The Village Building Convergence, hosted by City Repair is an amazing 10 day community building/public space reclaiming/ neighborhood empowering event that is spread out all over Portland. Find ways to plug in by checking out the just-published “Village Builder”, a complete listing of all projects happening throughout the city.
See you on the streets!
Sustainable Financing and Economics: Visions of Complementary Currencies
Friday, May 24th, 2:00 to 4:00 PM
PSU ASRC (Rec Center Building), Room 660
1800 SW 6th Ave., Portland
TRANSIT TIP: Best access is the first (6th Ave) or last (5th Ave) stop of the Max Yellow and Green Lines.
Our global, profit-driven financial system has led to dangerous rips in our social safety net, gaping holes in our health care system, and poses serious threats to our fragile ecosystem. In the realms of public health, environmental sustainability, and non-profit and local government services, we have plenty of meaningful work to be done and plenty of people with the skills to do it who are unemployed or underemployed and barely able to get by. Finding the financing to match these needs is an ever-growing dilemma within our current financing system.
Please join the Social Sustainability Colloquium for an introduction to complementary currencies and how they can help empower local communities and government to create meaningful employment and reclaim a future for our public commons and the public good.
MORE INFO: Harriet Cooke <holisticooke@aol.com>
Kitchen Share, which started in Southeast Portland and is now opening up a second spot in Northeast is a local organization focused on providing a way for neighbors to share kitchen supplies. They have the following request:
Can You Donate Some Common Kitchen Items to VBC?
In less than two weeks, The Village Building Convergence will infiltrate Portland with natural-builders and intersection painters to support neighborhood-led improvements. Part of their program is to provide dinner for participants on several nights. Kitchen Share would like to collect the following items for this event. Coffee airpots, large cooking pots, large bowls, ladles, tongs, chopping blocks, knives, large colanders, hotel pans, yogurt tubs and larger containers with lids, jars, potholders, kitchen towels, table cloths, stackable cups, flatware, tubs for dishes, and dish drying racks.
Please contact Robin (info AT kitchenshare.org or 919.602.3555) to arrange drop-off or pick-up of your donation. Some unique/durable items that can be labeled could be returned after the event if necessary. These items are needed by Thursday, May 23rd.
Register online at http://bit.ly/10kJ7xI
Have you experienced meetings that are boring or contentious and don’t seem to get much done? Are you interested in learning how to facilitate a more productive and connected meeting?
Join VBC coordinators Cyd Manro of City Repair and Marc Tobin of Rising Vision (http://rising-vision.net/) for a workshop on facilitating meetings that are effective at accomplishing goals and making clear decisions while also building trust and connection between the attendees. Cyd and Marc will put a special emphasis on using Dynamic Governance’s meeting form, while adding in other elements of group facilitation from each of their many years of experience.
This workshop is FREE for all PSU students and the skills taught will be applicable for many different types of meetings, but with a special emphasis on community, activist, and organizational meetings.
Register online at http://bit.ly/10kJ7xI
This week we’ll be updating the Wikipedia page. Do your homework beforehand. Read the Wikipedia entry and make yourself some notes. Bring them! RSVP by facebook or email: cascadianmycelium AT gmail DOT com
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Thanks to all who contributed to this issue: Adam, Megan, Alon, Elona, Scrub Jay, River, Liberty, Jacob, the Yourself Art Collective, Anonymous Artists, and Anonymous Blockaders. Thanks to all who donated some money to help us get this issue onto the streets – which should be a few days from now.
“PetiteTaway inc”, Presents Native ARTS & more… http://www.indigenousexperiencenw.com
Indigenous Experience NW2013 “The Medicine Within: Community, Family, & Tradition” Come enjoy An Indigenous Experience! An Evening of Native ART, Music, Dance, Story Teller’s, Speaker’s, Community Exhibits, & Native Foods / Teas! Connect, Pray, Celebrate, & Heal!
ART : Datson Teekkona aka: TJ Jones-Ravenwolf Music: Swil Kanim, Cody Blackbird, Keith Secola w/ Brian Harrison Trio & Bigg B / N8 Double Feature Speaker’s :Charleen Touchette, Lillian Pitt, Rick Bartow, Phillip Archambault, Jubel Perkins & more TBA. Story Teller’s: Ed Edmo, & more TBA.
