New Venue Represents Collision of Culture of Evolution and Culture of Celebration.

Highlights include Extra Action Marching Band, March Fourth Marching Band, 3 Leg Torso, The Everyone Orchestra with Michael Kang of String Cheese Incident, Vagabond Opera, Pickathon Roots, and The Foghorn Stringband.

Portland, Oregon – Following a successful run of over 20 events in 12 months, The City Repair Project will be holding the 7th Annual Village Building Convergence at Disjecta located at 230 E. Burnside Street, Portland, OR. Evening events will take place from May 18-26th, 2007. Entertainers include March Fourth Marching Band, Extra Action Marching Band, 3 Leg Torso, The Everyone Orchestra with Michael Kang of String Cheese Incident, Vagabond Opera, Pickaton Roots, and The Foghorn Stringband. The new venue will also be the production facility for the creation of City Repair’s newest project: The Earthlight Project, a massive temporary gathering space. The Earthlight Project is to be a transportable tensile fabric structure as large as a football stadium.

Each year, the VBC is held to promote human-scale community action. Over 30 private sites, institutions, schools, and neighborhoods will create community-based projects for community improvement, which will be implemented during the Village Building Convergence. This year’s Village Building Convergence will include feature projects ranging from building ecoroofs to garden construction in locations in all quadrants of the city. In addition to the site projects, the VBC includes workshops, speakers, live music, and entertainment. A full effort will be made to recycle all materials, promote bicycle riding to sites, and create a zero waste zone at the evening event site.

The City Repair Project is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. The City Repair Project facilitates artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking through projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural world. The Village Building Convergence is primarily planned, designed, organized, built and run by volunteers, and on a minimal budget. We are honored to share this framework for running a large, non-corporate, ecologically-sustainable community event with other organizations in Portland and beyond.

Please help us keep this event fabulously community-supported by volunteering or donating. For additional information on volunteering, please contact Maralena Murphy at 617-406-8299 (cell) or vbcvolunteer@cityrepair.org. For general inquiries, please contact Meghan Crane at 301-580-3554 or vbcpublicity@cityrepair.org. For evening event information, please contact Elliot Rasenick 503-475-9062 or elliot@cityrepair.org.

For a full schedule of events, times and more information, please visit 2007 Village Building Convergence Featured Speakers and Entertainers. Individual evening event tickets are now on sale! To purchase tickets, please go to 2007 Village Building Convergence Tickets.