work
Te site will be open from 9:30 to 5:00 each day,
Lunch - Volunteers will enjoy a satisfying lunch from foods
grown and/or preserved in the backyard garden and from
other urban farmers in the area.
In addition to the building techniques, participants are
encouraged to bring their interest and questions regarding food
preservation. Copies of the DVD "Preserving with Friends"
will be ofered at weeks end.
UJIMA CENTER
Susanna Low-Beer
(503)-309-5939
CONTACT
NE 20th and Holman St
#UJIMA
LOCATION
From Driveway to Multifunctional Hedgerow:
Transforming the Urban Landscape
With Jude Hobbs of Cascadia Permaculture
http://www.cascadiapermaculture.com
5.30.14 10 2pm
In this one-day workshop at Ujima, we will
begin the initial stages of planning, designing,
and preparing to implement a multifunctional
hedgerow in what was once an urban driveway.
Hedgerow expert Jude Hobbs will guide us
through the process of design, plant selection,
and bed prep, as well as provide an overview
about multifunctional hedgerows, their history
and usage in modern times. In the second part
of the day, we will begin to prepare the beds
for fall planting. (Te planting portion of the
workshop will take place in the fall.) In this
workshop we will explore these myriad uses
and functions of hedgerows in the context of
an urban living situation.
Rainwater Catchment and Storage Intensive
With Jeremiah Kidd of San Isidro Permaculture
http://www.sipermacutlure.com
5.31.14 10- 2pm.
Today we will design and begin the installation of a larger scale
catchment system. Te main feature of the system will be 4000
gallon cistern, which will connect to other elements in order
to create multiple functions. Diferent options for elements
in the system as well as strategies will be discussed- outdoor
showers/kitchens, ponds, and gravity fed irrigation will be part
of the conversation. Jeremiah Kidd is the founder of San Isidro
Permaculture, a design and installation company focused on
water catchment, greywater systems, native and edible plant
landscapes, erosion control, and land restoration. He has a
wealth of experience with rainwater system design. If you are
interested in how to capture and use rainwater in creative ways,
this is the workshop for you!
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FREDA'S TREE
CONTACT
LOCATION
Chris Cross
503-515-7269
cmcross2@comcast.net
NE 56th & Stanton St
#FREDASTREE
We will be painting the frst dry day
May 24, 25, 31 or June 1.
Start time around 10AM.
Commemorating a magnificent chestnut tree
that stood at this corner for almost 100 years,
our street painting connects the neighbors
living around NE 56th & Stanton. It was first
painted in 2007.
Many of our school-age children come out
to paint they can hardly wait the two years
between paintings. The painting party brings
a cooperative spirit to all involved.
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16TH & ASH
Te trafc circle at SE 16th and Ash is a well-
trafcked bike route and just a block from the
arts-magnet school, Buckman Elementary.
And we want to give it some love! Come
on out and help us put a fresh face on this part
of Portland. We will be making a time lapse
movie of the day and posting it up to YouTube.
You can fnd last year's time lapse movie if you
search for ""16th and Ash street painting"" on
YouTube.
CONTACT
LOCATION
Jim Forristal
503-407-1310
nwclassic@gmail.com
SE 16th Ave. and SE Ash St.
#16THANDASH
Saturday May 31st: 10am to 7pm
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JEAN'S FARM
CONTACT
LOCATION
Matt Bibeau
gardenlearning@gmail.com
503-351-2075
3707 SE Johnson Creek
See below for access restrictions.
#JEANSFARM
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Since last year's VBC, the folks at Jeans Farm
have made good progress with the outdoor
kitchen renovation project, adding a triple
sink and counter, a barrel oven, a composting
toilet and a new chicken coup run.
For VBC 14, the barrel oven will get its long-
awaited roof. We'll have a handful of other
farm and garden projects too. Fridays are farm
work party days, hosted by the Rising Stone
farmers. The first Saturday through Monday,
we'll build the roof and a materials shed.
We'll have a couple of workshops in the mix
too, including chicken keeping, beekeeping
and herbal medicinals. Check our schedule
daily at www.facebook.com/JeansFarm or by
scanning the QR code below.
Fri 5/23: Farm work party day & roof site prep. 10am-2pm.
Lunch provided.
Sat 5/24-Mon 5/26: Roof-building days. 10am-4pm. Lunch
provided.
Tues-Turs: School group days. Closed to the public. No drop-
ins please.
Fri 5/30: Farm work party day. Open 10am-2pm. Lunch
provided.
Sat-Sun: Workshop with Jon Young. Pre-registration required.
No drop-ins please.
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THE MANIFESTATION SE
Te ManifestStation is an Art Refuge Sanctuary
where creativity and community fourish, right
in the heart of SE Portland. Sculpture, metal
fabrication, bike building, sewing, glass, tattoos,
music, painting, a gallery, and gardens are all
part of the wonderful scene at this re-purposed
warehouse! We will be building a big cob pizza
oven in our yard; a very unique and inspiring
place, right on the train tracks and surrounded
by amazing artists making beautyfullll things!
We are making a veritable oasis in the middle
of the concrete jungle. Tis place is becoming a
landmark in Portland, come add to the beauty
by smashing some cob with us!
CONTACT
LOCATION
Bonsai
503 309 6724 (text only)
heavyweightlovechampion@gmail.com
2020 se Bush st. / 21st and Bush
#THEMANIFESTATION
sunday may 25
start frst layer of oven, laying bricks, smooching cob,
monday may 26 continue cob
tuesday may 27 continue cob
wed may 28 continue cob
thurs may 29 open house - possible no work though
fri may 30 open house - possible no work though
sat may 31 cob plaster - fnish up
monday june 1 fnish up. maybe bake pizza if oven is done.
open house.
SUNNYSIDE PIAZZA
CONTACT
LOCATION
Chip Rees, chip.rees@gmail.com
Chrissy Mulkey, winston502@yahoo.
com
SE 33rd Ave & Yamhill St.
#SUNNYSIDE
Saturday, May 24th
9am 10am: Chalk outline the sunfower pattern
10a 6pm: Te main event PAINT THE SUNFLOWER
Sunday, May 25th
10am 4pm: Touch-up painting/ 2nd coat painting
Now in its 14th year, one of the most famous
and iconic of all the citys intersection projects
- the re-painting of the Sunfower - is a long
standing tradition during the Village Building
Convergence and this year is no diferent. Tis
project is one of the few public places in the
world to incorporate Fibonacci geometry. With
its vibrant colors of yellow, orange, red and
green, this street piazza is considered by many
to be the heart of the
Sunnyside Neighborhood whose symbol is
the Sunfower. With the Sunfower just a block
of bustling Belmont street, this intersection is
admired daily by neighbors and local business
patrons alike.
