Christian Arnsperger returns to LA Eco-Village for the third year. And we welcome Kreigh Hampel , Richard Register, and Gideon Sussman from BuroHappold , and you, our neighbors, friends and colleagues for a special day of interacting with a few of the world’s most creative thinkers for healing and transforming our Cities into resilient eco-systems where health and justice prevail.
EVENT DETAILS:
When:
Saturday, July 14, 2018 from 1pm to midnight or any part of the day as noted on the schedule below
Where:
3554 West First Street – Songs Hall and Yard,
North end of Los Angeles Eco-Village on our new property
Enter on Bimini just south of First St., Los Angeles 90004
Reservations required:
crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
Fees (sliding scale):
Afternoon sessions, 1 to 5:15pm: $10 – $25 or 4.5 TimeDollars** to CRSP
Catered Dinner, 5:15 to 7pm: $15 to $20 Cash or check to CRSP
Evening sessions,7pm to midnight: $15 to $30 or 5 TimeDollars** to CRSP
All sessions: $30 to $50 with dinner, or 7 TimeDollars for sessions only** plus cash or check made out to CRSP for dinner. Pay at the door.
**Note: TimeDollars to CRSP ok for talks; cash or check to CRSP required for dinner. TimeDollrs are a local currency only available to members of the ArroyoSeco Network of TimeBanks
What the day will look like though there may still be some changes, so stay tuned:
1 – 2pm:
Veggie potluck lunch and registration – Songs Yard. Please bring your own non-throwaway eating ware to make this a zero waste event.
2 – 3:30pm: Gideon Susman, PhD, BuroHappold
Lead Engineer for Songs Redevelopment Team; Ian McIlvaine, AIA, CRSP Board President; and Peggy Nguyen, Restoration Ecologist take “A Look Back for a More Resilient Future” – Songs Hall
3:30 – 3:45pm Break
3:45 – 5:15pm Kreigh Hampel, Recycling Coordinator, City of Burbank talks on: “How Mulch Good Can We Do? Satellite imaging, microbial intelligence, the historic role of discarded nutrients, and a group exploration into the enormous potential for regenerative urban farming.” – Songs Hall
5:15 – 7:00pm Vegan Dinner – catered for $s by L.A. Eco-Villager Anaisabel Mercado or bring our own – Songs Yard: Evening Registration, Announcements, Intros and
Special GUEST DINNER SPEAKERS who are “Living the Change”, including L.A. Eco-Villagers: Jimmy Lizama, bicycle activist and founder of Relampago Wheelery: Yuki Kidokoro, Climate Justice Alliance National Organizer; and Jessica Ruvalcaba, Waldorf teacher/Mom/artist/award winning Filmmaker
7::00pm – 8:30pm Richard Register, internationally renown urbanist, founder of the world-wide Ecocities conferences, and visionary revolutionary talks on “The LA Soil My Ecocity Ideas Grew Out Of – and Where They’re Headed”
8:30 – 8:45pm Break
8:45 – 10:15pm Christian Arnsperger, Economic Anthropologist, University of Lausanne will talk about the “Permacircularity and Human Permaculture for a New L.A.: The Wisdom of Ecocity Fractals and the Cultivation of Urban Tribes”– Songs Yard
10:15 – 10:30pm Break
10:30 – 11pm Wrap-up panel and dialog with participants – Songs Yard
11pm – midnight: Collaborative reading of “The Spirit of Bimini” by T.H. Culhane – late night snacks or we might save this for another event. Let’s see how we feel. – Songs Yard
This event in part or whole will be videotaped led by L.A. Eco-Villager and award winning filmmaker Samantha Bode
This event sponsored by CRSP in association with:
– Urban Soil-Tierra Urbana Limited Equity Housing Cooperative
– The Beverly/Vermont Community Land Trust
– The Permaculture Academy
– Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
– Solidarity Research Center
– StreetsblogLA
Does your organizations or Agency want to be a co-sponsor to help spread the word? Let us know, and we’ll add you to this list: 213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org
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*Note that this may be the first of a series on “The Soul of Soil”. We have borrowed this theme name from the book of the same title by Joseph Smillie and Grace Gershuny whom we hope to host at LAEV someday.
In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary
of the Los Angeles Eco-Village