If so, contact Bruce for more details. Email him atbruce.podobnik@gmail.com.

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Plastering party at Madison High School

Activist Musician plays in Sellwood: The World Awake Tour

Plastering party at Madison High School

This Saturday and Sunday will be the final work parties for Madison High School’s VBC 10 Outdoor classroom project, if you’re interested in trying your hand at lime plaster, please come on down!

When: Friday July 31st & Saturday August 1st,  9:00am – 4:00pm

Where: Madison High School Outdoor Classroom

Event: Plaster the outdoor classroom walls and seating with a traditional lime sand plaster, learn proper preparation, application and finishing techniques. Time permitting, we will also finish the rainwater catchment system.

Any questions please contact Casey at cslezak@gmail.com or 401.474.4924 and if you plan on coming please RSVP so we have an idea of how many people will be there.

Activist Musician plays in Sellwood: The World Awake Tour

Yes, it’s Planet Repair Institute’s first-ever musical event: The World Awake Tour

with Diane Patterson, Rockin’ Folksinger & Songwriter, & Becky White and The Secret Mission. Come Hear: Their Funky Earth Ballads for The Peaceful Revolution

When: 7pm Monday, August 16th

Where: Planet Repair Institute, 8512 SE 8th, Portland, Oregon 97202

How: Sliding Scale At The Door

Diane Patterson is a songwriter and activist who travels the continent in order to inspire extraordinary visions and actions. She has also recently played a series of performances for prison populations throughout the California penal system.

Contact: ancientstar66@yahoo.com – 831-515-4100 ext 333 - www.dianepatterson.org

Tiffany Wong

Hello All! I am one of three City Repair interns and attend school at the University of California Santa Cruz as a community studies major. I am currently in transition into my third year at UCSC and am trying to graduate a year early. I have a strong interest in permaculture, biking and placemaking and am excited to learn about the elements that it takes to create places. I am excited about all that City Repair has done and want to do it all in the next six months of my internship. I look forward to what the future has to hold.

Brian Sindel

Hello, my name is Brian Sindel and I am a native of San Diego, CA. I, much like the other two interns, am a student at UCSC. I really enjoy hiking, biking, bodysurfing (but not in Oregon), and just generally being outside (but it should be noted that I dont enjoy getting sunburns or bitten by mosquitoes). I also love food and music (at this point it should also be noted that I dont have much money). I am absolutely in love with Portland and City Repair, so far at least, and am really excited to be involved with basically all the projects that are a part of it. I would love to get to know each and every person who is a part of this project as well, so feel more than free to contact me and hopefully you could give me a bike tour of some cool spots or possibly a tour of some fruit foraging spots, or really anything!

Nick Bischoff

Hi, my name is Nick born and raised in the city of San Rafael, CA and am attending school at UC Santa Cruz. I am here with Brian and Tiffany on a field study to work with City Repair. I like music, food, art, and the great outdoors. I’m happy to be here in the beautiful city of Portland and involved with City Repair. I’m looking forward to meeting you all and making a difference in our communities making them the places that we want to live and play!

For more info, contact Simon! simon@cityrepair.org

Just drop them by our office, or contact Bruce for pickup. bruce@cityrepair.org

When July 25 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm

Where SEA Change Gallery 625 NW Everette

Reware is BACK!!! with all those great craft projects for the summer! This weeks Reware will be catered by Old Wives Tale restaurant!!

The City ReWare Upcycle Market, a place where the whole community can gather to celebrate and cultivate a post-consumption culture of thrifting, reducing, reusing, recycling and upcycling! Upcyling is the transformation of products of crippled functionality into products of higher quality and artistic value. Come be a thread in the fabric with which we can design a new paradigm and turn trash into treasures!

Come enjoy an afternoon of skill share, art, music, food & drink! Bring items with high artistic and/or functional potential to be transformed and upcycled. Learn from our artistic crafters how to creatively transform otherwise would-be-wasted materials into stylized crafts.

Crafts include Pottery wheel, Cork Boards, Communal Painting, City Repair Outreach Door Sandwich, Bike tube flip flops, Button Maker!!, Earth Day Screen Printing for shirts, Sticker identification project for Pickathon, All kinds of random upcylced materials for you to create whatever your imagination wants too!!!

We are looking for musicians to play, and any poetry that wants to be read. We shall gather to craft, converse, eat, laugh, play, and remember.

Needs Extra paint, and brushes, Glue, Frames, Clay, Ideas, Jokes, High fives, Anything you can make art out of!!!

Pillows and rugs!  If you have any of you great CR community out there have extra pillows and rugs we’ll take em..  We will be settin gup some amazing chill spaces this summer and would love some new additions.  Stay comfy

If you have any upcycled crafts that you would like to sell know there will be a table for you to do that. Reware asks 10% of your sale

Invite your friends!! Come one come all.

For info contact Roberto at 805-637-5711 or roberto@cityrepair.org

See you there!!!!

