Why a generation that had grown up in the shadow of one world war and just lived through a second would set up intentional communities driven by thoughts of impending doom and of founding refuges and ‘Arks’ is perhaps understandable (See How Continue reading How Many Arks Does it Take? Part 2
“I’m living in a farmhouse with some friends who have nothing to do with the theatre. It’s what some people might call a commune, but it’s really a sort of artists’ colony.” Helen Mirren While she was playing Lady Macbeth Continue reading Lady Macbeth and the princess
Was trying to think of a Christmas themed communal living post to do – I first thought I would do a piece on different gift ‘games’ that people living communally play to try and make the festive season more co-operative Continue reading The Christmas Tree Island Commune mystery
Lonesome Stone the Musical On the 11th July 1973 a new multi-media rock musical entitled Lonesome Stone opened at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park London. Following hot on the heels of other Christian based rock operas like Godspell and Continue reading Communes – The Musical(s)
It has always been part of the communal utopian dream to set up village scale intentional communities, – in the past couple of decades the talk has been of Eco-villages, even Eco-towns. But it always seems that the transition from Continue reading Villages of Utopia 1
A couple of weeks ago the Guardian ran a story with the headline – Inside ‘Billionaires Row’: London’s rotting, derelict mansions worth £350m – about the large number of huge empty mansions being left to rot while there is a Continue reading Squatting in Billionaires Row
Did English Heritage deliberately decide to open the new mega-million pound visitor centre days before the winter solstice with an exhibit of human remains that they knew would attract protest in order to get maximum publicity – or was that Continue reading Stonehenge, King Arthur and Who Killed Wally?
“Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way– to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Continue reading Walden 3.2
Back in 1979 a group of us from People in Common, the small community I was living at in Burnley in East Lancashire, went down to Bristol for a Co-operatives Fair – this was something of a heyday period for Continue reading ‘Blockbuster’ commune movies
In June 2011 whilst at a friends birthday party the conversation drifted to everyone telling their own Glastonbury Tales. Wearing my green credentials on my sleeve I proclaimed that I would never now go to Glastonbury as “Why would anyone Continue reading Communes & Festivals
