On Tuesday, October 17th we’ll be visiting the RareBirds Housing Co-operative at 772 Battle St. West. I’ve provided a Google Map for directions here:

https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Thompson+Rivers+University,+Kamloops,+BC/772+Battle+St+W,+Kamloops,+BC+V2C+1H7/@50.6729843,-120.3692335,15z/am=t/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x537e2cf506b9fff1:0x245985f4d672fc1c!2m2!1d-120.3666264!2d50.6712202!1m5!1m1!1s0x537e2cf70d494ab7:0x7378dd4997db172b!2m2!1d-120.3574777!2d50.6759226

Here’s a link to their website:

http://www.rarebirdshousing.ca/

Please read through the information and formulate a question or two for Dan Hines, our host, within the context of some of the issues that have arisen in our study of utopias so far.

Rarebirds is an intentional community and has some things in common with utopias, but there are differences as well. What are they? What do the similarities and differences tell us about the purposes/intentions of Rarebirds and of utopias?