The Grindlebone Village project has been a long time in gestation. For those of you who know the cast of characters that has made up the Greylight Theatre/Grindlebone Arts over the years, you know we have a history of pulling off bizarrely large, improbable projects seemingly out of nothing. Over the years we have created theatre companies, renfairs, Burning Man style Raves, art shows, theatre tours, publishing houses, construction projects, role playing games, and a number of fairly toxic cocktails, all with only these two conditions: A) Is it worth doing? and B) see (A).
The project as envisioned will incorporate a tiny home/vardo village, cabins, a village green with outdoor performance space and public pavilion, an indoor performance and gallery space, an education and library center, and an event camping area to support at least four large public events a year, all with an eye to sustainability and with a strong Steampunk slant.
Why Steampunk? Because many of the Steampunk ideals of inventiveness, civility, permanence, self betterment, and exploration and adventure for it's own sake meet with our own attitudes and dreams. In addition, the Steampunk culture includes a number of technologies that greed and cheap energy bypassed historically, but were fully functional and viable.
Besides, it looks cool.
Over the next several months we will be doing land search, design work, crowd funding (you knew that was coming, didn't you :) ), and assorted scheming and twisting. We welcome your ideas, comments, and active participation. Join us. It's another damn dream.
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