by Barbara Lepani | Jan 15, 2023 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Dec 17, 2022 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 26, 2022 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 23, 2022 | Our Collective
Maleny Eco Village https://www.ecovillages.au/post/what-if-we-all-lived-in-the-gift-economy “Sacred Economics” by Charles Eisenstein Collective Stewardship Our ‘collective stewardship’ model was already too radical for most Australians. But we...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 16, 2022 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 1, 2022 | Our Collective
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...
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