My spouse and I are planning a trip to Hawaii this summer and the Polynesian Cultural Center came HIGHLY recommended by some of my family members. I am hesitant, but they assured me that you wouldn't even know it had anything to do with the church and it's just a wonderful experience. Is that true for those of you who have been?
Hi all. I'm reaching out to you for a collective solarpunk sub brainstorming on how a Solar Punk social/cultural venue could work.
The situation: I have ownership over a 4800 sqm park with a 120sqm building in it on two floors, in the Chianti region of Tuscany Italy.
I recently won a competition from the local government to start an art gallery in this property. However, I am having second thoughts about this, I think there's enough art to go around where I am (Florence being a capital of art). So after brainstorming with myself (solo-storm) I thought about a SolarPunk themed cultural center. I am quite clueless as how this would run or work.
Things I imagined so far:
The park would be turned into a small forest, full of diverse plants, and even some wildlife like attracting birds, bees, butterflies, and keeping small animals.
The energy for the center should be fully renewable (solar panels).
Now here it gets more blurry: What kind of activities could I run? How can i make it profitable AND sustainable?
Random ideas include:
Having a library.
Offering organic food/healthy fair trade foods and drinks.
Hold DIY workshops, screening consciousness-promoting films.
I'd be happy to make this project semi-open source, so anyone willing to collaborate or just chip in their ideas is greatly appreciated
Have a nice day,
J.J.
Edit: I know I wrote a word that might be against the whole ideal: profit. I mean enough revenue to keep it going, as while I'm anarchist in theory I think I rather work within the current paradigm for this project and see where it goes. There's always time to include more grassroots/lateral economies to the project but right now I don't see it viable as a starting point as I can't afford for it to be just that.
Hi all,
I am interesting by the Iranian culture and heritage and thus wondering if visiting the Iranian cultural is interesting, or, at least, allowed, especially for foreigners. I couldn’t find anything online about it, though.
Thanks
