The voices
In their words
What the Agorians wrote, between 2010 and 2025, on L'AgorA's page, on their websites and in their texts. As written, uncorrected; the French is translated, the English is theirs.
What it is
"Would you like to come and spend some time here? support something new? a micro-society in the making? something fresh for the mind? A life-size Neverland centred on the creative and the imaginary, with a touch of technology for genius. A visit here is a gift for the child, a discovery and an adventure for the young and the grown, and a return to earth for the hearts of many. A village of elves with several jungle-style stages for spontaneous artistic events and an integrated forest campground with several treehouses, a 2-storey tipi, a yurt and several utility and community buildings if needed, the Agora is all of that."
L'AgorA's page, June 2013
"The Agora being a place of geeks in herbs and technologies, we offer you a life-size space where we can host your craziest and most inspired projects. We have several permanent structures that are only waiting to come to life with sustainable and ephemeral creativity. So there you go, if you are ever looking for a place to be well disconnected from stress, to make room for the inner child, the Agora is exactly what you need!"
L'AgorA's page, August 2013
"L'AgorA is a 365 days a year event! An art to live durable creativity! Veni, vidi, and next is… vici. Come back anytime to inspire!"
L'AgorA's page, September 2013
"Come and visit our eco-hamlet of the Agora. We have 5 little houses in the trees to carry you off to a well-deserved rest, electricity in all our shelters, and a fairy-tale decor with structures in nature, hiking trails and a lookout over the region. A visit to the Agora will make you see life differently, guaranteed! Thank you for your support, so crucial to the progress of our village of elves!"
L'AgorA's page, October 2013
"You need a break off the grid? Would like to unwind in a creative spot? Feel like a break, in a place outside of time? Anytime, we're here for that! Plenty of space and harmony here."
L'AgorA's page, January 2013
The work
"Today, 3 years of work. 3 years of effort and creative surges to design a place fit for the elves of this world who seek to change their realities, in a space where nature and humans live side by side with their eyes full of light, for a better world! Thank you life, with inspirations…"
Christian, June 2013
"We need more people involved in the ecological societary project of l'AgorA because if the situation remains that people do not encourage more the existence of this place, as for October 2013 l'Agora will close its doors. PLEASE spread the infos on your walls so that we get a chance after 36 months and over 4000 hours of work!!!"
L'AgorA's page, May 2013
"Roof almost finished (we're short of boards), mezzanine installed, electricity in, tonight we sleep there!!!"
L'AgorA's page, June 1, 2013
"The Agora needs people with technical skills to work out a new permanent stage hung on the trees and on stilts. It may seem impossible to the intellectuals, but it only takes 4 motivated people and 2 days of work. An excellent challenge and a lesson in living in nature."
L'AgorA's page, September 2012
"A superb fall week is forecast!!! Excellent weather for working outside (as always, but especially before the cold). We have lots of outdoor work, and indoor too… Come and drop by, there's plenty of room, ahhhh the great outdoors!!!!!"
Evelyne, October 2013
"Hi everyone! Télébec, which supplies our internet, has had a few hiccups, and since technical support doesn't work on weekends, we're still without internet… here the work on the land is moving at full speed and it's magnificent!!!"
L'AgorA's page, May 2013
Life together
"We are already 4 people on site, but with the scale of the project and the knowledge required, and the costs, a few more people would be ideal. We have lots of space and lodging possibilities, and are looking for motivated builders, people who share our values and who wish to share with us the creative daily life of building a self-managed life project."
L'AgorA's page, April 2013
"Looking for a couple roommates out in the country, 300$ a month everything included aside from food. Need people for sept/oct if you're an artist/musician band and actually want to complete some projects, but need a place away from society to create them. There is a lot of knowledge floating around L'Agora right now: in permaculture, mycology, jewelry making. Upcoming projects include but are not limited to glass blowing, tree houses and return to nature constructions (earthships), blacksmithing, brewing, media design…"
Lawrence, August 2013
"Hello you who feel like living a moment in community, hey you who talk about it and think about it but don't dare commit. L'AgorA has an offer for you: come and spend a week, 2 weeks or 1 or 2 months at l'AgorA to finally find out what it is to live on a project and share daily life with others who want change!"
L'AgorA's page, July 2014
"If anyone is motivated to start a geocaching project on the Agora's land and buildings, let's do it, damn it!! With all the wifi, everywhere here at the Agora, the treehouses, teepee, yurt and other stages… if there are geek programmers who feel like it, the project wants to take off!!"
L'AgorA's page, March 2013
"Northern lights at the Agora!!!!!"
