Tag: Alterntive education
FEATURED EVENT: Urban Placemaking for Cultural Transformation with Mark Lakeman and the City Repair Project: Fri – Sun, March 25, 26, 27, 2016 at L.A. Eco-Village and Tue March 29 Downtown LA
Come learn with others in your communities and neighborhoods about successful strategies for:
- Transforming public spaces from car-centric to people-centric
- Accelerating culture change within public agencies
- Learning and practicing effective tools for continuing change.
Presented by Mark Lakeman and core members from City Repair Project, this workshop will provide a dazzling spectrum of real world tools for building participatory culture and manifesting lasting change through physical interventions. This workshop will also present powerful ideas for building resiliency while also addressing the negative effects of gentrification. Bring your own ideas, because the summation of the workshop will be strategies and timelines for doing projects in your Los Angeles neighborhoods.
See draft workshop outline below.
THE FRIDAY NIGHT TALK MARCH 25 FROM 7 TO 10PM:
inspiring – a unique approach to urban planning and design – transformative – community development starting with the development of community…
EVENT DETAILS FOR MARK’S TALK AT L.A. ECO-VILLAGE:
Friday March 25, 2016 from 7pm to 10pm
Fee: $20 Pay here or at the door but:
Reservations required: crsp@igc.org or 213-738-1254
Location: L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl., LA 90004 DIRECTIONS
Two day Placemaking Training at L.A. Eco-Village
Saturday & Sunday, March 26-27, 2016 from 10am to 4pm
Fee: $160 Pay here after you have reviewed the Training Outline and filled out application below
(some partial scholarships available. See Application and Scholarships info below)
Pre-registration required: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
Location: L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl., LA 90004 DIRECTIONS
Please fill out APPLICATION below for two-day Placemaking Training and send with check made out to CRSP to:
CRSP
117 Bimini Place #221
Los Angeles CA 90004
or watch for on-line payment option coming soon!
Mark also gives a special free and open talk in Downtown LA on
Tuesday March 29, 2016 from 4 to 6pm
Location: Deaton Auditorium, 100 West First St., Los Angeles 90012
*The Deaton Auditorium event is co-sponsored by Mayor Garcetti’s Great Streets Initiative, LA City Dept. of Transportation, LA City Dept. of Planning, LA Streetsblog, Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance in Association with City Repair Project and CRSP
These talks and workshop are for:
– Architects
– Urban artists
– Recreationists
– Public officials
– Co-op activists
– Bicycle activists
– Urban Planners
– Urban designers
– Creative collaborators
– Environmental activists
– Transportation Planners
– Neighborhood and community organizers
– Neighborhood Council members and stakeholders
– People passionate about reinventing how we live in the City
And here’s the draft Two Day Placemaking Training Workshop Outline.
Sound exciting? It will be even more exciting when we have your input:
Saturday – March 26, 2016 – Reimagining Space
10:00 am – opening circle, “embodying permaculture”, introductions
11:00 am – City Repair Project Overview Presentation: “The Village Lives”
12 noon – Lunch
1:00 pm – Intersection/Block Repair Design Game
3:00 pm – Afternoon tea break
3:30pm – Neighborhood Walk: “Reimagining Urban Space through Spatial
Awareness” – “perform”-aculture placemaking activity
Sunday – March 27, 2016 – Sustaining Community through Policy-oriented Placemaking
10:00 am – Ecodesign Principles; Case Studies Presentation
11:00 am – City Repair-initiated policy ordinances, how to do this in your community
12 Noon – Lunch
1:00 pm – Public process issues, discussion circle, sharing initiatives
3:00 pm – Afternoon tea break
3:30pm – LA-specific project/presentations
4:00 pm – Closing circle
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APPLICATION FOR TWO DAY PLACE MAKING TRAINING
Please fill out and email to: crsp@igc.org
Name______________________________________
Email______________________________________
Neighborhood/Zip Code_________________________’
Phone(s)____________________________________
Organizational Affiliations that you are working with on
Neighborhood issues___________________________
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Describe any experience you have with neighborhood organizing:
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Describe, if any, your knowledge or experience with placemaking
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THESE EVENTS ARE SPONSORED BY CRSP AND THE CITY REPAIR PROJECT IN ASSOCIATION WITH:
Antioch University Los Angeles Urban Sustainability
Master of Arts Program
Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust
Bresee Foundation
East Area Progressive Democrats – http://eapd.la
Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance
Silverlake TimeBank
StreetsBlog Los Angeles – http://la.streetsblog.org/
Urban Soil-Tierra Urbana Limited Equity Housing Cooperative
You Are Here: Intentional Community Los Angeles
Is your organization or agency interested in being a co-sponsor? Inquire by contacting Lois at 213/738-1254 or crsp@igc.org
SCHOLARSHIPS: We have a commitment to bring the skills and tools of placemaking to leaders in communities with social and environmental challenges. Scholarships for activists, people of color and neighborhood organizers are available. Please email us with answers to these questions: 1) Describe briefly why you are needing financial support. 2) How would this scholarship and training create new possibilities for you and your community? 3) Indicate what you may be able to offer financially, if anything. We may not be able to provide full scholarships to everyone who asks. Please indicate in your EMAIL to us, this subject line: “Scholarship for Placemaking Training”
CAN YOU SPONSOR A SEAT FOR SOMEONE? If you or your organization can sponsor someone to take the training, please let us know at crsp@igc.org or call Lois at 213/738-1254.
