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!
Svanholm is an intentional community located near the village of Skibby, 60km from Copenhagen on the isle of Sealand in Denmark. Looks like an amazing central building.
They say that their community is: “based on common ideals concerning ecology, income sharing, communal living, and finally, Self Government.”
Organised by Montreal DJ, Julian Prince, on the Caribbean island of St Martin.
The festi name is derived from the letters for the local airport.
An EDM festival with eco-elements. Looks expensive, but interesting.
Links to the official fest site and a French video report.
Well-established small, intentional arts community in Los Angeles in the USA. They say: "Synchronicity LA is a cooperative community house in the heart of the Los Angeles. We are a house of 11 artists: musicians, social workers, teachers, scientists, engineers, filmmakers, cooks, historians, and more."
Links to their main site and an interesting university commentary about the intentional community.
Festival and community arts organisers in British Colombia, Canada. Looks like a lot of fun!
Links to their festival and arts projects.
Collective cultural arts and social centre in an old tobacco factory in Madrid, Spain.
Links to their official site and to an interesting article by Duran and Moore about the evolution of the space, its ideas and more.
It is also the hub site for: Terra Nova and the Global Campus. The Global Campus training is designed to support the base stations in questions of food self-sufficiency, energy autonomy, water management, community building and the study of peace knowledge.
The website describes it as: “Tamera is a School and Research Station for Realistic Utopia
The project was founded in Germany in 1978. In 1995 it moved to southern Portugal. Today 170 people live and work on a property of 330 acres.
The founding thought was to develop a non-violent life model for cooperation between human being, animal and nature.”
Tatiana is the founder and facilitator behind a number of projects and spaces including the Russian House in California and Shiram Community in Russia. This provides the link to her Path – her Trace towards Global Enlightenment. Thought provoking and challenging.
Links to the Global Enlightenment site and the Eco-School: Yes! Project: “The project is based on the concept of creating rural economy on the principles of deep ecology and daizma.”
Professor David Hicks’ site which focuses on the need five strands to be developed in education:
GLOBAL ~ Making sense of the world
FUTURES ~ Preparing for the future
SUSTAINABILITY ~ Thinking and acting sustainably
TRANSITION ~ Creating a post-carbon society
IDEOLOGY ~ Exploring values and beliefs
Telæthrion is a Greek Eco-utopian project, with Free & Real as their slogan. These Greek Eco-activists have envisioned village full of geodesic domes on a Greek Island, called Evia. They organize several activities such as yoga and even guided 'mushroom-experiences' for the culinary enthousiast, but also are altruïstic since they want to spread their way of living by instructing others. By means of 'free and real familymembership', travelling and through a telæthrionic media-department (!)
Their website is as impressive as their ethos to create this small piece of paradise: in seven European languages, though most of their activities are -quite logically- in the local language Greek -> ελληνικά
American self-styled ‘Psychonaut’. Student of ecology and shamanism, he offered various takes on a psychedelic version of reality. If you want to overdose on McKenna, the first link is to Five Hours of McKenna. What he describes as ‘kind of a one man band’. The second is the Wikispace attempt to chronicle his writings and talks.