November 1, 2006 through November 20, 2006 The Village Lives: Place-making and the Art of the Local

What: Slide presentation with Mark Lakeman of The City Repair Project from Portland, Oregon (www.cityrepair.org)

When: 7 - 9 PM, Sunday, November 19, 2006

Where: Dance Palace Church Space, Point Reyes Station

Who: Mark Lakeman of the City Repair Project, 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.

Sponsored by: Tomales Bay Institute, Regenerative Design Institute, Marin Organic, SPAWN

Join us for a slide presentation and discussion that shares the story of The City Repair Project in Portland, Oregon. Also, post and pre-event plannings that will look at how city repair's work is relevant here. (Email for more information - lizbar@svn.net.)

City Repair inspires and guides the transformation of the typical American city into a vital social commons. This presentation compares the historic settlement patterns of village societies with the dominant forces of Western colonization as a context for describing City Repair's work.

From their website: www.cityrepair.org