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The Importance of Place in a Truly Sustainable Economy - A talk by Kim Stafford
Monday May 21, 2007 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Disjecta
230 E Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97214 Get Directions
Time: 7-10pm

Finding Our Way Home: Seven Generations Beyond
A talk by Kim Stafford

Presented by City Repair Project (http://www.cityrepair.org) and The Sustainable Business Network of Portland (http://www.sbnportland.org/) during the Village Building Convergence.

Salmon know it, going upriver. Monarch butterflies know how to find the pine grove in Michoacan. The doves that nest near my house in SW Portland know how to find this place in spring. And we humans–what question, story, song, lullaby, idea, or quest calls us here to Portland? Come join the Sustainable Business Network of Portland and writer/storyteller Kim Stafford as we invite you to relish the mix: taste, listen, remember, and follow for home. An interactive evening exploring this wonderful place we call Cascadia and giving voice to our stories, dreams and visions.

Kim Stafford is a Portland native, and founder of the Northwest Writing Institute, a zone for experimental expression about place, identity, and story.He is the author of “Having Everything Right: Essays of Place,” and Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft.” That book includes the following manifesto: “In our time is a great thing not yet done–it is the marriage of Woody Guthrie’s gusto and the Internet. It is the composing and wide sharing of songs and stories by those with voice for those with need.”

The Sustainable Business Network of Portland (SBNP) is an alliance of more than 350 locally owned independent businesses, service providers, community organizations and individuals committed to building a more socially, environmentally and financially sustainable local economy while preserving and enhancing our sense of Place through a Local First campaign encouraging citizens to choose locally owned businesses.
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