The former munitions storehouse of Rijksdomeinen was squatted in 1988 and pretty soon legalized. From the start it was aimed to house the widest possible diversity of creative professions and crafts. It provides work and living spaces close to the lands of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
A major creative arts hub. With many events and art installations around the outskirts of the site.
Nimbin is an alternative village/small township born out of the environmental, arts-music and protest scene post the Aquarius Festival in 1973. Often at odds with the local authorities over its tolerance over drugs. Two site links. Australian 'hippy central' in the heart of New South Wales' Rainbow Region.
Nomads United organise horse caravans, reforestation festivals and more.
NBHAP: Hub site to all sorts of festivals, music, reviews, culture and more info. Glossy, but especially useful listings for some good Eastern European festies.
Annual Psychedelic Tribal Gathering in Hungary. More than a festival, rather, a portal into new insights for life, living and EDM music and dance! Describes itself as, “a Spiritual Awakening”.
The O.Z.O.R.A. Festival has been held on an estate in Ozora near small village Dádpuszta every year since 2004. The first party was called Solipse and took place during the Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.
The Ozora festival (with Solar United Natives festival) is one of the two sizeable psytrance festivals in Hungary, and is one of the fastest growing psychedelic trance festivals in the world.
Old Hall with 40 adults and 10 under 18s, is one of the more established intentional communities in the UK. This intentional community in the East Anglian area of England, has a diversity of people and beliefs, but works on consensus. Environmentalism and woodland skills are at its core. It also has historic links with the Albion Festivals.
Links to their main site and to Reb Stevenson’s video about Old Hall WWOOFers!
Site dedicated to archiving a wide range of counter-cultural materials, films, music video, magazines and more, including the whole archive of the underground newspaper, ‘Oz’. They also run courses.
A Big 'hub' site.
Links to their website and FB page.
Open Mind is a fairly mainstream, generic, rather glossy site for news articles on big subject areas such as ‘spirituality’ and ‘technology’. It covers a diverse range, from GM foods through to this link, which they’ve dubbed the 'World’s 12 Strangest Festivals'. They don't all sound especially 'nice'.
Uniquely disturbing Australian artist, visionary, theatre performer and musician. Inhabits the outer hemispheres of the brain and the occult. An alternative-festival cult, but not for the squeamish!
A couple of links to start you off into his diverse, wild worlds.
Something of a musical and cultural institution in East London. It’s a club, a real and on-line community. Like many other music and cultural centres (and music pubs) it’s also under threat from property development.
Passing Clouds is celebrated for bringing together musicians from a diverse range of international backgrounds to collaborate through the universal language of music and a collective desire for peace and harmony on the earth.
In this way, Passing Clouds celebrates the true diversity of culture in Hackney, London and the world and provides a living demonstration of the ability for people of all backgrounds to come together in love, respect and understanding.