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| Subject <\/td> | Title <\/td> | Date <\/td> | Synopsis <\/td><\/tr> |
| 2023 Voice Referendum <\/td> | Questions of Identity - Australian Indigeneity<\/a><\/td> | July 2023 <\/td> | A response to the 2023 Referendum - understanding the complexity of Indigenous identity in Australia <\/td><\/tr> |
| 2023 Voice Referendum <\/td> | Search for Identity in a Hybrid World<\/a><\/td> | July 2023 <\/td> | A response to the 2023 Referendum - what does identity mean in a multicultural world <\/td><\/tr> |
| 2023 Voice Referendum <\/td> | Settler Transplants in Australia\u2019s Ancient Soil<\/a><\/td> | July 2023 <\/td> | A response to the 2023 Referendum on the Voice - understanding colonial history <\/td><\/tr> |
| Beyond extractive capitalism <\/td> | Relationism & the Circular Economy <\/td> | July 2023 <\/td> | Reflections on NENA\u2019s DeGrowth seminars and Donnie Maclurcan\u2019s idea for transitioning the entire business world to a Not-For-Profit model as a cure for the logic of extractivism and growing wealth inequality <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Conversations with Jacqueline Drinkall <\/td> | July 2022 <\/td> | Ways of looking and the idea of telepathy <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Cut the Sky - Marrukegu <\/td> | Nov 2022 <\/td> | Marrugeku performing arts company shows the power of the arts in responding to climate change and colonial history <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Storying Our Future <\/td> | April 2023 <\/td> | Visions for an annual Seven Valleys Arts and Culture Festival <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Ideas for a Garden of Stones Caring for Country Festival <\/td> | Jan 2023 <\/td> | Ideas for a performing arts work, inspired by the work of Marrugeku, to promote the Garden of Stones, through many voices <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Interculturalism & Marrugeku <\/td> | Nov 2022 <\/td> | Interculturalism, my own life and work of the performing arts exploring this domain of human experience <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Liminal Conversations with Mother Nature <\/td> | Aug 2022 <\/td> | How the arts can open up liminal conversations with nature to find a way out of our existential alienation <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Artistic Activism in Turbulent Times <\/td> | Jan 2022 <\/td> | Explores the work of various artist-activists including Climarte in Melbourne <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Ian RT Colless - Gundungurra Choreographer & Artist <\/td> | Oct 2021 <\/td> | Ian RT Colless, now based at the NGA in Canberra discusses his life work and meaning of his Gundungurra heritage <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Embedding the Arts in Community <\/td> | Nov 2020 <\/td> | Answers the question: How do we garner and nurture the passion in why the arts are so important in cultural life? <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Jo Truman - Multimedia Artist <\/td> | Oct 2020 <\/td> | Explores the work and vision of Blue Mountains artist, Jo Truman <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Art and Wellbeing <\/td> | April 2020 <\/td> | The burgeoning interest in the intersection between the creative arts and health and wellbeing for an ageing population, the growing incidence of mental health problems across all age groups, and the need to take a more holistic attitude to the way we think about health and healing and the mind-body connection. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Subject <\/td> | Title <\/td> | Date <\/td> | Synopsis <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Requiem for the Blue Mountains National Park <\/td> | Jan 2020 <\/td> | Responses to the Gosper Mega Fire that burnt out huge areas of the National Parks in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Encountering the Wild at Dargan <\/td> | Dec 2019 <\/td> | An account of our multi-arts event at Gallery H Basement, Dargan in 2019 <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | The Healing Power of Nature <\/td> | Oct 2019 <\/td> | The work of Cheryl Charles, Rosalie Chapple, Karen Keenleyside et al for the Children and Nature Network <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Call of the Wild <\/td> | Oct 2019 <\/td> | How podcasts are helping people reconnect with nature <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Groundswell - KSCA <\/td> | Aug 2019 <\/td> | Explores the work and vision of the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Exploring Climate Change Through Fiction <\/td> | August 2019 <\/td> | Contemporary fiction is now investigating the possibilities and limits of story-telling in the era of global climate change. