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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.
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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 
Gu©£mundur 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.

Please ask for Communities at your favorite local 
cafe or natural foods store, or subscribe today.

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 
<http://communities.ic.org/submit.php>follow this 
link for details.

Contact Communities Editor at <mailto:editor at ic.org>editor at ic.org.

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