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Intentional Communities Newsletter: April 2008
Promoting Community Living & Cooperative Lifestyles
Communities magazine, Directory, Video and more
1 Fellowship Positions Available
2 Communities Magazine Current Issues, and More
3 Art of Community Conference, FIC Organizational Meeting, Cohousing Conferences and More
4 SALE: Ecovillages 20% off at Community Bookshelf
5 How To Multiply Your Good Works For The Planet: Share!
1 Fellowship Positions Available
Communities Magazine Art Director
Online Directory Manager
Communities Magazine Art Director
Please inquire by email to communities_jobs - [at] - ic.org
Application deadline April 23rd, 2008
Overview
Communities Magazine is a quarterly publication. This contract position is part time in the sense that the production cycle has natural dormant and more active periods.
The Art Director:
- Is responsible for the overall look of the magazine. This includes: refining the design and creating templates as needed; laying out each issue; soliciting and selecting all photos and illustrations along with captions and credit info; working with the text supplied by the Editor; and working with ads (both in-house and paid) generated by the Business Manager.
- Should have the ability to interpret ideas visually that the writers, editor, or advertisers may want to communicate as well as to hold the aesthetic visual standard for Communities magazine, in collaboration with the Editor, as established by the FIC board.
- Will prepare the files for printing and send digital copy to the printer in accordance with specs established by the printer.
- Is expected to be available from the beginning of the layout phase until prepress issues are resolved and the proofs are approved.
- Needs to have the hardware and software necessary to perform the tasks required as well as layout and photo manipulation experience and skills to produce a visually high quality magazine.
- Will work in collaboration with the Editor, Business Manager, Liaison to the FIC Board, and Editorial Review Board.
FIC Online Directory Manager
Please inquire by email to directory_jobs -[at]- ic.org
This position is responsible for maintaining and developing the Fellowship's Online Communities Directory Database and providing technical support to users of
directory.ic.org . They will be expected to collaborate with the FIC's Web Weavers Committee (which oversees FIC's family of websites), FIC office staff, and non-FIC members of the Intentional Communities Data Collective (ICDC) members (for example, Coho/US). They will also need to coordinate with the manager for each print edition of Communities Directory.
Skills:
This job involves customer service and public relations. It is critical that the person have good communication skills, especially via email. They must have a medium to high level of comfort with computers and the Internet but do not need to be a programmer.
This job requires familiarity with FIC and its mission as well as daily attention to email and the website. While tasks can be handed off to others for vacations and breaks, it is normally expected that email will be read daily and responded to promptly.
Technical capabilities:
* Reliable high-speed Internet connection
* Computer with modern web browser and email
* Phone with an answering machine
Estimated time commitment:
5 hours per week to keep up with basic maintenance and inquiries; 15 hours per week to do a bang up job and expand the coverage and currency of the data.
Compensation: This position pays $10/hour as a starting wage, with a ceiling of $5,000 per year.
For a complete description of the job and the selection process, or to apply for the position, contact directory_jobs -[at]- ic.org.
2 Communities Magazine Current Issues, and More
#138 (Spring): Women in Community
#139 (Summer): Green Building in Community
#140 (Fall): Politics in Community
Current issue: Our issue on Women in Community was sent to subscribers in late March. Non-subscribers, ask for Communities at your local stores, or consider subscribing today. This is an issue you don't want to miss!
Explore parenting, gender identity, intimacy, leadership, culture, growth, entrepreneurship, and more--with a group of talented authors who range from experienced communitarians to first-time community members.
Special Feature articles include:
- Valuing a Culture of Women by Colette Hoff
- From Intentional Community to Building a Tribe by Anissa Ljanta
- What's Masculine, What's Feminine, and What Am I? by Mollie Curry
- Transgendered at Twin Oaks by Calliope Kurtz
- Journey Inn: Gleanings from the World of Women by Janaia Donaldson
- Building a Business in Community by Alline Anderson
Other articles include: how to deal with a power imbalance in your community; how community values can help conquer climate change; leading women in the cohousing movement; ecovillage activists in Japan; and a photo memorial of Geoph Kozeny.
Next issue: The theme of the next issue (summer #139) will be Green Building in Community
, with articles by Michael G. Smith, Mark Lakeman, Matthieu Lietaert, Elke Cole and Brandy Gallagher, and others.
Fall issue (Last minute notice): Through April 6, we are still accepting submissions of article ideas for the fall issue (#140), Politics in Community. See http://communities.ic.org/submit.php for details. Contact Communities Editor.
