Casa Goofy International
is a non profit group whose mission is to facilitate an international exchange for artwork, artists and performances.
Using Student Exchange as a model, we are developing local hosting facilities and looking for individuals and groups in the greater Tucson area who would also be interested in hosting artists, their artwork and performances.
To accomplish these goals we are associated with:
Couchsurfers.com, an online organization which makes it easier for hosts and guests from separate countries to find each other, organize a schedule, and a “Plan B”, and have an enriching cross cultural experience.
WOOFERS (Worldwide Organization of Organic Farmers): an international exchange for farmers and farm workers.
LOS AMIGOS DAY CARE: for a series of participatory murals, artist presentations for the kids and kids participation in decorating the day care. Casa Goofy and Los Amigos are looking forward to a long contest to see which organization can be the most childish. We are actively looking for a sister day care in Mexico.
Check us out on http://casagoofy.blogspot.com and on Facebook and follow the links to our member pages and blogs.
MISSION:
Promote art that crosses borders because it is key to whole earth, non linear thinking which is necessary for our spiritual and physical survival.
GOALS:
Reinvent the old International Arts Center (the old Y at 5th Ave/6th St.) and create an international exchange for art and artists, modeled on Student Exchange.
Invest this time in people instead of buildings.
Create an art-in-nature laboratory.
Follow the example of Bisbee, Cleveland and Austin and put Tucson on the map as the host of cultural exchange.
STRATEGIES:
Assemble an auxiliary board for the purpose of working from small scale art-in-nature projects into large scale alternative energy/art projects, such as:
Tucson’s own “smokestack algae biofuels plant” (check it out on Google) at the Apache Power plant near Benson utilizing the million gallon tank abandoned by the U of A after its non smokestack, pond style plant failed to live up to expectations. (Maybe someday we could see an image in algae in that tank from Google Earth.)
And such as:
A green walls and green roofs project as also noted in Google, but with the addition of photovoltaics for shade and energy. (and someday could we see an image made of roof gardens from Google Earth?)
TACTICS:
Host a website specifically designed for facilitating meeting and dialogue between local artists and artists from other countries.
Finish visiting and permanent artist quarters (which would make 17 units or more)
Find people willing to be hosts and/or guests through couchsurfers.com.
Have a regular schedule of fundraiser performance nights with food, entertainment, raffles and auctions. Community participation murals (make a place for the art of children of all ages).
Gradually change Dennis Williams’ HVAC-R business by
Adding businesses one at a time that can offer: waste cooking oil, use of space on off hours, catering, or just sympathy for the project so that, little by little, more time
Can be devoted to CGI.
Have fun and,
KEEP IT GOOFY!!!
CASA GOOFY NEEDS:
a $40,000 line of credit. Several amortization schedules have been drawn up for any individual or institution to choose from or offer their own terms. Payments (around $450/mo.) will all be handled through a title company with one free and clear duplex, appraised at $125,000, for collateral. The uses of the line of credit are:
Purchase grid tie photovoltaics to stop the escalation of utility bills.
Finish the conversion of 8 rental units into artist live/work spaces.
Finish the construction of visiting artist quarters at the art-in-nature lab at 1323 W. Hualpai Road.
This will:make the project financially and ecologically self sustaining,
complete the artist community that will support the mission of outreach to other countries
unite the project around one clear vision:
a world in which the imaginary lines drawn by scientists, economists, politicians and countries are seen for what they are, so that our vision of global problems and solutions can be made whole.
ASSETS/PROJECTS IN CASA GOOFY:
9 artist’s spaces 70% completed.
7 rental units in the process of conversion. 10% completed.
Art-In-Nature Lab 50% (?) completed.
Community participation murals on front fences and walls 5% completed.
International art exchange website, planning stage.
VISITING ARTIST QUARTERS IN CAMP GOOFY:
Vans & busses in U shape with campers on top, common kitchen & bathroom. 50% completed. Large work-shade common studio between.
(When finished, these will be free housing in exchange for working on projects in the art-in-nature lab.
