What we’re about
The St. Petersburg Bohemian Society is an organization dedicated to helping people in the Tampa Bay area live a life of creative freedom outside the shackles of materialism, conspicuous consumption, and bourgeois pretense.
Although Bohemia is actually a region in present-day Czechia, the term bohemian has come to mean a set of values and a lifestyle which rejects the bourgeois ideals of wealth accumulation, conspicuous consumption, and arbitrary social protocols, instead favoring contemplation, appreciation, creativity, and rich experience.
We believe American society has become too materialistic, and has lost its contemplative and artistic roots. The commodification of art, philosophy, and culture have eroded everyday people’s impression of themselves as creative, whole people all on their own.
We seek to demonstrate that the good life is actually a humble one: The most divine of our experiences are often those that cost very little. By embodying the teachings and behaviors of the great bohemians of history, like Epicurus, Kerouac, Wilde, and others, we can reframe our conception of success and failure, and recognize that a psychologically rich life affords us far more inner peace than a materially rich one.
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