DROPBOX

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Our ancestors used art to to lightened the pressures of suffering and to pass on teachings of liberation. 

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Safety First:  Please do movement conscious of the safety of others. Injury of any kind runs counter to the goal of the session. Share the space like a dance party, perform your acrobatic movements with ability to avoid injury, accidents, and upsets.

 Here are some "I" statements to help you grasp the culture we will work to materialize.

• I am fully responsible for assuring the safety of all who participate, myself included

• I am not a victim to any occurrence in the session

• I will give myself to the ceremony and ritual

• I will offer trust and cooperation for the orchestrator's  work to keep safe sacred space and to  ferry the session forward.

• I will understand and provide the "minimum" requirements of participation

• I expect to hear ALL sides of confrontations

• I am free to,  in the sessions structure of shared time , express my rage in support of any point of view

The 2 ways to get better are to sing song that most of your present audience knows or the other way is to dialogue with the group and lead the tribe to the correct chorus. Both are good practices for the community.

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The two poles of how we collectively behave  are culture and education 

Many intangible concepts can be understood / defined as homeostasis between two others more clearly defined. Set and seen as polar opposites, the correct weights and pivot point (picture a seesaw) to balance the system comes into clearer focus. What I call culture, may also be refereed to as infrastructure, procedures etc.... What I call therapy, may also be refereed to as dealing with conflict, training, managing issues, incident reports etc… 

Strong on the therapy side and light on the culture side. (picture that seesaw turning into a bird and trying to fly yet unable to because the heavy side drags on the ground and the light side has neither strength and/or leverage to lift). Too heavy on the therapy side and to light on the culture side results in:

• Confusion and the oppressive use of information control

• disproportionate contribution of time and energy of individuals and un-surmounted barriers to participation of others

• Downward pressure on moral

Good culture solves many issues and erases many more. Lets spread our wings and fly!!

Essay: But what is oppression? Murder? killing something by definition.  

What are the tools of oppression? Words, actions, thoughts. A car can became a tool to oppress with.

A lot of people are angry and that is good, for anger/rage is a most valid response to witnessing injustice around you.

Artist have the power to show how to rage in the name of love. Lets show them our lions roar. 

Strategic Reality Dictionary

'bullshit job' 

Following the anthropologist David Graber's book Bullshit Jobs (2019), we are defining our stage of USA economy as characterized by jobs that do not advance us materially or socially; many even have pernicious effects. Nearly all bureaucrats, for example telemarketers and investment bankers, fall into this category. One of the ways the bourgeois ideal is a scam is because it promises fulfillment with a bullshit career. What ultimately fulfills us as humans is caring for others. Nowadays, even those people performing the most vital functions for other, nurses, teachers, elder-carers, or food service workers, are being asked to spend more and more of their time on bullshit, filling our paperwork and documentation, or otherwise defending their professional identity. There is so much wasted energy in our society around people protecting and defending their stream of income. 

anarchy-hierarchy pendulum 

Promoting both anarchy and hierarchy alternating accoding to a pundulum swing pattern in community. The hierarchy we advocate is thus a play hierarchy, based on the respect other give you in the community. At certain periods of time, when people behave out of their own free will to change their community, the pendulum swings into a period of social anarchy while new roles are established non-violently. When it comes to how we engage with paradox and uncertainty, we need to cultivate ways of being that are different from those to which we have been culturally conditioned. We need to maintain healthy skepticism while also daring to imagine. We also need to take seriously ecologies of emergence and the power of communication as a reciprocal process of telling and listening. Key to these transformations will be the cultivation of friendship as a revolutionary mode of being and the thoughtful emulation of others who have tried before us.

Children and race

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4836385/

https://www.cds-sf.org/affinity-groups-cds

https://www.cds-sf.org/sites/default/files/DIVERSITY%20AND%20INCLUSION%20RESOURCES/affinity_group_faqs_hylton.pdf

https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/0913-affinity-groups.aspx

https://www.gordonschool.org/beyond-the-classroom/common-ground

http://archive.thedailycougar.com/vol61/86/7a.html

Liberation…

Most of us experience a visceral and personal sense of being free when we participate in community gatherings that create joy​, connection, that teaches​, inspires, ​and that ​releases stress. 

But when we consider the freedom of all individual members of a group at the same time​,​ freedom has a counterintuitive demand that we surrender some individuality. The question becomes: Does conforming to group norms offer greater individual liberties?

