ANNOUNCING:
THE SKILLS FOR NEW MILLENNIUM TOUR 2009-2010
Putting the Green in the Red, White, And Blue!
The PermiBus on tour
The PermiBus II is Coming to Town!
The world is changing fast – peak oil, climate change, globalization, difficult economic times, banking crisis, government infringement of personal rights…the list goes on.
What new world will emerge as we boldly step into this new millennium? What will you contribute to shaping the future? What skills do you need to create your tomorrow?
The Skills for New Millennium Tour hits the road again in 2009 bringing you skills you need to meet the challenges of the New Millennium. Change can be intimidating. Therefore, the skills we offer; grounded in decades of activism, poverty, and spiritual consciousness; emphasize making small, marginal changes that are critical to survival in difficult economic times, changes that help you live what you believe.
The improved Earth Activist Training (EAT) Permaculture Demonstration Bus (Permibus II) is on the road, visiting communities nationwide, in order to offer you and your community practical skills to help you wrest control of your life from corporate hands. The PermiBus is a 36-foot mobile permaculture demonstration project in progress; complete with solar power, greywater system, herb garden, composting toilet, three dogs, a clutch of chickens, and a box of worms. Our goal? To teach practical skills that make you and your community more environmentally and economically sustainable.
The Skills for the New Millennium Tour offers programs to anyone who wants to host a Skills Event: individuals, community groups, high schools, colleges, intentional communities…. We know that community needs are diverse, so we offer a wide variety of program options that can be mixed and matched to best meet your needs. In addition we can bring the Permibus to your local Co-op, event, or festival. We provide tours of our permaculture systems, perform the permi-puppet show, and teach short informationals to demonstrate the simple ways folks can take fun, easy steps toward more sustainable lives.
SKILLS TOUR PROGRAMS:
We offer a variety of programs in the areas of:
-Homesteading Skills such as a variety of Permaculture classes, canning, and chickens
-Citizenship Skills such as community conflict resolution, consensus, and nonviolent direct action
-Life Skills such as self-defense, rearing wild children, and understanding your companion animals
We can mix and match or combine trainings to your community’s needs. To see a complete list of our offerings visit our website at http://www.permibus.org
SUPPORT THE SKILLS TOUR
1) ORGANIZE SKILLS TOUR PROGRAMS IN YOUR COMMUNITY: You’ll find a general schedule of our travels below.. Contact us if you are interested in organizing trainings in your community. The Skills Tour programs are designed to range from small classes in the bus or your living room to campus classrooms to large venues with big groups.
2) INVITE THE PERMIBUS II TO AN EVENT IN YOUR COMMUNITY: The Permibus II is a great educational addition to festivals, concerts, coops, farmers markets, and other events. Let us know about events in your region while we are there. Invite us to a festival you are planning, or set us up with your local health food store or farmer’s market.
3) DONATE MONEY: The Skills for a New Millennium Tour does not charge for our programs. We ask for donations from who support our work. Please give as generously as possible to support this important work. Or organize a fundraiser in your community: have a canning party, hold a house concert, tell your friends about our work, pass the hat…we survive on the margin and every little bit helps. The 2009/2010 Skills Tour is starting $5000 in debt due to the need to replace our bus. Donations are needed now more than ever. To donate visit our website at http://www.permibus.org.
4) HELP OUR NETWORK GROW: Connected up? Help weave the web of sustainability. Introduce us to your friends who might be interested in hosting a program in their community!
5) BE A GUEST TRAINER OR TRAINER IN TRAINING: Know some of your own Skills for a New Millennium? Want to learn how to teach our skills? Travel with the Skills Tour for a short period of time learning, sharing and teaching others!
According to our current schedule we will be available in the Northeast starting on Sept. 15th until Sept. 20th and again from Sept. 26th until Oct. 5th. To make sure we are in your area during that time please contact us as soon as possible.
We are working the East Coast from New York City to D.C. from Oct. 5th to Nov. 1st.
We will be in the Southeast from Nov. 1st-24th. We will be off the road for our winter break until Jan. 2nd.
Jan. we will be in Florida and then heading West late Jan./early Feb. across the Southeast to thru Texas and into Arizona.
By Mid-March we will head up to the Rockies getting to Minnesota again by May 22nd.
We are currently only scheduled through the Earth First! Round River Rendezvous in Maine July 2010.
If you are interested in putting together a college gig that is not right along our scheduled route please contact us anyway to check availability. We work with a very flexible schedule so details are subject to change.
If you wish to schedule an event in your area please contact us at skillsmc@gmail.com or (406)-544-2767. As we finalize events our schedule is posted on our website at http://www.permibus.org. The schedule is subject to change based on the availability of events in an area.
hello!
i am excited about what you folks here are doing. it seems incredible. i am writing because you mentioned that you’d be travelling through texas in early february. i live in a small town in southeast texas called groveton that i’ve always hoped to get consciousness driven people to come to for just a day, to teach skills or simply to educate an unknowing public. the town is only about ninety miles northeast of houston, tx, and about two hundred miles due east of austin. perhaps your crew is going to hit up one of the larger towns but i’d like to take this time to greatly encourage you and just simply extend the offer, plant a little seed of hope, that possibly you’d be willing to pass through a small town where not much happens other than football, but where a LOT needs to happen and i think your group coming by for a day would be amazing. i have a home in groveton that is right across the street from the high school, courthouse and jr high/elementary. i think if we started planning in advance, we could get some funding from the school or else i could start my own fundraising program to help support your cause. please give it some thought!
sincerely,
dennis ray powell jr.
hi dennis, thanks so much for yr interest and enthusiasm. i am also a fan of the permibus. we are in touch with them but you might be more likely to get a response if you contacted them directly at skillsmc@gmail.com or (406)-544-2767. you can also check out their website at http://www.permibus.org. good luck and i hope you get the permibus to visit yr area!
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