Reminder: new website of the travellers / techno community in Orgiva, Granada Province, Southern Spain
: Hello. For those interested in the way that we ‘do it’ festival / party, here in the south of Spain.
: Check out our website at; http://partyvibe.com/conspiracy
Mobile : 0034 (0)617 903586 & E-mail: samconspiracy@hotmail.com
Just added the following to the new Network23 Bulitin board:
http://lol.to/thr.php?bbs=network23&msg=1039908498&pg=1
‘cos of the anti party / festival measures, in the UK and elsewhere, many travellers, party-persons, squatters etc etc …. have set up in South of Spain.
So, there are festivals, parties and communities were folks from all over have gathered and live all the year round. One such place is ORGIVA. In the Province of Granada, Southern Spain.
It all started in Alex’s garden about 5 years ago, everyone gathering with fire-wood, instruments, records, fire-staffs, booze and masses of enthusiasm. The dragon flag was hoisted above the proceedings and the festival was born.
Fifty or so people from Cigarrones, Tablones and El Morreon celebrating the Equinox, dancing, prancing, howling, stomping, their way into the Spring. From that moment it was set to become a regular event , since then it has under gone a quite colossal metamorphosis, may be only to be expected of a Spring celebration of fertility, new growth and change. Not only the buds and bellies of goats are enchanted into life and multiplication by the lengthening sunny days and sweet whiff of honeysuckle but none other than our own sweet DRAGON.
The festival is developing and drawing immense amounts of creative inspiration out of this community and beginning to reach further, to draw attention to the threats of greedy corporations who see potential in the lush water-filled valleys of the Alpujarras. The water is worth a fortune to them, golf courses and hotels need vast quantities to keep up with the ever increasing tourism on the coast, not to mention the countless hectares of plastic covered genetically modified vegetables. Unbelievably after all the Euro-blar about encouraging sustainable development, grants are being awarded here to strip the area of it’s water supply to a subterranean level, this will completely destroy the ecosystem and the independence of this area interms of water and production of food.
And so what exactly has the Dragon got to do with this impending arrival of the water husslers, backed by the Euro grants legitimised by officaldom and accountable to only themselves? Wasn’t there some lose talk about alternatives lifestyles, not being part of their system because we have better ideas, sure it was more than a more than a quite life in our sleepy Spanish backwater.
Between us here there is an incredible amount of ingenuity, recycling, clean energy, solar, wind, turbine, veggie oil engines/generators, alternative education, sustainability,
What is the Dragon Fest?: is one of the high spots of the year:
News just in: The Dragon event moving ……. to: A l m e r i a
[bit further along the coast …… check the site for further details.]
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http://partyvibe.com/conspiracy
E-mail: samconspiracy@hotmail.com
or Mobile + txt: 0034 (0)617 903586
Earlier Blog entry:
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_11_03_tash_lodge_archive.html#84245439
