Co-creation Collective's topics - tribe.net

KLab9 Call for Contributions

synnovemathe — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:10:54 GMT

KLab9 Call for Contributions
From KnowledgeLab
KLab9:Art - Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living
A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative reflection. 5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc.
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, North West England.

INTRODUCTION

The Knowledge Lab is an attempt to provide a collective space for anti-capitalist reflection. It is located at the margin of the university, an institution essentially geared towards the production of knowledge as a resource for corporate interest and as justification for particular constellations of power relations.
This knowledge lab will address art and ways of critically thinking about our world. Within this broad region of enquiry, the lab will encompass notions of life and art as a political commitment, the influence art can exert in politics and how political ideas in turn influence art. It will also address new ways of making art and how this relates to technologies and social changes, and the use of art as an anti-capitalist means to change and fight the system.

We hope that the knowledge lab will not merely address, but also show that art can initiate critical thinking in the various guises outlined above. Our expectations, in terms of the event, and its outcome, are that this be a sharing of creative ideas and ideas about creativity. We hope that it will draw together people with a common interest in art and alternative ways of living, but working in different fields. From this collective thinking we hope that people will be incited to realize, or make manifest, some of these ways of living and thinking creatively when they leave: We will learn from each other.

STREAMS

Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided into four streams, each will take place in a separate room.

STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY Free software, art spaces and interfaces, hardware, DIY and recycling/reusing.

STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING This stream concerns process, moment and performance. It is the political stream where we will consider primarily imaginative resistance and artivism, but also touch on debates surrounding gender issues, community and cultural production, and personal/political. We hope to see papers touching on initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing that system, and the paradigms of inspiration. We would like to discuss how artivism will change society, possibles networks of artivists, ways of action.

STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP Copy rights, ownership, patenting, and appropriation. (Creative commons, Copyleft,...)

STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET (new ways of) curating, spaces (physical and virtual) to show art, ways of making money: Marketing, the means of production, market forces and anti-market forces, the art market, and art and ethics.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Each day will be split into two parts. On Saturday and Sunday morning papers will be presented in each of the four streams, each lasting 20-30 minutes. Papers will be followed by a brief question period of 10-15 minutes. The afternoon will be divided into discussion periods in each of the four streams. During the weekend there will also be a separate space for workshops and performances.
There are therefore a variety of ways to contribute to the weekend. See below for details:

ACADEMIC PAPERS

The list of streams is not prescriptive, it simply outlines some of the issues we envisage arising given the general themes.

Please also send papers on other themes, these will be gratefully considered.

Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. In addition please enclose a brief biography. Try to make this, along with your paper, as accessible as possible.

FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS (INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING)

If you have an idea for one of the afternoon discussion topics that links in with one of the four streams then send in a your idea and think about one of the two types of involvement below:

If you'd like to take a more pro-active role during the conference, you might want to ADOPT a session - that is, prepare it in advance (suggest questions, main issues, reading material etc and propose the length of the session), arrive prepared for discussion themselves, attend it, and participate passionately in the debates.

We also need people to FACILITATE sessions - ideally a session should NOT be adopted and facilitated by the same person(s). Consider that facilitators are usually best if experienced in their task. Any which way, please get in touch.

== WORKSHOPS, ARTWORKS, AND PERFORMANCES ==

These will broadly tie in with one of the four streams above. Send a proposal [Max: A single side of A4], elaborate on: What your contribution will be e.g. a workshop, a performance, an artwork. How long you envisage it taking. Do you need any equipment or materials? Do you want to limit the number of participants? If so, how many? What do you hope will be born out of this? How do you propose to arrive at this end?

SATURDAY EVENING

DJ and VJ session: Call for DJs and VJs to send in samples so they might come and contribute to an evening of art in many guises. As well as other music, visual, perfomance, etc artist and Artivist.
Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops, materials for display and/or distribution.

INFORMATION

Anybody is welcome to attend the weekend, get involved in the discussions, and take part in the workshops. HOWEVER, YOU NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND AS THE EVENT IS LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE, SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH: klab9art@googlemail.com

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS May 1st 2007

CONTACT klab9art@googlemail.com
Amy, Ana and Synnove

COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES

Unwaged persons: free Unfunded students/low-paid persons: donation Funded students/Lancaster university staff: £20 Academics/waged persons: £65 This contribution is for the whole weekend and includes Friday and Saturday dinner, Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch. All food will be vegan and predominantly organic.

