ArtBytes | Wild Mountain Collective forges ahead
Following the successful Encountering the Wild Event at Dargan in December 2018, the Wild Mountain Collective is gearing up to support a number of activities. These will support our community in using the creative arts to explore and celebrate the ‘wild’ and our sense of interconnected relationship with nature and one another, and to engage [...]
Ryan Jasper Walsh—Filmmaker
Ryan is a young Australian documentary director, editor and film practitioner specialising in intimate, non-fiction storytelling, who is part of our Wild Mountain Collective community. Since returning from 4 years living in China, Ryan has turned his focus to storytelling about issues of climate change and ecological destruction. The recent mass fish kills in Menindee [...]
Week ending 15 March—Lorraine Shannon
Paddy Woodworth, Our Once and Future Planet, University of Chicago Press, 2013. Remember: “… first that the natural world is considerably more resilient than I had thought, and that damaged and degraded ecosystems can rebuild a great deal of their complex webs of species, communities and ecological processes, if we give them half a chance [...]
Quote for Week Ending 8 March 2019—Lorraine Shannon
Our Once and Future Planet, Paddy Woodworth, University of Chicago Press, 2013. Our Once and Future Planet explores the area of environmental experimentation and innovation known as ecological restoration. This is the practice of attempting to fix disruptions to the natural world caused by centuries of human activity. Woodworth provides examples from around the globe where [...]
Quotes for Rest of February 2019—Lorraine Shannon
Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind, edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1995. Mary Catherine Bateson: “The self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; [...]
The Order of Interbeing—Thich Nhat Hanh
Be open to receive others’ viewpoints, to learn throughout your entire life. Live simply and share time, energy and material resources with those in need. Find whatever means possible to protect life and prevent war. The concept of ‘interbeing’ comes from the Vietnamese Tiep Hien: Tiep means ‘being in touch with’ and ‘continuing’. Hien means [...]
The Phenomenology of Perception
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Eng. 1962) Sarah Redshaw gives us the following review of February's Monthly Meet gathering to discuss Maurice Merleau-Ponty's book, The Phenomenology of Perception, a ground breaking work in the history of Western philosophy: In contrast to the approach of the objective sciences, the [...]
Celebrating Trees Seminar—Saturday 6 April
The Wild Mountain Collective's Exploring Seminar Series will host its first 2019 seminar, Celebrating Trees. Featuring renowned eco-artists, Janet Laurence and Louise Fowler-Smith, it will be held at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Seminar Room on Saturday 6 April: 2—4pm. Entry is $20 waged and $10 unwaged—pay cash at the door. Janet Laurence will discuss her [...]