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The Abundance Tree

An interactive Community Art Installation that facilitates giving and an understanding of abundance.
  • Status: Active
  • Submitted: Tue Jan 12, 2010   |   Last updated: Tue Jan 12, 2010
  • Location(s): Orleans
  • Topics(s): Community development, Education, Environment, Housing, Other
  • Tag(s): Giving, Homelessness, Community
  • Views: 330   |   Comments: 4

Details

A traveling installation that brings a community together to give, create and teach through immersion in a gift culture. Participants are asked to bring items to attach to this giving tree before choosing items to take from its branches. Signs on the tree implore them to “Give More Than You Take” and remind them that “Abundance Creates Serendipity”. Made of discarded branches.

Project Scope: Vision, Aim, & Objectives

Why this project is being done:
Because we have to. The world needs alternatives to the stale old solutions to what ails us. And we are exploring those solutions and inspiring people across the country to look for their own answers too.
Who or what this project would impact:
The project helps all ages and socio-economic levels learn about giving and abundance through hands on experience.
Project intends to address:
Like the story of Stone Soup, participants come together to make this tree "grow" and learn what it takes to build a community in this way. The interior of the tree allows a seating area to facilitate discussion in the tradition of the Liberty Tree.
Included or excluded:
We're seeking venues in your area now. We'll be traveling this coming year to the areas of the country hardest hit by home-foreclosures and homelessness. Please contact us if you have an available venue.

Project Timeline

It takes one week to build the tree and then it is left for a week for the community to interact with, by hanging gifts from its branches for each other. Then the project is dismantled and recycled. But the impression left behind doesn't seem to fade

Project Plan & Participants

Other people and/or organizations involved in this project:
We have a core group of volunteers that travel with the project and ask for help from the community through forums and the press prior to arrival in a new city. Schools, lodges, and other groups often help.
Plan for implementing this project:
We have a full implementation plan and have installed the project four times so far, including at the Carbondale Mountain Fair in Colorado and at the experimental city, Arcosanti in Arizona.

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Coming Soon

Help or Additional Resources Needed

Materials needed (wish list):
Discarded branches, twigs and grapevine, twine, papier mache materials, venue of course, volunteers, gifts - all sorts.
Help needed from other people:
Right now we're looking for a venue in the area - a business or other venue near an art walk, a school, some other situation. But we need an area with a good deal of traffic and a forty foot or so ground space to build and for someone to handle the permitting if needed for the two weeks we'll be there.

Comments

"The world needs

Submitted by sarah@ratelines.com on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 2:12pm.

"The world needs alternatives to the stale old solutions to what ails us. And we are exploring those solutions and inspiring people across the country to look for their own answers too."
I love this. It's so true, new solutions the better life will become.

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Submitted by adamgilly on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 5:50am.

Now, imagine a large, gas-powered wood chipper like those that tree-cutting crews use. You know, those noisy machines with sharp rotating blades and a big chute out of which spew wood chips that are used as a fertilizing mulch. Turn on the wood it training chipper. Hear its powerful, smooth whine, and feed into it, one branch at a time, the pile of branches at your feet, crossing each off your list as you go. Hear the tone of the machine change and then return to its strong whine after each branch goes through. It works even better to make the sound of the wood chipper, letting your voice change as the branches go 117-101 through. Smell the woody freshness of the released energy. When you have finished with the entire pile, turn off the chipper. Rest a moment, and then repeat the same process with your B list.Then, in the vibrant silence, take 1Y0-A05 the resulting pile of fresh, nutrient laden, wood chips and spread them around the base of your abundance tree. See the tree greening and growing fully healthy, with strong roots that reach deep into the earth and a crown that 1z0-051 reaches to the heavens.Give great thanks for the experiences that created the piles of branches, to the abundance tree, and then to yourself, for being willing to experience all those things. Bring yourself back to an awake and alert state and then throw away or burn your lists, letting go, once and for all, the constriction and pain represented by the lists.

Good project

Submitted by GeorgeG on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 4:08am.

This is quite a good project. It teaches us on how we can take care of our environment richness and beauty. We should also realize its goodness and how the bountiful resources it gives us in order to live in this world. This project is truly worth of our payday loans to participate in. It also develops camaraderie in all the participants and brainstorming on how the project could attain its success. And one thing I like the most is, the project helps all ages and socio-economic levels learn about giving and abundance through hands on experience. Can you please update us if this project succeeded or not? Thanks a lot!