Fri, May 23rd - Sun, June 1st

The venue for this year’s Village Building Convergence does not fully accommodate those people in our community who use wheelchairs. We apologize for this and are committed to ensuring that next year’s venue and projects are more inclusive. We invite people to collaborate with us for next year’s planning process. If you are interested, please contact Hindi, hindi@cityrepair.org

Free Daytime Workshops
[Workshop Schedule]

19 Portland Neighborhood Projects
[Project Sites]

Evening Events
Food | Speakers | Music
[Event Schedule]
Bossanova (722 E Burnside)
5pm to late
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The Village Building Convergence 2008 (VBC8) is a 10-day event from Friday, May 23rd – Sunday, June 1, 2008 in which neighborhoods activate to build shared public places that they have envisioned, designed, funded, and will maintain for themselves. VBC8 will include hands-on education in permaculture design and construction, ecological building, and public art. All projects are built through collaboration, community conversations and commitment of a neighborhood to strengthen itself. Everyone is invited to attend evening events at a central location, to participate in workshops or listen to visionaries speak about various aspects of sustainable culture.

VBC will feature projects located in or adjacent to the public right of way and private projects that support community in various neighborhoods. Private site projects will be structures or systems that are built by and available to the communities concerned with that site, and hopefully available to some extent to the larger community. These will include public squares and meeting houses, community kiosks and benches, solar-powered and artistic innovations, and many other new ideas. Each project is initiated and managed by neighborhood groups with support from the VBC Placemaking Committee. The Placemaking coordinators will help neighborhoods facilitate and coordinate the outreach/public involvement process, community decision-making and design workshops, and the permit process with the City.

Early Registration ends May 1st!

Village Building Convergence 2008 Fees

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Out of town ticket value includes:
• Housing accommodations
• All Access admission to Evening venue: Dinner, speaker series, Music Entertainment.
• Daytime site activities and workshops (free for all)

• 10-day $350 BEST BARGAIN!
• 10-day Worktrade $290
• 5-day $190
• 5-day Worktrade $150
• 1-day $40

(Includes evening event, dinner, & workshops. No housing.)
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In Town ticket value includes:
• All Access admission to Evening venue: Dinner, speaker series, Music Entertainment.
• Daytime site activities and workshops (free for all)

• 10-day $160 BEST BARGAIN!
• 5-day $90
• 1-day $20

Evening Event Only (at the door)

• $15 at the door, $20 w/meal and speaker

Evening tickets will be available at a local ticketing vendor near you (TBD)

Ticketing questions? Please email: vbcregistrator@gmail.com

Many remarkable people participate in the VBC from all over the country. If you would like to share some space in your house during the VBC click here

Questions: Housing

VBC Volunteer Orientation, Sunday, May 18th at 6pm

Our newest CRHQ; 3125 E. Burnside

Are you interested in attending the evening events but can’t afford to? Are you interested in meeting new people and having fun while doing something good? Do you love good food? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please attend our final volunteer orientation this Sunday to get the answers. We have a beautiful new space set up, so come check it out, learn about ways you can volunteer for VBC this year, and even sign up for worktrade shifts! You will learn about all the different areas you can volunteer in, and how many hours you will need to recieve one FREE access pass to up to two nights of VBC! Come! Tell your friends to come! Make this years VBC the best VBC ever!

We have many opportunities for you to help us with VBC:

Clean-up (after dinner)

Event Buildout

Odds & Ends in all committees like Publicity, Worktrade, Placemaking, etc

Interested in volunteering at the venue or CRHQ, please contact Marc, crvolunteer@gmail.com or Clea, vbcvolunteer@gmail.com

SET-UP & BREAKDOWN HELP NEEDED

PLEASE consider helping out…this is an area where having two extra people makes the entire day go much more smoothly and quickly.

* 10am Tuesday, May 20th, loading Fred the Flatbed, meet at 4709 SE 64th, Lydia’s house. We’ll be loading many items for the VBC venue, including chairs, pillows and rugs, boxes of cups and plates, and folding tables. We’ll go until maybe 3 or 4pm, and the loading will include going to North Portland to add wood, more tables, and some other items.

* 9:30am Wednesday, May 21st, meeting at CRHQ at 3125 E Burnside, we will do more materials collection until we’re done at about noon or so. Then we’ll park the flatbed and have it ready to unload at the VBC8 venue the following am.

* 10am Thursday, May 22nd, HUGE set-up push at Bossanova, the VBC8 venue located at 722 SE Burnside. We will work all day and into the night, please bring tools and art stuff for maximum creative work-party time!!!

* 10am Friday, May 23rd, Finalize and touch-up all creative environments and wonderfulness at the sparkling VBC8 venue, 722 SE Burnside! We will work until 3pm and then it must be absolutely done!

* VBC8 Breakdown Workparty! Monday, June 2nd beginning at 10am! This will be a one day of taking everything down and moving it all to storage, all-in-one-day!!!

A CALL TO VOLUNTEERS FOR THE VBC8 NOURISHMENT KITCHEN!

Hey there!

If you are interested in volunteering for the Nourishment Team, either cooking or serving during the Village Building Convergence (May 23rd to June 1st), you should contact:

Bobbie, Julia & Henry

radicalrupture@gmail.com

Auction – Donations and Coordinator Needed

This is a call for donations for the VBC auction, which we rely upon to raise funds for the organization. Artisans? Restaurant/bar owners? Healers? Who might be able to make a donation for a good cause?

We are also seeking a Coordinator to handle the Auction during VBC. Contact Marc at volunteer@cityrepair.org.

VBC8 Evening Event Information

Full event schedule, speaker and musician bios

VBC8 Publicity
Publicity - Press Articles & Information

Every year our evening venue creates a living Village Market space. The VBC Village Market is a fun and resourceful space filled with local artisans, non-profit organizations, sustainable resources, literature and products, health and wellness resources, knowledgeable people and community connections. If you have an exciting resource that people should know about and would like to be a part of the Village Market please contact us and tell us about it: Vendor Village Market

VBC Core Help Plan VBC8! → Tue 5:45-8:15p at CRHQ (3125 E. Burnside St)

Placemaking VBC Sites get the support they need to be successful → Mon 6:30 - 8:30pm, Mt. Scott Community Center (5530 SE 72nd Ave, in the Craft Room above lobby), contact Mark (moontrout@gmail.com)

Event Design & Venue Plan the VBC venue & evening event programming → contact Mark if you’d like to help (moontrout@cityrepair.org)

Nourishment Ensure the community is well fed at the VBC venue → TBD, contact Julia (juliacphoto@gmail.com)

Building Materials & Logistics Ensure VBC sites get the materials they need → Next Mtgs: contact Matt (vbcmaterials@cityrepair.org)

Village Builder The printed guide to all VBC sites & more → TBD, contact Henry (henry_indy@hotmail.com)

Linked here is a list of Neighborhood Grant Opportunities.

Click here for VBC7 information and inspiration!