Save the date for the 2010 Northwest Permaculture Convergence, Sept 17-19!  This year we are forging an exciting new pathway in an urban setting by converging at South Seattle Community College.  Camping and home stays will be available.  With an 87 acre campus and cabins at nearby Camp Long, this will be an experience of an oasis in the city.  Not only are the SSCC gardens and meadows waiting for us, you will find warm and fuzzy interior spaces as well.

Mark Lakeman, activist architect and urban placemaking guru, will be our keynote speaker this year!  Many of you already know that Mark has been an ongoing and early instigator of Portland's City Repair and the annual Village Building Convergence there.  Of course we will host a wide array of fabulous regional presenters, and opportunities to present your own work.  In addition, look for collaboration with the Cascadia region's Transition Towns initiatives.  They will be integrating their own summit into the Convergence.  Also look for Seattle's own SCALLOPS (Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound) to be a presence as well.  We are very pleased to be making this year's NW Convergence a truly regional event!

With HUGE thanks for all of the work Christy Nieto poured into last year's convergence, I want to introduce myself as this year's registrar.  My name is Pennie O'Grady, and I will do my best to make this year's event another smooth and fruitful experience for all of us.  This year's organizing committee is working to build upon the last years' success.  We hope you will find using a more website based approach to be easy, comfortable and helpful -- and look forward to more involved and friendly connections during the convergence itself.

We are building this event as we go.  We welcome with open arms all those interested in permaculture, as well as those working in permaculture.  Tickets for the 2010 Convergence are $65 through August 1, $85 August 2 through Sept 15, and $100 at the door.  Many work trade and volunteer opportunities are available.  As in years past, we are asking you to pitch in and do your part to help by volunteering for a couple of hours during the event and bringing your fabulous homegrown food to share.

Please keep checking back to the nwpermaculture.org website for registration and other details.  More will be posted shortly.  I will be sending regular updates from now until the convergence.  Of course if you DO NOT want to be on this list, please let me know.

All the best,

Pennie O'Grady

For further information:

Convergence info: http://www.nwpermaculture.org

Mark Lakeman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DGE9BtSK4Q