ACCOMODATION

Shared accommodation is available on the floor of the very spacious and friendly Quakers' Meeting House, it is free, but please bring sleeping bag and mat. Get in touch if you have any special requirements, and again, please let us know in advance if you're bringing a child.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit respectively the respective sites for the previous knowledgelabs:
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab

About Klab9:Art
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

New digital arts festival in Southampton: call for artists

synnovemathe — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:57:15 GMT

New digital arts festival > twonotten
http://www.twonotten.org
Southampton, UK. October 20th - December 15th 2006.

This October will see the launch of a new eight-week long digital arts
festival, twonotten, and this is your opportunity to be part of it.
Submissions are now being called for from digital artists who wish to
showcase their work. The final venues for the festival are to be
confirmed, although we can announce that the bargate monument gallery
and a number of artvaults in Southampton will be part of the event.

Exhibition submission criteria
Artists or groups wishing to submit work for the exhibition must provide
the following information:
- Current CV, inclusive of an 'artist profile' and email address.
- Written proposal (maximum of 500 words). Tell us about the piece(s)
of work you
are submitting.
- Visual representations (images on CD are preferred, however this is
not
essential).
- The dimensions of your piece(s).
- Any technical requirements / specifications the piece(s) may require
(including equipment needed or equipment being supplied by you). Some
equipment is available, but the organisers welcome the use of artist's
own
equipment for the exhibition.
- £10.00 entry fee per artwork in order to cover administrative and
insurance
costs. Please make all cheques payable to the organiser's 'a space'.
The arts
organisation a space has been actively supporting and exhibiting
emerging
artistic talent for the last five years. In association with their
partners
(cockneydog and ocean pixel), this new platform, twonotten, will
support digital
based practitioners. For more information regarding a space please
visit
http://www.bargategallery.org or http://www.artvaults.co.uk

NB
- There is no strict format to follow when entering, please submit a
proposal in a
format that you feel best explains your work and concerns.
- If you require your proposal to be returned, please provide a stamped
addressed
envelope.
- No funding is available to commission new works.
- All media submitted will be considered for artwork that either deals
with digital
or technology issues, or artwork in which digital technology was
critical to its
production.
- Media can include:
o Video / installation / print / performance / sculpture /
interactive
/ illustration / animation / electronic audio / computer based music

Selection
All proposals submitted will be considered. An independent panel will
select the works to be exhibited. The decision of the panel is final
and will be based on
the work's suitability for the festival as well as issues of quality.

Details
- Cut-off date: Submissions must be received by Friday 1st September.
- You will be informed of the panel=92s decision by Friday 8th
September.
- You must be able to deliver your work to Southampton by Monday 2nd
October.
- You must be prepared for your work to be shown in a number of possible
locations.
As this exhibition is in the form of a festival (multiple sites) your
work maybe
selected for any one of a number of venues situated in Southampton
- You will be required to aid the promotion of the event through
assisting in
raising awareness through your own database or artistic networks.
Promotional
material will be supplied to you in order for this to be achieved.
- You must be prepared to have your 'artist profile', edited artwork
description
and supplied images featured as part of the advertising campaign
(online and
print), should the organisers deem it necessary.
- The exhibition will open to the public on Friday 20th October 2006
and continue until Friday 15th December 2006, with a private viewing
of the
exhibition scheduled for the week prior to the exhibition opening
(this date
will be confirmed in due course).

All proposals should be sent by post or email:
By post:
- The bargate monument gallery, High Street, Southampton, SO14 1HF with
an
accompanying cheque.
- Please make all cheques payable to 'a space' and reference 'twonotten'
and your
work on the reverse.

Email:
- Proposals can also be submitted by email but will require a cheque to
be received
in the post by the cut-off date before the work can be considered.
mailto:proposals@twonotten.org

synnove

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

my new treasure bOx creaTion

AmyfritH — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:00:47 GMT

warm greetings lovely beings.

i have manifested a small studioliving space within the city of Vancouver, b.C canada.

this is my first experience with holding home space within a large urban centre! yes. .. i feel so fine so fine so fine.

