I think this event has such great potential. As one of the speakers at Anarchapulco, who does enjoy giving talks, I don't go to Anarchapulco TO speak. In fact, doing the speaking is the least of my concerns and maybe the least favorite part! Haha! I have spoken two years of the 3, and guess what? Both times I couldn't WAIT to get my talk done and out of the way so I could just focus on immersion in the people and conversations and ideas and innovation I love so much about the anarchist community. So much freedom and love everywhere, and my talk was probably more of a stressful point of it than anything, not because speaking isn't fun... but because there's always some stress involved for me in living up to my own standards of delivering content.
I think if an event is more of an organic thing where there's simply circles or pockets of anarchists gathering around different ideas or activities, and all of them are moving amongst those circles of activities as they please, then it not only feels more effortless and flowing for everyone, but it doesn't put nearly as much stress and strain on a specific few people to try to "structure" a centered conference schedule.
I like the idea of having multiple rented out locations near the bay, where each locale is a sort of theme. Like @erikaharris suggested with her idea of a sort of group where people can just focus on sharing something meaningful and take turns with it -- this could be applied to all kinds of things from art to music to food. One area could just have cooks/food vendors/meal sharing in general, and one could be music centered, for musicians to organically share and trade or hang out, and one could be Canna-centered (helloooooooooo Mary! lol), and still another could be about relationships and love, and another about crypto, and another about Steemit and another about Real Estate investing, and another about gardening and home steading!!!!!
Possibilities are truly endless and I, EVEN AS a speaker myself, don't necessarily think any event should be all about ONE stage. There's nothing bad about it, Anarchapulco rocks, but it ROCKS because of all the anarchists there, sharing awesome things.
And that's what you're taking and running with, here. I love it. :)
Thanks for your input on this. In regards to speakers I'll be honest when I say the idea of speaking at a bunch of people is a whole lot less fun and more stressful than what we're trying to achieve here. We don't want people to have their only true involvement be to get it over with lol. And even if you are super passionate about what you speaking at I think it's natural as anarchists to have an issue with telling others how to be anarchists lol.
We are going to start seriously looking at locations now so that way we can start to get some locations nailed down.
Thanks for your comment and input so far, it's helped us shape this thing.
I also think that while a stage and platform is cool so that more people can hear your ideas, it feels uncomfortable to those of us who know we're not ACTUALLY on a pedestal at all, we just want to share.
It can feel like we're being pedantic, or it can feel that way for me, and I very much stay away from talks that "tell people how to anarchy" lol. Some talks head that direction a lot, like how you ought to eat or think, but I try to focus on WHAT IS, what has been, and what can be, given possibilities, or even WHAT IS TO COME because of very good reasons to hope.
I like to make people think, and I know most anarchists feel the same, they just want to make people think, and to also share what we love, and I just have always enjoyed that more in a more intimate and smaller group.
In this way, all of us can get up in front of any group and talk, but because of a different more organic setup, we'll be more likely to talk to people who really care and are interested in hearing what we have to say, and we won't feel like some person having to say "Hey look at me, listen to me cause I'm the best!" we'll just feel like "Hey, I have some stuff I'd like to share among friends and willing ears."
The conference platform/stage vibe isn't necessarily forcing me or anyone to feel something negative, I ultimately know that everyone there is a friend for the most part, but something about the psychology of the "big stage, sitting crowd" lay-out is too long-associated with churches and schools, and I think that's why to me it feels a tad unnatural. :) This feels way more "me".
I can't think of a single person I talked to who was excited for doing their talk no matter if that's what they do for a living. The big stage crowd rubs me wrong just because I know that's not how most interactions are. When we have meetups many people contribute which is what matters.
Our desire to meetup at these conferences isn't in the idea to go and school or educate anyone really, the desire is to share our ideas with other people who might agree. I think it's about time we find a better way of doing this because I think it's something that all liberty events fall short in, not just Anarchapulco.
In a world where people are raised being told what to do many people are a bit afraid of the idea of true freedom even if it's something they crave. That's where the people who tell you how to be anarchist come in but at the end of the day real anarchy exists in daily life. You've lived your own little form of anarchy and what you've shared with the world matters! But I can totally feel the unnatural nature of that stuff because honestly the best interactions happen with many voices, not just one :)
excellent. I hope to see this event springboard into an all-year, week by week, thriving culture-city. Why not? I have to figure every year, some folks say: "Why the phuque am I going home?". This is exactly how I ended up relocating to Las Vegas in 1985.
This is how many of the people who do live here ended up here. We came with the intention of staying ourselves but understand it's totally likely for people to just...stay.
[email protected] Anytime. Anyone interested in building libertarian towns, villages, cities and counties. Drop me a line. Let's do some Real Estate Development and make some cryptoCurrency, Gold and Silver.