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Want to learn Cobbing? - Workparty in Alameda, CA. Saturday 7/9
East Bay City Repair is having a cob work-PARTY THIS SATURDAY, July 9th, and you're invited! Yes, there's an emphasis on party as well as work, because playing in the mud is always fun. New to cob? Come learn how to build with earth and straw! An old-timer? Come spread the mud!
This is a big project in the Alameda Point Collaborative community garden - two 20-foot benches forming a semi-circle, which will eventually be covered by a shade trellis. The completed foundation was laid with an urbanite core and mortared stone facing. This is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with cob, and to ask questions about ways that you might want to use it. Not to mention meeting your Alameda neighbors... and City Repair!
The day's schedule:
10:30 AM - begin preparing the worksite
11:00 AM - introductions, a brief overview of cob, the project, and the community
6 - 6:30PM - wrap-up & clean-up
FOOD will be provided during the workday. Doantions to support the project and the collaborating organizations will kindly be accepted, though not required.
What to BRING: sunscreen & other sun protection, sandals or flip-flops, clothes you can get dirty, water bottle, a smile and your favorite joke, musical instruments (jamming goes extremely well with mud), your kids, a date.
Directions:
Come through the Webster tunnel from Oakland to Alameda
Turn right on Atlantic
Turn right on Main Street
Turn left on Midway
At the second stop sign (Pan Am) turn right and then immediately turn
right again on to Corpus Christi
Turn left on Pensacola. The entrance to the facility yard and the garden is on the right after the bungalow. Deliveries can be made by pulling into the facilities yard. Volunteers should park on the street and walk through the facilities yard, past the big shed, through the gate and to the garden. Parking is not metered in this residential neighborhood.
AC Transit Bus #63 can be picked up at 7th and Webster in Oakland at the western end of its circuit, or at the Fruitvale BART station at the eastern end. Get off in Alameda Point at the intersection of Pan Am and Midway. Follow directions as above (approx. 1/4 mile). Schedules can be found at www.actransit.org
Bicyclists can ride on the west side of the Posey Tube (next to the Webster Tube) on a pedestrian platform running counter to traffic (though I would not recommend it - the exhaust is heinous) or throw their bike on an AC Transit bus rack.
You can look at an online map of the street location (I prefer www.maps.google.com) by searching for the intersection of Corpus Christie Rd and Pensacola Lane, Alameda, CA.
For questions, or to RSVP (optional), contact Valerie at valkyrie713@yahoo.com or (510)467-9920.
About us:
City Repair Oakland is a budding group modelled on Portland's highly successful community building project: "The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live." More at cityrepair.org/
"The Alameda Point Collaborative is a unique neighborhood located on 34 acres of Alameda Point. We are formerly homeless residents, staff and volunteers who are dedicated to building our lives in a compassionate community. Together we are one community enriching lives through the sharing of resources and talents." More at www.apcollaborative.org
East Bay City Repair is having a cob work-PARTY THIS SATURDAY, July 9th, and you're invited! Yes, there's an emphasis on party as well as work, because playing in the mud is always fun. New to cob? Come learn how to build with earth and straw! An old-timer? Come spread the mud!
This is a big project in the Alameda Point Collaborative community garden - two 20-foot benches forming a semi-circle, which will eventually be covered by a shade trellis. The completed foundation was laid with an urbanite core and mortared stone facing. This is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with cob, and to ask questions about ways that you might want to use it. Not to mention meeting your Alameda neighbors... and City Repair!
The day's schedule:
10:30 AM - begin preparing the worksite
11:00 AM - introductions, a brief overview of cob, the project, and the community
6 - 6:30PM - wrap-up & clean-up
FOOD will be provided during the workday. Doantions to support the project and the collaborating organizations will kindly be accepted, though not required.
What to BRING: sunscreen & other sun protection, sandals or flip-flops, clothes you can get dirty, water bottle, a smile and your favorite joke, musical instruments (jamming goes extremely well with mud), your kids, a date.
Directions:
Come through the Webster tunnel from Oakland to Alameda
Turn right on Atlantic
Turn right on Main Street
Turn left on Midway
At the second stop sign (Pan Am) turn right and then immediately turn
right again on to Corpus Christi
Turn left on Pensacola. The entrance to the facility yard and the garden is on the right after the bungalow. Deliveries can be made by pulling into the facilities yard. Volunteers should park on the street and walk through the facilities yard, past the big shed, through the gate and to the garden. Parking is not metered in this residential neighborhood.
AC Transit Bus #63 can be picked up at 7th and Webster in Oakland at the western end of its circuit, or at the Fruitvale BART station at the eastern end. Get off in Alameda Point at the intersection of Pan Am and Midway. Follow directions as above (approx. 1/4 mile). Schedules can be found at www.actransit.org
Bicyclists can ride on the west side of the Posey Tube (next to the Webster Tube) on a pedestrian platform running counter to traffic (though I would not recommend it - the exhaust is heinous) or throw their bike on an AC Transit bus rack.
You can look at an online map of the street location (I prefer www.maps.google.com) by searching for the intersection of Corpus Christie Rd and Pensacola Lane, Alameda, CA.
For questions, or to RSVP (optional), contact Valerie at valkyrie713@yahoo.com or (510)467-9920.
About us:
City Repair Oakland is a budding group modelled on Portland's highly successful community building project: "The City Repair Project is group of citizen activists creating public gathering places and helping others to creatively transform the places where they live." More at cityrepair.org/
"The Alameda Point Collaborative is a unique neighborhood located on 34 acres of Alameda Point. We are formerly homeless residents, staff and volunteers who are dedicated to building our lives in a compassionate community. Together we are one community enriching lives through the sharing of resources and talents." More at www.apcollaborative.org
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