Soul Food Cafè

A Complex Labyrinth

Posted by Heather Blakey on March 15th, 2008

The Soul Food Cafè is a portal for artists and writers alike. It is a safe haven where creativity flourishes. Soul Food Cafè aims to promote creative pursuits as a daily practice. The static, Web 1.0 part of this site is quite literally overflowing with healthy and tasty morsels for every artist.

Soul Food provides a Web 2.0 learning environment. This is powered by WordPress. The 2007 AdventURE Calendar, which is a guide to using interactive web sites like Soul Food, launched the Web 2 Telegraph The Web 2.0 Telegraph will provide ongoing updates on new Web 2.0 tools and innovations. The Telegraph also includes an index for the calendar.To make full use of Soul Food join the Yahoo Soul Food Cafe group and the Wild Garden which is being seeded by the Magic Garden project. It is advised that interested members undertake the Mastering WordPress Tutorial. When an individual is Word Press savvy they will be able to apply to participate in the Pythian Games and, or the Wild Garden. Mad Challenges are provided for those who participate in the games but participants are free to do their own thing.

The static, Web 1.0 part of Soul Food Cafe, is housed at dailywriting and outbackonline, is an expansive vault of creative stimuli. You can choose to explore this vault by yourself and take advantage of the innovative prompts and suggestions. No one will ask you what you are doing. There are no officious bunnies that will pop up and say that you should not be using that key or looking behind the small door at the end of the corridor.There is no charge. It is a free resource and will always remain so.

Of course, you might just take the plunge and begin to interact with the artists and writers who call Soul Food home. You can join Soul Food’s Yahoo group. This provides you with access to the whole Soul Food community and you will be notified when members post and you will be informed about upcoming events and projects. This is what has been called the first Web 2.0 stage, the point at which you feel an irresistible urge to learn more about this place and meet those people who have helped to make it the rich site it has become. This is the moment that you begin communicating and interacting in an online setting.

Of course, you might just take the plunge and begin to interact with the artists and writers who call Soul Food home. You can join Soul Food’s Yahoo group. This provides you with access to the whole Soul Food community and you will be notified when members post and you will be informed about upcoming events and projects. This is what has been called the first Web 2.0 stage, the point at which you feel an irresistible urge to learn more about this place and meet those people who have helped to make it the rich site it has become. This is the moment that you begin communicating and interacting in an online setting.setting.

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This comprehensive Web 2.0 Calendar has been designed by Heather Blakey to encourage staff and students to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today. The objectives of this program are to encourage exploration of Web 2.0 and new technologies and to provide staff with new tools that will engage students. Work through this calendar and you will become familiar with blogging and learn how to make the most of the Global Teacher and Student network.

Bumper Catalogue of Creativity and Lemuria

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Aside from being a vault filled with creative stimuli, Soul Food is also a portal to the imaginary writing world of Lemuria. Periodically le Enchanteur takes journey women through a magic portal, not unlike the portals of Narnia and Pan’s Labyrinth, in to the world of Lemuria. The Catalogue of Creativity is just one feature that presents material about Lemuria.
When you think of Lemuria think Narnia, Middle Earth, Pan’s Labyrinth, Oz or Alice’s Wonderland and you will have a sense of where you go when you step through le Enchanteur’s (Heather Blakey’s alter ego) magic portal and enter Lemuria. The portal to Lemuria is the portal to the subconscious that Jung spoke of and is the place where people come to know themselves and individuate. According to many who have traveled Lemurian roads with Enchanteur, a journey within Lemuria is life changing.

Enchanteur conjuring, using her magnetic powers to draw more artists and writers in to her realm.

Once you have engaged and understand the interactive nature of Soul Food it becomes possible to subscribe and go deeper in to the imaginary writing world of Lemuria. Lemuria is a quite complex Web 2.0 enviromnent and new parts of this realm are constantly being charted and populated by artists and writers. Soul Food and Lemuria are built on the Dali principle that “you have to systematically create confusion to set creativity free.” To lessen the confusion there is a new Hitch Hiker’s Guide to Lemuria linked to the site. Make sure to meet le Enchanteur and do check out the blog that records her travels with brave adventurers. Contact Heather Blakey for more information about subscribing.

What is the Wild Garden?

The Wild Garden is a garden that grows Web 2.0 projects that have been designed to show educators and their students how good curriculum can be delivered and the outcomes published, using new technology such as blogs, writeboard, photo board and many other exciting applications.