Call and response ​instructs that when there is a call, everyone responds.​ Powerful beauty occurs in those moments. This is a community reflex​ we can practice and through practice we can change culture.​​ 

When ​manifesting “all always siding with the whole”, ​​something new appears. The whole now has an energy of its own. It is the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Sometimes the gains of all participation is exponentially greater than even 99%.

The Black national anthem calls to lift every voice and sing. Every as a percentage is 100%​.​ We have trended away from this powerful outcome. Our elections end 50/50-ish. (although 50/50 might actually be a society's most sane reaction to chaos, when in doubt, balance)

There are other ratios to consider in decision making. In nature there are points of equilibrium such as 80/20.  

But back to the individuality surrendered; Do we in the modern age have feasible pathways to it? What if it is true…”Without community, there is no liberation…”?

Unanimity is an interesting word. Does it really provide extra opportunities of liberation for each individual?  

Does it create a “higher” plateau that has a greater amount of space for ​more choices for all individuals​?​ ​Do we have the patience to endure the stiffness of being part of a platform even knowing that it may birth launchpads into space for all to leap abound?

The rest of the quote by Audre Lorde offers ​that the​ relationship​s​ must be in balance.

“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” ― Audre Lorde

Reach me at macaco212@gmail.com

Friendship Court Themes

-Yo macaco

At friendship court Focused like athletes in sport /  On the team looking to make transformation a dream. 

But when we don't  care it can turn into a nightmare /  In point to make my story / I came to make it raw so how's that free

Hook: Hey what you got to say. Introduse yourself like in the tradituonal way, or better yet say it any way you wanna play it, rap it read sing or  clap it we got your back, its time good for yours i go for mine,  add it up and we own our own.-------------

Old Quilmobus page transfered june 6 2021

link : Quilombos definition in Wikipedia

Quilombo as Warrior Ecovillage

When I learned that Quilombos were networks of people and activities in the spaces between colonized plantation and coastal towns and interior settlements, hideouts, farms and towns of Africians and their childrens, I saw that it best expressed how I felt being in the world.   

In Angola, Africa, leaders had created an institution called a kilombo that united various tribes of diverse lineage into a community designed for military resistance. The Quilombos Palmares had tens of thousands and existed for more than 80 years. Black people created a way of live and community living that is a resistance to slavery. When I learned that Quilombos culture is preserved today in Afro-Brazilian folkloric arts, it made sence to me why I choise these art as a main activity I do.

"The human body is the most nuanced, and therefore most powerful medium of communication." Our idea is that an oral musical circle of storytelling and martial arts and creative movement is a more effective mode of communication and community building than the digital and distance based modes that are more prevalent in modern times. And that we can train peaceful warriors for health, harmony, and intentional community.

As the renowned Italian thespian Dario Fo has noted, most poetic meters are traceable back to work rhythms. For example, rowers or harvesters sang songs that kept time with their work thus offering energy and creativity into the workplace. This is part of the antidote for alienated labor. 

However it is also about relationships, fun, and celebration. Come and see.

In intentional community, this art can get fully fledged wings and soar. 

The longest standing quilombo in Brazil was Palmares with a population of around 30,000.

The Quilombos Palmares had tens of thousands and existed for more than 80 years.

What is quilombos? Before the slave trade hit Angola, Africa, leaders had created an institution called a kilombo that united various lineages into a community of mutual aid and protection.

Later, in what is now Brazil, quilombos reformed as a network of inland settlements, hideouts, and farms where African escapees could meet Natives and thrive at a tenuous distance from Portuguese colonial activity near the coast. Quilombos Palmares included tens of thousands and persisted for 80 years.  Quilombos culture is preserved today in Afro-Brazilian folkloric arts.

We invite you and yours into a study of this phenomenon beginning with a viewing of the following documentary and a discussion of the strengths, weaknesses, and potential progressive applications of quilombos today. Will you gather your community and watch? Dont be intimidated by the 4 hour video it contains the film twice, IIit ‘is only two hours long; the video contains the film twice..

Quilombos - a Film by Carlos Diegues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJ8v-Q2Zb4

We will be comparing and contrasting the quilombos movement to contemporary intention community in North America. The discussion is just the beginning. If we agree your community is a good confidante, We can arrange an artist's residency in your community where we teach howly to apply these folkloric arts to conflict solutions and health challenges in community. We look forward to hearing from you!

