Syd Fredrickson is helping to organize the upcoming Art of Community Northwest conference, in Seattle, September 8th, 9th & 10th. She’s been moving from one exciting event to the next — providing coordination services for the successful Sacred Activism Conference (conference CD’s and podcasts available) , Seattle Peace Chorus events, and more, through her Seattle Event Horizons enterpise. Go Syd!
The Art of Community Northwest conference will feature intentional community folks from around the country who’ll have rich information, stories, and experience to share with each other from their various intentional community models, including: urban communities (like the Emma Goldman Finishing School and Apex in Seattle), cohousing communities (like Winslow Co-Housing, Vashon Cohousing, and Duwamish Cohousing). Syd herself lived in the well-known Twin Oaks Community for a couple of years and used to sit on the national Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) board.
YES! will be co-sponsoring this event — and I’m really looking forward to it. In a time when many people are seeing the need for relocalization, post-carbon approaches to transportation and other high energy-use challenges, and learning to share and cooperate with fewer resources overall, the intentional community folks have a lot to teach us. They have decades of expertise in participatory decision-making, consensus-building, conflict resolution, and authentic community-building.
Related links:
Event website -The Art of Community Northwest: Co-Opportunities for Sustainability
Seattle Event Horizons – www.seattleeventhorizons.com
Emma Goldman Finishing School – http://egfs.org
Apex – www.speakeasy.org/~apex
Winslow Cohousing – www.winslowcohousing.org
Vashon Cohousing – www.vashoncohousing.org
Duwamish Cohousing – www.duwamish.net
Twin Oaks Community – www.twinoaks.org
List of Seattle area cooperative residences – Seattle Wiki
Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC) – www.fic.ic.org
Cohousing Association of the United States – www.cohousing.org
Related stories in YES!:
“Cohousing Comes of Age” by Neshama Abraham Paiss
“Extreme Makeover: Neighborhood Edition” by David Wann
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Raines Cohen // June 30, 2006 at 10:53 pm |
Don’t forget the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US), which will also be participating (click my name for link). Coincidentally, I’m in Seattle right now, at the GnomeDex conference!
Raines
dailyrhythm // June 30, 2006 at 11:51 pm |
Thanks, Raines — I’ll add that as well, and I’m excited to know about this link!
The conference looks interesting too — I’ll follow along on the wiki and blogs. If you’re still in town Monday or Wednesday, please consider visiting the YES! offices on Bainbridge and joining us for lunch. As you may know, the magazine’s founder and editor, Sarah van Gelder, was one of the founders of Winslow Cohousing — she’s not living there now, but two other YES! staffers are.
– Susan
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