Evelyne, November 2012 and May 2013
The village
"Notice to those who want to buy a piece of land and throw 24/7 parties on it, 5 weekends a year… this is what can happen if there's a lack of communication with the town hall… so we adjust and we listen, because we share the same village."
L'AgorA's page, June 2013
"The Agora pulled off a tour de force for the Tatanka and Earthdance St-Fortunat festivals = NO COMPLAINTS!!! it's really a record!"
L'AgorA's page, September 2013
"Mission accomplished!! and above all… no complaints from the neighbours!!! WOW!! especially since the closest neighbours are only a few hundred metres away, crazy crazy crazy! a feat, a first given the intensity that reigned here! Never before have the Agora's 2 stages been so busy and energized by so many people and activities at once!!! The decks of the Neverland withstood the ardour of the elves who no longer knew they were still on earth."
L'AgorA's page, June 2014, after Tatanka
Peace
"The Agora would like to remind you that the Agora is recognized by Earthdance global as a non-profit organization and as a peace-building organization. All the profits from the Earthdance event will go, at last, after 3 years of labour, to building bedrooms and giving the residents of the Agora a decent home. At the Agora we are only 4 and we work relentlessly to create a unique and inspiring place for people in need of real, ecological, innovative and sustainable change."
L'AgorA's page, September 2013
"The International Day of Peace is observed every year, all over the world, and this year it is September 21. And Earthdance is a way of celebrating and marking this world day of peace. You will surely notice that the Earthdance Festival advocates diversity, the diversity that represents humanity and its many realities of lives, cultures and music. For a last year presented at l'AgorA, we invite you to come and express, in your own way, according to your inspirations, what peace in the world means to you."
L'AgorA's page, September 2014
On the island, between six speakers
"I'd rather be true from A to Z
Christian, on the Cherry Island, July 2012
sacred geometry, life is
and if I don't feel it, that's it
I'm sitting on the little island right there
between 6 speakers
in the company of friends and spirits of consciousness
I'm not searching!
I owe it to myself to be neutral and in love
like the sun
shines
but we all know it
so we take turns shining
sacred geometry, life is
the celestial maths turn around us and I see them
the synchro fuses of the universe
the inter-relative gravitational systems
damn sick gears
that's why I'm not moving from here anymore
it's already moving PLENTY!
the spinning gyroscopes
the tuning fork is coming at the gallop of chaos
BREATHE ♥ BREATHE ♥ BREATHE"
"It's not about signing up or not here, it's an amazing campground at $10 a day, life-size, out of a dream, to spend a few days for some and a few months for others… there's the music, the nature, the treehouses and more, to venture out for a real connection with the spirit. People project a lot of dreams, and when life offers it to them they refuse… I believed in it to the point of exiling myself to build bigger than a dream, to live it for REAL… and that's why I'm in the woods with the micro and macrocosms of natural and spiritual love and light."
Christian, replying to a friend, July 2012
"From now on I will not work, I am deserting the world economy for good. From now on I will work relentlessly at being fully, and that is not a job, it is a fact! I don't give a damn about being paid for my pains, they are not pains, it's my life! I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE WHOLE FOR ITSELF, NOT FOR ANYTHING ELSE! I am the author of nothing, I am a child of life and here is what she says about it, life: BE WHO YOU ARE AND ALL THE REST TOO!"
Text shared on L'AgorA's page, April 2012
"Do not stare at the problem. See the solution."
L'AgorA's page, May 2012
After
"In these uncertain times and with this sword of Damocles over our heads, I thought of offering a look back at a moment of creation and of naive, love-filled atmospheres… I dare hope to bring a smile of hope, a glimmer in your hearts with this flashback where everything came out of the imagination and was woven into the forest for events outside the system… enjoy!"
Christian, August 7, 2021
"I wish you to one day be able to go to the end of your dreams and bring about something out of the ordinary that can inspire others!"
Christian, August 6, 2018
"Long live the rebels and those who seek the truth at any cost! Let's return to our roots before we are uprooted for good!"
Christian, December 31, 2025
With hindsight
"It was a place of ecstasies, of incredible accomplishments, of surprising achievements, of magical visits, of incredible sharing with people so deeply in the true."
Christian, September 2026
"The place was so inspiring that they called me The Machine, since I produced so much and created enormously."
Christian, September 2026
"Given the Peter Pan atmosphere, the place was lit up by pirates who came to tell us their life stories."
Christian, September 2026
"Even the police officers who came following complaints changed their minds about the place and its atmosphere, and they even thought of bringing their children, they were so inspired too."
Christian, September 2026