I am open to cocreating happy works of arT here, within this city, this summer. I love to meet new people. I am open and flexible.

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

Looking for artists who want to collaborate on political themes

misscleo — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:13:27 GMT

Hey there, I'm full of energy to put full throttle into networking within various artist communities to create a collaborative society of artists who want to work together to tackle various social-political issues. Is anyone in the Co-Creation Collective art-activists? Specifically I'm looking for people who would enjoy acting out scenes, and people who want to photograph/paint them. The art made from the "scenes" will then be used to produce performance art at stadium concerts this summer to reach the main stream. You can see my tribe at: http://tribes.tribe.net/deadawake.

-Cleo

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

Grateful in all ways. Lead into "Love Rains"

freewil4u — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:15:38 GMT

This is my best effort at expressing the love and gratitude felt for all.

Thank you all for being and shining love always,
Openness empowers this journey in new ways,
Growth and lessons found exploring all ways,
Openly expressed paths brighten the ways.
Others walking beside or leading a way,
Love flows gratefully this day and always.

Love all;Freewil

ps;Wrote the following to an earth angel Laura Love that shared tears over this expression. She moderates a heart felt circle. link below all are welcome
imtakiniton.tribe.net/
Wrote a poem for her before Earth Angel. It's in the first poetry tread on the link below. All are welcome.
tribe.net/visionsorintentionstowardoneness

Love Rains

To touch a heart so sweet,
Gives meaning to the meek,
Kissing tears from your cheek.

posted in Co-creation Collective - 1 reply

thought you may enjoy...

soulb — Wed, 04 May 2005 07:10:46 GMT

here is my website:

http://www.tenthousandvisions.com

i think you will enjoy it. it is for people like you. and everyone else too. :)

posted in Co-creation Collective - 3 replies

Let me know what you think of my tunes!

mckenna — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:27:00 GMT

Bookrmark and enjoy!

http://www.psykickgirl.com/radio.blog/?autoplay=1

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

Hello from Project X

RichBatsford — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:34:40 GMT

Hello and thanks for letting me join your tribe

Some friends of mine and I are underway with a collective based in Birmingham UK which I hope may be of interest to the group.

Ive posted up our Ethos, and a draft version of a document on our main project, a performance called "Like Fxck" up here:

tribes.tribe.net/projectx

Id welcome any comments, thought or support (and will settle for gratuitous insults if pushed)

Please joind our tribe if you'd like to stay in touch with our efforts or participate in any way.

many thanks

Rich

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

great work simone

sivitri — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:32:14 GMT

thanks for posting
anyone else??

posted in Co-creation Collective - 1 reply

PBS pitch.... your feed back?

solomax — Wed, 04 May 2005 21:38:57 GMT

This Friday, I meet with a PBS underwriter keen to find funding for my work. This is a big deal... so if I give him a great proposal... he can make things happen.... and I get the opportunity to make a PBS show. Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.

-Cory
solomax.com
actionheronetwork.net

____

The Net and Fire Circle: Connecting Common-unity

I have many fond memories from my childhood spending time around campfires with family and friends. We had fires at our lake-side cottage, at Christian family camp, and on canoe trips. It was the central gathering each evening. We sang, shared stories, performed skits and made announcements. Campfires were a special time to harmonize and rejoice with neighbors and loved ones. Gathering around a fire may be mankind’s oldest societal ritual. Not just for fellowship and communication, but for basic needs such as warmth and cooking food.

Now living in San Francisco, my community is spread out. Between dinner dishes and bedtime, my face is not lit by flame, but by a computer scene. I connect with friends through email and Tribe.net. I found a summer job on Cra

ig’s list, being a summer camp councilor for Environmental Volunteers in Palo Alto, a one hour commute south. These networks allow me to access opportunities and maintain relationships with people around the globe, but like most people, I don’t know my neighbors. The community center and playground are locked behind tall gates each evening—offering no open space to gather for dialogue and interaction.

This evening I attended a Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association Safety Committee meeting at the community center. Hayes Valley is a predominately Black neighborhood, but the majority of the people who attended the meeting were gay White men. There were also five White ladies, one Hispanic man, one Black man who was new to the area, and three police officers. Gail, who was leading the meeting, explained the lack of Black presence by saying, “They have trust issues.” The main concern was people loitering on doorsteps selling drugs. Their solution was to put up “No Trespassing” signs and gates barring people from having any place to sit.

