This is a real ‘web’, just like a spider’s – a place of connections – ideas – information – of dreams!
Our aim is to make it a Web of Hubs for alternative and free cultural spaces and people
The idea is to provide a loose-knit, non-hierarchical, web-based resource network for a wide range of what we are calling ‘Free Cultural Spaces’ (FCS). They wouldn’t necessarily use that term to describe themselves, but we need a simple, non-threatening term!
Enabler Publications site, based in the UK offers an interesting portal into information, links and books about the new Travellers in the UK and beyond, the evolution of festivals, eco-living, alternative Australia and a diverse range of interests around creative work with young people and the environment, including Africa.
Enough is Enough
A radical protest hub site.
Agree or disagree, it’s challenging, controversial and gets the brain ticking!
Erowid is the Pyschonaut Central site. Almost everything you might want to know about humans and psychoactive substances. American site.
Located on coast of California at the Big Sur. Esalen is a commune; a centre for human consciousness-raising educational workshops; hot springs; land conservation and stewardship; yoga and tantric sex; a retreat. And at various times, home to talents and ideas of luminaries such as Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Joan Baez and Albert Hoffman.
A fascinating seedbed of influence even on Russians such as Boris Yeltsin.
One of a number of retreats and intentional communities in a beautiful area of Peru.
Their Facebook site says:
“Espíritu de Anaconda is a healing center where the art of Traditional Amazonian Medicine is practiced in its pure essence. The center is under the supervision of Master healer Guillermo Arévalo and his wife Sonia Chuquimbalqui.”
However, there are many critical posts about the Master.
Links to their Facebook page and one of the critical postings from Canada.
Eurotopia – Links to some pages and extracts from the: Living in community directory of communities and eco-villages in Europe. An invaluable guide book in print form to communities.
Exist to Resist is:
A 2017 hardback photo book from Matt Smith focusing on the underground culture of ‘resistance’ in the UK.
Particularly looks at the Traveller, protest and rave scenes. Very hands-on.
The site says it:
“is a platform for experimental urban development. We think that the liveable and sustainable cities of the future will emerge from urban experiments rather than being the result of traditional planning. This website is meant to inspire new ways of working with urban development, based on 1:1 experiments in urban space and is intended as a resource for citizens, developers, planners, politicians and others who is interested in working with experimental urban development.”
Albion and Barsham Fayres/Fairs in East Anglia, England, 1972-86. A lovely record of some splendid olde-worlde, idiosyncratic festivals including many horse fairs.
US-based sister organisation to the Fellowship for Intentional Community. Provides a support network for a number of communal groups in North America. So, it is a small hub site with links to a range of communal groups.