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Greetings:

Please find below, info on an upcoming communications event to be held this
March 1997 in Newfoundland, Canada.

Although the focus will be on rural Newfoundland and Labrador communicators
and development workers, people from outside the province are welcome. If
you are interested let us know and we will put you on the mailing list for
the event!

Ciao


CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Communication for Community Survival Conference
(March 4-8, 1997)
Westviking College, Stephenville, Newfoundland, Canada
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November 28, 1996

Communication for Survival/Communiquer Pour Survivre and Westviking College
are planning a working symposium for people interested in utilizing
participatory communication tools to facilitate social, economic and
cultural development in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The event is scheduled at Westviking College, March 4 to 8, 1997. It
coincides with Phase 8 of the Communication for Survival initiative which
focuses on bringing together volunteers in grassroots communication to share
experiences and strategize for the future.

The Communication for Community Survival Conference comes out of a
recognition that the survival of our communities is largely contingent upon
the active participation of well informed, well organized, motivated
citizens and community groups.

Participants in the symposium will be introduced to a wide range of
participatory communication tools and how they can be used to deal with
community issues.

We are encouraging participants to bring examples of their own work and we
plan on continuous community television programming with simultaneous radio
transmission. Working with journalism students we will produce a daily
newsletter with black and white photos.

Plans are underway to build a web site with constant print and photo updates
during the symposium.

We want to create a forum in which organizations and individuals can share
and discuss best practices and strategies in using participatory
communication tools.

Westviking Community Studies students will help to develop and co-ordinate
the event.

The Communication for Survival initiative is a partnership of community
groups from the west and southwest coasts of Newfoundland including Lourdes
and Area, Cape St-Georges, Mainland, Black Duck Brook, Ramea and Burgeo) who
are working together to promote new development through the sharing of
ideas, information and solutions to issues of common concern.

For further information, please contact us at CFS@porthole.entnet.nf.ca or
phone Tom Hutchings at 709-643-3318.

Also, don't forget to check out the Survival of Rural Communities Bulletin
Board on the Enterprise Network (to join the Survival of Rural Communities
listserv go to the archive http://nf.ctn.nrc.ca/listserv/surv_rural).

Bruce Gilbert
(for CFS)
Bruce C. Gilbert