Village Building Convergence: Build Resilient Communities

Friday, September 12-Sunday, September 21

various venues in Sebastopol

see website for admission and schedule details

http://sebastopolvbc.weebly.com

https://www.facebook.com/sebastopolvbc

“The Village Building Convergence is an annual collaboration and cross pollination of neighbors, groups and civic partnerships to transform our town through village life patterns and educational placemaking projects.

This culminates in a ten day Fall celebration including creating street murals, cob bus stops, community gardens, and much more as local citizens and visitors take to the streets of Sebastopol during the ten day placemaking festival.

The VBC will also host educational and celebratory events in the evenings. Most evening events of educational and inspirational presentations, food, music, and a whole lot of celebration, will be held at the Sebastopol Grange.

Many of you may have heard of VBC from our northern allies in Portland who have been doing this successfully for 14 years. Now it’s our turn to bring this awesome event home.

Placemaking is the act of locals coming together to shape their common spaces in a way that promotes beauty and community. Projects may take the shape of benches on corners, street painting projects, sharing kiosks, natural building projects and a multitude of other ways to inspire neighbors to gather in public spaces.

All daytime placemaking events are free, and everyone of all ages is invited to come help paint, build, and plant and create beauty together. Tickets for evening events can be purchased separately on the day of the event. Whole event passes are available presale on the VBC website now.”