The Soul Food Cafe, built by Heather Blakey, was inhabited by an international group of writers and artists
whose global mission was to promote writing and art-making as a daily practice through the use of interactive web-based technologies such as blogging and e-mail groups.
The site remains a wonderful resource. Please visit: THE SOUL FOOD CAFE
Heather Blakey has had over ten years experience building online communities, including 'The Soul Food Cafe', using a wide variety of free web based technologies. Heather is seeking clients who want to use social media and web publishing tools for educational, artistic or business development purposes. You can work with Heather and become familiar with all those tools people are using. Contact: heatherblakey at fastmail dot fm
The Wild Garden AdvenTURE Calendar takes people through twenty five steps towards understanding how the internet can be used as an interactive publishing tool. The Wild Garden introduced Soul Food community members to the potential of the web. This was made in 2005 and while there have been rapid developments in social networking in the interim, the Wild Garden provides important insight into the history of what became known as Web 2.
The Ravens were a group of creative women who worked collaboratively at Soul Food. This publication serves to demonstrate the potential of collaborative, online projects. These days I am working with a collective at Creative Foraging.
The 2006 Adventure Calendar preserved one of the Lemurian Journey's with Enchanteur. Likewise, the journey of the heart, along the
Soul Food Silk Road was preserved after work completed in 2005. You can find links to the collection of the
Soul Food Cafe Advent Calendars housed at Squidoo. This collective is currently working on material that will be used for the 2009 Adventure Calendar.
In a death denying society where we do not do loss and grief well the Temple of Solace remains a place for those needing solace and comfort to retreat to.
This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature, instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it, it is my privilege to do whatever I can. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of bright torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
