Here is a more recent Communiversity example:
STROUD - UK CAPITAL OF SOCIAL INNOVATION?
You've read about it; you've listened to the Archers going on about it. Now
here's an opportunity to see for yourself what's going on in this rather
unusual Cotswold town, to check out the new ideas being tried out here,
moving vision into action.
Stroud Communiversity is set up to help you. For five days in August we'll
be showcasing many of the brilliant projects here, including Community
Supported Agriculture, Co-housing, the Exchange, Stroud Valleys Artspace and
more. You'll be able to visit these ground-breaking initiatives, to touch
and smell them (that'll be the organic pigs) and talk to those who had the
ideas and the determination to see them into reality.
But this is not a one-way process: we want to hear about what you are doing
in your community, and what you plan to do. Stroud Communiversity provides
ample opportunity for debate and dissemination, exchanging ideas, visions
and experiences that we all can learn from.
And it will be fun! The activity-packed programme will include music from
local bands, creative activities with local artists (we've got hundreds!),
and a chance to savour Stroud's fantastic, award-winning Farmers Market and
the wide range of restaurants we're rather proud of.
That's how it all started really: we are proud of what we are doing here,
proud of our ability to persevere against suspicion and inertia, proud of
the collaborative way so many great schemes have come about, proud of the
way Civil Society can care for its community. And we recognise that there is
amazing stuff going on elsewhere too. Particularly when we're tired of
always going that extra mile, we need the inspiration that others bring.
So please join us. It'll be a blast! We'd love to see you and hear what
you're up to.
Stroud Communiversity runs from the late afternoon of August 1st to
lunchtime on August 6th. There are limited numbers of places, so if you
intend to come, secure a place now to avoid disappointment - details below.
There are places for organisations, individuals, concessions and a few
bursaries.
We look forward to seeing you in Stroud!
Greg, Helen, Jade, Martin, Max, Molly, Odilia (and those pigs).
To download brochure and booking form please go to
www.stroudcommonwealth.org.uk and click on Stroud Communiversity.
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From: Discussion list on participatory geographies
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of North, Peter
Sent: 23 July 2012 09:43
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Subject: Re: A proposal: Please read and respond (asap)
I wonder how old the idea of a "communiversity" is, outside academic
circles. Our local communiversity, in Croxtecth, goes back to a secondary
school that was occupied and run by local parents and activists when the
then Liberal Council tried to close it back in 1983. It was one of the key
mobilising events that led to the election in May 83 of the left wing Labour
Council that then went into the battle against the government that ended up
with 47 councillors disbarred and surcharged. It then evolved in to a
social enterprise and is now called the communiversity. Hot sure when they
started using the name though:
http://www.communiversity.co.uk/Default.aspx?ID=2
Peter North
Department of Geography
School for Environmental Sciences
University of Liverpool
0151 794 2849
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