Cluture dropbox transfered june 6 2021

Themes

• Consumerism

• Change

[Contributions of Cultures seen in through the eyes of a liberation artist

• Warrior , peaceful warrior and martial arts

• The Biblical stories as amalgamations of psychological models boding species knowledge and roots culture

• How and why to think about the worst case scenarios from the Stoics

• Progressive Ideas

• Motivation is purpose, autonomy and mastery

• We bring to the people what they bring to us confusedly ]

Coming Soon: Note about the concept of cultural appropriation 

How long does it take to create culture?

• Year one : the courage taken to create something counter to mainstream culture

• Year two : the tenacity to maintain the initiative in the face off all the controlling processes that function to take it down.

• Year three : Self awareness of the system, macro presence of people resources to take flight.

Capoeira Stuff Liberdade History / Las Vegas ladihina

Yea

A small child sees a danger (pack of predators, insect swarm) runs to warn and calls yea. The whole tribe gives their attention and receives the warning and the tribe moves to protect itself and in the nick of time everyone escapes harm.

the power of the yea, gets loud becomes a hey, but it is when used in quiet moments that it is most powerful. Behind a stage while being introduced as the next act

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Appreciating cultures write up

Spiritual 

2022 was the first year of Liberation Arts programming at Twin Oaks. It is a beginning worth celebrating; black culture offerings received, and supported in workshops, gatherings and daily community activities. An added achievement was the resident capoeira classes for the unicorns children's program; as an instituted Black Culture and that managing the dynamics of that 

Oppression culture magnifies in intensity against poc

Exclusion culture exacerbates food and housing insecurities

TO Statements on it's website are in a divisive and punitive tone.

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Consulting services

Language and disposition

Website Statement

Liberation Arts entered the TO space curious; learning TO culture, honoring its achievements and listening to its needs. As a pedagogical organization, myself and other LA members and associates offer classes, production direction, performances, workshops and others participate in conversations around topics of community and personal wellness.

Music and celebration diffuses through dimensions such as location, economic class and even social grouping. Liberation Arts offers the Central Virginia Intentional Community the opportunity to incorporate Afro-Diasporic culture for the benefit of diversity that is a championed campaign of our times. It may mean stretching instituted processes. I appreciate Twin Oaks willingness to engage.

The circle gathering is An important form of Liberation Arts. The circle's norms and structure replicate our experiences in the larger world and have the power to change people and communities.

Liberation Arts offers

Children Education

Participation structures for community elders

Traditional structures for young adult celebration culture

Social-emotional and social-political conflict remedies

Whatever other service discovered in reflexive TO-LA dialogue

Potentially assist the TO REAL team in fulfilling its vision and missions

I have sung, danced and made music with many Oakers of all ages. On the home page of I would ask Twin Oaks to contribute this high level of consciousness in this process of onboarding my Black culture offering, realizing that concessions to different terms could be the path to cross-cultural equity, and to continue to lead with courage when faced with the feelings of uncertainty in making space for new leadership power and authority.

It would be great to contribute to creating celebration culture and practices in the community that is the Central Virginia Intentional Communities. My work sources the cultures of Afro-Brazilian communities of resistance. In an essence - Energetic and joyful peaceful-warrior games and theater for the purpose of education and conflict resolution within the community.

The Liberation Arts work that I do has a fierce disposition towards oppression and it offers BIPOC advocacy energies and initiatives a proactive and balancing forces that come from traditional cultures.

Teaching classes to youth at Twin Oaks is a comfortable way to begin.

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2022 has been the first year of Liberation Arts at TO. It is a fact worthy of celebration particularly when understood as an instituted black culture.

Oppression culture magnifies in intensity against poc

Exclusion culture exacerbates food and housing insecurities

TO Statements on it's website are in a divisive and punitive tone.

Consulting services

Language and disposition

Website Statement

I entered Twin Oaks space curious; learning TO culture, honoring its achievements and listening to its needs. will not necessarily develop particularly in the form of the typical understanding of a Louisa county community. As a pedagogical organization, myself as well as others (living in or not in the current communities) offer classes, production direction, performances, workshops and other

Music and celebration diffuses through dimensions such as location, economic grouping and even social grouping. I see this work of onboarding Liberation Arts as an opportunity for the Central Virginia Intentional Community to incorporate Afro-Diasporic culture for the benefit of diversity that is a championed campaign of our times. It may mean stretching instituted processes. I appreciate Twin Oaks willingness to engage.

