UK-based, George is an important commentator/writer on the edges of festival culture. His books on festivals, radical gardening and music are situated in the cracks and margins between social activism, popular culture and academic study. He describes himself as “a British academic with a longstanding research interest in alternative cultures and living practices, festivals and gardens, participatory arts and media, music, protest, peace, disability, and social movements.”
Not the festival…but a link to variety of street buskers, musos, nomads and more, performing around the historic Somerset, UK town. Enjoy!
“We realised that we wanted to inspire people to seek out enriching experiences that would stay with them for life. We realised that when travellers visit a destination in a responsible way, not only are they helping that destination but that destination is also helping them in return.
And so a new meaning and a new mission was born for globalhelpswap.
We’d love it if you joined our tribe of responsible travellers and shared this journey with us. Will you?”
It is an alternative to WWooFing for both hosts and volunteers. The ‘work’ is more varied too. But the internet shows that there is a diverse range of experiences that have come from the scheme, not always entirely positive.
Like other similar schemes, it is essentially a database, for both hosts and volunteers.
Much-mythologised Swedish musicians. Proto-type hippies, mask-wearing, commune-dwelling Psycho-Nauts. Making a lot psychedelic waves round the world festival circuit.
A couple of links to their strange worlds…the second being an official video of the band…
Like similar schemes, this offers an alternative to WWooFing for both hosts and volunteers.
They say: “HelpX is provided primarily as a cultural exchange for working holiday makers who would like the opportunity during their travels abroad, to stay with local people and gain practical experience. In the typical arrangement, the helper works an average of 4 hours per day and receives free accommodation and meals for their efforts.”
The ‘work’ is more varied too. But the internet shows that there is a diverse range of experiences that have come from the scheme, not always entirely positive.
Like other similar schemes, it is essentially a membership database, for both hosts and volunteers. See their website for details.
Housetrucks – the site of Roger Beck, the trucking turtle. Lots of pics of live-in, converted vehicles.
Cartoon Kate is something of UK-alternative-institution. Her first, fab cartoon book was ‘Copse’ the cartoon book of tree/road protests.
She has produced much fine, thought-provoking work about environmentalism, squatting, eco-protest and more. Including the Calais refugee camp cartoon, 'Threads'. Awesome! Help her to fund its printing and distribution.Have a good look around her website.
La Caravana (Rainbow Peace Caravan)
Links to the history of La Caravana, a mobile eco-village project in South America. Much respected eco-nomads.
German student, Leonie Muller’s nomadic travel blog and ‘Wherever you go, there you are’ on Facebook.
Magbaz Travels website has been created by and for long-term, long-distance motor-homers and cyclists. It began after they crossed Australia in April 2005. Rebecca Watts of Cairns developed the initial structure helps maintain the site. They have made three round-the-world journeys each of one-year.