This is an unfortunately common scenario across America. We are surrounded by more people than ever before, yet isolated in homes and vehicles. In an effort to foster public trust and common wealth, which are the results of shared experiences and resources, there is a movement to create safe places for people to gather. These methods do not require a lot of money or infrastructure, but are simple things any group of individuals can do to connect community.

May 20-29 I will be attending the Village Building Convergence in Portland, Oregon, hosted by City Repair—famous for turning low traffic intersections into public squares and driving a free tea truck around town to create instant meet and greet scenes. My mission is to document innovative ideas, and share my own designs: Tree House Hammocks, Burn Barrel Fire Circles and Flower of Life Hula-hoop dome.

My vision is to create a documentary for PBS that will inform viewers of the networks in place and being developed to create common-unity, and inspire them to take action in their neighborhood. I have all the connections to create this film—from leading personalities to interview such as Scott Munson, superstar San Francisco catalyst who maintains Plant Trees events mailing list, to Darian Heyman, the executive director of the Craig’s List Foundation, which is training and cross pollinating environmental non-profit groups. I will tell the story of how we got people who were on the net alone in their bedroom… to meet face to face with neighbors on the net in the park (see solomax.com/monkey-spider.html).

Cory Richardson’s History:

I grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick on the east coast of Canada. My parents, five siblings and I lived in the home that my father built on the forest fringe, a short walk from the Bay of Fundy. My early days were filled with long solo adventures walking on beaches and exploring the woods.

My father, George, a science teacher, and mother, Diana, a nutritional consultant, are both community leaders. In addition to church positions—Dad, a deacon and mom, leading the children’s program, mom directed a La Lache League chapter which promotes breast feeding, and Dad organized week-long wilderness canoe trips each summer for two dozen teenage boys. Together they also lead marriage counseling seminars. At least once a week our living room was filled with people meeting about something. Dad was also past president of the second most powerful political party in Canada. My brother Joel became youngest city councilor in Canada and served terms in Fredericton, the province’s capital. Adam, my oldest brother, is currently running for a seat as Member of Parliament.

As a teen, I kept busy with Army Cadets, skateboarding, rock climbing and photography. I was head photographer of my high school year book, and made inspirational slide shows coordinated with music for school assemblies. After graduation I wrote, hosted and directed a cable access TV program called Extreme Adventures – recording my process getting certified to scuba dive and sky dive.

At age 19, I left Vancouver by kayak to begin a solo journey around North America. MAX @ School – Living an Adventure Novel, an online journal at www.solomax.com documented my progress and allowed millions of people to share this experience. Promoting personal empowerment and education through adventure travel, I also presented over two hundred slide shows at schools, jails, festivals, and conferences.

While paddling down the coast of Central Mexico, I was adopted by a village of 200 people who gave me the gift of appreciating a different way life. In Roblito, I learned that wealth is not how much you have, but how much you appreciate what you want have. They provided me with the opportunity to use large piece of land to create a summer camp program, and this has been my focus for the past five years.

The Roblito Community Center for Cultural Exchange is a participatory action research project between the Action Hero Network and the people of Roblito to share ideas and opportunities that foster the link between education and culture. It is a center that teaches how to create community centers. Action Hero Network.net is a progressive education model I founded to empower individuals and connect communities through online resources and cultural exchange opportunities.

The past two summers, I’ve attended both Burning Man and National Rainbow Gatherings, the two most significant cultural movements in North America. As a result of these experiences, and other events such as Bioneers, The Green festival, and Healthy Cities, Smart Growth Conference, I am fully aware of and immersed in progressive thought and I’ve had opportunities to form relationships with leading movers and shakers.

This past month, I submitted a fiscal sponsorship proposal to receive non-profit status for the Action Hero Network and wrote a Black Rock Arts Foundation grant to support Action Hero Training Camps in Golden Gate Park and at the Roblito Community Center for Cultural Exchange. These could be helpful toward supporting the PBS show as well.

Key Connections:

The Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association is keen to implement new methods for engaging community members and is excited by my ideas. They have just begun to get the ball rolling toward more activities and if we start shooting video sooner than later, we could see a very dramatic neighborhood transformation take place.

