CowichanValley.org Research for Sustainability
Welcome to the Legalize Community Workshop Series
From students to teachers to systemic change artists to designers and engineers, there is a place for everyone. Come to learn, come to teach, come to offer your skills, come to offer your time, any or all or none of the above. Just join us as you are, and let’s see where it all takes us.
This is a facilitated educational experiment. By joining, you are empowered to choose how much or how little time or energy you give it.
Session 4: TBA (march) – workshop on marketing for social enterprises and campaign building with Tad Hargrave from Marketing for Hippies
Session 3: TBA (march) – 2 hour workshop by Jared Qwustenuxun Williams on decolonizing while building community
Session 2: Wednesday Feb 24, 2021 at 7pm-9pm – Legalize Community session 2 opening by Jared Qwustenuxun Williams followed by Mark Lakeman and others
Session 1: Wednesday Feb 17, 2021 at 7pm-9pm – Legalize Community session 1 with Mark Lakeman
Session 0: May 22, 2020 – Regenerating Community with interview Mark Lakeman
Please join us for a fully participant-focused series on legalizing community. This series will address creating changes that address important intersectional crises’ including, but not limited to: Affordable housing, food security, ecosystem regeneration, maker spaces, mental health, elder care, education, and more. There are areas where all, or most, of these crises’ meet, and the main focus will be on how zoning and land-use policy affects this at all government levels. We will be focused on Cowichan Valley currently, but this can be applied to any bioregion, creating a citizens assembly and advocating for common vision and needs. If you want to start a group in your bioregion, start with us here and then reach out and we will support you to catalyze that.
Through the member system you sign up for to gain access to the sessions, we will be emailing you regularly with: Updates, calls to action, requests/needs, opportunities, and more. These are all optional. If many of us take even small actions towards a common vision, we can have big impact.
How to join:
– Sign up as a monthly contributor for $20 per month
email info@collectivespace.org for more info, questions, suggestions, volunteering, collaborations, or otherwise!
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Session 1: Feb 17, 2021
Legalize Community 1 with Mark Lakeman
Link to Recording: Sign-up for access to all past, present, and future events!
Legalize Community: session 1
Speakers:
Mark Lakeman (Founder, City Repair and Communitecture)
Brandy Gallagher (Founder, OUR Ecovillage)
Kate Marsh (North Cowichan City Counsellor)
Tad Hargrave (Founder, Marketing for Hippies)
and more!
This was offered on zoom webinars on Feb 17th, 2021.
Please join us for a fully participant-focused series on legalizing community. This series will address creating changes that address important intersectional crises’ including, but not limited to: Affordable housing, food security, ecosystem regeneration, maker spaces, mental health, elder care, education, and more. There are areas where all, or most, of these crises’ meet, and the main focus will be on how zoning and land-use policy affects this at all government levels. We will be focused on Cowichan Valley currently, but this can be applied to any bioregion, creating a citizens assembly and advocating for common vision and needs. If you want to start a group in your bioregion, start with us here and then reach out and we will support you to catalyze that.
We are looking forward this first session in a regular series and online spaces where members of the community can come together in unity around a common vision and set of needs, boundaries, requests.
Session 0: Bonus session from May 22, 2020
Regenerating Community with Mark Lakeman
Link to Recording: Sign-up for access to all past, present, and future events!
*this event as months before Legalize Community, but we are bringing it in as a bonus. It helped seed the ground for what is happening now.
Regenerating Community: Interview with Mark Lakeman
We will gather online for the first Collective Space live interview, in a local and global community to discuss this overarching question of our time:
What would it look like to have a Regenerating Community?
We seek to explore root causes and compile solutions towards the many symptoms and crises we see around us and in the world today. Affordable housing, resilience, mental health, food security, community cohesion, ecological stewardship, nontoxic industry, etc. Many of these problems are easily linked back to the loss of village and community, and many of the solutions are well documented and re-inforce other solutions when done together. Looking at whole systems design, we can begin to map and quantify the system-shift we need to create a more healthful and equitable society.
Starting at 10am PST on May 22nd, 2020
– interactive and live on Zoom (register below)
– interview with Mark Lakeman
– audience questions for Mark
– interactive and live on Zoom (register below)
– interview with Mark Lakeman
– audience questions for Mark
BIO:
Mark Lakeman is a national leader in the development of sustainable public places. In the last decade he has directed, facilitated, or inspired designs for more than three hundred new community-generated public places in Portland, Oregon alone. Through his leadership in Communitecture, Inc., and its various affiliates such as the The City Repair Project, The Village Building Convergence, and the Planet Repair Institute, he has also been instrumental in the development of dozens of participatory organizations and urban permaculture design projects across the United States and Canada. Mark works with governmental leaders, community organizations, and educational institutions in many diverse communities.
Mark Lakeman is a national leader in the development of sustainable public places. In the last decade he has directed, facilitated, or inspired designs for more than three hundred new community-generated public places in Portland, Oregon alone. Through his leadership in Communitecture, Inc., and its various affiliates such as the The City Repair Project, The Village Building Convergence, and the Planet Repair Institute, he has also been instrumental in the development of dozens of participatory organizations and urban permaculture design projects across the United States and Canada. Mark works with governmental leaders, community organizations, and educational institutions in many diverse communities.