Save The City – BCL on fire

This is a direct copy of the press release I received from the University of Windsor. It’s to make you aware of a KILLER new initiative by Broken City Lab: “The people who care about caring” (my definition).

Before I post this press release, I want to personally invite anyone who claims to be a storyteller, or who fancies themselves a yarn-spinner extraordinaire to come to this first event scheduled for THIS SUNDAY. It’s a great experience to map stories. If you haven’t done it, you need to check this OUT!

Broken City Lab is beginning a new five-month long project called Save the City, which is going to involve a series of events / workshops / activities that will try to generate some creative thinking about the City of Windsor — its past, present, and future. For more information, please see http://www.brokencitylab.org/savethecity/

The details on this first activity:

Save the City: Listen to the City – Sunday, January 24, 2010 (8pm) at Phog Lounge (157 University Ave W, Windsor)

The Save the City project aims to create a concentrated series of positive community-based activities facilitated by Broken City Lab in collaboration with community members. The project will address a number of issues and ideas specific to Windsor, Ontario through various collaborative community-based activities. As Windsor is situated in precarious economic, cultural, and geographic positions, the Save the City project will serve as a much needed injection of positive collaboration, engagement, and dialogue with the city itself and its diverse communities.

The objectives of the Save the City project are to prompt and initiate creative solutions for social change within Windsor through direct connections between emerging artists and community members. Save the City will focus on the process of creative and artistic practice extending into the community and the everyday, selecting and inviting a range of collaborators and participants from within the many communities of the City of Windsor.

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