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!
Innovative eco-artist and architect. One of the founders of environmental art. Art, housing and nature intertwined. Born on Lanzarote and a lifelong advocate of living in harmony with the natural landscape. His Foundation continues to allow access some of his fantastical creations including his studio-home, the Cactus Garden and the underground caves at Jameos del Agua. He died in 1992.
Link to the foundation hub site. And a video which shows some of his landscape architecture.
This is a term that supposedly originated from a meeting between Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin in Deptford, England in 1976. It uses shifting belief structures and altered consciousness as ‘tools’ in the performance of chaos magick.
Since then it has been used as an umbrella term to bring together many ideas from the occult through to science fiction and fantasy.
Austin Osman Spare’s ideas and art, Michael Moorcock’s ‘Book of Chaos’ and Peter J. Caroll’s books ‘Liber Null’ and ‘Psychonaut’ are key texts.
Here are links to a couple sites where you can find out more.
Charles Eisenstein and the Next Step Story. Influential, but sometimes controversial author and public speaker. He says: "When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act."
A link to his main site and their Facebook page, ‘The More Beautiful World’, which is a closed group.
Charles Fort (1874-1932)
The American eccentric writer and researcher whose name has become the ‘byword’ for all things odd, paranormal and hard to explain.
The Fortean worlds are like something out of ‘X files’, but have also spawned some serious quasi-scientific discourse and investigations. Worlds of ‘strange phenomena’.
The link here is to many of his writings.
Activist, author and film-maker, Charles Shaw’s website. Lots of images, films and most of all - ideas!
Chris CJ Stone is one of the UK’s most eclectic and colourful writers about the ‘underbelly’ of UK society, from paganism to the most neglected housing estates, and lots on festivals, Travellers and counter culture including the alternative King Arthur! Well worth visiting his blogs and more.
Christiania Freetown, Copenhagen in Denmark. One of the oldest squats turned legal arts and creative communities in Europe. A special place of exploration.
Chris Waite is sadly no longer with us. But this site offers some of his videos and poems about the early free festivals in the UK. Plus his two-parter, Looking for America, filmed with native Americans and others in Dakota.
This looks to be a two site festie in Sweden. With events mixing music and art at Goteborg and Bottna. Recommended by our friend Kjerstin at nearby Skarkall arts community.
Co-housing is way of organising housing that is run by its residents. They have their own spaces but also share communally. Here are links to the associations in the United States and the UK.