The Big ONE - Community Empowerment Convergence for Conscious Change The Big ONE 2008 A Grand Collaboration A village of engagement for healthy body, home, family and community.
www.beautifulcommunities.org

Saturday June 21
Sunday June 22,
9am-7pm, 2008
FREE
Sharon Meadow
Golden Gate Park near Children's Playground and the Carousel

The Big ONE is a free two-day community building event, the first annual gathering of its kind in the Bay Area. This convergence is intended to develop new relationships through dialogue, committed engagement, and trust. We desire to collectively re-envision our communities. We want to develop sustainability awareness and action, civic engagement, and localization of culture, economy, and decision-making. We promote respect for all life and the planet that sustains us.

The village will be made up of ten neighborhood tents.
Each neighborhood will represent a community need, addressing such issues as Youth Engagement and Empowerment, Social Justice, Global Warming, Green Jobs , Greening the City and Schoolyards, Civic Engagement, Story Telling from our Elders, Sustainable Community (food, water and sewage security), Permaculture, World Peace, Health, Alternative Medicine, Education, Music, Dance and Art, GLBT, Race & Culture, Spirituality, and Community Communication. The "Village of Engagement" is a gathering of people from Bay Area Non-Profit Organizations, Foundations, members of the Community, Schools, Worker-Owned Coops, Entrepreneurs and representatives from our respective Bay Area City Governments.

The format of your participation can be setting up a table or tent in one of the neighborhoods to collaborate and share information, interactive classes, power-point presentations, hands-on demonstrations of sustainable skills, forums or artistic endeavors. We provide the space....you fill it with your dreams. We are using the Wiser Earth platform to organize, plan and co-create the event at beautifulcommunities.org. This is a 100% noncommercial event. Nothing will be for sale. We encourage everyone to bring food and drink and extra to share with your new friends! Come experience and participate. "The New Me is We". Partners:
* Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility
* Ecology Center of San Francisco
* Peace Every Day
* Permaculture Guild
* Urban Alliance for Sustainability
* World Savvy
* Wiser Earth
* 350.org

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Participants will have the opportunity to design, envision, collaborate, and dialog with new friends on the future of their own neighborhoods. To prepare for the challenging times ahead of us, we encourage you to come, be heard, and engage.