A Special Missive to You, the Reader
Village’s in the Sky Need Your Help!
So, this passed summer I became involved with a very special & inspiring project. I’d like to tell You about it & more importantly ask You to help. A few clicks & You can contribute to the creation & replication of a fabulous new meme.
Work was slim here in the Candied Apple & I became of the mind to travel down south to Virginia, there to find project work or temp jobs. The day before I left Brooklyn, my friend Paxus contacted me. “You want to build treehouses?” he asked “See VillagesintheSky.org“.
Upon visiting the site & seeing what their evolving mission is, I was sold. Or hooked by the tale as is the parlance.
The rest of the story is an adventure best left for another post. I helped build treehouses, platforms high in the air, as a”testival” (read “festival test) for the upcoming project in Missouri at Eastwind Comunity. Visited Eastwind itself & brought the project to Burning Man, with the intention of spreading the idea, collecting ideas & people & skills & resources.
Which brings me to my Missive to You, the Faithfull Reader (all two of You?).
Villiages in the Sky (or VIS) is planning what I’ve come to think of as an Ecovillage Festival, or Permaculture Skillshare. The short version is that they are building a treehouse village with rope bridges & ziplines & apparently now pirate ships in the trees, running it on wind power & conglomerating as many folx as they can to come & have a permaculture skillshare festival, which then leaves an ecovillage in it’s wake.
The goal here is to go beyond the “leave no trace” meme of many current gatherings & festivals & to create a positive trace, a model of festival & sharing of vision that will recreate itself elsewhere & eventually have a huge impact on how many choose to live their lives.
To do this, especially on a volunteer basis, we seriously need Your help.
Here is a link to Brighter Planet, an organization from which we are looking to get funding so that this project can go on without a hitch.
What I need from You is to go to the site, decide You like VIS, sign up & then vote 3 times before the 15th. This date is coming up quickly so I ask You to do this ASAP. Signing up won’t get You spammed, is short & painless & will make Your desire to encourage this kind of project into a tangible impact. Also I ask that You forward this to other folx.
I am planning on being in MO for a bit of time this coming spring to help on site with the prep & the festival itself (not sure about dates & other travel plans yet). If this is something that really sparks an inspiration in You, or speaks to a passion You have that You think the permaculture, sustainability or communities movements need more of, I’d ask You to consider offering Your ideas & if possible, time & effort, resources & experience, to this project. Get involved. You won’t regret it.
Come to Eastwind sometime between now & the festival itself, cited for late May/ early June I believe. There is an amazing think tank of folx on this, but many hands (or many minds) make lite work. We would like Yours.
I will write more on my experiences with this project, as well as my hopes for it, soonly. I needed to get this Missive out right away so as to get as many folx voting as possible. Again, please Vote 3 times before the 15th & get anyone else who can spare a minute or two to do the same. This project is so valuable to the cultural revolution that Western Society so desperately needs. I think we’re ready. Let’s make it happen.
Love, Rhythm & Light to all of You.
In Community,
Ahnika D
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