Dig out that old painting garb and mark your
calendars to come out to our little corner
of Portland on Saturday, May 24th between
10:00 am and 6:00 pm, and join in on the fun.
Festivities will include picnicking, live music,
kids activities and of course PAINTING!
Well have food on hand, but please feel free
to bring a dish to add to the community table or simply pack
yourself a picnic. Work will naturally get done but this too is a
celebration!
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SHARE-IT SQUARE SE
CONTACT
LOCATION
Share-It Square was the frst intersection repair
in the world and has continued to repaint a new
design every year for the past 18 years. Tis
year's design is a combination of neighbors'
visions and last year's painting, tying in the
tree theme from last year with various cultures
represented in the community through the
symbols of doors. Tere's also a dream-like
quality to the image as shown by the houses
that surround the square turning into birds
and taking fight. Always an anticipated annual
event, repainting the square is sure to be a
splendid time!
Sarah Heath
541-531-2948
SE 9th Ave and SE Sherrett St.
#SHAREITSQUARE
Saturday, May 31st:
10am - 3 or 4ish PAINT!
We will be repainting a new design for most of the day. Tere
will be light refreshments in the middle of the day and possibly
a couple of other fun activities! Come join us for the fun!
ILLUMINATION STATION
CONTACT
LOCATION
Tis lovely, modest installation may be small in
scale, but it contains a universe of possibility.
Dedicated to the mystic poet Rumi, this station
of illumination will nestle in between two
trees and various edible plants that will burst
with fruit every year on planetary cue. Tere
you will fnd a cozy, stone bench and a hand
calligraphy-based poetry dispenser for both
children and adults. It will provide a small
place to sit with family, a lover, or a new friend
while you delight in the timeless insights and
secrets of one of the great lovers of life.
Liane Allhdadi
503-341-9176
lianewhiteallahdadi@comcast.net
8425 SE 9th Ave.
#ILLUMINATIONSTATION
Opening Dedication:
Saturday, May 31st at some time during the Share-It Square
annual street celebration.
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PLANET REPAIR INSTITUTE
Mark Lakeman & Frances Michaelson
5033815885/trout@communitecture.net,
612-355-0631/sarahfram09@yahoo.com
CONTACT planetrepair.org
8512 SE 8th Ave.
#PLANETREPAIR
LOCATION
Planet Repair is where City Repair began in
1996, and weve been creating change ever
since then!
Tis year we will make progress on projects
already underway, including natural plasters
with relief and inlaid mosaic glass, living roof
projects, and water catchment installations
such as rain barrel towers.
Te plaster work on the front of the building
will complete the inspiring image that PRI
projects to the larger community, which already
includes natural and metaphorical themes.
Afer this VBC and the work that will proceed
through this summer, we will have nine living
roofs - more than 1100 square feet of it! Te rain
water catchment projects we will complete will
help us model sustainable water stewardship
and use for the larger community.
Come visit!
Saturday, May 24:
9am-4pm, Plaster work (limited participation), water
catchment projects.
Sunday, May 25:
9am-4pm, Plaster work (limited participation), water
catchment projects.
1-4pm, Food Forest & Perennial Polyculture Workshop
2-3:30pm PRI & Block Repair Site Tour
Monday, May 26:
9am-4pm, Finish up plaster work (limited participation), small
projects at nearby Share-It Square, water catchment projects.
Tuesday, May 27:
9am-4pm, Small projects at nearby Share-It Square, water
catchment projects.
Wednesday, May 28:
9am-4pm, Oil color-wash greenhouse cob thermal mass wall,
Oil front exterior cob.
1-2pm PRI & Block Repair Site Tour, water catchment projects.
Tursday, May 29: Living roof projects.
Friday, May 30: Living Roof Projects.
Saturday, May 31: Site closed for events at Share-It Square.
Sunday, June 1: Site closed for VBC events
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SUNNY CROSSROADS
CONTACT
LOCATION
Marti Frank
503.819.4789
martifrank@gmail.com
SE 42nd Ave and SE Morrison St
#SUNNYCROSSROADS
Saturday, 31st May.
Kid-friendly entertainment all afernoon! Kids can be
entertained while parents help paint!
Noon
Who: Olive Rootbeer & Dingo
What: Te dynamic duo that brings you stories, songs, love,
laughter, balloons, and all kinds of shenanigans!
1pm
Who: Tallulah's Daddy
What: Fun, energetic acoustic music for kids.
2pm-4pm
What: Circus arts, stilt walkers, and kids' bike rodeo.
Circus arts taught by neighbors and the Joy Now Arts Project,
a music and performing arts experience for kids taught by
members of the March Fourth Marching Band. Te bike rodeo
will feature bike skills races and a bike tire art project.
4pm
Who: Luck Dragon
What: A band for kids and adults, featuring the sounds of the
ukelele, violin, cello, glockenspiel, cazoo, trumpet, and musical
saw.
Our new neighborhood street painting
symbolizes the many bikes that pass through
the intersection every day (it's on a bike
boulevard), as well as the sunny in our
neighborhood name. We will also be building
a bike kiosk with a bike map and tools, and a
Little Free Library for kids and adults.
On May 31st we will be hosting a bike carnival
with live music, a bike rodeo for kids, carnival
games, juggling and hula hoop lessons for all
ages, and plenty of food!
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BUCKMAN COMMUNITY COMPOSTING
CONTACT
LOCATION
Nancy Oberschmidt
503-231-7322 (H) 503-381-2248 (C)
nancyoberschmidt@gmail.com
SE 15th & Alder St
#BUCKMAN
Friday, May 23 3PM clean the street with eco-friendly soap
Saturday, May 24 10 AM re-paint the street graphic
Neighbor supplied Potluck Lunch with a hearty Vegan Soup
at Noon
Tis is the sixth year of the Buckman
Community Composting project.
Most of the eforts of the Buckman Community
Associations Sustainability Committee will
have taken place before the VBC re- planting
three trafc circles and getting new Picture a
Garden sites on line.
During the VBC we will re-paint our beautiful
street graphic and have fun.
Tese projects are supported this year by a
small grant from the East Multnomah Soil and
Water Conservation District. Tank You!
