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Culture Sponges: A creative circle of choatic cultivation
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Category:
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Cities and Neighborhoods |
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Created:
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Feb 27, 2007 |
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Type:
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Public |
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Members:
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10 |
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Owner:
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Christopher K
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States of America |
Meet others who lack true refinement, lack a regal heritage, and lack a superior attitude towards all live cultural events.
Yet live to experience live theater of all sorts, art galleries, dance troupes, and exotic dining.
Culture is absorbed by blissfull ignorance of any stuffy erudite concepts or serious academic analysis.
We know Picasso is good, we just don't care why. We just want to absorb it and see what if any of it sticks to our minds...
Interested Visit:
http://culturecircle.meetup.com/17
Or read on...
In 1982 I enjoyed the Opera in Ventura County, I was in High School. I have been to Paris, Madrid, London, Rome, and spent alot of time in New York, both nothing compares to watching Opera in Oxnard with my best friends in high school. Sadly Oxnard did not have the best Opera, but it didn't matter, and here is why....
We enjoyed doing exotic cultural things like Oxnard Opera and Fiji baked goods, so much that we started a high school club called the 'culture slobs'. We all had worldly backgrounds, from Iran, Japan, Fiji, Italy, and the around the US. But there was a freedom not to have to act like we really knew what we were eating or watching.
Those friends moved back to their countries, and now it is time to begin again. So I created the Culture Sponges.
Culture Spongers are not ignorant or ethnically challenged, we just love different cultures without a PhD in geography or any cultural history or social science.
The idea is simple, the adventure to wild exotic creative places and events without a passport. Do it with a sense of fun and daring. Great wine tastes great, I don't want to know the history of the grape from Rome to Northern Ca. I just want to taste great food, see great art, and experience great shows without any attitude. If I do I can take a class or buy a book, which I do sometimes...
Its not that knowing is bad, its just taints how you absorb the experience if a teacher or mentor, or know-it-all has to tell you how much this event , food, wine, or picture means to society.
Culture Spongers just care if it means something to them right now the moment they experience it.
If this sounds like you, then I hope you join and share your sense of adventure.
Thanks
Organizer Chris K
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