We’re ringing in the summer next Thursday with a long overdue Community Dinner. We’re happy to announce that we’ll be having the June’s Dinner on June 26th from 6:30-8:30pm at the new City Repair Headquarters at 3125 E Burnside Street.

Come check out City Repairs fancy new digs and bring a dish to share with everyone. We’ll be outside in the courtyard enjoying (hopefully) the sunshine.

Questions/Comments? Contact Emily (wegottadance@gmail.com) or Vanessa ( vpatter@gmail.com)

We’re looking forward to seeing you there in your summer clothes!

Join us on Monday, June 16th for a day of asphalt removal in Portland! We will be transforming a vacant, paved parking lot into a living community space, with fruit trees, native plants, and flowers! Location: NE Fargo and N. Williams, Portland, Oregon (3 blocks south of NE Fremont) Time: 10AM - 4PM To get involved, contact info@depave.org (Depave is a project of The City Repair Project)

This event will be held in conjunction with the international Towards Carfree Cities Conference in Portland, Oregon. This is the eight year of this conference, and this is the first year that the conference is being held in the United States.

Monday, June 16: Depaving Day Location: 3120 N Williams, at the corner of N Williams and NE Fargo, next to the Waypost Cafe The Depaving Day is co-hosted by the group Depave

* 10:00 - 4:00 Depaving activity and conference registration

* 10:30 Introduction and welcome

* 10:45 Pavement-breaking

Attendees of the opening day of Towards Carfree Cities VIII are invited to participate in this exciting community event. The Fargo Gardens project will transform a 3000 square foot asphalt parking lot into a community greenspace with vegetables, fruit trees, native plants, and sitting areas. Removal of the parking lot will reduce pollution, and provide land for bird and butterfly habitat, gardens, native vegetation and beauty in an urban neighborhood. The completed site will be used to educate the public about pavement removal and storm water drainage management

Help break and carry asphalt, or feel free to sit back and enjoy the street fair, including interactive chalk art projects, street games, stiltwalking frogs with jackhammers, and music by:

* Andy Combs

* The Tony Green Orchestra

* Eliza Jayne

* DJ Ghost Dad

For more information, contact Hindi at hindi@cityrepair.org

You are invited to attend Towards Carfree Cities VIII, an international conference being held from June 16th to 20th, 2008 in Portland, Oregon, USA. This year is the conference’s first in North America; Brussels will be the host in 2009.

Our theme this year is Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity. The week offers a great chance to learn about the many facets of the emerging global carfree movement, meet people from all over the world who are at the cutting edge of sustainable transportation and livability efforts, and inform and inspire your own work to move your city or yourself away from automobile dependence.

To attend, please register now at carfreeportland.org/register. Registration fees are available on a sliding scale, and include a one-day rate. Contact portland@worldcarfree.net to ask about registration discounts.

Tuesday, June 17th is the conference’s Public Day, which is open to the public and features a marketplace/expo, workshops on carfree family living, a session on Portland’s historic battle against the Mount Hood Freeway, and our keynote speaker, Gil Penalosa. Register for Public Day at carfreeportland.org/reg/pub.ph. Donations are encouraged, but nobody will be turned away.

Volunteers are still needed, before and during the conference. We still have some opportunities for people to volunteer in exchange for admission. Email Tim at volunteer@carfreeportland.org to find out more.

Conference attendees will:

- Learn from an exciting lineup of speakers and workshops (carfreeportland.org/program)

- Enjoy international carfree-themed mail art in City Hall and its parking area

- Watch carfree-themed movies during the film night

- Swing your partner to old-time square dance music, in the street, of course

- Help depave a parking lot and turn it into a community green space

Other exciting events occuring before, during, and after the conference include:

- June 12- 28 - Pedalpalooza, Portland’s annual festival of 2+ weeks of bike fun

- June 22 - Sunday Parkways, Portland’s first-ever ciclovia style street closure

- June 28 - Multnomah County Bike Fair, the culmination of all things bikey

Any questions? Don’t hestitate to contact us at portland@worldcarfree.net.

Elly Blue

Conference Coordinator

The Towards Carfree Cities conference series brings together people from around the world who work to promote practical alternatives to car dependence. The conference attracts professionals, advocates, and community leaders who focus on the creation of sustainable transportation systems and on the transformation of cities, towns, and villages into human-scaled environments rich in public space and community life.

The fundamental role of the conference is to share knowledge and assist the practical work of conference participants, whether it be organizing community events, promoting urban cycling, or building the carfree cities of the future.

The conference is hosted by Shift, the World Carfree Network, Portland State University, The City of Portland, and Carfree City, USA.

Dear Friends

The Tea Horse is back...you can’t keep a good horse down. Come meet and join the T-Horse team next Monday June 16th in the Tea Hows at the new City Repair Office, 3125 E Burnside 97214. We’ll be decorating the Tea Hows and giving some love and placemaking energy to our hew home. Then sharing warm chai, hot tea, community, and blissful tummy deserts with each other.

3:00pm - Tea brewing/desert making

5:00pm - Meet/Join the Team

6:00pm - Decorate the Tea Hows

7:00pm - Tea Time

Please bring if you can...

Tea infusers

Milk (rice and cow)

Brown Sugar

Honey

Loose Tea

Deserts

Tarps

Candles

Decorations/Art Supplies

Flowers

Games

Soft musical instruments

Thanks! See ya Monday!