Citizens' Assembly Info Session is TOMORROW!

Attend in-person at Burlington City Hall or stream it at democracycreative.com @6pm EST

We are a bit over 24 hours out from the can’t-miss deliberative democracy event of the season here in Vermont. If you happen to live close by, we’d love to see you tomorrow at 6 pm in Contois Auditorium (the big room in Burlington City Hall) for some rousing speeches about citizens’ assemblies and a public display of support for this fragile thing called democracy. There’s going to be so much apple pie.

For those of you who can’t make it, the good people at the CCTV Center for Media and Democracy will be live-streaming it at the link below:

The stream will also be available on the homepage of our website, democracycreative.com, and later archived on our YouTube channel.

We are so excited to begin a public dialogue around citizens’ assemblies and democracy reform in Vermont, and the United States generally. Thanks in advance to those of you who plan to attend. And to those that can’t make it on Wednesday, there will be EVEN MORE opportunities to get involved, starting as soon as Thursday with a presentation at our office in the Soda Plant by two fellow democracy advocates, Philip Lindsay from the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College and Forrest Sparks from The New School, who are visiting Burlington for the info session event.

They recently returned from a trip to Europe meeting with organizers of some of the world’s first permanent citizens’ assemblies, and like us are buzzing with enthusiasm for the potential of sortition and citizen deliberation to take root in the United States as it has elsewhere. This is part of our weekly Thought Club conversation series which happens every Thursday at 6 pm.

Thanks as always for being a supporter of Democracy Creative, and hope to see you tomorrow and/or Thursday!