Location: Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta ST Portland
Contact: e-mail, facebook, twitter – #vbc13
Support: sponsorship, ads, tabling, volunteering, tickets
City Repair’s Village Building Convergence (VBC) is an annual ten-day placemaking festival that combines crowdsourced activism, creative community development, hands-on education and celebration.
Our mission is to facilitate an annual collaboration and cross pollination of neighbors, groups, and civic partnerships to transform our city through village life patterns, education, and placemaking projects. This culminates in a 10 day springtime celebration.
We need volunteers! We invite you to expand your experience by getting involved.
We will come together to create benches, community kiosks, gardens, street paintings, tile mosaics, and more! Come join your neighbors as they bring to life the natural building, permaculture, and public art projects that they’ve been planning. Learn valuable skills for urban sustainability and social regeneration while celebrating the creativity and diversity of our wonderful city! Read more about the VBC…
During the day, you will have the opportunity to get involved with creative, community designed placemaking projects happening all over the city. There will be natural building, gardening, art, and many other fun things to do and great people doing them with you! This aspect of the event is always free.
During the evening everyone will gather at a central venue for a night of wholesome food, presentations by leaders in the forefront of positive change, and exhilirating musical performances from local bands. Prices here are $15 in advance and $20 at the door, with worktrade available most nights.
How to Get Involved
There are many ways to get involved:
1) Volunteer now to help plan & coordinate the VBC event. See an overview of opportunities & contact our volunteer team here. We can’t make the magic happen without volunteers. Even a few hours volunteering makes a big difference in your experience and that of others.
2) Host a placemaking site in your neighborhood. Email vbcplacemaking@cityrepair.org for more info.
3) Build, help, create, & learn at neighborhood placemaking sites during the VBC. Check out our Village Builder magazine from 2012!
4) Volunteer for a *worktrade* shift during VBC evening events to help us make this great event possible (and get free access to another evening event). These shifts are more intense than basic volunteer shifts. Contact vbcvolunteer@cityrepair.org
5) Purchase an ad in the Village Builder magazine.
6) Sponsor Village Building Convergence 13.
Click here to download last year’s 2012 schedule and event guide,
