Shamanistic group with different base-camps around the globe including Costa Rica, that describes itself as:
“Sound of Light is a Sacred Medicine and Music Circle with a Healing Retreat Center in the Costa Rican forest. We facilitate seminars with the Sacred Visionary Plant Teachers that include healing ceremonies, meditation practices, intentional music study, Temazcal ceremonies (sweatlodges) and integration circles. We are a growing Forest Community that welcomes people and families that look for a simple and profound communal forest life in the essence of the Medicine Path. “
SPACES was a three year project for artistic and cultural action in public space, taking place in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. It lasted from December 1st 2011 - November 30st 2014 and a film was produced called ‘Free Spaces’, which shows examples of how artists can become political activists in their community spaces.
The film looks of interest but we cannot find a link to it on line. It’s been filmed in the German language. The description is:
“FREE SPACES, based on the Spaces project, shows a new image of four major Eastern European cities. Ina Ivanceanu followed artists and activists who try to regain their right to the city and their freedom of expression with wit and creativity. A cinema gets occupied, an old Soviet circus reactivated, a gloomy underground passage transformed into an ironic but glamorous arena and a factory site converted into a cultural Agora. The film shows that conditions are similar in Tbilisi (Georgia), Yerevan (Armenia), Chisinau (Moldova) - and in Kiev (Ukraine), where civil society revolts, led by artists. All actions and projects reclaim public space in artistic and innovative ways.”
The film seems to have been produced by the Amour Fou film group in Luxembourg and Vienna.
Squatting Europe resource bank. With articles and information of events and books.
'Start Again' is a short documentary (in two parts) about an alternative, more hippy lifestyle. Made in 1972, but still thought-provoking. Moving away from the cityscape and back to the garden! Worth checking out other films on this NZonScreen site.
Sustainable living in a woodland community in the Wray Valley, Devon, UK. Under threat after 16 years. Appealing for a permanent right for planning permission. A great place, project and inspiring example.
Plenty about low-impact living, permaculture, integration with the local community and nature. And 'wild' education for the youngsters on site (and visitors)!
See the film. Visit their site.
Sunseed offer educational programmes in green energy, permaculture, desertification and we are a hands-on practical centre for low-impact living and environmental education in Andalusia, Spain.
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.”
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.
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.”