Plan B

Hello everyone! We have some word on what will be going down on 10/10/10. At 5:00, musician and 350.org advocate, Joe Reilly (http://www.joereilly.org/) will be playing. Then at 6:00 PM 350.org advocate Heidi Walley will get up to say some words about the special day and organization. Following her will be the music of Mark Lavengood (http://www.marklavengood.com/). So come out and have a good time. Tell all your friends and family and everyone. There will be other events going on at the Plan B town that day as well. Thanks!

Hey everybody. This is quite the treat because the 10/10/10 Global Work Party coincides with the final day of the two week art event of Grand Rapids, ArtPrize (artprize.org). Come out and be a part of the Plan B community which will be set up the whole two weeks (Sept 22-Oct 10) to celebrate creative ways of alternative living. We plan on celebrating 10/10/10 with one another, with those in the Grand Rapids area that day and in solidarity with those around the world trying to better our planet with healthier ways of living. For more information check out Beerhorstplanb.wordpress.com to see what will be going on for those two weeks and for 10/10/10. More details to come and please feel free to contact me with any questions, suggestions or thoughts. Thanks.

taken from studiobeerhorst.com

"I believe we are about to experience a very different future. Our culture is about to make a radical shift -the large % of our western population is not in the least prepared for. We were born into a world engulfed in the modernest love affair with efficiency as was typified by Henry Ford’s assembly line. We were quickly drowning in everything from Art Van furniture, Big Macs, divorce lawyers and credit car applications. We have gobbled up our natural resources at a dizzy break neck speed and we are just about to hit the wall. In fact we have hit the wall and we are now in that slow motion stretched out split second of crash dummy whiplash as home foreclosure rips through the cities and the suburbs and Wall Street tumbles into a sink hole of no return. America is the Titanic. The ship has already struck the ice. The gash has overwhelmed efforts to hold off the icy water. The ship’s captain, his personal valet and the chief engineer knew what would happen in the next two hours but the rest of the ships passengers are picking out their dresses and straightening their ties getting ready for dinner.

We are working with a team of people on an Art Prize project called Plan B. This will be a home spun eco village on the bank of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan in front of the Gerald Ford Museum from September 22-October 10. Sand and gravel water filters, a bicycle powered water pump, bicycle powered PA system for our performance stage, hand sewn tents made of used bill board vinyl, a puppet theater, black smith, leather worker, rocket stoves, chickens, rabbits, green house and container vegetable gardens….
We are seeking to create a powered down model of what our future could look like where technology is once again something regular people can tinker with and understand, a world where people not only work together but eat together and tell their stories. We want to create a place where we can become human again and hand off a culture to our children that has a future. Come and join us!"