The NEW FESTIVAL & TRANSFORMATIONAL CULTURE
The Festival has been a consistent and vital part of human culture since our beginnings. They have been a call to step outside of everyday life, to connect with the mythic and celebrate communally the affirmation of life. Now, after centuries of puritanism and repression, the ecstatic tradition has re-emerged into culture at a pivotal time of global challenges and enormous shifts. A new festival culture has bloomed throughout the west coast and dotting the world.
The new festivals have become confluence points for exchange and inspiration, community-building and collaboration, a place where the cutting-edge memes and thought of our time find a meeting ground to inform and inspire each other. These parties have become a practice space for the intentionally co-created world--the TAZ or temporary autonomous zone, a model of the future coming into being.
The New Festival & Transformational Culture articulates exactly how this culture embodies the way towards an evolved, liberated and promising future. Jeet-kei Leung aka Mazeguider shares insights from involvement with the culture since its origins and opens the doorways to understanding this vital, new, and yet ancient, phenomena blossoming once again in our midst.
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``The new Festivals have been intentionally creating models of an evolved and glowing future. They allow the momentary realization of the liberated world we would wish to live in. Collaborative, co-creative, cathartic, inspirational and life-affirming, these festivals have become the play and practice spaces for establishing just such a harmonized and healed world.”
Jeet-kei has been a creative content provider to the culture as a performer, playing music as Mazeguider, and as a presenter, offer- ing his epic workshop Essentialised Code of the New Paradigm at many events & festivals. As a facilitator of Council within the festival setting, the community is invited into a flexible format to engage and explore community values and intentional culture-crafting. Council is part of Jeet-kei’s greater interest in Evolving Collaborative Culture, which includes 7 years of working in a consensus-based organization of 40 staff collectively running a $3-million/year natural health centre together.