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Welcome to new staffers:
Communities has hired a new Business Manager (John Stroup of Sullivan, Missouri) and a new Editor (Chris Roth of Lost Valley Educational Center in Dexter, Oregon). Both are very happy to join the team. We will soon be hiring an Art Director (see our ad in this issue of eNews). Watch for introductions of the new Communities staff in the fall issue.
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Advertise in Communities magazine!
Reach Ads
Reach out to others through the REACH classified advertising in Communities magazine. Network with folks looking for communities, workshops, goods, services, books, conferences and products.
The REACH deadline for the Summer 2008 Issue (out in June) is April 20. REACH rates are $0.25 per word, up to 100 words; $0.50 per word thereafter. Discounts are available for FIC members and multiple insertions.
Send your ad copy, word count, number of insertions and category to:
John Stroup, Business Manager
10385 Magnolia Road
Sullivan, MO 63080
Phone (573) 468-8822 ads -[at]- ic.org.
Please include your mailing address, phone number, and check at time of placement.
Display Ads
Communities
has grown steadily over the years and gained the reputation of being THE magazine serving the burgeoning intentional communities movement. It is an attractive, color-cover, 76-page quarterly with a circulation of over 3,000. Frugal communitarians pass along the magazine to others, so readership is even higher! All the major national distributors and many regional ones also carry Communitities.
Reserve your space now for the summer issue
(April 7) and send your art in by April 10. Contact John Stroup, Business Manager, ads -[at]- ic.org, for a rate sheet and discount possibilities.
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3 Events Coming Up, FIC and Related
Art of Community Conference & FIC Organizational Meeting
National Cohousing Conference
NICA Gathering And Seekers Fair
Communities Conference at Twin Oaks
The Art of Community Southwest Conference
The Fellowship for Intentional Community is sponsoring a three day immersion into the world of Intentional Community and the evolution of cooperative, sustainable culture at the University of New Mexico, May 30-June 1! Our newly relaunched webpage http://fic.ic.org/aofc is your best source of information.
Early Bird ticket sliding scale: $95-200 until April 20th! Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/26402
To register paying with a check, contact Syd at (206) 679-5342.
We are gathering to explore the intersection between community-building, sustainability and cultural change. Topics will include Residential Intentional Community and Guerilla Community Building, Sustainable Urban Regeneration, Permaculture & Ecovillages. The topic of Community will be looked at from many different angles: as part of peace and social justice work, a life choice to live cooperatively, as a spiritual path, as a laboratory for social change, and an antidote to global
climate change. Other workshops will teach consensus, conflict resolution and other group dynamic topics, plus look at economics and development issues. The Art of Community Southwest will feature speakers, workshops, tabling and networking events, and a Saturday night banquet and benefit auction. Whether you currently live in community or not, we hope you will be inspired to bring this learning home and make your life more sustainable... and much more fun!
Main speakers include
- Climate change author Albert Bates of The Farm's Ecovillage Training Center
- Mary Lou Singleton of the Midwives Alliance of North America
- Mark Dubois of the Pachamama Alliance
- Laird Schaub of the Fellowship for Intentional Community
- author Margo Adair of Tools for Change
- Myra Murphy-Jacob of the Sustainable Global Leadership Alliance.
and here are some workshop highlights
- Consensus
- Starting a Residential Intentional Community
- New Economics
- Aging in Community Successfully
- Spiritual Activism
- Ecovillages!
- Media, Community and the Fate of the Earth
- Integrative Land Planning for Community
For more information, contact Ma'ikwe at (505) 514-8180 or maikwe -[at]- solspace.net
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Fellowship Semi-Annual Organizational Meeting
Immediately following the Art of Community weekend, the FIC board will meet June 2-4 at Hummingbird Ranch, nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, about 2-1/2 hours northeast of Albuquerque. It'll be a great location for three days of discussing where we are and deciding what's next for the Fellowship. Highlights of our agenda will include:
- Define what FIC can offer people hungry to create community where they are.
- Discuss plans to create the Geoph Kozeny Memorial Networking award, in honor of our fallen comrade.
- Introduce the new Production Team for Communities magazine.
- Review the Art of Community weekend just completed and future plans for FIC events.
- Select new board members.
Join us for vibrant meetings in a beautiful setting and find out first-hand what's happening in the North American Communities Movement.
