Table of Contents/No. 93. Winter 1996

DEPARTMENTS

Letters
Publishers Note
Directory Update
Calendar
Classifieds
Reach

FEATURE FOCUS

Celebrating Arts and Creativity in Community

From the Guest Editor

Hank Obermayer

And the Tree of Life Rises

"In the Heart of the Beast" Mask and Puppet Theater goes to extraordinary lengths in their annual MayDay celebration to create and heal community in Minneapolis. Jekke Xonee

Hilarity, Health Care, and Art

Clown and doctor Patch Adams  and the Gesundheit! Institute employ the wildest creativity to inspire creative health care.

Let's Dance!

Can dancing together build community? Just ask the enthusiastic folks of Dance New England. Scott Anderson

Barefoot Boogie to Freestyle Frolic

Hrana Janto

The Flowering of Art at East Blair: 'Hot, Intimate, and Wildly Revealing'

The abundance of art and creativity among members of an urban housing co-op in Eugene, Oregon. Michael Omogrosso  and East Blair residents.

'Composing' Our Lives

Social change through music, theater, dance, and "creating with the consequences." Susan Parenti  on the Performers' Workshop Ensemble.

Creativity as 'Sacred Pleasure'

Why one community spends so much time on music and art. River Jameson.

What is the Nature of Creativity?

Phoenix Simms  explores unconscious beliefs that can hinder or help integrate creativity into daily life.

Chaos, Control, and the Courage to Create

Laura Kelly  and Tomas Metzger  explore the nuances of drumming and community-building at East Wind.

Dance of Ten Chairs

A group art project induces ten strangers to weave their views of reality into a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Andrew Boyd.

Art in Everyday Life, and the 'Fine Art' of Social Life

Can human interactions become a fine art form, benefitting everyone? How they do it in Camphill Villages. Cornelius M. Pietzner.

A 'Feast of Art' at We'Moon

Celebrating and promoting womyn's art in womyn's community. Musawa.

Musings on a Summer at We'Moon

Amy Schutzer

COLUMNS

PERIPATETIC COMMUNITARIAN--Community as Performance Art

Geoph Kozeny

COMMUNITY GRAPEVINE--Cult Awareness Network Bites the Dust

INTERNS'JOURNAL--Waking Up at Abundant Dawn

Margaret Kamp and David Cooper Salamon

CONGRATULATIONS!--Celebrating Long-Lived Communities

ECOVILLAGE REPORT--Art in Los Angeles Ecovillage

Lois Arkin, Ana Noriega, Mary Maverick, Joe Linton

FELLOWSHIP NEWS--Growing Pains

Earl Loftfield

FEDERATION UPDATE--Musical Theater at Twin Oaks

Leslie Greenwood

COMMUNITY LIVING WORLDWIDE--Intentional Communities are...Everywhere

Bill Metcalf

FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH--A Communitarian President?

Mike Cummings and Harv Bishop

CHILDREN IN COMMUNITY--Community Children and the 'Outside World'

Daniel Greenberg

REVIEWS

Ellen Hertzman  reviews From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality; Diana Leafe Christian reviews Eco-Villages and Sustainable Communities and We'Moon '97; Tree Ivy Bressen reviews Network for a New Culture City Group Manual; Tim Miller reviews Bones and Ash.

COMMUNITIES MAGAZINE FICTION--My Father and the Lima Beans

Paula Underwood

Feedback

CREDITS

EDITOR
Diana Leafe Christian
GUEST EDITOR
Hank Obermayer
REACH ADS
Patricia Greene
(Renaissance Community)
DIRECTORY UPDATE
Jonah "Cecil" Scheib 
(Dancing Rabbit)
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Lansing Scott 
(SeaChange Media Co-op)
COVER DESIGN
Paul DeLapa
PROOFREADING
Geov Parrish
ILLUSTRATIONS
Mark Enslin
(Performers' Worshop Ensemble)
Kia
Joe Linton
(L.A. Ecovillage)
Billie Miracle
(WomanShare)
Ana Noriega
(L.A. Ecovillage)
CARTOONS
Jonathan Roth
PHOTOS
Dan Brown
(Renaissance)
Michael Callahan
Albert Cook
Rita DeBellis
Christine Eagen
Warwick Green
Vincent James
Martha Lorch
Salvatore Salerno
Julie Skarratt
BUSINESS MANAGER
Laird Sandhill
(Sandhill Farm)
DATABASE MANAGEMENT
Velma Kahn
(Abundant Dawn)
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Valerie Renwick
(Twin Oaks)
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Betty Didcoct
(TIES)
Geoph Kozeny
(Community Catalyst Project)
Laird Sandhill
(Sandhill Farm)