Continued from this April article.

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In 2013 I had time to work out 30 ideas for the American community that are designed to nurture Community, Fun, & Culture.

In the order they came to me, here’re 30 ideas designed to nurture Community, Fun, & Culture in America:

1) music downtown (we could ‘scrobble’ / use play statistics so we hear the community’s favorites)

2) fairs permanently installed

3) coffeeshop-like community centers – also good places to meet people, for all purposes

4) medallion hunt-style games; other, yet to be imagined fun ‘physical’ software-games

5) live performers – theatrical, firebreathers, musicians, comedians – on streets – subsidized. (our level of culture could be *historic*)

6) skate sections of cities – spray-paint-able (“graffiti”) sections of communities – outlet for art

7) library stands – with coffee

8) community bonfires – music

9) community shared (‘sterilized’) instruments & other wares – perhaps a jam room at a community center or library analogue, where community members could jam together in spontaneous get-together jams, & teach & learn audio mastering & music instruction, including care of instruments. A ‘musician’s library’

• other artforms’ hardware for free library-like lending

10) more community gardens – stands for selling the produce & juices.

11) community mud-wrestling & music festivals

12) trained city dogs

13) (more) community bike programs.

14) horse rides (like 4-H)

15) local Olympics

16) arcade battle tags

17) (this one is ‘too cool for school,’ I have to share it another time)

18) symposiums: local presentations of ideas – wider, freer variety of topics

19) donated services – e.g. audio engineering/recording to less established musicians

20) farmers’ markets more frequent than once a week – juicings there (fruit smoothies & veggie juices)

21) art appreciations – showing off amateur art for appreciation & responses

22) healthy wants food & juice displays – many chefs, doctors/nutritionists/natural health doctors discussing benefits or food samplings

• recipes
• health facts (RDVs & general health facts)
• make food, interested people can watch how it’s done,
• out in a park, mobile kitchens/stoves/ovens

23) public arcade games

24) community drive-in theatres – free popcorn

25) youth groups – age ranges

26) woods walks – led by guides (plump up the funding for all these things)

27) band ‘open mics’ – amateur band performance

• informal-er music shows, like “open mics”
• maybe at music department of “community center” – maybe a park – I know this is sort of done already, but to consciously single it out as something to nurture will make musicians & music-appreciators happier

28) apprenticeships – learn to be a firefighter, a monk, a comedian etc

29) (courtesy of my friend Aaron Y.) activity centers for youth – pool tables, arcade games, other needs & wants – open especially in small towns where there’re only diners open at night

30) community social commons – not just outdoors but indoors – all forms of socializing, from romancing to sharing battle-scars – maybe even free alcohol within limits.

That’s it!

Send any Love for these my way!
Joe =D