I will teach a hammock workshop that allows neighbors to participate in the creation of the tree house, so they will feel a sense of pride in the outcome and obtain the skills to make more tree house hammocks.

Mark, Gail’s son who is a sculptor/welder, could cut shapes drawn by local kids and adults into an oil drum to make a burn barrel.

The Family Tree community art project that I am developing will be another interesting subject to shoot. The tree is 8 feet tall—made of wine corks threaded with coat hangers. Tree roots spread out wide on the ground to stabilize, then bunch together, twisting up to form the trunk, and then out to make branches. The tips of branches will be mobiles with corks attached, where people will pin images of family members as leaves, which will shimmer with a breeze. The tree could be placed in a BART station or any public place away from direct exposure to elements. This project will grow to mean many things to many people, but my objective is to facilitate an art that brings people together, carries the theme that we are all connected, and beautifies a public space.

Tribe.net and Craig’s List are based in San Francisco I can easily acquire interviews with top executives.

The Craig’s List Foundation Non-profit Boot Camp is in October and will be a great opportunity for me to shoot footage.

Burning Man is at the end of August, and I could show how people are using Tribe.net to organize their community theme camps.

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

Would you help me name my book?

sylviabrallier — Mon, 02 May 2005 14:42:27 GMT

I have been busy finishing up my book. I am really excited about how it has turned out. Last weekend, I went to a book marketing conference, and learned all kinds of cool stuff about how to self publish a book.

My biggest problem right now is coming up with a title that is both descriptive and catchy. Will you help me come up with a title? The title is supposed to have two parts, the heart, and the head.
The heart is something juicy that grabs you.
The head is some thing descriptive that explains what the book is about.
Great titles are both tricky to come up with, and very, very important.
I would really appreciate your help.
Below is a description of the book as a whole. At the URL listed, you will find the outline, and the first page of the book. Please give it a look over, and tell me what title you would make you want
To look inside the cover if you saw it in a bookstore.
I'll give you a free copy of the book when it comes out if you can come up with a great title. Heck, if you are the first to come up with a word that is used in the final title, I'll give you a book.

Here are some tips:
How can you describe it without sounding too intellectual.. but intelligent?
What is a title that is catchy, but not kitschy?
The title should imply some kind of coming together,
a synthesis, a merging of some sort.
Fewer words are better.

Here is the way I describe the book as a whole:

This book is an integrative approach to psycho-spiritual transformation. It weaves together philosophies and techniques from a variety of schools of thought in a new way, creating
an overview that touches on many aspects of the human experience. Some of he prevalent resources for information that I have drawn from are Tantric and Buddhist philosophy, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, core shamanism, western mystery school traditions, as well as the new physics, a la 'What the Bleep." It is a holographic approach to personal growth.
The book presents ten basic metaphysical principles, separated into ten chapters. The chapters are organized by principles of numerological correspondences. For example, the first chapter deals with the basic unity of all creation, the second relates to duality and polarity, and so on and so forth.

To hind out more or to participate, please go to this URL
http://www.tantricshamanism.com/name.htm

Thanks so much.

Warm regards,
Sylvia Brallier

The Tantric Shamanism Institute
http://www.tantricshamanism.com

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

Welcome to Spring

libramoon — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:24:42 GMT

Spring Medley

Air clear as a free-running stream

tumbling over country rocks and minty greenery

Clear soft air of early spring

Breathing satsang, reeling eternity,

While running 'cross the straight-lined highway

-- shouting

"Hey sky, embrace me!" shouting

I embrace the air and call it Love.

I love you, love you, love you, love you

I

Form, Words, Action

I in motion

I in tumbling, stumbling, crazy image

kaleidoscope

over 'n' over

love you, love you, love you, love you

Capture the essence for an almost noninstant

Capture the image of groping, grabbing, grasping

gazing heartfelt on release, but

love you, love you, love you, love you

insane, insatiable

cannot touch release of

love you, love you, love you, love you

Smothering in the too pure air.

Hey, Springtime,

Got some time to be wasting

So I tracked a songbird

on a still bare treebranch

and joined it in song.

What wonder the woods bring

I can't contain it.

Thistle and briar weeds

Capture my imagination

Grow wild and tangly

All through my mind.

