August/September 1978 RAIN Page 19 EVENTS The Vancouver Women's Film and Video Festival 1978 will be held on September 22, 23 and 24 at Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, 3161 Ontario Street, Vancouver, Be. Programs of both fiLm and video productions will be shown throughout the three days of the festival. There will be panels and discussion groups for exchange between women and Media workers. You are asked to pre-register. For more information contact, Women in Focus, No. 6-45 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC V5T 3H7,604/872-2250. The 2nd Annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival will be held Sept. 15, 16 & 17, and the 1st Annual Port Townsend Symposium on Wooden Boat Building will be held Sept. 10-15. Registration for the festival is $15 per person. Tuition for the symposium is $125 and is limited to 250 people. To preregister or for more information, contact: Port Townsend Wooden Boat Foundation, Port Townsend, WA 98369, 206/385-3628. Common Ground Country Fair 78 will be held Sept. 22-24 at the Litchfield Fairgrounds in Litchfield, Maine. Sponsored by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association to re-awaken the spirit of the country fair, making it once again a vital part ofrural life. For more information contact: Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association, Box 187, 110 Water Street, Hallowell, ME 04347,2071622-3118. A Northeast Regional Appropriate Technology Forum, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the School of Business Administration. Universltv of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002. will be held Oct. 14. For more information contact Robert Kahn at the school. Critical Mass '78, the third national gathering of the citizen's movement for safe and efficient energy, will be held October 6-8 in Washington, DC. Citizens from allover the country will meet to exchange information, skills and tactics through workshops, displays and speakers covering a wide range of antinuclear and of pro-alternative energy topics. For more information, contact Susan Gluss, Conference Coordinator, Critical Ma!:s '78, P.O. Box 1538, Washington, DC 20013. Phone 2021 546-4790 . The Second National Conference on Standards for Solar Energy Use will be held September 13-15 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The purpose of the conference is to emphasize the development and use of standards for the materials, products and services that are necessary for bringing the benefits of solar energy to the national economy and standard of living. The registration fee is $100; $90 if you register early. It should be sent to: ASTM, Second National Conference on Standards for Solar Energy Use, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. San Diego's Community Video Center is presenting the National Conference on Public Access Cable Television at the El Cortez Hotel, San Diego on August 25-27. Local and national policy makers and industry leaders will meet with local cable programmers and representatives ofcommunity organizations to discuss the relationship ofcommunications technology to local communities. Some issues to be considered are directions ofpublic policy, experiments: past and present, and educational and institutional uses. There is a $30 conference registration fee. For more information contact: Community Video Center, National Conference on Public Access Cable Television, 520 "E" St., Suite 901, San Diego, CA 92101, 7141 239-3393. "Lifelong Learning in the 1980s" will be the theme for the Eighth National Free University Conference, to be held Oct. 20-22, 1978, in Kansas City, Missouri. Conference topics will include the future of lifelong learning, spreading community-based community education, and workshops in practical matters such as funding, publicity, new course ideas and others. For more information contact: Free University Network, 1221 Thurston, Manhattan, Kansas 66502,913/532-5866. Kerista Village, a San Francisco-based democra~ic intentional community is sponsoring a West Coast Communities Conference. August 22-28. Particular emphasis will be put on sharing information on community software: group process, interpersonal relationships, etc. The conference will start in San Francisco and move to Hardin Hot Springs. Registration is $45 including everything but bed and board in San Francisco. For more information contact: Kerista, P.O. Box 1174, San Francisco, CA 94101, 415/ 566-6502. Aprovecho ("to make the best use of") Institute, 359 Polk St., Eugene, OR 97402, is sponsoring a workshop on building fuel-conserving mud stovcs, September 15-17. Registration is $25. $15 living lightly. For more information contact Ianto Evans at the Institute, 503/345-5981. JOBS The Siuslaw Rural Health Center is looking for a nurse or other medical assistant and an office coordinator to join a collective of nine health workers in a small, community-owned clinic. They need someone with experience in alternative business, consensus type groups, communities and/or health care. If intcrested send your name, address and some information about yourself to : Siuslaw Rural Health Center, Tide Route, Swisshome, OR 97408, 503/268-4433. EARS, Environme'ltal Action Reprint Service, is seeking full-time staffpeople to take over the coordinatio71 of EARS. The work to be done includes routine office correspondence, mailing list work, purchasing for the EARS Catalogs, testing and evaluating advertising, preparing bulk mailings, sbipping arId receiving the items in EARS Catalogs, etc. Interested people should send a resume and a letter outlining why .you would like to work with EARS to: EARS, 2239 East Colfax, Denver, CO 80206. The Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO) is in dire need of an Office Manager/Administrator. Our projects are threatening to overwhelm us! Pay will start at $400/month. It will rise-if the person is really goodto $450/month. We need someone who is orderly, energetic, flexible, has a sense of responsibility and a sense of humor, and has-if not some knowledge of renewable energies, at least the inclination to learn about them and to use them. Contact Kye Cochran or Ron Pogue, 435 Stapleton Building, Billings, MT 59101,406/259-1958.
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