Notes From The Underground. “I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’… I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’”– Bob Dylan Seventeen years ago, I read a book called The Evolving Self. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, it profoundly affected the direction of my life. Here’s the section of the book that became a splinter in my mind and resonated the most with me: “In order to gain control of consciousness, we must learn how to moderate the biases built into the machinery of the brain. We allow a whole series of illusions to stand between ourselves and reality…. These distortions are comforting, yet they need to be seen through for the self to be truly liberated… to come ever closer to getting a glimpse of the universal order, and of our part in it.” I: Unprecedented Wealth Let that sink in for a moment… 50 TRILLION DOLLAR$.
Home. Learn What's Working … The Garden That Gives Together by Zoe S. Erler Austin's Sunshine Community Garden thrives on sweat, entrepreneurship and generosity. Last year its community of gardeners not only produced some three acres of fruits and vegetables produce; they donated almost 2,500 pounds of fresh produce to a local food bank. Creating Welcoming Communities for Our Young People by Fred Neurohr What if we stopped looking at our young people as defective, broken, lacking, and thinking that it is our job to fix them?
Gluing a Place Together, One Neighbour at a Time by Howard Lawrence The Highlands neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta is a place where people enjoy many opportunities for social, educational and recreational interaction. Guiding Participation and Inclusion by Cormac Russell The central challenge for participation, and inclusion more generally, is how can we promote citizen-led innovation that stays local, but over time proliferates? Making a Difference in Madisonville Kitchens. Who We Are - Center for the Study of Art and Community. William Cleveland, Director Bill Cleveland’s early passions were writing music and “changing the world.” After studying psychology at the University of Maryland all three came together in a place called Buckhorn Centre. Established in the early 70’s, Buckhorn was a Canadian version of California’s Esalen Institute.
Bill’s art and community tutelage continued in 1977, when he was hired to run a program funded through the US Department of Labor’s Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, (CETA) at Sacramento’s Metropolitan Arts Commission. Through CETA, unemployed artists were hired to make art in hospitals, prisons, public housing, senior centers and the like. Ironically, by the end of 1979, CETA had become the largest Federal arts program in US history. In 1981, Bill joined another unlikely cultural partnership at the California Department of Corrections. Since the mid-90’s, Bill has also been studying and writing about community arts efforts in Africa, South America, Asia, and Europe.
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