For more information about the FIC Organizational Meeting contact
Jenny Upton: jenny -[at]- ic.org
434-361-1417 (after 5 pm Eastern Time)
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2008 National Cohousing Conference
June 12-15, Bentley College, near Boston, MA
This large, national conference is presented by the Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US). It features two days of pre-conference workshops, including folks well-known to the broader intentional communities movement, including Laird Schaub & Ma'ikwe Ludwig, Diana Leafe Christian, and some key cohousing thought leaders, including Chuck Durrett, Katie McCamant, Jim Leach and many others. Pre-conference community tours are also available. These are followed by a weekend of
regular conference activities. Presentations will address everything from the basics of cohousing and designing and building communities, to living in community and sustaining the movement throughout the country.
Registration includes Friday night Keynote by John Abrams and reception, all presentations on Saturday and Sunday, and Saturday Night Dinner Fund-raiser Auction. Funds raised at our auction help support both Coho/US and the FIC. Also included are breakfast and lunch on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday. Apartment-style dormitories with private baths (per apartment) are available for all conference participants; if you prefer a hotel, several are nearby. Parking is free, ample and close to the
conference buildings. Campus-wide wi-fi is available free of charge.
The best deals can be had by registering early as registration cost increases on May 31, 2008.
http://www.cohousing.org/2008/register
For more info, see the Cohousing Website section on the 2008 conference:
http://www.cohousing.org/2008/overview
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Northwest Intentional Communities Association (NICA) Events
"Finding Community" - Community Seeker's Fair
Friday July 25, Portland, Oregon
In addition to tables hosted by Northwest intentional communities (eco-villages, cohousing, community houses and cooperatives) seeking new members, we once again have the pleasure of Diana Leafe Christian as our guest speaker. As the author of Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community and Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities, her presentation will offer us an overview of how to gracefully join an ecovillage,
cohousing, cooperative or any other kind of intentional community.
Communities interested in tabling, please contact nancy -[at]- songaia.com
NICA Annual Summer Gathering
Saturday-Sunday July 26 - 27, Portland, Oregon
Our theme for this summer's gathering of communitarians and community seekers will follow along the lines of Diana Leafe Christian's workshop called "Heart of Healthy Community: Communication, Process and Dealing with Conflict."
An adept facilitator, Diana has offered to hold a workshop and join our other planned community festivities that will include sharing stories, singing, meals, dancing, ritual and celebration.
Pre-registration required for food planning and sleeping accommodations.
For details contact
http://www.ic.org/nica
alline.thurlow -[at]- gmail.com
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Communities Conference At Twin Oaks Community
An FIC Co-Sponsored Event | August 15-17, 2008
Twin Oaks Community near Louisa, Virginia
Organizing has begun for the annual Communities Conference at Twin Oaks! With over 25 different communities represented, it is a prime opportunity to network amongst other community-minded folks. It is an ideal event for people who are looking for community, as well for those already living in community, to share and learn from each others' experiences.
We'll be delving into the nuts and bolts of community with a variety of workshops on topics such as Cooperative Decision-Making, Intentional Relationships, Forming Community, Community Economics, and many more. Children are welcome. The weekend includes a multitude of networking and socializing opportunities, including "Meet the Communities", swimming, and the mudpit. We look forward to seeing you there!
The Conference is co-sponsored by:
The Fellowship for Intentional Community http://www.ic.org
The Federation of Egalitarian Communities http://www.thefec.org
Twin Oaks Community http://www.twinoaks.org
4 Community Bookshelf Title At Sale Price
Featured by Catherine Nicosia, Community Bookshelf Manager
Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability
By Jonathan Dawson
2006; 94 pages; 8.5" X 6"; paperback; ISBN:1-90399-877-8
This book is one of the excellent Schumacher Briefings (#12) and packs an amazing amount of information into this particular format. Jonathan Dawson is the current secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Europe and is a respected educator in the areas of community and sustainability. Starting with the history of the ecovillage movement and its present state of development around the world, he ties together the many threads that form the patterns of these communities.
Particular parts of this structure really resonated for me. Among them are the ways in which traditional and indigenous cultures can inspire and inform the creation of the various ecovillages, the use of permaculture design and ideas from nature in their development, the incorporation of local food production and the creating of a culture of peace. The author's insight and depth of analysis give a real resonance to this work. I think it will be a source of inspiration to everyone interested in
the ecovillage movement.
Regular price $14.00 Special price $11.00
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