Modra Rzeka – the House of Creative Life
To live in harmony with nature and with yourself, to think about the life idea, to learn to live together and think about a more fair system. Here are the challenges of the Modra Rzeka community. These challenges are a real laboratory of alternative life.
Another model that tries to leave the loud and stressful lifestyle, and head toward a simpler and more joyful life. One of the ways to be happy. Because life is short!
Modra Rzeka is a community that has existed for 4 years already. It began the great adventure four years ago, when several friendly families bought a piece of land and an old hundred-year-old house. Very quickly, the owners fell in love with this place and finally decided to live together. Today twelve adult people live here, with the oldest resident eighty-year-old aunt, four teenagers and six children. This is a beautiful field for intergenerational relations.
The Modra Rzeka community aims to grow food on a local scale, but also to gain financial independence – the house has to earn with ours hands – this is the plan.
In this dynamics, personal development workshops, workshops for young people, painting classes and clay-making are created. We set up a beehive apiary, which we are expanding every year. We also plan and implement projects related to nature and environmental education (for example, providing information on the essence of developing bee apiaries in schools in the region). Inhabitants of Modra Rzeka also create social actions for local residents: “Choir without borders” where everyone regardless of age meets once a week to sing.
We take part in concerts on the occasion of holidays, state anniversaries, social and charity initiatives, etc. In cooperation with Stronie Slaskie Cultural Centre we teach English for local residents.
Modra Rzeka was created thanks to the residents’ simple will, naive faith that together you can create something beautiful and valuable. Just like everywhere else, this idyllic place needs an organization; collective and individual, private and professional. Inhabitants of Modra Rzeka meet in the evenings by the fireplace or on the terrace to discuss and think about the future…
Modra Rzeka was created thanks to the residents’ simple will, naive faith that together you can create something beautiful and valuable. Just like everywhere else, this idyllic place needs an organization; collective and individual, private and professional. Inhabitants of Modra Rzeka meet in the evenings by the fireplace or on the terrace to discuss and think about the future…
Such initiatives have existed in Western Europe for decades – it is already a standard for people looking for an alternative, eg for an anonymous apartment in a block or a loner at home in the countryside. We’re paving the way for the next brave ones, sharing our experiences. It is an endless creation with a main purpose – to create a new dimension of the planet, beyond the concept of consumption and egoism.
“Maybe you say I am a dreamer. I am not the only one. I hope that one day you will join us and the world will become one”
-„Imagine”, John Lennon-
“Do not let people with a small mind tell you that your dreams are too big. People with limited imagination, will try to convince you that you are dreaming too high. Remember that if someone cannot do something, does not mean that it is also your limitThose are their limits, not yours. Yours can be much further, even further than their own imagination.
If anything is important to you, just do it, you will eventually learn to pursue your dreams, completely effortlessly. At some point you will notice that no matter how much you are afraid, how much you resist and who is against you in your life the GOOD happens.