Are You A Culture Lover?
Food for the Soul of a World Culture Lover
Welcome fellow culture lover! We are willing to bet that when you read one of our stories about someone a world away, you will learn something new...and you will recognize yourself. Welcome and enjoy! And check out our sister YouTube channel Flip the Lens, where people from all walks of life create and contribute videos about what it means to be a human!
Below you can find more than 200 inspiring and thought-provoking stories about people around the world who are creating and preserving culture. Through interviews and profiles, you'll meet indigenous artisans, pioneering activists and innovators, dedicated preservationists, spiritual seekers, global visionaries and a host of others, who each relate their inspiration, process, techniques, and heritage. You'll also learn about their personal epiphanies, challenges, breakthroughs, and hopes for the future for at the heart of all culture is our shared human condition.
A Feast for the Culture Lover | 200+ Stories of Cultural Creators Around the World
We offer the culture lover stories and interviews with culture creators in 16 categories: Architecture; Dance; Festivals
We are willing to bet that when you read one of our stories about someone a world away, you will learn something new...and you will recognize yourself. Welcome and enjoy!
Architecture
Think of any city in the world, and chances are you immediately call to mind an iconic skyline or building–the pyramids of Egypt, Gaudi’s Sagrada Família in Barcelona, the Taj Mahal in India, the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru. This cultural uniqueness is called “genius loci,” which means the “spirit of a place.”
Cultural Immersion
Are you eager to have an authentic cultural experience in your next destination…but aren’t sure how to? Keen to understand how people in other parts of the world live…but don’t know how to go about meeting locals? We can help! We love to share ideas on how to travel with locals.
Dance
Dance is a powerful mode of communicating in a visceral way. Before the invention of written languages, dance was a primary method of passing stories down from generation to generation. Dance is an intrinsic part of life on many levels–social, ceremonial, competitive, eroctic, martial or sacred.
Gardens and Landscapes
Gardens and landscapes are two different ways to encounter our natural physical surroundings. Gardens are an aesthetic arrangement of nature, whereas landscapes may or may not have reflected intervention by humans.
Language and Legend
The need to be heard and feel understood are part of our shared, universal human condition. A common understanding of how units of sounds and symbols are organized, written and spoken facilitate understanding and effective social interaction.
Preservation
One definition of preservation means to "keep alive". The desire to honor and share what we find meaningful seems to be hard-wired into our DNA. Neolithic man created cave art, alphabets began emerging around 2000 B.C.
Spirituality
A desire to connect with the Divine is a part of the human experience and how we make that connection personally is our spiritual practice; how we access something larger than ourselves as a collective creates a culture.
Visual Arts
Humans process information better visually than by any other means. With 90% of the data transmitted to the human brain being visual, its not surprising that the visual arts is such a diverse and far-reaching mode of cultural transmission.
Changemakers
Culture encompasses the past, the present and the future. Culture includes heritage and tradition, as well as creativity and innovation. To endure, be sustainable, and remain relevant, culture is dynamic and ever-changing.