Annual Festival of Creativity & Sustainability

wherever organizers appear, in any corner of the Planet

10-26 July each year, we welcome people who want to support

the creation of sustainable economies whilst on holiday!

We are a small group of organic farmers and artesans wishing to create a new eco-economy

on our Island, through this Festival (it started in La Palma, Canary Islands, now going International)

We have run two small pilot festivals in July 2006 & July 2007.

Now we are hoping to run a truly international festival in July 2008, by launching this new website in english,

which will mirror the spanish website: https://festivaldecreatividad.pbwiki.com/

(if it still hasn´t much on when you look it´s because we're still transferring stuff from the old one:

http://festival13lunas.pbwiki.com .. great if you want to practice your spanish)

You can keep posted for updates of this website, so that you´ll be notified as soon as there are changes.

It´s easy: just look at the bottom of this page, you´ll see the centre heading "Wiki Information".

Under that heading you can click on the subheading "Notification Settings"

and there you can put your email address and how often you´d like to be notified of changes.

If you would like more information please contact Stella on stella(at)finca-luna(dot)com

See you soon!

Dear friends

You are invited to participate in the Festival of Creativity and Sustainability. You can find a working draft copy at http://creativityfestival.pbwiki.com

It is an internationally-networked solidarity festival.

It lasts for 2 weeks every summer from July the 10th to the 26th.

It celebrates the talents and creativity of craftspeople, local artists and agriculturalists, in order to increment the sustainability of our regions.

It brings resources to the people doing the real work, creating the economic and regional sustainability.

The Festival’s purpose is to mutually help us in organising the bringing together of local economies.

It also helps us to support the smaller ecological concerns and individual craftspeople, and/or small interested ONGs too.

The practicalities

1) Whoever shares the aims of the Festival can participate.

We are open to offers of workshops/workspaces and/or lodging.

This can be at a house or on a finca/farm/land.

2) All the workshop/workshop spaces and lodging offers gather on a website which we can all publish and edit: http://creativityfestival.pbwiki.com .

All members can access all parts of the organization if they wish to.

3) Each area creates its’ own special local currency for the Festival (or ‘vales’ that one purchases with national currency).

This is used to pay the craftspeople, agriculturalists for their workshops/workspaces, the food and the lodging during the festival.

All products interchanged during the festival are local.

The focus is on the creation of sustainability.

This needs the imagination of everyone, if we are going to reach and go beyond our goals.

4) In the Festival we will share experiences and ideas for improvements…

It will help us all mutually in the work we share and in any difficulties we share. We will also share the joys too.

5) We all work inter-dependently, there is no single organisation or central entity. Only the information is centralised.

There are clear protocols that we are adapting. There are 3 central values:

a) local self-determination

b) international solidarity

c) the ecological, economic and social sustainability of our planet

It is an internet networked project, only in its’ third year. It would be great if you can offer a couple of workshops in your area (with or without lodging or friend’s land/accommodation).

We can spread the information about the festival together. Then people can chose if they want to support the local sustainable economy of Chile, the Canary Islands, Morocco or Slovakia… Any small group can apply, wherever it is… (we are going to see who joins this year. : )

The dates are 10 - 23 Julio, every year and all details here: http://creativityfestival.pbwiki.com

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