[Basekamp Events] The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let's Re-Make the World - Jan 12 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let's Re-Make the World

January 12, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi everyone,

This Tuesday is the second evening in a year-long series of weekly  
conversations and exhibits in 2010 focusing on examples of Plausible  
Artworlds.

This week we’ll have a converstion with Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune  
about The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s Re-Make the World,  
which is both a historic archive and a generative project focused on  
connecting current related practices. During this event, books will be  
available for folks to take, a live video will be projected, and The  
Book of the Month Club will be launched.

The Book of the Month Club is an opportunity to share some newly  
selected titles with you. Each month during 2010, a new book will be  
scanned and uploaded to their website. Books that are hard to find, or  
particularly capture the spirit of the Library, will be selected to  
share with you during the Book of the Month Club project.

The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s Re-Make the World was  
started as a way to gather, look at, and catalog a groundswell of  
optimistic and visionary activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s  
represented by how-to books. Many people organized around freely  
sharing information and materials. The books they generated embrace a  
grass roots exchange of information and themes of self and community  
empowerment. These books are written from the counter-culture. Their  
authors were interested in communicating their direct experience as it  
related to their experiments for living in harmony with the natural  
landscape, building sustainable communities, and more. They offer  
practical applications of optimistic ideas for radical change.

http://www.letsremake.info/

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See you all Then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
(basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa)

http://twitter.com/basekamp

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Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen  
Wright, and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage  
through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.
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