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WEMOON WOMEN'S LAND
CONTACT
LOCATION
RSVP Kelly at 971-276-3507, or
greenninjapdx@ gmail.com with VBC/
WeMoon in subject line.
35 miles SE of Portland (Metro bus #31),
near Eagle Fern Park in Estacada. RSVP
for directions. #WEMOON
Sunday, May 25
Tuesday, May 27
11 am - 3 pm
Help us revitalize the garden and make it accessible for mutli-
ability use. Well build raised beds of varying heights, so those
with limited knee-bending mobility can garden with ease.
Likewise, well build wheelchair accessible raised beds and
pathways. Tese and other garden/permaculture activities to
take place on 52 beautiful acres of Womens Land.
Carpooling/camping possible. Bring your friends for
a fun women-only outing! Work projects by day, relax at
vegetarian potluck meals and fre circles at night. WeMoon
has women-built structures, tent space and a community
house with convenient amenities.
Be sure to RSVP so we know youre coming! Other Garden
Workdays: Tuesday, June 10, 11 am - 3 pm. See you there!
Join us to make the garden more accessible
for women of difering abilities! Some raised
garden beds will be wheelchair accessible;
others will be of varying heights for those
with limited knee-bending mobility. Our VBC
project is intended as part of a larger efort,
including a wheelchair accessible deck on the
community house.
On 52 acres of old-growth forest, with an
organic garden, greenhouse and natural open
spaces, WeMoon is an intentional womens
community thats been around for 40+ years.
Originally the home of the WeMoon datebook
and calendar, the land currently hosts the
WeMooniversity, an experiential School of
Life for women and children in community
with Mother Earth, dedicated to bringing
the outpouring of WeMoon creativity down
to earth... where artists, writers, astrologers,
healers, priestesses, eco-feminists, gardeners,
and earth-friendly builders can meet, share
and learn in community. www.wemoon.ws
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PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
CONTACT
LOCATION
Kenzie Eiden
503-927-1198
portlandstatevbc@gmail.com
1825 SW Broadway
#PSUVBC
Indigenous Permaculture in Practice: Friday, May 23; 10 am
12 pm; 710 SW Jackson Street (SW Jackson & Park Ave)
Diversity & Intercultural community building: Saturday May
24; 8 - 10 pm, VBC Central Venue (3520 SE Yamhill Street)
Free for students with PSU IDs. Free Dinner at 6 pm.
Guild Work Party in the Orchard: Tuesday May 27; 12 - 4 pm;
SW 12 & Montgomery. Free lunch.
Continued Work Party in the Orchard: Wednesday May 28;
10 am 3 pm; SW 12 & Montgomery. Free lunch.
Final Work Party in the Orchard; Friday May 30 10 am - 3
pm; SW 12 & Montgomery. Free lunch.
Paths to Diversity with Pandora Tomas at PSU, Venue and
Time: TBD
Cultural Humility and Indigenous Allyship:Friday May 30; 8
-10 pm; VBC Central Venue (3520 SE Yamhill Street) *Free
for students with PSU IDs Free Dinner at 6 pm.
VBC 14 Closing Cob Oven Pizza Party! Sunday June 1; 11 am
2 pm (SW Park Ave & Harrison). Free Pizza for Everyone!
Te PSU Community Orchard is a place in
transition--help it fourish! Join the next
generation of stewards for several days of
landscaping and planting work parties as we
plant benefcial guilds around our young fruit
trees.
We will also be learning from Indigenous
ways of knowing during our Indigenous
Permaculture in Practice event. To have a little
fun, we will also be celebrating our frst cob
oven fring this year, with a pizza party.
We have two exciting participatory events at
the VBC Central Venue, one about art and
intercultural community building. Te other
is a panel of Indigenous speakers and allies
leading courageous conversations followed by
an interactive discussion to catalyze us towards
efective Indigenous solidarity and social/
cultural sustainability.
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SUNSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
Join us as we build a picnic table and benches
for the public gathering space in front of the
school. We are using reclaimed materials to
create a beautifully designed wooden table and
benches.
Building will start in the morning and in the
afernoon we will co-create a mosaic for the top
of the table. Tere will be additional activities
and complementary snacks starting at 1:00pm.
Come celebrate this space and community!
Talia Sheldon
tsheldondesjardins@sunstonemontessori.org
CONTACT
6318 SW Corbett Ave
#SUNSTONE
LOCATION
Saturday May 31st
9:00-12:00: building picnic table and benches
12:00-1:00: lunch break (lunch provided by local businesses for
builders and volunteers)
1:00- 4:00: Continue building tables and benches, co-create
and install mosaic design on table top
1:15-1:50 Vermiculture workshop (Work in groups to learn
about and make a worm bin. Five to six participants will get to
take home their very own worm bin!)
2:00-3:00- Stump the Master Gardener: Come get answers to
your gardening questions!
In the afernoon, there will be free snacks, activities and space
to run and play.
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TRYON LIFE COMMUNITY FARM
Tryon Life Community Farm is a unique
sustainability educational facility and
community gathering place. Tis year, we are
working on three projects:
1) Cob Sauna: Ten years ago, many loving
hands began building TLC Farms beautiful cob
sauna at the VBC. We will use cob and earthen
plaster to patch it up and add new artistic
elements of glass and ceramic.
2) A new structure: Using the natural building
technique known as Wattle and Daub, we are
building a 7-sided structure that will serve as a
temporary living space for artists, activists and
visitors.
3) Sheet Mulching: Sheet mulching is a
permaculture technique to create nutrient-rich
and aerated garden beds - without digging - by
layering various organic materials.
Lunch provided all three days. A shuttle will
leave from Sunnyside Church, the central
venue (SE 35th & Yamhill) each day at 9:30am
to go to the farm and will return at 4:30pm.
Please RSVP for a spot on the shuttle to Isobel@
tryonfarm.org.
Isobel Charle
isobel@tryonfarm.org
603-978-7114
CONTACT
11640 SW Boones Ferry Rd.
#TRYONLIFE
LOCATION
Tursday 5/29 10am-4pm: Sheet Mulching Workshop
Friday 5/30: Earthen plaster/sprucing up the sauna and cobbing
walls of new structure. 10am-4pm.
Saturday 5/31: Earthen plaster/sprucing up the sauna and
cobbing walls of new structure. 10am-4pm.