(c) Laurie Corzett

http://www.geocities.com/libramoon.geo/

posted in Co-creation Collective - 1 reply

Where does one begin?

eyeballho — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:31:23 GMT

The wheels turn slowly sometimes--the internet & places like tribe are a new kind of friendship & collaboration, and yet in some of the work I've been doing its amazing what can come out of it.

You might look at the Dance Music Culture Arcata project I have posted in Listings, also the Media Bay project. You plant the seed of your idea and anything is possible. Its impressive the quality of people you find at different tribes, and yet as people have to live and take care of their daily needs, it takes time to gather momentum.

I wanted to add a comment about money--capital. It seems like a dirty word to an artist and yet its difficult to achieve most types of creation without it, granted a writer or artist can produce with just a pencil and paper.

Having worked in a variety of arts, pursuing many of them requires some capital. The idea of capital in business (working capital) is necessary funds for the day to day expenses. While it seems contrary to the spirit of creation, its a necessary evil and one usually has to approach the business side of the arts, including marketing your work.

As one matures in an art you start to realize you have to understand and use all of the techniques of business. Maybe a purist can live in a retreat and produce like Van Gogh, maybe never selling a work, and that's OK too. Most esthetic people are probably turned off by PR hype and commercialism. We see it in television, in print media, in the music business, in the movie business, etc. How does one draw the line? Of course we try to stay true to our ideals.

There are specific business approaches to each art form, but to summarize I just want to mention a few I've noticed. If one is lucky enough to live in Canada (and some other countries) there are programs tfrom the govt to subsidize the arts. Canada, to compete with the American music "industry" will give grants to record music projects, in the hopes of opening the US monopoly up. They also require a percentage of radio play to be Canadian artists. From what I've seen their program is very generous and worth pursuing even for artists on the fringe of music.

In the US , particularly in areas supported by tourism or low in industrial businesses, one can find support in the form of business loans to arts oriented businesses. These are through what are called small business development, or economic development organizations, usually run by the local cities or county govt. They frequently work with the SBA, the federal agency that helps create new businesses.

By contacting these groups, they will give you all the information necessary to pursue such loans or grants. The downside is you usually need some basic business skills and the drive to treat your project as a business.

The positive side is that these govt types realize the value of the arts to the community and to their economic health, as they provide jobs, taxes, and promote tourism.

Is money/business good or bad? Of course there are more radical guerilla techniques to make artistic statements, and a non-materialistic person might find other avenues. Artists frequently find patrons that handle the funding, or maybe a business person to handle the business side.

How does one avoid the stigma of "business" and is there a way to reconcile the need to create art with the need to fund it?

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

Dam Project....

ButterflyTribe — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:15:11 GMT

Hey everyone....I traveled to Ghana last year, and was blessed with the experience of a lifetime.

For six months, my family and I were hosted by a traditional priest who is very active in his community.

anyway, he and others had been working on building a dam in the village that he was born and raised in, independent of any government funding. the money came directly from nana abass (the traditional priest) who is a chicken farmer, and spiritual consultant.

the village currently relies on a few wells for water. the water isn't clean, and not sufficient. water, in my belief, is a birth right for all human beings.

while there, i wrote my first grant to a group of presbyterians to assist with the dam's completion. we were recently funder $40,000, however, our fundraising can't stop there.

i am hoping that this collective will be one of the vessels for the dams completion.

i have posted a few pictures of the dam's foundation in the tribe photos.

co-creation is such a divine process.
your transformation Goddess.
-butterfly-

posted in Co-creation Collective - 1 reply

Let us begin

sivitri — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:38:24 GMT

Co-creators...it is time to start posting your work on this page. I would love for this collective to be activated. Please post your photography, writng, designs, ideas etc... so we can create together.

Please feel free to post questions to me or others and utilize this space to share. We are working towards completed projects.

posted in Co-creation Collective - 0 replies

excitement

reneeairya — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:25:32 GMT

Thank you beautiful dove for creating and inspiring this project. I am honored to be a part of this collective and eager to see how the vision comes to manifest. I will make a conscious effort within the next week to post some of my poetry. I will also take time to view your recent creations more closely and intuitively write. Namaste

posted in Co-creation Collective - 1 reply