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.
Consequence of Sound
This is a music, festival and film/arts site that is a portal into lots that’s happening around the globe.
An interesting portal site, which explains that it offers links to:
“An eclectic and growing selection of small, alternative festivals with the odd cool big one in there…including one we organise: the ‘Festival of Creativity’ in the Czech Republic.”
Arts community is squatted ex-cigarette factory in the Netherlands.
They say:
"In 1980 a group of about 40 artists squatted a former Mignot cigarette factory in Eindhoven. They were determined to have space where to create and experiment with new forms of art: performance, video, installations... They were all engaged with the same aim: keep doing things as long as possible , giving complete freedom to the artistic process of creation. De Fabriek is still going on, based on the same principles.”
New Zealand film documentary on the NZonScreen website. Wonderful images of old-style hippy festivals and much more.
You’ll find other interesting archived films there too.
A link is to info about the DiY system, plus further links.
Organisation behind many of Australia’s largest eco-festivals. Linking up alternative lifestylers, creators and eco-activists.
Their official description: “The Down to Earth Co-op Society has been organising ConFest (Conference/ Festival). We are a completely volunteer organisation. The first ConFest was held at Cotter River, ACT in 1976 with the aim of `transforming society'. ConFest was started as an 'alternative living' festival in the 1970's by Jim Cairns (then Deputy Prime Minister) and his assistant Junie Morosi and others.”
Edgecentral is the site of Graham St John who is a dance-festival specialist – words, images and more. A must for electronic dance music fans.