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THE KIDS' COOKING CORNER VAN
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Te Kids Cooking Corner is the Vancouver-
Portland areas frst and only non-proft
childrens culinary school. Founded in 2010, the
KCC is a 100% volunteer nonproft organization
that teaches kids age 3 and older how to cook --
and along the way aims to develop confdence,
inspire creativity, encourage nutritious eating
and build practical skills that will last a lifetime.
Te KCC will be holding a handful of
workshops on topics such as permaculture,
rain catchment systems, bee keeping, chicken
rearing and more, while we spend the week
preparing our new permaculture garden and
doing general maintenance to our property.
CONTACT
LOCATION
Drake Carnahan
(360) 513-7608
KCCSustainability@gmail.com
5206 NE 78th St. Vancouver, WA
#KIDSCOOKINGCORNER
Please check our website for a day-by-day schedule!
http://thekidscookingcorner.com
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THE SECRET READING NOOK VAN
CONTACT
LOCATION
Cari Corbet-Owen
corbetoc1@gmail.com
707-227-6190
13405 SE 7th str, Vancouver, WA
#SECRETREADINGNOOK
All workshops start at 10am:
Saturday May 24th - natural plaster workshop
Sunday May 25th - cob building workshop
Monday 26th and Friday 30th well be both plastering and
building the secret reading nook.
Saturday the 31st of May - mosaic a cob bench workshop
Sunday the 1st June well be working to complete all 3 projects.
Tis year well be plastering the exterior of
Poseys Pozzi - the communal Greenhouse /
Creative Corner we built during VBC 2013.
Well be doing the mosaic on the cob bench
on the interior and well also be building a new
structure.Te Secret Reading nook. Poseys
Pozzi (pozzi means place) was built in honour
of Posey - once the community glue amongst
neighbours who hadnt met since he died 17
years ago. Neighbors, along with VBCers,
all built this charming communal area last
year, and as a result gates between neighbours
have been opened, and communal chickens
and vegetable gardens now bring neighbours
together into a supportive community.
Te Secret Reading nook will be a huge quirky
cob belly where neighbours who want to have
a private retreat space can curl up with a good
book or just sit and contemplate their lives.
Well be hosting three workshops during
VBC2014:
A plastering workshop by June Bonneheim
who became interested in natural building six
years ago. June recently co-founded a collective
of builders called Clay Play, which works to facilitate earthen
projects in schools.When not working with Clay Play, she can
be found doing interior clay and lime plasters with Living
Walls.
A building with cob workshop lead by Cari Corbet-Owen; a
exuberant natural builder. She is an alum from Cob Cottage
from 6 years ago and hasnt stopped building ever since. In this
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to make and build with cob.
A mosaic workshop lead by Jorie Kennedy who is passionate
about bringing building skills to the people. Jorie was trained
at the Cob Cottage company and works as a natural plasterer
and builder. Well be mosaicing a cob bench inside of Poseys
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DAY WORKSHOPS AND EVENING PROGRAMS
Friday, May 23
Teme: Embodied Permaculture
Location: VBC 14 Central Venue, Sunnyside Methodist Church, 3520 SE Yamhill
Street (SE 35 & Yamhill).
*5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Dinner
*Note dinner is usually served from 6 - 7 pm on other Central Venue nights
6:30 pm - 7 pm: Opening Circle facilitated by VBC veteran SaraHope, and Safre.
To Ignite the fres of our community in each of us to feel the beat of our urban hearts
as one in this ephemeral village hearth as we prepare to go out and build community
together. Calling in the qualities of villagers and naming these aspects in and among
us so that they thrive in our culture over the next week. co-creating our community
culture so that we do beat more as one urban heart/hearth. To create the container for
this dispersed and yet cohesive community that we have spread across Portland. Join us,
dear villagers.
7 - 7:45 pm: David Eisenberg on Redefning Building Safety in an Age of Great Change:
Being Good Ancestors
Weaving lessons learned, insights, and sources of inspiration from his two decades of
work leading the Development Center for Appropriate Technology, David Eisenberg,
beloved elder in the cause of regenerative culture-building, will share stories from past
and current work and thoughts about our role in creating needed changes in thinking,
designing, building and living as if the future matters.
8 - 8:45 pm: Marisha Auerbach on A Sense of Place: Permaculture-based Site Analysis
for Portland, OR.
Permaculture design is specifc to place, local culture, and inhabitants. When we come
together for the Village Building Convergence, we join as villagers to develop regenerative
culture here in Portland. We have afected the urban fabric of our place for the past 14
years! In this presentation, Marisha Auerbach will share some of the climatic factors
to consider when designing in Portland, including weather conditions, soils, native
vegetation, and prior history, and how these are unique in your neighborhood. Join us
for a permaculture site analysis perspective to enrich your sense of place and provide a
foundation as we move into this potent week of building and designing for enhancing
our local connections in Portland!
9 - 10 pm: Jon Young on Culture Repair
Informed by his work as a mentor and naturalist, Jon will explore the connections
between individual and cultural transformation and how the individual commitment
to embodying a permaculture value system supports broader societal shifs. Jon will
indicate places that are most challenging in transferring individual resolution into
cultural currents, and how a changing cultural landscape can empower and support
individual change as well.
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10:15 pm - 11 pm: Music for the Human Tribe by Omiza River
Join Omiza River as they bring forth elements of Embodied Permaculture in music
through a synthesis between acoustic and electronic genres. Using the resources around
them, Tanyia Bluecorn and Keith Firesong combine soulful lyrics & harmonies with live
guitar, keys & Native American futes (handmade by Keith Firesong), supported by lush
soundscapes and high vibrations.
Saturday, May 24
Teme: Diversity and Multiculturalism
6 - 7 pm: Delicious Middle Eastern Cuisine by family business Hoda.
7 - 7:45 pm: Sarah Pugh on Urban Permaculture in Bristol, UK
Join Permaculture activist and founder of the worlds frst Transition City on an exploration
of urban permaculture in the UK, particularly Bristol, where social connections, sharing
resources and skills and working with other organisations make for a robust and resilient
movement. With a network of urban farms, community gardens, green builders, energy
projects and training projects Bristol is leading the UK in grassroots sustainability.
8 - 8:45 pm: Nuhamin Assegid Eiden and Hope Yamasaki on Diversity and Sustainability
Nuhamin will discuss her work as a resident services coordinator at one of the Portland
Community Reinvestment Initiative's (PCRI) community centers and as a planning
committee member of the Portland Roots Festival. She will focus on what sustainability
means to East African immigrants living in Portland, drawing on her own experience as
well as from the perspective of her residents.