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | The Serpent Gurrangatch & Hunter Mirrigan <\/td> | July 2019 <\/td> | Bhante Sujato\u2019s telling of the Gundungurra story when the land of the Blue Mountains was shaped in the struggle for life, a struggle marked by both passion and restraint, with a link to his website <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Encountering the Wild at Dargan <\/td> | July 2019 <\/td> | Ryan Jasper\u2019s video of our multi-arts event held at Dargan, Blue Mountains <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Australian Nature Writing <\/td> | May 2019 <\/td> | The work of Mark Tredinnick and the poverty of nature writing in Australia, despite our cultural veneration of \u2018the Bush\u2019. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Love Among the Ruins with Ian Milliss <\/td> | April 2019 <\/td> | Love among the ruins may well be the most optimistic vision of the future that we could have, a love of all life and its amazing ecological weave, where there is no outside, no autonomy, everything is linked. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Celebrating Trees <\/td> | March 2019 <\/td> | A seminar with Janet Lawrence and Louise Fowler-Smith at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre 6 April 2019 <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | The Inner Wild of Poetic Resistance <\/td> | Sept 2018 <\/td> | Exploring and honouring the writings of Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish-Iranian poet and writer <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Welcoming Henryk Topolnicki <\/td> | August 2018 <\/td> | Exploring the work and vision of Dargan sculptor, Henryk Topolnicki <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Eliot Boyd Reynolds <\/td> | August 2018 <\/td> | Founder of Song Cave Studios and well-known guitarist with a spiritual bent, is a Blue Mountains treasure for the live music community <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | The Aesthetic Beauty of the Universe <\/td> | August 2018 <\/td> | The poetic beauty of my grandson Jasper\u2019s eye behind the camera <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Touching the Earth <\/td> | August 2018 <\/td> | The vision and inspiration of art therapist, Martin Roberts of the Blue Mountains <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Lorraine Shannon <\/td> | August 2018 <\/td> | Wentworth Falls environmentalist, nature writer and academic, and founding member of Kangaloon Creative Ecologies, Lorraine supported the work of the Regenesis Collective in its previous incarnation as the Wild Mountains Collective <\/td><\/tr> |
| Subject <\/td> | Title <\/td> | Date <\/td> | Synopsis <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Honouring the Kangaloon Ecologies Group <\/td> | August 2018 <\/td> | The brainchild of Deborah Bird Rose, author of \u2018Wild Dog Dreaming\u2019 (2011), with a day-long seminar at Macquarie University with James Hatley in which ideas were explored and Kangaloon was the end result. The Regenesis Collective took inspiration from the way the Kangaloon group brings together practising artists, poets, writers, philosophers and thinkers\u2014drawn together by a sense of the need to re-imagine our relationship with the natural world towards an eco-centric worldview. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | Ian Brown <\/td> | July 2018 <\/td> | Ian Brown is a well-known Blue Mountains nature photographer and environmentalist whose photographic works have been a feature of the Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network <\/td><\/tr> |
| Eco-cultural arts <\/td> | The Wild Mountain Collective <\/td> | July 2018 <\/td> | The founding of the Wild Mountain Collective (now the Regenesis Collective) as a project of the Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network, now the Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network, reaching out to embrace Lithgow and Blue Mountains LGAs. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Human delusion <\/td> | Humans as Weapons of Mass Destruction <\/td> | July 2023 <\/td> | In response to the film Oppenheimer, takes a Buddhist look at the need for humans to disentangle their capacity for ingenuity from the forces of cognitive and emotional delusion <\/td><\/tr> |
| Human violence <\/td> | Violence & Defying the Enemy Within <\/td> | February 2023 <\/td> | Drawing on the work of Indigenous change agent, Jo Williams, explores how to address male violence <\/td><\/tr> |
