Fair Board Grant Information and Discussion

An offer from the OCF Board to provide up to $5,000 each year for an educational and artistic project. This offer was extended to the Village, Energy Park, Archeology and more. Below is the text of their offer. Below that is an idea Tim had about what to do this year. And below that is a place to add your comments and have a discussion.
Meeting times for in person gathering to create details will be announced.

Here is the text of what we got from OCF regarding the new Grant item – “The Board will fund innovation in the educational programs that include Energy Park, Community Village, Craft Demonstrations, Archaeology, Sustainability, Spoken Word, and the Still Living Room. Each of these areas may submit a proposal for a project that would be educational, innovative and participatory, if possible. We would fund up to $5000 per year on one or more projects. The proposals must not add additional wristbands and must take place within the boundaries of each location. A committee of the board will meet yearly to review and recommend projects that meet these criteria for approval by the board. The proposals are due in September and grants will be approved in October. This program will start in 2025.”

Tim’s Grant Idea.

The World We Want to Be

Each day there would be a 60–90-minute semi-theatrical presentation on the stage and the Green expressing and demonstrating our activist goals for the World We Want to Be. The activists and booth listed below would work together on presentations of their related issues on their day. Rather than speeches, there would be presenting of manifestos, demonstrating via theatrical acts as if that new world was happening, pretending it was here now, with music and visual art, that would day by day build up the world of our dreams in images of a healthy planet, community, and peace and love through justice. Yet at the end of each day’s presentation (or only on Sunday?), drums would crash, thunder would bellow, and the real world would come crashing in as if waking from a dream.

The attraction, and most of the grant money spent, would be for celebrity MCs for each day. This would draw crowds and lift the reality of the presentations. Celebrities would participate as much as we can get them to.

All booths would be involved as well as all activists. Art and music would be part of every day’s presentation. Every part of the Village would look the part, perhaps with new signage or decoration. Costumes could be involved.

Our community of creativity would blossom as we all worked together to create this event. Here are when each booth would participate with shared issues:

Environment – Friday

Wild Edibles, Green Earth, Master gardeners, Organic Fruit,

Community – Saturday

Doors, 4A, Youth and Little Village, Intentional Communities, Life Long Learning, Women’s Moon Lodge

Justice – Sunday

Peace and Justice, Rainbow Village, Health and Healing, Areas, Spirit Booth

Tasks

Art Booth – decorations and large paintings per day. Stage – music as requested for presentations. Info Booth – developing flyers and pamphlets and programs. Council – Coordinating

Waddaya think?

Now you can post comments, ideas…GO!