Hope will discuss how the organization she founded - Sustainability For All flls the lack
of diversity within sustainability discourse in the United States that reinforces dominant
culture. By critically looking at issues related to race and privilege by highlighting diverse
perspectives, and by using multiple lenses and frameworks, sustainability educators
and leaders can help bridge this divide increasing the diversity of change agents and
strengthening the overall movement.
9 - 9:45 pm: Loveness Wesa & the Bantus Band with Danceable Zimbabwean Afro-pop
Dance along to original and traditional Zimbabwean Afro-pop music performance in
a combination of invigorating danceable grooves, stimulating vocal harmonies, and
traditional and modern dance moves. We invite you to enjoy this musical ofering and
make it your own by dancing, clapping, and singing along.
10 - 10:45 pm: Kemba Shannon Dance Ensemble
Kemba Shannon Dance Center's mission is to create a creative and transforming
environment that helps young people build self-esteem, discipline and confdence via
training in performing and visual arts. KDSC seeks to empower students through a
creative outlet and life skills that build character for any chosen career or life situation.
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We will perform three 15 minute selections, a Samba Parade and an MLK Piece with
audience participation and end the night with a Solo/Duet selection.
Sunday, May 25
Teme: Intergenerations: For our Families
Location: Leaven Project, 5431 NE 20 Avenue (NE 20 & Killingsworth)
*Exciting family ticket discounts ;)
*3 - 5 pm: Alexis Tompson presents Cooking with Kids!
Tis program is for children to be responsible for the design, preparation, and cleanup of
a large community meal. Children ages 4 and up are invited to share their ideas and get
their hands dirty while experiencing the joy of cooking for a family.
5 - 6 pm: Dinner that the kids helped prepare.
6 - 7 pm: Mobile Puppet Teater with Frances Michaelson and Helen Hill
Tere will be two characters, roaming the halls. Tey will be wearing coats. Inside the
coats will be stories, puppet stories. Tey will converge, the curtains will be drawn and
the stories will be told. Tese will be the kind of stories that leave a heart strong.
7 - 8 pm: Remembering Play with Leon Smith
In this presentation we will discuss the value of outdoor play for healthy development
in young children. We will examine how a yard can be transformed into a learning-
landscape that supports the full range of rich creative play possibilities by inviting nature
in! We will look at examples of how to engage the community in the creation of a unique
Natural Playscape on a limited budget.
8 - 9 pm: Somatic Education with Keren Ganin-Pinto
As creatures of the universe, we have the capacity to connect our bodies to our
evolutionary ancestors. Join us as we move through our history: foating in the ocean,
lying on the rocks, creeping along the sand, crawling along the prairies, and standing up
with our heads to the sky! Tis movement class will be a playful opportunity for adults
and children to explore the diferent parts of our rich, expressive selves.
Monday, May 26* Memorial Day
Teme: Empowering Community
*Free day workshop in the the Parlor Room, Central Venue
3 - 4 pm: Resiliency Rising with Ted Swagerty
Afer traveling through Asia, the Middle East and Europe documenting the steady
growth of permaculture and small scale renewable energy, Ted would like to share his
experiences and observations about how the larger international permaculture movement
is advancing and how a greater awareness of sustainability is spreading across the globe.
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4 - 5 pm: Reclaiming Our Soleful Connection with Sarah Heath
Come to this hour long workshop to learn about the important role our feet play in
keeping us connected. Shoes are a habitual fxture in our society today, but unfortunately
to a fault. We are less connected than ever to each other, ourselves, and this planet. Come
learn about why it's important to take of your shoes and walk.
6 - 7 pm: Dinner prepared by our wonderful kitchen staf
7 - 7:45 pm: Community Resilience with Jeremy OLeary, Mark Lear and Amanda Rain
We live with many uncertainties. Earthquakes, the economy, energy sourcing, water
supply, as well as climate change set the stage for an unpredictable future. Preparedness
and resilience are essential in times such as these. Community and collective co-
empowerment are vital. Together, we will explore how to stack functions to meet all of
these needs. We will also look at how people interact with scarcity, stress and various
stages of grief. We will discuss how placemaking fts in peacetime and as rallying points in
the not-so-good-time. Tere is no silver bullet for the unexpected, yet, with preparation,
planning, community building and resilience training, we can come together to make
the best and the most of challenging circumstances. Come for an interactive dialogue to
get to the heart of Community Resilience and Emergency Preparedness.
8 - 8:45 pm: Removing Regulatory barriers to sustainability with ReCodes Melora
Golden and Molly Daniellson
Melora Golden has provided vision and project management for Recode since 2008.
Before becoming an environmental activist, Melora was a social worker for 12 years. She
believes that bringing more intention and tools to group interaction will signifcantly
increase the efectiveness of those groups.
Mollys work focuses on composting toilets, urine diversion and graywater reuse; she will
talk about various angles of legalizing sustainability.
9 - 9:45 pm: Urban Edible Landscaping & Harvesting
Join us for an inspiring co-presentation with lead facilitators of two upcoming edible
landscaping projects in the Portland Metro area. Te frst is the Sellwood Moreland GAP
project SMILE with permaculturalist from the Planet Repair Institute (PRI) in Portlands
Sellwood Neighborhood - Mighk Simpson.
Shawna Zierdt, co-liaison for the Inter-Tribal Gathering Garden, will share the unique
community engagement and design process for ITGG with the regions urban and tribal
Native Americans and non-Native allies. ITGG is poised to be the frst urban Native
ecocultural gathering in an urban Portland park where Native community members will
be able to harvest culturally signifcant plant materials.
10 - 10:45 pm: Sid Sambergs Solo piano works which raise issues about our connection
to nature and the environment.
A pianist and composer whose music explores our relationship to the natural world, Sid
Samberg's works have been described as "mindscapes", challenging to both performer
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and listener. A native Chicagoan, Samberg performed for the 2012 Great Lakes Bioneers
Conference at the University of Illinois, and is honored to be taking part in this year's
VBC.
Tuesday, May 27
Teme: Community Supported Everything
*Free day workshop in the the Parlor Room, Central Venue
3 - 5 pm: An in-depth workshop on Community Resilience and Emergency Preparedness
with Jeremy OLeary
We live with many uncertainties. Earthquakes, the economy, energy sourcing, water
supply, as well as climate change all set the stage for an unpredictable future. Preparedness
and Resilience are essential in times such as these. Community and collective co-
empowerment are vital. Together, we will explore how to stack functions to meet all of
these needs. We will also look at how people interact with scarcity, stress and various
stages of grief. We will discuss how placemaking fts in peacetime and as rallying points
in the not-so-good-times. Tere is no silver bullet solution for the unexpected. Yet, with
preparation, planning, community building and resilience training, we can come together
to make the best and the most of challenging circumstances. Come for an interactive
dialogue to get to the heart of Community Resilience and Emergency Preparedness.