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Upcoming Earthen Hand Workshops

POLITICAL ARTS GROUP HIGHLIGHTS RESISTANCE TO LNG

Upcoming Earthen Hand Workshops

Hello Progressive People,

I am happy to announce Earthen Hand has a slough of great workshops coming up on many natural building skills.

The first ever earthen paints class through Portland Community College is next week, plus fun Cob projects in Portland, and then two workshops back to back in Puerto Rico this September. Full schedule below:

2010 Workshop Schedule

Earthen Paints at PCC……………July 17

Earthbag & Cob Farm Stand….July 18-23

Cob Basics and Beyond…………August 21-22

Cob Farm House……………………August 24-29

Earthbag Dome Training………..Sept 19-Oct 1

Cob Oven Workshop……………..Oct 2-3

These workshops are packed with information, fun, and leave people with practical skills that will last them a lifetime.

10% off for bringing a friend, 20% for groups of 4 or more.

All the best, Scott Howard

Earthen Hand Natural Building

Sign-up today at WWW.EARTHENHAND.COM

POLITICAL ARTS GROUP HIGHLIGHTS RESISTANCE TO LNG

Printmakers from Portland and Indonesia map the resistance to
 imported liquefied natural gas from the source to the consumer in two giant relief prints. On Thursday, the 5th of August, Justseeds and SEA Change gallery will present an opening reception for “We Agree: A Crisis in Common”. On display will be two large blockprints, one made by the Portland-based members of the Justseeds Artist Cooperative, and the other by members of Taring Padi, an artist cooperative from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The two prints, each measuring three feet by nine feet, are bold, graphic depictions of the impact of the Natural gas industry and its satellites on the landscape and peoples of both sides of the Pacific. They were designed and printed collaboratively, with the help of generous funding from RACC and Work for Art. Other artworks by Justseeds and Taring Padi will also be on display. The gallery will open at 5 pm. SEA Change is located at 625 NW Everett St, Gallery #110, in Downtown Portland.

Roger Peet, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, 541-326-9687, mold2000@yahoo.com

Katherine Ball, SEA Change Gallery, 313-605-2924, curators@seachangegallery.org

When

Volunteer registration begins at 8:45am. Come early to depave!

Where Creative Science School, 1231 SE 92nd Avenue

Join us to free more soil! Depave will be returning to Creative Science School to do another exciting pavement removal project. We will depave 800 square feet of asphalt along the south side of the playground to create a shaded seating area for students, teachers, and parents. As with all Depave events, there will be far more to enjoy than asphalt removal, including food, games for kids, and water cooling activities for the volunteers! The pavement at CSS is thick, so we will need lots of volunteers to help get this project done!

Depave will provide volunteers with the all necessary tools, safety gear, and water. Food will be donated from local businesses. Due to the physical nature of asphalt removal, volunteers are encouraged to wear closed toed shoes and long pants. Please also dress appropriately for the weather. All ages are welcome to participate!

About CSS

The Creative Science School is a focus option Portland Public Schools for children in grades K-8. Students are encouraged to be independent thinkers, learners and problem solvers. Students develop and demonstrate the ability to create questions, formulate solutions and apply results throughout their lives. CSS is a community of students, parents and teachers all working together to make the school a strong, successful and meaningful educational option. Visit http://creativescienceschool.org for more information.

This project is funded by the East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District Partners in Conservation grant program. Visit www.emswcd.org for more information.

For questions about the Creative Science School depaving event, contact Naomi Lowinger, CSS outreach, at omi5000@gmail.com or visit www.depave.org!

City Riparian, the Village Planting Convergence takes place usually on the second weekend of October and is filled with events related to all things Permaculture.  In the past we have organized mushroom workshops, cob pizza party potlucks, permaculture design charrettes, street plantings, tree prunings and worm composting workshops just to name a few.

If you are interested in being part of the organizing team of this extremely low key and fun event, please email cityriparian@cityrepair.org

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Earth Magic Skillshare at TLC Farm

Earth Magic Skillshare at TLC Farm

bring your magic to this co-created event!

skills to be shared dance, circle and coalesce around themes of ritual, rewilding, spellwork, plants & medicine, storytelling, divination, political actions, food, directions & elements, rites of passage, trade blankets, altars, songs, and whatever land-based magic you have to share.

we gather at 1pm on Saturday, July 24th, and disperse at 5pm on Sunday, July 25th.

an experiment in gift economy: all kinds of donations welcome.

please bring food to contribute to our community kitchen!

limited camping available. inquire beforehand.

e-mail to let us know yer coming, and what skills you might care to share: priestess@tryonfarm.org

call 518.567.9044 or 617.406.8299 with questions

www.tryonfarm.org to learn more about us!

transportation

ride yer bike to the Farm! we’re at 11640 SW Boones Ferry Rd.

or: take the #12 to the Barbur Park and ride, 9712 SW Barbur Blvd. a shuttle will greet you there and bring you to the Farm. (you can carpool there too and park yer car.)

the shuttle will leave the Park & Ride at 12:30pm on Saturday, and return at 5:30 pm. on Sunday, it will leave the P&R at 9:30 am, and return at 5:00pm.