| Misogyny & Racism <\/td> | White Male Fragility & Violence <\/td> | Jan 2023 <\/td> | Drawing on my own family history to explore white male fragility\u2019s link to the cultural construction of masculine identity <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio- economics <\/td> | The Story of Australia 2023+ <\/td> | Dec 2022 <\/td> | The Three Pillars of Regenesis - caring for country, multiculturalism and a circular wellbeing economy <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio- economics <\/td> | From Transactional Living to the Gift Economy <\/td> | Nov 2021 <\/td> | Exploring Maleny Eco Village ideas for collaborative living <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio- economics <\/td> | Healing People, Country & Culture in the Symbiocene <\/td> | Nov 2022 <\/td> | Exploring what it might mean to move from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene (Glen Albrecht) <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio- economics <\/td> | The New Face of Extractivism - Ghost Workers <\/td> | October 2022 <\/td> | Exploring Dr Mary Graham\u2019s thesis on extractivism versus relationism, Hugh Brody\u2019s \u2018Other Side of Eden\u2019 (2021) and Gray and Suri\u2019s \u2018Ghost Work\u2019 (2019) as an example of extractivism in platform capitalism. <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio- economics <\/td> | Regenesis - exploring the cancer metaphor <\/td> | Sept 2022 <\/td> | Using cancer as a metaphor for the Western concept of continual Progress and how to \u2018cure\u2019 it <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio- economics <\/td> | The Antithesis Project and Regenesis <\/td> | July 2022 <\/td> | Response to EY\u2019s Adam Carrel\u2019s critique of corporate programs for sustainability <\/td><\/tr> |
| Subject <\/td> | Title <\/td> | Date <\/td> | Synopsis <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio- economics <\/td> | Challenging the Old Story <\/td> | Feb 2022 <\/td> | The need to challenge economic orthodoxy shaped by neo-liberalism, even among Labor party thinkers <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio-economics <\/td> | Time for the Liveable Income Guarantee in a Post Covid World <\/td> | July 2020 <\/td> | Drawing on an article in The Conversation by John Quiggin, (UQ) Elise Klein (ANU) and Troy Henderson (USYD) <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio-economics <\/td> | Coming Together for a Just Transition <\/td> | Feb 2020 <\/td> | The impact of the Gosper Mega Fire and the Black Summer on Greater the Blue Mountains area <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio-economics <\/td> | Beyond the Zero Sum Game <\/td> | June 2019 <\/td> | Reflections on the impact of mass tourism on nature, and the colonisation of consciousness, drawing on the ideas of French philosopher of Taoism, Francois Jullien. <\/td><\/tr> |
| New socio-economics <\/td> | A Plea to Yuval Harari <\/td> | Dec 2018 <\/td> | Article by Jeremy Lent of the Liology Institute, which challenge Harari\u2019s assumptions in \u2018Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind\u2019 and \u2018Homo Dues: a Brief History of Tomorrow\u2019 - seeing nature, including humans, as \u2018machines\u2019, and his ignorance about new economic thinking. <\/td><\/tr> |
| Post-colonial thought <\/td> | Ancestors & Lineal Connections in Multicultural Australia <\/td> | Oct 2022 <\/td> | Exploring insights of the post-colonial thought leaders in Australia and the idea of the Third Archive by Margo Neale for a new knowledge system of regenesis <\/td><\/tr> |
| Ways of Thinking <\/td> | Thinking Differently - Negotiating Two-way Learning <\/td> | July 2022 <\/td> | The roots of our crisis are epistemic - how to bring in Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies to modern learning <\/td><\/tr> |
| Ways of Thinking <\/td> | Regenesis & Technology Futures <\/td> | June 2022 <\/td> | Critique of the assumptions of neutrality in science and technology, looking at the Consilience Project and axiological design thinking <\/td><\/tr> |
| Ways of Thinking <\/td> | Regenesis <\/td> | May 2022 <\/td> | Exploring the idea of regenesis from George Monbiot\u2019s (2022) work on the wonderous world of soil and the rhizosphere and work of GreenPrints (AELA) on community transformation - all begins with inner personal transformation <\/td><\/tr> |
| Ways of Thinking <\/td> | Ceremony and Indigenous Art <\/td> | March 2022 <\/td> | The important role of ceremony and knowledge in Indigenous art - NGA exhibition curated by Hetti Perkins <\/td><\/tr> |
| Ways of Thinking <\/td> | The Climate Adaptation Question <\/td> | Dec 2021 <\/td> | Responding to the impact of climate change from an Indigenous perspective, and failure of scientific establishment to understand extractivism <\/td><\/tr> |
| Ways of Thinking <\/td> | Weaving the New Story <\/td> | Dec 2021 <\/td> | Using the symbolism of Jillian Culey\u2019s woven vessels, and Regenerative Songlines Australia, can we Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples of Australia weave a new story based on a different ontology and epistemology to our western inheritance? <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/p>\nArticles by Barbara Lepani July 2018-July 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" |