*Non-ticketed Evening Programs
6 - 7 pm: Community Potluck Dinner! Please bring something to share.
7 - 8:45 pm: Community Supported Everything with Sam Smith and Laura Scher
Community Supported Everything is a grassroots alternative higher ed program based
on freedom education, systems thinking, personal growth, and community resilience.
In this workshop, we'll explore the inner and outer work that creating change requires--
setting goals, facing our fears, and examining what is holding us back from creating the
world we want to live in. We'll hear from residents about their year in this living-learning
program, and then we'll break into small groups for deeper exploration.
Community Supported Everything is re-imagining higher education as a self directed,
community integrated process. We're creating systems of accountability and feedback so
that residents can overcome blocks, learn at their edges, and take action. On this night,
we'll be exploring these topics as community, assessing our goals, and working through
barriers!
9 - 9:45 pm: Open Music Circle led by Dusu Mali Bands Ibrahim Moussa Kelly
Bring your instruments! As the Music Circles facilitator, Ibrahim will be teaching west
African rhythms and sharing the history of jembe and how important it is in the west
African culture.
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10 - 10:45 pm: Re-wilding of Self: Exploring our Ecological Identity with Lindsay
Hagamen & Teri Ciacchi
Where has our wildness gone? Our socialized personas frequently leave us with an
experience of ourselves as isolated and small in the face of overwhelming issues such as
heartbreak, climate change, loss of ability, species extinction and personal and cultural
resource depletion. Using ecosomatics and group work processes from Joanna Macys
Te Work that Reconnects, we will guide a group Self-Restoration practice.
Our identities are complex, diverse and symbiotic. Moving across the full range of feelings
and sensations, increasing our awareness of our inter-personal zones of permaculture
and how permaculture principles can inform our social interactions, we will be better
equipped to build resilient community and regenerate abundant ecosystems. We will
welcome back your Wild Self, and welcome you Home to Body, Community and Earth.
Wednesday, May 28
Teme: Recentralization Night at NE Beech Street
Location: Fly Awake Tea Garden 3514 NE 13 Ave (NE Fremont & 13)
Te location of Recentralization night is based on its active transformation this year.
We have two amazing VBC 14 Placemaking projects in close proximity to each other.
Beech Street Project is leading intersection paintings and curbside native and pollinator
plantings on NE 10 Ave and 14 Ave on Beech Street and Harriet Fasenfest is hosting
Straw Clay workshops for her Moon Cottage at 4039 NE 14 Avenue. If thats not enough
to bring you over, weve got an exciting line-up of speakers, local artists and sumptuous
food!
4:30 - 5:30 pm: Deep Herbalism with Morgan Brent
4:30 - 5:30 pm: Bee workshop
5:30 - 6:30 pm: Dinner provided by Moon Cottage Placemaking Site lead Harriet
Fasenfest, Manda Beckett and Beech Street Placemaking Site Lead Arati Lloyd von
Behren
6:30 - 7:30 pm: Kids Time! Interactive Circus with Paul Battram (Circus Cascadia): A
hand held stilt and fower stick workshop.
7:30 - 8:15 pm: Storytelling - Visioning for a neighborhood
8:15 - 9:00 pm: Conscious Hip Hop with neighborhood artists Equinox
Music performances reaching topics of social justice, the collective conscious, and
universal unity.
9:00 - 9:45 pm: Abioto Sisters Cross-format arts crossing the void to you. Super group
of artist-sisters making it all up as we go along. Hanifah Abioto is a songstress, music
curator, and visual artist. Intisar Abioto is a photographer-writer-dancer explorer.
Amenta Abioto is a magician-musician-songstress-actor. Tis is magic, but it's not an
act.
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Tursday, May 29
Teme: VBC in the Streets for Last Tursday, Alberta Street Fair
Location: 1626 NE Alberta Street (NE 16 & Alberta)
4 - 9:00 pm: Join us for tea time and connections as we bring our beloved T-Horse to
the street fair and to share warm tea and conversations. We will also have a range of
spontaneous community building activities with Community Supported Brewing (CSB)
and Kaleidoscope Yoga happening at the hub for Community Supported Learning, CSB
and many other grand ideas of superhero-dom.
Friday, May 30
Teme: Cultural Humility and Indigenous Allyship
6 - 7 pm: Delicious Navajo Stew and Cornbread provided by NAYAs Nawitka catering
7 - 7:45 pm: Communication Tools for Confronting Privilege with Amanda Rain
It is challenging to confront privilege and power in ways that are efective and elicit
meaningful behavior change. Teir pervasive nature and slippery quality ofen result in
the perpetuation of unearned privilege instead of bringing it to an end. Tere are far too
many accepted justifcations and unquestioned assumptions that go unchallenged. Come
learn communication tools, discuss how to avoid common pitfalls and strengthen your
skills through interactive exercises with Amanda Rain of Speaking the Unspeakable.
We will open with some initial framing and personal exercises then move into sharing
communication tools with exercises to build confdence and skill in confronting privilege
and power.
8 - 9:45 pm: Cultural Humility and Indigenous Allyship Panel and Discussion with PSUs
Indigenous faculty, students and rain crowe.
A 45 minute panel followed by 45 minute interactive discussion with the following
wonderful people:
Judy BlueHorse,a faculty member at PSU's Indigenous Nations Studies program and the
2014 recipient of the "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" award by the Oregon Indian
Education Association, is a Native herbalist and Indigenous Permaculturalist. She is a
strong advocate for cultural education, indigenous food sovereignty and indigenous
sustainability leadership.
Shilo George is completing her graduate degree in Education. A strong advocate for
Decolonization and Indigenous Pedagogy, Shilo has inspired many with her frm,
compassionate commitment to social justice in the education system.
Karly Foster is studying Anthropology at PSU. She has been at the helm of many Native
community events including PSU's Naimuma Powwow in 2013. Karly is passionate about
food justice issues in Indian country as well as co-articulating appropriate protocol for
cultural sharing.
