A MONTHLY EMAIL PUBLICATION of the FIC since 1999, serving over 5000 subscribers. August 21, 2004 1 Featured Bookshelf Title At Sale Price 2 New Communities Directory In Print & Online plus Remake Website 3 FIC Events September & October 2004 4 Communities Magazine Upcoming Fall Issue #124 5 We Want You! To Join The FIC _________________________________________________________________ 1 FEATURED BOOKSHELF TITLE at SALE PRICE by Alline Anderson, Community Bookshelf manager _________________________________________________________________ THE MOON WATCHER'S COMPANION Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Moon, and More by Donna Henes 2004 * 130 pages * ISBN 1-56924-466-9 This delightful volume is jam-packed with, well, everything about the moon. Have you ever wondered the difference between waxing and waning? This book is the place to go -- tons of information presented in a well-written and entertaining manner. Includes science and the mythology, multi-cultural lore surrounding the moon and its phases, and how to track its changes. Fascinating lunar etymology (honeymoon, lunatic, to moon around, to moonlight...), moon phases and cycles and how they affect us, and dozens of quotations complete this beautifully-designed book. Regular price $13.00 Sale price $9.10 (25% off) http://store.ic.org/products/email-spec-offer-aug2004a.html Order online, by phone or mail order Shipping/handling as follows 3.00 S/H for first item 1.00 S/H for each additional item All prices shown here are for Standard Mail postal delivery within US. Enews special offers are valid through [[offerdate]]. Information, catalog, ordering and prices for delivery outside US http://store.ic.org/community-bookshelf.html Community Bookshelf RR 1 Box 156 Rutledge MO 63563 800-995-8342 bookshelf ( at ) ic ( dot ) org _________________________________________________________________ 2 NEW COMMUNITIES DIRECTORY COMING IN PRINT AND ONLINE plus REMAKE OF OUR INFORMATION WEBSITE _________________________________________________________________ Active development of an online Communities Directory and redesign of our information website www.ic.org are now underway. The new online Directory will be a free searchable communities database. Intentional communities around the world will be invited to add and update listings. In addition, we aim to have a new Communities Directory print edition in 2005 and are assembling staffers now for that task. We will be inviting communities to update their information in our online database soon. _________________________________________________________________ 3 FIC EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2004 Twin Oaks Communities Conference - registration still open! Global Ecovillage North American Conference FIC Organizational Meeting & FIC Art of Community Conference _________________________________________________________________ TWIN OAKS COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE An FIC Co-Sponsored Event | Labor Day Weekend September 3-6th | Louisa, Virginia Text by Valerie Renwick-Porter, Conference Organizer The conference is only a few short weeks away! It's been great to hear from those of you who have pre-registered; we're excited to meet you and also others who will arrive fashionably last-minute. So far our participants include people seeking a home in community or interested in exploring the idea, as well as communards from a variety of communities. We've heard from several people who are already planning their contribution to Open Space, the do-it-yourself workshop activity on Sunday. For your own planning purposes, here are some of the more formal workshops we're offering CT Butler (co-founder of Food Not Bombs and author of On Conflict and Consensus) on Consensus Laird Schaub of Sandhill/FIC on Conflict: Fight, Flight, or Opportunity? Patricia Allison of Earthaven on Permaculture/Ecovillages Allison Cerulli, ex-Moonshadow, on Alternative Building in Community Tony of Dancing Rabbit/Skyhouse on Legal Options for Intentional Community, Joy of Tekiah & Kate of Twin Oaks on Income Sharing as Lifestyle Activism Valerie and McCune will give a tour of our off-the- grid communal residence right here at Twin Oaks. Our evening programs include Community Founders Panel, with stories from back in the day Sharing Stage to showcase our home-grown musical, poetic and other uncategorized talents Benefit auction for the FIC Our usual wild-n-crazy dance party (don't forget your funky dress-up clothes and your offerings for the auction). For the third year in a row, we'll be extending the conference until Monday, with the Utopian Architects: Creating Healthy Culture program. You are heartily invited to participate in the conference--if you've signed up for this FIC e-newsletter to be more connected and find out about opportunities to learn about intentional community living, then you're exactly the kind of person we've designed the conference for. We offer knowledge and experience of a wide variety of styles of cooperative living, with the aim of including something for everyone. We invite you to visit our webpage to learn more, and please feel free to contact us with any questions. We hope to see you here on Labor Day Weekend. Communities Conference at Twin Oaks 138 Twin Oaks Rd Louisa VA 23093 540-894-5126 conference ( at ) twinoaks.org Information and registration http://www.twinoaks.org/conference --------------- THE GLOBAL ECOVILLAGE NETWORK NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE An FIC Co-Sponsored Event | September 20-25, 2004 Hollyhock Retreat Centre, Cortes Island, British Columbia Why the hesitation? The location is inspiring, with . gourmet vegetarian meals and weekly West Coast seafood · naturalist guided walks and events · morning meditation/movement/yoga (on most days) · outdoor hot tubs overlooking the Pacific · library · a beverage/toast bar with juices, teas and coffee ACCOMMODATIONS begin at camping and continue to private rooms with ocean views. If you want to tent off site you pay a day use fee of $11 USD/day Tenting on site including meals and all facilities $54.23 USD/day WHAT WILL I MISS? For this modest sum $629 USD*, your conference tuition entitles you to hear presentations by some of the leading Ecovillage and Intentional Community founders, leaders, designers, planners, and activists of our time, including Albert Bates, Liz Walker, Laird Schaub and Max Lindegger. And, you have the opportunity to live, talk, eat, and laugh with them for 5 days and nights in a Hollyhock Conference experience, which is like no other! If you choose to camp offsite your camping fee and food are your costs and you invest at the minimum $684 USD* in a week of learning and camaderie you will never forget! SCHOLARSHIPS To apply submit in 150 words or less what you expect to contribute to the Conference. There are a limited number of half- tuition scholarships still available. Apply as soon as possible! Please revisit our website: http://www.ecovillage.org/conference/registration.htm Check out our expanding list of confirmed speakers and register for the Global Ecovillage Network N. American Conference at Hollyhock! *This is an estimate as currency exchange rates change daily For more info and to register see http://www.ecovillage.org/conference/index.htm --------------- FELLOWSHIP FOR INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING Miccosukee Land Co-op outside Tallahassee FL October 26-28, 2004 We invite you to join us and get a glimpse behind the curtain, revealing what the FIC is doing these days and giving you a chance to roll up your sleeves and lend a hand. Please join us! Advance registration will be required as space at this meeting is limited. Some of the past event locations and dates: Highline Crossing Cohousing, CO, April 2004 The Vale community, OH, Oct 2003 The Farm community, TN, May 2003 Goodenough Community, WA, Nov 2002 Waterloo, ON - From the Ground Up, May 2002 Sonora Cohousing, Tucson, AZ, October 2001 Check this site occaisonally for updated info http://fic.ic.org/artofcmty.html For more information Jenny Upton: jenny ( at ) ic ( dot ) org --------------- FELLOWSHIP FOR INTENTIONAL ART OF COMMUNITY CONFERENCE Teaching Farm near Gainesville, FL Halloween weekend Oct 29-31, 2004 The Fellowship for Intentional Community presents The Art of Community, a communities conference hosted by the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice. The conference includes workshops, demonstrations, videos, networking, a benefit auction, Halloween costume ball, live music, and fun. It will provide numerous opportunities for learning about cooperative and sustainable lifestyles. Camping and vegetarian food is included in the registration fee $85 until Oct 15 $95 after Oct 15 Other lodging is available nearby. For registration or information Art of Community 1174 NW 13th #124B Boca Raton FL 33486 artofcmty ( at ) ic ( dot ) org :: 561-750-6675 http://fic.ic.org/artofcmty.html _________________________________________________________________ 4 COMMUNITIES MAGAZINE UPCOMING FALL ISSUE #124 Spiritual Communities theme This issue mails in September _________________________________________________________________ Communities magazine editor Diana Christian admits she's completely surprised by the sterling insights, wit, and general “juiciness” of articles submitted for the Fall 2004 Spiritual Communities issue. “I successfully avoided spiritual communities as a theme for the magazine for 10 years now,” she confesses, “mostly because I imagined a slew of pretentious, pedantic, or 'more spiritual than thou' submissions by well-meaning folks offering platitudes instead of substance." Turns out her fears were groundless. “Boy, was I wrong! We got one well-written, vigorous, thoughtful article after another.” Here's a partial line-up so far. Rocky Mountain High: a short, well-written piece about life and practices at Lama Foundation. Living on the Edge of the Abyss: first-person, witty, self- revealing. Why I'm Moving to Findhorn: short, pithy, first-person. Spiritual Beings, Material World: a heartfelt plea from an Ecuadorian ecovillage founder that spirituality be grounded in active ecological service to the planet. Truth Practice, Intimacy, and Social Change: a vigorous, knock- your-socks-off piece from former Zen monk now at an urban FEC commune; about the nexus of community living, political activism, and clarifying the mind. Stay tuned, Diana says. UPCOMING Winter 2004 #125 issue theme: Student Co-ops. Get a sample issue, renew or subscribe here http://store.ic.org/products/communities-magazine.html http://store.ic.org/products/communities-magazine-sampl.html Sample issues by surface mail $6 US - $7 Canada - $8 Other Subscriptions one year 4 issues $20 US - $24 Canada - $26 Other Order by phone fax or mail FIC * 138 Twin Oaks Rd * Louisa VA 23093 800-462-8240 fax 540-894-4112 _________________________________________________________________ 5 WE WANT YOU! TO JOIN THE FIC _________________________________________________________________ Seeking more sense of community in your life? Want to help others discover the benefits of cooperative living? FIC membership benefits include invitations, discounts, credit union access, and a newsletter -- but we think the biggest benefit is the knowledge that you're helping bring into reality the vision of a cooperative world. 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