ADVISORY BOARD & ASSOCIATES:
Brian Flagg, Casa Maria Soup Kitchen
Bill Knauss, Builder
Jon McLane, host of “Free Green Radio” (KVOI) and Green Party Mayoral Candidate
Carlos Lozano, CEO hunter for Lozano And Associates
Paul Schock, founding partner of the former International Arts Center at the old Y at 5th. Ave and 6th. St.
Peter Anton (retired) electric bike enthusiast, ecologist.
John Peterson, HVAC-R engineer
(Your Name Here)
SO???
PARTICIPATE:
Get on our mailing list.
VOLUNTEER:
Volunteers will be fed, entertained and spoiled rotten. Donations of $100 or more grant you founding member status and get you a comic book face and a few choice words on all our community murals.
Bring food, friends, art & entertainment to fundraisers.
Help with clean up, construction and gardening. Help us work with the kids. Just take an interest. Be someone we can talk to about how we’re doing and what other things we could be doing on an on going basis.
Become a host. Think about what space you might have for visiting artists to use for a few days to a few weeks. Help us get a list of potential hosts going.
Participate in the fence mural project. There's a place for you and your kids.
BECOME A MEMBER:
Lifetime: $100 (gets your name, photo, & comic book face in one of our participatory fence murals (you participate in the creation of your image, and to get to attend (or not attend) all meetings of The Bored).
Annual: $50 (free pass to our shop & kiln & other facilities).
Contributing: ($25 or more. Five free art-postcards & whatever other goodies we can come up with.)
ISSUE A LINE OF CREDIT:
See “Casa Goofy Needs” or do it your way and organize your own gift.
(be a big time artist) DONATE ART
or just DONATE:
vehicles, ,anything that could be raffled off or sold for scrap.
(have trucks, have people, will clean your yard)
New or used vegetable oil.
(any kind of waste oil)
Solar panels, PVs, DC or AC pumps, generators, tools. Building materials
(come visit, see what we’re doing, see if you have anything to
contribute, and talk to us about YOUR ideas.)
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD:
(attend online meetings, and less often physical meetings, help with fundraising, structural problems and planning.)
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD:
No responsibilities, just be wherever you are but be there for us: read, bear witness, listen, review & comment. Be somebody just to talk to about how we’re doing. (What is this? See the note below.)
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CLOWN COUNCIL
Be on call to help mediate disputes, misunderstandings, etc. You have to wear some part of a clown costume while you’re mediating. (hmmm “The Clown Council”….does that phrase sound FUNNY to you?!)
CONTACT:
Dennis Williams
1323 W. Hualpai Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85745-2051
520-429-0347
dennishwilliams@gmail.com
ON FACEBOOK:
Dennis Williams
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AND SPEAKING OF FATHED, HE WOULD LIKE TO DELIVER A COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS:
AND SPEAKING OF FATHED, HE WOULD LIKE TO DELIVER A COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS:
(FIRST PRINCIPLES)
“A very good philosophy could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
----Ludwig Wittgenstein
Embrace absurdity.
The rest of the world is the rest of you.
Therefore embrace absurdity around the world (and in neighboring universes).
OUTWARD!
Love that does not go outward to the community dies of its own symmetry. (An expanding universe demands it.)
The community does not end at the city limit sign or at any border or any (necessarily) arbitrary line between the human and the natural community or between that and the physical universe.
An intelligence inheres in it, and in our life and in our death. This intelligence somehow encompasses an inconceivably enormous human stupidity.
Whatever the ordering principle of the universe is, it must like a little gambling and humor too.
Human survival depends on our vision being restored to wholeness by artists and clowns. Scientists, by nature of the demands of their discipline, are incapable of considering global warming in terms of process and whole systems.
Human survival depends on all borders being recognized for what they are: arbitrary lines drawn in the sands of time and space. (There is no “away”, there is no place called “downstream”, there is no place like “home”, there is no solution not connected to hundreds of other solutions all working in concert.
There is nothing we can keep except what we gave.
Love is always incomplete. Love is always a heartache. (Pass it on to the kids, but be sure and tell them what you’re doing.)
All investment depends on trust and is at risk. Even gold has only an arbitrary and speculative value.
The human mind……hey wait! Is this some kind of JOKE!!!???