Kevin Tomas is currently the Cultural Sustainability Liaison with PSU's student
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sustainability center. He has been a strong advocate for diversity and cultural competence
for Native communities through much of his scholarly career.
rain crowe is the creator of Calling Ourselves Home, a body of work dedicated to
cultivating the design and embodiment of regenerative culture through a multitude
of group facilitation processes, teaching and presentation, and public speaking.
She currently works with spiritual, political, and rewilding groups and intentional
communities all over the country on creating and sustaining social designs for resiliency
and empowerment. Participants have described her oferings as focused, provocative,
and inspiring, and her style as eloquent, knowledgeable, and intuitive.
10 - 10:45 pm: Native American Flute with Isaac Trimble
Join 11-year Indigenous Flutist Isaac Trimble for a fute performance. Isaac Trimble
(Apache) is a recording artist specializing in the Native American fute, a Men's fancy
dancer, and performer with the Northstar Dance Company.
Saturday, May 31
Teme: Building with Nature
*$35 - $75 Sliding Scale Paid Workshop Scale at Central Venues Parlor Room
9 am - 5:30 pm: Social Permaculture Design for Resilience and Empowerment with rain
crowe
In this one day intensive we'll explore some aspects of the social systems that can be
found in families, kinship circles, organizations, and communities of all sizes.
Te content of the day's work will touch on how to:
Use the combination of structure and narrative in designing social systems
Determine your group's values and use them to create or strengthen your vision
Map the unique talents, skills and aptitudes of the group's members and apply them
to the vision
Nourish healthy communication, rapport, and collaboration through shared power
Anticipate confict and have a response plan
In addition to the presentation of material, there will be ample time for questions and
group exploration of real life examples of challenges and obstacles in your current
groups or the ones you are excited to create. Resource list will be provided at the end of
the teaching.
Please register here: http://callingourselveshome.weebly.com/social-permaculture-
design-for-resilience-and-empowerment.html
6 - 7 pm: Delicious Dinner provided by our wonderful kitchen volunteers and staf.
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7 - 7:45 pm: Pandora Tomas and Nichole Martin on Diversity and Sustainability
A co-presentation/discussion with Pandora Tomas and Nichole Martin through an
engaging conversation around sustainability and diversity in a way that values the unique
perspective we as African American sustainability educators bring to the movement.
8 - 8:45 pm: Closing Circle led by VBC 14 Natural Building Coordinator Frances
Michaelson
Join us for a night of remembering where we came from. Te Hallmark of Natural
Building leaders that have participated in the VBC throughout it's long life will gather
on this fnal night of our celebration to share stories of past projects, to acknowledge
the long road traveled and to lay the foundation for the one before us. What are the
underlying principles of this art of building our homes from the earth, how does it lead
us, where will it grow? Tese questions will be the ones we ask ourselves as we give
thanks for the VBC 2014 and look forward to the next year!
9 - 9:45 pm: Cascadian Folk Music with Te Moonshine
Kick of your mud boots and kick up some dust with Te Moonshine! Guitar, Autoharp,
Fiddle, Banjo and Stand-up Bass, at your service! Join Michael and Rachel Levasseur,
Sara Wolf, Elwood and Susanne Lowbeer for a fve piece stringband original and dynamic
set. With strong roots into Americana, Rock, Old-time, Gypsy and Cajun traditions this
music is a adventure that all sorts of audiences can jump on board with.
10 - 10:45 pm: Heart-opening fractal bliss with Sol Nectar
For VBC this year, we are ofering a welcoming and connective musical experience
that provides glimpses into what a truly holistic culture might look and feel like. Tis
experience will help people build on their sense of community connection while
supporting audience members to become connectors in the mycelium network of
community and sacred space creation. It will be a mixture of concert, ecstatic dance,
song circle, and ceremony. Te people who attend this experience will then be primed
as catalysts for gently encouraging joyful connection throughout the larger event.
Sunday, June 1, 11 am - 2 pm
Teme: Pizza in the Park Blocks
Location: PSU's Cob Oven in South Park Blocks, south side of Smith Union, 1825
SW Broadway (Intersection of SW Park Ave & Harrison Street).
Join local Sicilian pizza pros from Al Fornos Ferruzza as they handcraf delicious pizzas
with non-vegetarian, vegetarian, gluten-free and vegan options for hungry happy
VBC Villagers. Located in Portlands SW Park Blocks in the middle of Portland State
Universitys downtown campus, the PSU Earthen/Cob Oven will be happy to be fred up
and ready to cook you the perfect wood-fred pizzas of your desires.
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A few more special events that are happening in places other than the central venues...
Friday, May 30
3:30 - 5:30 pm: Plant Exchange at Marishas
Location: 4816 SE 50th Ave, Woodstock Neighborhood, Portland, OR
Come gather in community and exchange your plants for ones that you do not have yet.
Here's how it works: You divide your plants that need dividing before hand. Put them
in a container and clearly label them. Make sure you water them well before travel.
Bring them to our site and gather some plants from what others bring. You can bring
bulbs and seeds to trade as well.
Please don't bring any "weedy" plants.
For questions, contact Marisha Auerbach at queenbee@herbnwisdom.com
Sunday, June 1
9 am - 5 pm: Feeling for the Path of Right Relationship with rain crowe
Location: Tryon Life Community Farm, 11640 SW Boones Ferry Road Portland, OR
97219
Feeling for the Path of Right Relationship: Query, Complexity, and Intuition
Tis daylong teaching is about endeavoring into, or continuing, a journey to fnd home
within and without as the descendents of white settler colonialists living in Cascadia.
In this intensive we'll cultivate some ways to steadfastly lean into feeling for the path of
reciprocal relationships, through the process of deep inquiry, embracing complexity,
and intuitive listening, as we undertake an exploration of questions about what is
"whiteness", cultural birthright vs. appropriation, allyship to living indigenous people,
connection to ancestry, responsibility to those who come next, and healing trauma.
In this spirit-spoken approach to radical anti-oppression work in service of collective
liberation, we'll use sound, movement, theater and visual arts, journaling, and ceremony
to access the wisdom in our bodies and from our guides and allies. With courage, trust,
and creative imagining the day will be oriented around a presentation to thoroughly
explain the inquiry process template for participants to take out into the world, pairs
and group conversation, personal refection, and embodied experiential learning and
sharing.
Register here: http://callingourselveshome.weebly.com/feeling-for-the-path-of-right-
relationship.html
Bio: rain crowe works with and from a body of work dedicated to cultivating the arts
of interdependent relationships through group facilitation, mediation, and educational
opportunities. She is a regenerative culture events organizer who engages with spiritual,
political, rewilding, and intentional communities all over the country. She teaches and
writes about magic and ritual, the ancestral skills of council making and restorative
confict transformation, systems thinking in radical organizing, and ecstatic connection
to the sacred.