AFTER THE TRAINING
Those that complete this training are encouraged to bring this knowledge back to their respective groups and neighborhoods and begin the process of identifying and/or implementing neighborhood-based placemaking opportunities. Additionally a goal of placemaking training is to be involved with the streamlining of local policy and legislative actions for enhancing neighborhood placemaking projects.
For other locations for Urban Placemaking presentations in SoCal with Mark Lakeman, go here:
http://www.cityrepair.org/californiatour2016/
Worker-Owned: exploration & play – Sun. Jan. 24, 2016 from 2 – 5pm – Pasadena
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Carfree Chat: LA Transportation Viewed from L.A. Eco-Village, Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7:30 at L.A. Eco-Village
At this event, we’ll provide an update on current transportation projects in LA and share the history of carfree transportation culture and projects at L.A. Eco-Village. For many years, Eco-Villagers have worked to raise awareness about the destructive ecological effects driving has on our region. Now we are moving to develop a more inclusive approach to changing transportation culture that takes race, gender, class and more into account. Presentations with Q&A to follow.
Hosted and moderated by Eco-Village member and Streetsblog LA editor,
Joe Linton http://la.streetsblog.org/
and
Eco-Village member and Street Anthropologist
Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D. www.urbanadonia.com
EVENT DETAILS:
Date and time: Tue, November 17, 2015 from 7:30 to 9pm
Location: L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Pl, LA 90004
Cost: FREE
Reservations: Not required, but if you’d like: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 7:30pm: The Low Down on Pee and Poo: Composting Toilets & Urine Reuse – A talk at L.A. Eco-Village
Composting toilets offer a sanitary and ecological solution to the flush toilet. (Did you know that around 890 billion gallons of untreated sewage flows into US waterways each year?) Learn about waterless composting toilets, reusing urine, and considerations for installing a system into your home. This presentation will cover homescale composting toilets from urban to rural applications, large scale systems, operation and maintenance needs, codes, and common problems and solutions.
Learn about
- Types of composting toilets
- Benefits of using urine as a fertilizer
- Maintenance requirements
- Common problems and solutions
- System costs
- Codes and regulations
- Artistic toilet designs
EVENT DETAILS:
Location:
Los Angeles EcoVillage
117 Bimini Place
Los Angeles 90004
Date/Time
Thursday, December 3, 2015 from 7:30 pm to 9pm
Cost:
$5 to $15 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Reservations:
Not required, but if you’d like: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254
Sponsored by Greywater Action: info@greywateraction.
“You Are Here Intentional Community Los Angeles” Forum, Thursday October 29, 2015 at 7pm at L.A. Eco-Village
Join You Are Here: Intentional Community Los Angeles and Lois Arkin, founder of the Los Angeles Eco-Village, for a panel discussion of what works and what doesn’t, in intentional communities.
Current and former residents of communities in Southern California will share their experiences with important issues like governance, shared space, decision-making, getting along, privacy, food and sharing.
Bring your questions and curiosities, this will be your chance to get a sense of what it might be like to live in a functioning community, navigate challenges and avoid common pitfalls.
The Los Angeles Eco-Village is one of the city’s largest and longest-running intentional community.
EVENT DETAILS:
Date and Time: Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 7 to 10pm
Location: Los Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Lobby,
Los Angeles 90004 directions
No Charge: Donations accepted
Reservations or more info: crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254 or just come.
Light Refreshments: Bring something to share if you’d like.
