[Pil-pc-oceania] International Permaculture Week

[Deb Guildner]

We can start out with an *International Permaculture Day* and have a week around it in which to hold activities. (A bit like Naidoc Week).
EG, if it is a particular calendar date, that date will fall on a different day of the week in every year....but the calendar week that it falls in can be the week that events are planned for, eg an event that needs to fall on a weekend,  so that families can attend, for example, a weekend fair. 

How about an equinoctial date. eg 23rd September?  A planting festival in one hemisphere will be a harvest in the other. 
Wiki ref re spring/autumn equinox:     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox#Cultural_aspects
Always something to celebrate on planet earth!
It is appropriate that Australia (and southern hemisphere) gets to hold International Permaculture day in Spring, as Permaculture the term was defined here in Australia.
There is also not a great deal happening at that time of year, eg, other public holidays, to conflict with it, and also a lot of people are thinking about their gardens.
There may be other spring fairs and gardening events which can be used as springboards for Permaculture-type  promotions..  

Sept 23rd is quite an interesting date, historically speaking, as well as the Spring/Austumn equinox, there's Feast of St Thecia (Iona), Saffron Day (France) and also Celebrate Bisexuality Day...(how VERY plant-like!).  

A few other on this days: (From Wikipedia): 

1122 - Concordat of Worms. (a peace agrement between church and state, said to be a basis for later international relations treaties). And a few others:
1912: 
The first silent comedy film starring the Keystone Cops is released in America by Mack Sennett - called 'Cohen Collects A Debt'.
1848
First commercial production of chewing gum by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine in the United States and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'.
1846
German Astronomer Johann Galle discovers another planet - Neptune.  

Something to mull over!!   Reclaim the spring for planet earth!

Cheers,

Deb


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tamara Griffiths 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] International Permaculture Week


  A week!

  Can you imagine!

  maybe next year?

  Love T


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  > From: bocor at bigbutton.com.au
  > To: pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org
  > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:37:37 +0930
  > Subject: [Pil-pc-oceania] International Permaculture Week
  > 
  > A National Permaculture Day might be a blip on the radar...
  > how about an international permaculture week?
  > 
  > Dare to dream!!
  > 
  > D
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: "kerry dawborn" <kjdawborn at bigpond.com>
  > To: "permacultue discussion list" 
  > <pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org>
  > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 6:49 PM
  > Subject: Re: [Pil-pc-oceania] National P-Day
  > 
  > 
  > >I like the idea of it being the first day of spring. To me this is
  > > simple, doesn't carry the connotations or concerns that some of the
  > > other suggestions seem to, and it embraces a connection with nature, and
  > > renewal, which is what permaculture is about, isn't it?
  > >
  > > I'd go for this one no worries, and feel very comfortable with it.
  > >
  > > Kerry
  > >
  > > Pat wrote:
  > >> How about 1 September. This is considered to be the first day of
  > >> Spring in Australia. In the US, the Labor Day holiday would fall
  > >> close, occasionaly on, 1 Sept. (it's the first Monday in September).
  > >> Don't know about other countries.
  > >>
  > >> Cheers,
  > >> Pat
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