I need your help to find the projects and initiatives that might inspire us to do things in a more collaborative and sustainable way. As part of the process of this years Convergence, we are collecting these ideas through our new website http://convergence.cultivate.ie/ and are about to launch an online gallery to illuminate them. Please let me know of any projects or community initiatives near you. Or you can submit a 'Breakthrough Idea for the Future We Want to the online gallery at http://convergence.cultivate.ie/submit-your-idea/
With your help we want to design and build an interactive exhibition of these inspirational projects and initiatives and take it on tour to communities and public places around Ireland. With no funding available, and I've tried everywhere, we are asking the community to help support us through crowd funding. Have a look at our Fund It campaign and please consider supporting this project in some way. There are some great rewards available if thats something you need. http://www.fundit.ie/project/convergence-2012---an-exhibition
We are also asking people to consider hosting conversations in your community about "The Future We Want". To make this easy Cultivate have prepared a little video and PDF with some suggestions on how to do this. http://convergence.cultivate.ie/host-it-yourself/
Finally a couple of events are coming up that I want to let you know about.
First a weekend that Chris Chapman, Eimear McNally and I are hosting in Cloughjordan, which we are offering almost free of charge, called the Nourishment Lab.
http://www.facebook.com/events/308510195908722/
And later this month Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics and the Ascent of Humanity will give free talks in Cork and in beautiful Dartmouth Square, Dublin. He will be joined by Mark the "moneyless man" Boyle and other Irish friends interested in economics and sustainability. http://www.facebook.com/events/293950454034208/
I hope to see you at one of these events, hear about the projects you think are breaking through or working with you to host a conversation and bring the exhibition to your locality.
Thanks
Davie
Davie Philip
Convergence Director
Community Resilience Programme
Cultivate Living & Learning
An Cosán Cúil, Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary.
63 Mount Street, Dublin 2
E-mail: davie@cultivate.ie
Skype: sustdavie
Twitter: @comresie
Office: 0505 56061
Mobile: +353 (0) 87 6340697
Web: www.cultivate.ie
