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Intentional Communities Newsletter: April 25, 2009
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
Communities Magazine Current & Upcoming Issues
#142 (Spring): Festivals and Gatherings
#143 (Summer): Ecology and Community
#144 (Fall): Community in Hard Times
Since 1972, Communities has been the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America--from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. Communities
increasingly focuses on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods. Articles and columns cover practical how-to issues of cooperative living as well as personal stories about forming new communities, decision-making, conflict resolution, raising children in community, ecological living, and much more. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions.
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Following are some highlights of the current spring issue Festivals
and Gatherings. We hope you'll check out this
exciting issue.
Fellowship for Intentional
Communities Events by Ma’ikwe Schaub Ludwig. At
FIC events, people get opportunities to reach over fences, meet fellow travelers,
discover new pathways, and figure out what to do when the neighbor’s dog
is barking at 2 a.m.
Adventures in Temporary Community: An Interview
with Liat Silverman by Kim Scheidt. Superhero rides,
Burning Man, and Rainbow Gatherings all demonstrate how living, working, and
sharing together offer many benefits, whether in temporary or long- term community.
Burning Man: Experiencing the Playa Community by
Kayla Wexelberg. A first-time Black Rock City “Burner” learns
multiple lessons about cooperation, connection, self-expression, and play, and
brings them back into her daily life.
Comin’ Home to the Rainbow by Scott Shuker
. A dedicated Rainbow Family member explains the diverse culture, the lingo,
the traditions, the politics, and both the “bright” and “shadow” sides
of this gathering of the tribes.
Network for a New Culture Camps by
Pati Diehl, Melanie Rios, Michael Rios, and Sarah Taub.
Participants in NFNC’s Summer Camps explore intimacy, transparency, freedom
of choice, personal responsibility, sexuality, and new ways of being, teaching,
and learning.
Sandhill Sorghum Festival by Stan Hildebrand.
At its annual festival, a small farming group celebrates abundance, shares knowledge,
builds community, jump-starts its harvest season, and serves hot sorghum syrup
on fresh biscuits.
Celebration as a Way of Life by
Barbara Swetina. Musicians, puppeteers, dancers, artists,
Celebration Activists, and imaginations run wild in a once-sleepy village in
southern France.
Festival of the Babas by Allan Sutherland. For
one day every year, in a small Bulgarian village, the social order is turned
upside down and grandmothers rule.
Cultural Summer in Sólheimar, Iceland by Guðmundur Ármann
Pétursson. An Icelandic ecovillage shelters and supports the disabled while
hosting an annual summer arts festival that “reverse integrates” 25,000
outsiders into its own unique culture.
Festivals: Times of High Energy by
Barbara Stützel. At ZEGG's festivals, guests and community
members share openly and find that a different world is possible
when we are the change we want to see in the world.
How Currents Community Got Its Groove Back by
Rebecca Dale. Born in celebration, a rural
group in Ohio lost some of its community spirit once home-building and family-raising
started—until members discovered the Hawaiian luau.
The Dance of Expansive Community by Paul
Freundlich.
A former Communities editor
discovers that non-local networks forged through common commitments, interests,
and periodic gatherings can be just as involving as local or “intentional” community.
The issue also
includes letters, a
publisher's note on technology and community culture ,
the second installment of our "Community 101" column, a Cooperative Group
Solutions panelist discussion of "Cigarettes, Alcohol, Visitors, and Events," articles
on a neighborhood
chicken cooperative, a virtual retirement village, local currencies, and
poetry in community, a tribute to two of Australia's intentional community
elders, details about how to get involved with the FIC, and a list of upcoming
community-associated Festivals and Gatherings.
Please ask for Communities at your favorite
local cafe or natural foods store, or subscribe today.
Summer and Fall issues: The theme for the summer
issue (#143) is Ecology and Community and
the theme for the fall issue (#144) is Community in Hard
Times.
If you're interested in submitting articles,
photos, or illustrations to future issues of Communities, please follow
this link for details.
Contact Communities Editor.
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