Ideas for a Garden of Stones Caring For Country Festival
The Garden of Stones The Gardens of Stones is a treasure of Lithgow, the city of Seven Valleys: Lithgow, Hartley, Kanimbla, Megalong, Tarana, Capertee, Wolgan. With its sheer cliffs extending from Lithgow north to Capertee, the Garden of Stones adjoins the Greater...
The Story of Australia 2023+: Caring for Country; Multiculturalism; A Wellbeing Circular Economy
INTERCONNECTION In 2020, after the mega Gosper Fire had raged through the Blue Mountains, I met up with Dharug man, Chris Tobin, at his bush camp at Bell to talk about Caring for Country and the fires. Chris told me how the fires had raged through here where we sat...
Cut the Sky—Marrugeku Speaks to Climate Change and the Colonial Inheritance
References This post draws on two sources—both have profound insights for how the arts might respond to the core challenges of our times: Climate change and environmental destruction of Planet Earth through the cult of 'economic growth' Responding to Australia's...
From Transactional Living to the Gift Economy
Maleny Eco Village https://www.ecovillages.au/post/what-if-we-all-lived-in-the-gift-economy "Sacred Economics" by Charles Eisenstein https://youtu.be/-GoFzU3cRE4 Collective Stewardship Our 'collective stewardship' model was already too radical for most Australians....
Healing People, Country & Culture in the Symbiocene
Beyond the Anthropocene We are living in a new era: the Anthropocene. It is now widely acknowledged that the root of the climate change crises engulfing us is epistemic and caused by humans—the cumulative impact of our modern cultural ways of thinking. These are...
INTERCULTURALISM and MARRUGEKU
Interculturalism As a 'whitefella' of Irish, Danish and English settler descent who married a man of Trobriand Island descent whom I met at university during a demonstration in support of the Gurundji walk-off against the Vestey Pastoral Company who had taken their...
Introducing Robyn Catchlove
On the mike at Radio Blue Mountains FM 89.1 Barbara Lepani: I recently met Robyn on a film shoot for Kalani Gacon's new film, Sole, created through the Mountain of Youth Film Project. We got talking and discovered we had much in common, including dharma connections...
The New Face of Extractivism—Digital Ghost Workers
Extractivism Dr May Graham, a Queensland Aboriginal Elder and Academic has neatly summarised the essential contrast between the relationist ontology of Australia's First Nations cultures, which has underpinned the 65,000 + years of their continuous, sustainable and...
Ancestors and Lineal Connections in Multicultural Australia—The Third Archive
Australia's Cultural Foundation Australia finally acknowledges that our cultural foundations lie with the 65,000 years+ history of First Nations cultures, the oldest continuous civilisation on Planet Earth, encoded in the Songlines that criss-cross Australia and which...
Regenesis On The Inside
Regenesis is a multifaceted concept. There are many ways to look at it. Physical Regenesis. Spiritual Regenesis. Environmental Regenesis. Political Regenesis. Community Regenesis. Today I’m looking at it through the lens of mental health. I believe, like every other...
REGENESIS – EXPLORING THE CANCER METAPHOR
Cancer One of the most pernicious diseases to afflict the human population is cancer, when the body produces cells that multiple and destroy it. Likewise the impact of the human dream of Progress as continuous economic growth and improved living standards through...
REGENESIS ONLINE EVENT @EARTH LAWS MONTH 21 SEPTEMBER
The Regenesis Collective has been invited by the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) to participate in a series of online events which they are holding for Earth Laws month, this September. To connect with this free event visit:...