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Communities Magazine Current & Upcoming Issues
  #142 (Spring): Festivals and Gatherings
  #143 (Summer): Ecology and Community
  #144 (Fall): Community in Hard Times

Since 1972, Communities has been the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America--from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. Communities increasingly focuses on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods. Articles and columns cover practical how-to issues of cooperative living as well as personal stories about forming new communities, decision-making, conflict resolution, raising children in community, ecological living, and much more. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions.

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Following are some highlights of the current spring issue Festivals and Gatherings. We hope you'll check out this exciting issue.

Fellowship for Intentional Communities Events by Ma'ikwe Schaub Ludwig. At FIC events, people get opportunities to reach over fences, meet fellow travelers, discover new pathways, and figure out what to do when the neighbor's dog is barking at 2 a.m.

Adventures in Temporary Community: An Interview with Liat Silverman by Kim Scheidt. Superhero rides, Burning Man, and Rainbow Gatherings all demonstrate how living, working, and sharing together offer many benefits, whether in temporary or long-term community.

Burning Man: Experiencing the Playa Community by Kayla Wexelberg. A first-time Black Rock City "Burner" learns multiple lessons about cooperation, connection, self-expression, and play, and brings them back into her daily life.

Comin' Home to the Rainbow by Scott Shuker . A dedicated Rainbow Family member explains the diverse culture, the lingo, the traditions, the politics, and both the "bright" and "shadow" sides of this gathering of the tribes.

Network for a New Culture Camps by Pati Diehl, Melanie Rios, Michael Rios, and Sarah Taub. Participants in NFNC's Summer Camps explore intimacy, transparency, freedom of choice, personal responsibility, sexuality, and new ways of being, teaching, and learning.

Sandhill Sorghum Festival by Stan Hildebrand. At its annual festival, a small farming group celebrates abundance, shares knowledge, builds community, jump-starts its harvest season, and serves hot sorghum syrup on fresh biscuits.

Celebration as a Way of Life by Barbara Swetina. Musicians, puppeteers, dancers, artists, Celebration Activists, and imaginations run wild in a once-sleepy village in southern France.

Festival of the Babas by Allan Sutherland. For one day every year, in a small Bulgarian village, the social order is turned upside down and grandmothers rule.

Cultural Summer in Sólheimar, Iceland by GuŠŁmundur Ármann Pétursson. An Icelandic ecovillage shelters and supports the disabled while hosting an annual summer arts festival that "reverse integrates" 25,000 outsiders into its own unique culture.

Festivals: Times of High Energy by Barbara Stützel. At ZEGG's festivals, guests and community members share openly and find that a different world is possible when we are the change we want to see in the world.

How Currents Community Got Its Groove Back by Rebecca Dale. Born in celebration, a rural group in Ohio lost some of its community spirit once home-building and family-raising started-until members discovered the Hawaiian luau.

The Dance of Expansive Community by Paul Freundlich. A former Communities editor discovers that non-local networks forged through common commitments, interests, and periodic gatherings can be just as involving as local or "intentional" community.

The issue also includes letters, a publisher's note on technology and community culture , the second installment of our "Community 101" column, a Cooperative Group Solutions panelist discussion of "Cigarettes, Alcohol, Visitors, and Events," articles on a neighborhood chicken cooperative, a virtual retirement village, local currencies, and poetry in community, a tribute to two of Australia's intentional community elders, details about how to get involved with the FIC, and a list of upcoming community-associated Festivals and Gatherings.

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Summer and Fall issues: The theme for the summer issue (#143) is Ecology and Community and the theme for the fall issue (#144) is Community in Hard Times. If you're interested in submitting articles, photos, or illustrations to future issues of Communities, please follow this link for details.

Contact Communities Editor at editor@ic.org.

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