The ART show, Speakers, Story teller’s & Community Exhibit booths are “FREE” to the general public in the ballroom on the main floor, The Native Foods are free to music(upstairs auditorium) ticket holders and available to the public for a small fee(TBA). $25(Advanced) tickets on sale NOW! $30 at door.
The Event will Be filmed and Livestreamed by: Craftmaster Productions. A part of the proceeds will go to “Traditional Games Clinic – Portland 2013″ http://indigenousexperiencenw13.brownpapertickets.com/
Tickets are available at Cedar Mountain Drums starting Monday April 8th
(Reposted from portland.reddit.com)
Research Club returns this Sunday after our events went on hiatus since last year’s Summer Camp.
About Brunch The point of brunch is to create an informal and relaxed atmosphere where active and interesting people can meet each other and talk about what they’re doing while enjoying our free vegan, gluten-free hash, coffee, tea, and whatever sundry treats everyone else brings (Hint: bringing food = instant new friends). More here
Join us Sunday, April 28 for our next brunch! Noon – 2pm Talks start at 12:30 We’ll be at Esri R&D Center, 900 SW 3rd Ave, #400 Esri used to be Geoloqui, and they’re 100% local and awesome
Bring some or all of these things for the optimum Brunch Experience
More info: http://www.research-club.org/brunch-27
Speakers this Month
Sam Smith – Community Supported Everything What do you really love to do? What do you want to make happen in the world? What would you need to do it? Over the past year we’ve sat down with hundreds of people and asked them these questions. What we find, over and over, is that people overwhelmingly dream of doing the things they love for other people. And, if they’re not already doing it, what’s holding them back is almost always access to skills, resources, and support that other people in the community have and would love to give if they only knew there was a need. The Community Supported Everything Guildhall is a place for sharing information, making connections, and making beautiful things happen.
Kevilina Burbank –Philosophy, Vision and Development of IncitED
IncitED is a social enterprise created for the purpose of supporting educators, learners, and communities around the world.
It operates as an online crowdfunding platform (CFP) that facilitates the development and funding of a wide range of education and school-based initiatives, from the acquisition of needed classroom supplies to the development or continuation of important programs to the construction of new schools. IncitED offers educators and supporters of education a tool to bridge persistent and growing budget gaps with less effort and lower costs than many traditional fundraising methods.
The IncitED platform also features an element that is unique to crowdfunding in the form of a virtual community space designed to allow IncitED members to find, share, and replicate effective education practices.
Mat Lippincott – What It’s Like to Speak at TED Research Club alumni Mathew shares his thoughts and blunt observations about the cultural phenomena that is TED.
The New Research Club Board! — Our our amazing new board will introduce themselves and their favorite projects.
Happy Decolonize/Reinhabit Your Bioregion Day from Cascadia PDX.
Join us this *Thursday, April 25th 6PM – 8PM* for April’s Utopia! themed Bioregional Networking Night to hear all the updates on gatherings, events, and our allies. Join us for utopian visioning exercises and hot and topical debate on Cascadian’s Utopian or Distopian future. Dress in your favorite utopian look (j/k, well if you want to). Bring snack items to share.
Again that is…
Utopia! – Cascadia Networking and Visioning Night
Thursday, April 25th 6PM – 8PM
PSU Smith Memorial Union, Rm 296 (2nd floor)
Photographer Unknown
Sunday, 21 April 2013
1:00 until 3:00pm
Black Box Theater, Milepost 5 (enter on Oregon St.) (map)
“…a poetic dialogue between poets residing west of the Cascades and those … on the the east side of the mountains. Much has been spoken of the urban/rural divide here in our state. That seems to be one of the themes that has emerged in the course of the poem.” -Jack e Lorts, from the forward of the Traprocks Books publication.
A reading by:
Ursula K. Le Guin, Paulann Petersen, Bette Lynch Husted, Penelope Scambly Schott, Ellen Waterston, Jarold Ramsey, Jack e Lorts, Barbara Drake, Maralee Gerke, Erik Muller, Pamela Steele.
Reading sponsored by Elohi Gadugi Journal and The Habit of Rainy Nights Press. Direction/Info: 503-278-6952
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/142716682576463/