1. Community Name and Brief Description of the Community

Liberation Arts

Liberation Arts is culture & education in expressive arts circles. Liberation Arts is a method of education and a philosophy of life. It is a practice of culture that generates freedom. It's aspects of creativity can be experienced in workshops, classes, parties, ceremonies, rituals, discussions, debates and more. An important form of Liberation Arts is as an expressive arts group activity called The Circle. The circle's norms and structure replicate our experiences in the larger world and have the power to change people and communities.

Materially this community is myself, Macaco , it is Conner Campbell, and abstractly any and everyone who has participated in a Liberation Art event.

Conner and I are residents at Mimosa house and for the next year I function as the site manager of the property for Acorn, as well as offer the Serenity Initiative cultural support.

2. Description of intended contributions to Twin Oaks.

Liberation Arts offers

Children Education

Participation structures for community elders

Traditional structures for young adult celebration culture

Social-emotional and social-political conflict remedies

Whatever other service discovered in reflexive TO-LA dialogue

Potentially assist the TO REAL team in fulfilling its vision and missions

Twin Oaks has already contributed massively to Liberation Arts by being a courageous alternative to mainstream life, and by allowing me access to property and peoples. I have sung, danced and made music with many Oakers of all ages. On the home page of twinoaks.org is "Twin Oaks Commitment to Addressing Our Racism" and the last sentence of it's first paragraph states ".....Our attempt at equality for all people created an unequal place for POC. This realization is sobering and saddening. We need to change." I would ask Twin Oaks to contribute this high level of consciousness in this process of onboarding my Black culture offering, realizing that concessions to different terms could be the path to cross-cultural equity, and to continue to lead with courage when faced with the feelings of uncertainty in making space for new leadership power and authority.

Liberation Arts programming. It is great creating celebration culture and practices in the Central Virginia Intentional Communities. My work sources the cultures of Afro-Brazilian communities of resistance. In an essence - Energetic and joyful peaceful-warrior games and theater for the purpose of education and conflict resolution within the community. The Liberation Arts work that I do has a fierce disposition towards oppression and it offers BIPOC advocacy energies and initiatives a proactive and balancing forces that come from traditional cultures.

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In community gatherings that create joy, burn off stress, educate, inspire and all kinds of positive energy, we can get a visceral sense of being free. 

Freedom can work in counterintuitive ways with the complexities derived from scale as we consider the freedom of all the group members at the same time. 

It might take 100% to free us all. 

Thus the need for community, True community, not a percentage of community, not any other percent but 100% participation community. 

To manifest that super valuable skill of a peoples, to practice in ways that are hearth felt and as socially-emotionally =wholistic as group song,

Call and Response singing is a gift, we can open, 

Imagine no more elections that end 50/50-ish. (It may be that large scale voting hovering around the midpoint is actually the most healthy thing our group-DNA  can be doing in response to environments of mis-information and group dis-synergy)

In certain conditions gain of 100% participation is exponentially greater then even 99%. 

We practice Call and Response singing to practice our 100%. It can become a community reflex.

Liberation Arts exists to support the artist in everyone while we create spaces that offset the reality of attachment & enslavement. We imagine our suffrages in abstract fields and seek creative answers to filling negative space with leadership, power and authority. 

That is the liberation that the arts can give.

Individuality can then rise higher because of our difference we can move into but now all on a higher plane

The rest of the quote by Audre Lorde offers a relationship that must be in balance.

“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” ― Audre Lorde

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I think most of us experience a personal and visceral sense of being free when we participate in community gatherings that create joy and connection, that releases stress, educates and inspires and that creates any and all other kinds of positive energy.

But when we consider the freedom of all individual members of a group at the same time, freedom has a counterintuitive demand of surrender of some individuality.

The Black national anthem calls to lift "every" voice and sing. The truest definition of Every is quantified as 100%.We have trended away from this powerful number. Elections are decided by getting 51% of the vote. Can we move beyond elections that end 50/50-ish?

 In certain scenarios the gains of 100% participation is exponentially greater then even 99%

Call and response typically asks that When there is a call, everyone responds. this is a community reflex; generalized it is a culture. 

When manifesting everyone always siding with the whole, ssomething new appears. The whole becomes an energy of its own.

A gathering that knows it can rely on that fact, create as a mental structure, an abstract platform (the mental materialization of a certainty, a sketch of the the collective consciousness.

Figuratively upon this platform, a new set of actions is accessible. In this set lies a subset that has the attribute of Freedom. This set is only accessible, as a group experience yet it provides freedom for each individual.  

Typically on the new plateau there are greater amount of space for individuality. the ridigenes of being part of a platform has birth a launchpad with space for all to leap abound.