SPECIAL EVENTS
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VOLUNTEER BIOS
Cyd Manro
Cyd has lived in Portland since 1999. He teaches workshops on facilitation and
communication, and consults organizations to aid with their structure. Lately, he has
learning more about computer languages, gardening, and preparing yummy, healthy
food. He is serving this year's Village Building Convergence through organizational
support and institutional memory.
Mark Lakeman
As an elder, Mark provides memory and perspective to VBC. Tis year, Mark is a
member of the core group - working in fund raising & sponsorship, placemaking,
evening events, publicity, venue design, some actual placemaking projects, and lots
more.
Olga Lukomsky
Olga lives in Portland with her beloved husband Hodges. Tey recently made the epic
journey from the north east to the south east part of town. Tey seek new SE buddies
to tell them important things like where to fnd good pineapple pizza and where to
go for handholding and sunset watching (@olgaloo). Olga recently found an Agate
at the coast afer 5 years of searching (never give up!) Tis is her 2nd year with VBC
publicity.
Kirk Rea
Kirk Rea has been an environmental activist since his mom taught him to pick up
litter. Since youth Kirk has been working toward world peace engaging in social and
environmental justice groups using his fne art and confict resolution background.
Now happily serving the VBC, Kirk also works as a garden educator, a Queer art and
music festival called Not Enough!, and in a Portland Latino art collective called Latino
Art Now!
SaraHope Smith
SaraHope Smith is a cultural creative who has been helping people shif cultures
towards interconnected self-empowerment in settings from yoga to internet banking
to being a biodiesel pioneer to greening events and organizations always building
commUnity as she goes. She is a vessel for healing our culture and our planet and has
supported the VBC this year thru the placemaking - Emphasizing the places and ways
relations and connections are woven into the tapestry of our community. She is ever-
enjoying the synergy of good teamwork.
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Gabriel Aidra
Gabriel has been a rocking social media person. Outside of City Repair related work
Gabriel is attending Portland State University for his Masters in Public Health and can
usually be found dancing or fre spinning. Gabriel also loves home cooked meals, so if
you see him you know what to give him!
Ridhi D'Cruz
Ridhi came to Portland in 2010 from South India to do her Masters in Sociocultural
Anthropology and cross-pollinate with sustainability practitioners. Ever since, she has
been working on the intersection between diversity and sustainability. She is currently
working on her dream project the Inter-Tribal Gathering Garden at Cully Park with local
Native American community organizers. Tis is her third year as Placemaking site co-
lead at Portland State and her frst time supporting VBC Core 14 as a Diversity and
Evening Programming Co-Coordinator. She hopes to return to India in 2015 and will
co-host VBC India someday.
Benjamin Hambright
Ben landed in Portland 6 months ago looking for ways to change the world. In this
search he came upon City Repair and the VBC. As a healer and changemaker he wants
to help heal the people and the planet. Since arriving in Portland hes been building
a tiny house and a tiny house community in the Southeast, working at a community
acupuncture clinic and working on a activist calendar site, Activatehub.org. At the
VBC hes been supporting the Core and will be handling the fnance side of the VBC.
Yeliz Mert
Yeliz arrived in Portland a month ago to do her internship at City Repair, and
Communitecture. Being from Turkey, she has been doing her masters studies in Italy,
Belgium and France before arriving in the US. She is currently working on her thesis
on urban sustainability to complete her master's program in Sustainable Territorial
Development. She is on an ongoing quest of learning and creating ways and means of
sustainable living in alignment with nature. Shes passionate about personal realization
and lifestyles that ofer holistic contribution to whole and are based on self sufciency,
resiliency and sharing.
Ted Swagerty
Ted traveled for a little more than a year as an eco-journalist through Asia, the
Middle East and Europe documenting the steady rise of permaculture and renewable
energy. He is happy to report that Portland, Oregon is regarded as an example to
follow from permaculturists around the world partly due to the success of Village
building Convergence. From very far away, he heard about City Repair and the VBC
and is now pleased to be taking an active role organizing the event. He will also be
presenting about his trip and his project Resiliency Rising.
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VOLUNTEER BIOS
Special thanks to all of our supportive mentors:
Albert Kaufman
Matt Bibeau
Tsarra Berger
Mikaela Schey
Mark Tobin
Arisana Tolomei
Jordan Fink
Joseph Von Hoven
Joseph Von Hoven is a poet, writer, healer and shaman whose work involves helping
people to move the short but tremendous distance into their hearts and come to life,
the earth and each other with deep authenticity, spontaneity and inspiration. His
passion is in cracking through the ice that separates us and birthing a new village
culture of connection, genius-unlocking and Gaia consciousness. As part of the VBC
Publicity team, his work is to drum up our amazing and seminal annual celebration of
revillaging through Te Word newsletter and other media publications.
www.josephvonhoven.com
Victor Barreda Pazos
Victor made the big move from Spain to Portland last summer with his wife and
son. Four years ago he attended VBC as a traveler and the experience totally changed
his life. Permaculture became one of his main passions and he started applying
the principles into his own life. Now Victor is a conscious parent, holistic healing
practitioner, and montessori and permaculture teacher for children. He is inspired to
transform the world from the very beginning guiding the youngest ones to enjoy the
precious gif of Mother Earth.
Rachel Cox
Tis is the frst year I have volunteered with the VBC. I moved from Texas to Portland
almost three years ago. I love taking pictures, camping, hiking, gardening, knitting,
cob, awesome people... basically everything the Northwest ofers. I'm thrilled to be
involved with such a tight knit community and watch our neighborhoods grow with
love.
Brent Bellamy
Vibrant community, global awareness, and building positive relationships with
everyone he meets are Brent's passions and core to his being. He gets to share life with
his beautiful wife Cassie. Together they enjoy outdoor adventures, trips abroad, and
really exploration of any kind. When he isn't working with VBC Brent is a training
coordinator with Carpe Diem Education. Tere he has the honor of preparing
educators to take college age students on semester long trips all across the globe. Teir
goal is to facilitate experiences in which students learn about social equity, culture,
and community.
Eddie Hooker
Lindsay Howell
Mighk Simpson
Sarah Frances Michaelson
Harriet Fasenfest
Jenny Leis
Mia Van Meter
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