365PDX#83 :City Repair’s Village Building Convergence

Posted May 26, 2010

365PDX#83   The Village Building Convergence starts this Friday May 28th. In case you’ve never heard of VBC, it’s  a 10 day Placemaking and Community Building event. You can volunteer at 31 different sites around the city building community inspired structures, art & ‘intersection repairs’, partcipate in day time workshops as well as attend evening lectures by natural builders, and visionary  activists (as well as dance to some great music after the presentations). 

  With over 30 sites be created around the city, there is probably a project happening in your neighborhood that you can get your hands dirty at.  Evening presentations and workshops will be held at 2800 SE Harrison. 

Here is the VBC sites, workshops and venue schedules: 

daytime: sites    

daytime workshops: workshops
evening events: Venue   

You can participate for free during the day at the sites,workshops and  evening events cost money (evenings include a delicious vegan meal). 

During the first Village Building Convergence we built a community cob sauna at my residence. I’m proud to say that 9 years later, it’s still being actively used by the community! 

cob sauna we built at VBC01

For more information visit VBC Facebook or Cityrepair.org 

365 Things to do in Portland #83: Village Building Convergence