Details About THE ALABAMA BUILD VENTION for those traveling there and/or donating to the project. The Alabama Build-Vention Hosted by Pam Dorr of herohousing.org in Greensboro, Alabama and Tom Callos (tomcallos and the100.us) + friends, located from all over the place. Info website and to make donations: ubbtAlabama.org Hero Housing Contact e-mails (same e-mail as for paypal donations: melanie (at) herohousing (dot) org. April 9 to 13, 2014 (9th is fly in and arrive day, 13 is fly out day) in Greensboro, Alabama about 2-ish hours from Birmingham, Alabama (note: DO NOT book into Greensboro, NC, as we wont be there). The Build-Vention is a martial arts business, curriculum design, and marketing education-event, where we happen to be building a house for Latonia Williams, who is gently recovering from lung cancer. Lodging: We sleep in a gym, on mats, with showers and bathrooms in the building (new showers, havent seen them yet). The Gym has a full kitchen, which we stock with (mostly) healthy food. Several churches often host us in for meals --and we eat what were served, happily. Lodging is free, all food is paid for by donations. Bring sleeping stuff. Special Guests: Environmental activist icon and author, Julia Butterfly Hill. Gracie Barras Flavio Almeida and his brother, Ricardo Almeida, and Birminghams Gracie Barra head teacher, Kaliffa Oliveira. From Easton Martial Arts and Training Centers of Colorado, Master Teacher Amal Easton and his wife, chef Casey Easton --and gang. Soke Dave McNeill of the Goju Shorei Systems. Mike Valentine of Practical Martial Arts in Corte Madera, CA. Gary Engels and Jared Raths of The Leadership Academy of Wisconsin. And a host of other fine black belts, teachers, and practitioners. Testing for Ultimate Black Belt Test black belt rank, while at the event are special guests Paul Reyes of Reno, Nevadas 360 Martial Arts, Ms. Alyssa Trinidad of Joe Sherwoods dojo in MA, Brian Beck, head of Sierra Adrenaline Training Center in Carson City, NV, and Jason Brick of Portland, Oregon. Hal Gustin, Joe Sherwood, Heidi Wilmott, Gary Engels, and Chrissy Scott are the present team of behind the scenes coordinators. To volunteer for behind the scenes stuff, reach out to Tom Callos here, by phone at 530-903-0286, or by e-mail at tomcallos at g-mail dot com. John Bussard donated 2000 square feet of mats to the event, thank you John, so we will have much training going on, bring your gi, work clothes, eating tools (plate or bowl, fork, spoon, re-useable drinking container), as this is a ZERO WASTE, NO REFUSE event (to the best of our abilities). Each attending participant is tasked with bringing a minimum of $1000 in donations for building supplies, all proceeds may be sent to Hero Housing and/or brought to the event, for any donation details, reach out to herohousing.org at info at herohousing dot org --- and /or by Phone: 334-624-0842. This picture is of LYONS PARK ruralstudio.org project. See it here: play-scapes/play-design/contemporary-design/lions-park-playscape-rural-studio-greensboro-alabama-2011/
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 04:51:30 +0000