More info on “You Are Here Intentional Community”
MORE INFO ON PANELISTS:
Elektra Grant, Lecturer Otis College of Art and Design and associate of the The Regenerative Co-op of Pomona, an intentional community of approximately 30 residents distributed among 4 homes. The Community strives to incorporate sustainable and regenerative principles in an urban/suburban environment. Most members are students or recent graduates of various local colleges, including organizers, teachers, technicians, students, business people, philosophers and artists. The group has vegetarian community meals 5 nights a week, uses solar power, and maintains a gray water system, edible landscaping and organic gardens. Community decisions are consensed upon during monthly community meetings. In addition to hosting skill shares throughout the year, the Community organizes a Sustainability Seminar every Spring with workshops and speakers on topics from solar power and making bio-diesel to activism and social justice.
Watch for more details.
Starhawk Halloween/Samhain Spiral Dance Ritual & “Stories for the New Era” Workshop – Saturday, October 24, 2015 from 2 – 9pm in Los Angeles
Workshop and Ritual. Tickets available on-line at:
http://StarhawkLA2015.eventbrite.com
Sponsors:
Reclaiming LA
Code Pink
Gaia Green
The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education
The Readmond Company
Cross Pollinate
Way2Much
Read about Starhawk here: http://starhawk.org/
MORE DETAILS:
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Diana Leafe Christian gives a public talk on “The Three Aspects of a Healthy, Thriving Community,” Monday. October 5, 2015 at 7:00pm in Westchester CA
Popular lecturer and trainer on diverse aspects of ecovillages, cohousing and intentional communities, Diana makes a rare visit to Southern California.
Author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities and Finding Community: How to join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community, Diana is also the former editor of “Communities Magazine.”
Tonight, we ponder the topic of how to create “community glue” to generate feelings of gratitude, how to develop good communication skills, and how to set up effective project management within a community.
Diana’s expertise on community decision making and governance processes has brought international attention to “sociocracy,” which means governance by peers and colleagues using feedback loops to help an organization continuously improve.
More about Diana here: www.dianaleafechristian.org
EVENT DETAILS:
Date/Time: Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7pm
Location: Holy Nativity Parish
6700 W. 83rd Street
Westchester (Los Angeles) CA 90045
Suggested Donation: $15
No reservations required
Introduction to Exploring Your Senses, Thursdays Oct. 22 & 29, 2015 at L.A. Eco-Village
Exploring Your Senses Introductory Workshops and Registration
Parents, educators and all who work and play with children
Learn fun activities that make teaching & parenting more fun
- that empower children to experience relaxed awareness
- that overview the body’s response to distracting activities and stress
- that explore sight, sound, touch, taste, smell and body centered awareness
Each topic about the body’s response to stress and distractions will be matched with short, fun, re-focusing and stress management activities.
For instance, imagine what your life would be like if taking brain brakes throughout the day was an integral part of your teaching job.
Imagine what your life would be like if introducing your children to sensory awareness during household activities was a regular part of your parenting.
In case it’s hard to imagine, we’ve structured these workshops so that, as you learn the information and engage in activities, you also have time to note: what changes in you as you listen and engage.
Taking time to notice is basic to
- refocusing attention
- self-regulating behavior
- conscious interactions
Growing these capacities in children – and their adults – is essential for shifting away from punitive discipline and creating co-operative relational and learning cultures.
In 3 or 4 hours, you’ll sample fun, sensory, self-regulating activities that adults can do with children. You’ll overview how these activities reverse the bodyʼs response to distracting activities and stress.
The 4 hour Introduction, (two sessions), includes safe touch training. You will be encouraged to practice new skills between sessions and discuss your experiences with the group.
Where: Los Angeles Eco Village
When: October 22nd & 29th, 2015, 6:45 – 9 pm
January 23rd & 30th, 2016, 1:30 – 3:45 pm
Cost: Early Bird Special $35
for registration and full payment 2 weeks before first class (Oct 8th or Jan 9th). Partial scholarships may be available for early birds.
$48 registration with full payment 1 week before 1st class (Oct 16th/ Jan.17th).
To Register or be added to our mailing list: Please send us the following information
* Name
* Phone #
* How are you involved with children? what ages? how many?
* Occupation(s) include parenting
* Workshop date
* Is the suggested donation affordable for you? If not, how much is?
Maximum class size – 10 people.
Please register 1 week before start date. After we accept your application, Carol will send you a pay-pal invoice with logistical details. The paid receipt is your registration confirmation.
Want to help us make teaching and parenting easier – more fun?
Recommend a group that hosts an Introduction to Exploring Your Senses and you will receive our deepest gratitude for helping us grow our business, and, a discount for a future workshop.
CicLAvia in the Heart of Los Angeles, October 18, 2015 from 9am to 4pm
CicLAvia catalyzes vibrant public spaces, active transportation and good health through car-free streets.
Get the route, and all the details here: www.cicLAvia.org
Free event with ever so many fun activities along the route.