The 12th CBA Conference
Building Dreams – Connecting Communities
  
(Preliminary Program, 2/23/08) 
 
Asilomar Conference Center
Monterey, California
March 14 – 17, 2008  
 
Friday Evening - March 14
   
3:00 – 5:30 pm  Registration – Check In
   
6:00 pm Friday Evening Dinner Reception
   
7:00 pm  Welcome/Schedule Review
       Sherri Hunter
       Introduction of CBA Board of Directors
   
7:15 pm Group Warm-up
       Marvin Rosenberg, Art for Public Spaces
   
7:45 pm Conferees Introductions and Presentation Board
            Exhibition
   
Saturday Morning – March 15
   
   
7:30 am Breakfast
   
8:30- 9:25 am
 Morning Plenary Session:
       Milenko Matanovic, Pomegranate Center – “Involving
            Community in Making a Good Place Great!”
   
9:30- 9:50 am
 Meg Anderson – “Puttin’ Out Fires Before They   Start”
   
9:50-10:05 am Announcements & Morning Workshops
   
10:15- 11:45 am “What’s New on the Playground”
        -  Chris Meyer, Meyer Design – Panel
            Moderator
        -  Marc Leathers, Leathers & Associates
        -  Joe Cicirelli, Learning Structures
   
10:15-11:45 am  Tom Arie Donch, Interplay Design – “Mentoring
       Workshop: How to organize basic principles of the
            community built process.”
   
10:15-11:45 am Jeff Mather – “Community Based Public Art
            Partnerships”
   
12:00 noon  Lunch
   
Saturday Afternoon - March 15
   
1:00-2:00 pm Afternoon Plenary:
  Diana Young – “Karl Linn’s Legacy: Building
             Commons and Community” 
   
2:00-2:15 pm Chris Meyer – “PR is Great…Except When it’s Not”
   
2:15-2:45 pm  Plenary Session:
  Bob Leathers, “The Quilt Gallery: 
       One Block at a Time”
   
2:45- 3:00 pm Announcements & Afternoon Workshops
   
3:00-3:15   Break
   
3:15-4:30 pm “Nature & Play”
        -  Sam Kornhauser, Schoolworks – Panel
            Moderator
        -  Leon Smith, Planet Earth Playscapes
        -  Larry Wight, MIG, Inc.
   
3:15-4:30 pm  Jon Pound, Chicago Public Art Group – “The Best we
       Know/As Near as We can Tell”
   
3:15-5:00 pm  Marvin & Lilli Ann K. Rosenberg, Art for Public
         Spaces – “Retrospective: Working with Concrete,
             Clay, Mosaics & Community” 
        (Slide lecture and demo workshop)
   
4:45-5:45 pm JC Boushh, Play it Safe Designs – “Playground
       Safety Revisited”
   
4:45-5:45 pm  Lindsey Rosenberg, The Philadelphia Mural Project
   
4:45-5:45 pm Cheryl Nickel, “Path of the Just”
   
6:00 pm Dinner
   
Saturday Evening - March 15
   
7:00-8:15 pm Evening Plenary Session:
  “International Community Builds – Part I”
       -  Bond Anderson, Sound Play, Inc.:  Korea
       -  Kelli Magowen & Joe Cicirelli, Learning
            Structures: Israel
       - Katherine Melcher, Urban Ecology:  Thailand
   
8:30 pm Community Bonfire
   

Sunday Morning – March 16
   
7:30 am Breakfast
   
8:30-9:00 am  Plenary Session:
       Shannon Wheeler, Leathers & Associates, and
          Habitat for Humanity – “A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out”
   
9:00-10:30 am Keynote Speaker:
        Mark Lakeman, The City Repair Project –
          “The Village  Lives”
   
10:30-10:40  Announcements & Morning Workshops
   
10:45-11:45 am  “Digital Story Telling:  Recording the
     Community Built Story”
        -  Meg Anderson, Sound Play
        -  Sam Kornhauser, Schoolworks
   
10:45-11:45   “Balancing Passion and Profits”
       -  Donna Billick, Rock Art Us
       -  Laurel True, Institute of Mosaic Art    
   
10:45-11:45 am Stephen D. Shibley, Fertile Ground – “Creating
       Room for Transformation:  Building Labyrinths to
            Celebrate the Heart and Soul of Community”
   
12:00 noon  Lunch
   

Sunday Afternoon – March 16
   
1:00- 2:00 pm  Plenary Session:
       Kiko Denzer & Bernhard Masterson – “Build a
            Community our of Mud”
   
2:05-2:30 pm CBA Business Meeting - Sherri
        -  Elections – Bond & Sam
        -  Scholarship Program - Sherri
        -  Announcements
        -  Afternoon Workshops
   
2:45-4:15 pm
 “The Eco School Yard”
       -  Yoland Huang, Willard Middle School Green 
         School  Yard
       -  Sharon Danks, Bay Tree Design, Inc.
   
2:45-4:15 pm KaBoom! Presentation
       -  Laura Toscano, KaBoom!
       -  Shannon Wilk, KaBoom!
   
2:45-5:45 pm
 “Cob Building Workshop”
       - Kiko Denzer & Bernhard Masterson – Hands on
       Workshop
   
4:15 pm  Break
   
4:30-5:45 pm Film:  “Where Do All the Children Play”
   
4:30-5:45 pm O.A.____________________________
   
4:30-5:45 pm
O.A.____________________________
   
6:00 pm  Dinner
   

Sunday Evening – March 16
   
7:00-7:30 pm  Plenary Session: 
  Rahmaan Statik Barnes – “RK Design:  The Spray
       Can, Paint Brush, and Computer”
   
7:30-8:45 pm   Plenary Session:
  “International Community Builds – Part II
      -  Sam Kornhauser, Schoolworks: Mongolia
      -  Laurel True, Institute of Mosaic Design: Africa
      -  Marc Leathers & Kyle Cundy, Leather&Associates:India
   
   
8:45 pm Scholarship Silent Auction
   
9:00 pm Closing Reception
   
Monday Morning – March 17
Wear your green!
7:30 am
Breakfast
   
8:00 am Plenary Session:  “What we Take Home”
   
10:30 am Pick-up Box Lunches (if not staying &preordered)
   
12:00 pm Post Conference Tour of Adventure Playground and
   Willard Middles School departs for Berkeley.

12:00pm

  Lunch­