 Current Projects
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Featured Project
Auroville's Emergence Band to Perform at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK (funds are not tax-deductible)
At Solitude Farm we are running a self sustainable community. We grow pretty much most of our food, including oil seeds, dhals, rice, millts, vegetables and fruits. We experiment in many alternative ways of agriculture and host 100's of people every year interested in our way of life and teach and share with them a vibrant creative and dynamic community life.
On top of this the Solitude also has a band called Emergence and due to their exciting live performances and music video "nambikai" they have been invited to play at the prestigious Glastonbury Festivals in the UK. They play a unique style called Acoustic Indo-Pop. Emergence going to UK and playing at these shows is not just about a band going abroad and doing some music. It is about people from Auroville who ACTUALLY live on the land, close to nature, who have something valuable to say and represent an extremely important side of Auroville, i.e. the care and love for the land, very much Auroville's foundation activity! and the love for music as a means of expression.
Please note that funds given to this cause are not tax deductible.
More details...
More about the band Emergence at Myspace.
More about Solitude Farm at Myspace and at Blogspot
More about the Glastonbury Festival in the UK.
Other Projects
Often referred to as the Soul of Auroville, the Matrimandir
is a mediation hall that is nearing completion. Current
work includes finishing the outer and inner skins of the
spherical structure, the 12 surrounding meditation halls
and the gardens.
The USA
Pavilion, one of the most eco-friendly buildings in Auroville, functions as a student dormitory. It hosts university groups from the US that are studying abroad in Auroville. Current work, for which funds are greatly appreciated, includes building an office and a cycle shed.
Unity Pavilion
The Unity Pavilion in the International Zone is the future home of the
Nakashima Peace Table. This brochure (230K PDF) describes the current plan for
the Hall of Peace and gives some background on George Nakashima.
For more information, please visit Auroville's website, and to donate, please use our online donation page.
Auroville is to be a city which belongs to no-one in
particular, but to humanity as a whole. In order for this
city to be built for all of Humankind, the land it is
built on cannot be privately owned; it must belong to
Auroville. There is now an urgent need to secure the physical
base of Auroville - will you help purchase the missing
pieces?
The recent Land
Fund 1,000 X $1,000 Campaign raised over $750,000
for the purchase of Land for Auroville. Although this
campaign is over, we still urge you to help secure the
land for Auroville.
Auroville
Village Action Group (AVAG) looks after Human
Unity at the doorstep of Auroville. AVAG seeks to establish
a friendly sustainable relationship with the people of
the villages surrounding Auroville by acting as a bridge
between Auroville's idealistic aspirations and the traditional,
but impoverished, culture of the local people. This has
produced a broad based rural development program. Activities
range from educational programs with the children, to
helping the people take on self-help projects for village
improvement, to savings and micro-credit programs with
the women, as well as cultural events. AVAG also facilitates
the village-related activities of other Auroville groups
in the fields of health, environmental education, water
conservation, bio-diversity, sanitation, renewable energy,
employment and housing.
Mandara
will be an accessible resource center for information relating
to environmental activities in Auroville and its bio region.
We will be able to inform people about the surrounding
environment, thus creating a more symbiotic relationship
between them and the ecological space they inhabit. Our
motive is to communicate and share knowledge empowering
people to live sustainably by learning to accept what
is.
New
Creation Bilingual School is one of the Auroville
Outreach Schools. We aim to offer a progressive education
to some of the Tamil children from the villages around
Auroville. We are supported by Auroville but also rely
upon charitable donations to carry out all the services
we provide, including a packed school curriculum, free
meals, thorough health checks and a good deal of individual
care to some very needy young people.
A new collective housing project for Auroville
- Creativity
is a new collective housing project under construction
in the residential zone of Auroville. It will accommodate
up to 50 residents in medium density housing (ground floor
plus 2). The anticipated date for completion is Oct 2002.
It is both a social research endeavor and a dynamic experiment
in sustainable urban living. Future residents agree to
a Residents Charter which aligns residents along such
values as no personal ownership of spaces, sharing, contribution,
environmental sensitivity and intercultural harmony. Creativity
aspires to be a model with relevance and significance,
not just for Auroville but for all places that grapple
with the question "how can people who are different
live together in peace and harmony?" - Apr 2002
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