{"id":2794,"date":"2022-04-07T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/?page_id=2794"},"modified":"2024-01-09T05:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T05:21:54","slug":"creatives-for-regenerative-living","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/creatives-for-regenerative-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Creatives for Regenesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/regenesis.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RA_Graphic-Logo_RGB_Black_Sml.jpeg&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.23.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; title_text=&#8221;RA_Graphic-Logo_RGB_Black_Sml&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<article id=\"post-2759\" class=\"post-2759 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-our_collective\">\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>BMCAN&#8217;s Creatives for Regenesis project would like to acknowledge Damon Gameau&#8217;s leadership with his <a href=\"https:\/\/theregenerators.co\/regenerating-australia\/\">Regenerating Australia<\/a> film. As Damon says:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #339966;\">Our current economic system is degenerative and extractive; it steals the future. A regeneratively designed system heals the future. With so many people searching for meaning in their lives, regeneration offers a way forward. What could be more meaningful than taking part in the regeneration of our planetary home?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Creative Arts\u2014visual arts, film, music, dance, theatre, storytelling\u2014and their various fusions and hybrid forms, have the emotional power to communicate to our longing for meaning in understanding our rapidly changing world, providing us with a new framework to address the serious challenges we face ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_inner vc_row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<h3><strong>The Challenges Ahead<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The deep psychic wound at the heart of Australia in dealing with the physical, social and epistemic violence of colonial settlement on Australia\u2019s First Nations peoples, and our failed response to their invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart to non-Indigenous Australians, \u201cto walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future, through Truth, Treaty and a Voice to Parliament\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Global warming with the global temperature of the Earth predicted to rise well above 2 degrees Celsius on our current trajectory of carbon emissions, leading to increasingly catastrophic impacts of climate change from industrialisation linked to the use of fossil fuels<\/li>\n<li>Environmental degradation caused by industrial-scale practices such as land clearing, mono-agriculture and use of chemicals, extraction of water resources from rivers and underground aquifers, large-scale mining, plastic pollution and waste management<\/li>\n<li>Societal breakdown in so-called advanced industrial economies linked to increasing wealth inequality, insecure work, insecure housing, rising mental health problems, loss of capacity and effectiveness in public services, loss of public trust in political and business leaders, and the rise of information pollution and conspiracy thinking infecting the body politic<\/li>\n<li>The power of technology and tech conglomerates through algorithms designed to be addictive, and finding ourselves as &#8216;data&#8217; for the growth industry of data mining, and where our lives are increasingly mediated by sophisticated brain-machine interfaces, smart algorithms, and biochemical devices in a new tech vision of transhumanism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #339966;\">From the agony of this situation, we are being urgently called upon to pivot from this paradigm of industrial civilisation, based on consumer driven economic growth and wealth extraction, to a new paradigm of eco-civilisation based on a philosophy of regenerative living.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Planetary Health, Songlines and Regenerative Living<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>BMCAN&#8217;s <span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Creatives for Regenerative Living<\/strong> <\/span>initiative aims to harness the creative energies of the community-based arts and culture sector to amplify the message of Blue Mountains City Council, which says: &#8216;like a Songline which spirals deep into the past and far into the future, the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative has a strong vision to grow Planetary Health for the whole City of Blue Mountains, for all life, and for future generations. We recognise that #WeAreNature and that all life is interconnected.&#8221;\u00a0 This builds on the profoundly eco-spiritual nature of First Nation&#8217;s understanding of the meaning of Country.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.23.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;24px|24px|24px|24px|true|true&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ddcfb1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Country (Ngurra) takes in everything within the cultural and spiritual landscape\u2014landforms, trees, rocks, plants, animals foods, medicine, minerals, stories and significant places. It includes Cultural practices, knowledge, songs, stories and art as well as Spiritual Beings and people, present and future. Ngurra has a deep meaning of belonging. The best way to understand Ngurra is to walk along the track.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Aunty Sharyn Halls, September 2020, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Art of Planetary Health exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.23.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.23.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.23.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Current Projects<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\u2014BMCAN multi-arts Open Day, on the theme: ENGAGE\u00a0 CREATE\u00a0 REGENERATE, in collaboration with BANC (Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre), Gallery H and Mark O&#8217;Halloran and ABCD Inc, to be held on the afternoon of 30 April at the Gallery H complex, Dargan, an area that was heavily impacted by the Gosper mega fire during the 2019-2020 Black Summer Fires.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Regenesis Project as part of Winter Magic Revival Festival 26-28 August.\u00a0 We will run a live music performance event at the Winter Magic Community Stage featuring Antelope and their new song exploring the idea of regenesis, and a literary project in collaboration with RoseyRavelston Books and Publishing, to produce an anthology of poems, short stories and illustrations on the theme of regenesis as an &#8216;answer&#8217; to the dystopian fiction of its regular anthology &#8216;dyst&#8217;. This will be launched on Sunday 28 August at the Blue Mountains Gallery Workshop Room, 2 &#8211; 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Grant Submission to the FRRR for the Regenesis Project in collaboration with Western Sydney University Lithgow Transformation Hub, Gang Gang Gallery and Platypus Pond retreat centre, Kanimbla Valley &#8211; targeted for late 2022 or early 2023<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Program of collaboration with the Planetary Health Initiative to promote their work through the arts.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMCAN&#8217;s Creatives for Regenesis project would like to acknowledge Damon Gameau&#8217;s leadership with his Regenerating Australia film. As Damon says: Our current economic system is degenerative and extractive; it steals the future. A regeneratively designed system heals the future. With so many people searching for meaning in their lives, regeneration offers a way forward. 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As Damon says:\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #339966;\">Our current economic system is degenerative and extractive; it steals the future. A regeneratively designed system heals the future. With so many people searching for meaning in their lives, regeneration offers a way forward. 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