Dom-an reflects on how she has nurtured resilience and regeneration through combining the healing powers of music and community. Dom-an belongs to the Kankanaey Indigenous peoples living west of the Chico River in Sagada, Mountain Province Cordillera, Philippines.
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Renuka Ramanujam calls for the powerful force that can be unlocked by bringing art together with action in different domains, fostering the resilient relationships we would like to build with the planet and each other.
“Refusal to Heal aims to reveal the parts of the human psyche that want nothing to do with healing back into society or a life that will not change. […] Resigned to the shadow, these parts of us seek relationality, unconditional being, truth, and a conversation no one dares to have.” Rūta Žemčugovaitė
“I feel that my ability to cope with the modern world is slowly disintegrating. I feel a thinning veil between me and the reality of the world: the multi-crisis we are facing, the daily encounters with human and non-human suffering, dying ecosystems, and disappearing species.” Rūta Žemčugovaitė
“Healing is not seedless. Healing is a ripe fruit, fallen on the ground, torn and bursting open—allowing its seeds of vulnerability to be absorbed into the soil, and its sweetness shared with other living beings.“
Emily Joy is a socially and environmentally engaged artist, participating in the Re-storying Landscapes in a Changing Climate project. She discusses her recent community art projects, and explores how emotions of loss and grief expresssed in community can serve as a catalyst for care in a time of climate crisis.
‘Restorying Landscapes in a Changing Climate’ explores how artists and culture bearers can support communities in building long-term climate resilience and regenerating their ecosystems, both in the UK and the Philippines. This project is a collaboation between the Living Story Landscapes Project, the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, and One Resilient Earth, with the support of the British Council.
A collaborative EU-funded project to accelerate the evolution of the cultural and creative sectors, making them more resilient and future-fit. If you work with festivals in Europe, come and learn how to build regeneration and resilience to the climate crisis through arts, culture and community-making.
Join the virtual launch of ‘Restorying Landscapes in a Changing Climate’, on Friday 29 July at 1pm CET, and discover our new creative project in collaboration with the Living Story Landscapes Project (Philippines), and the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking (United Kingdom).
Wales is a community of communities that celebrates its difference. In celebrating that difference, we must also respect the differences of others. My devolutionary texts are warnings, that with freedom we do not replicate the logic of deference.
I personally went through a period of confusion around the climate crisis because the discourse around it used to be quite singularly around end of the world, whereas my sense was that there was something much more personal, philosophical, ethical, and present than an imminent doom…
I hope to leave audiences with an acute awareness of their individual and collective power. I hope the theatre I make helps people feel alive. In order to get there, I think audiences need to be radically welcomed. They need to feel like they belong and have a vital role to play.
Symbiosis is a source of inspiration, as a way of rethinking planetary life, sociability, knowledge, mutual help, relationships, care, community, all of it in order to stimulate a world where diversity and multiplicity can thrive.
Crisis is all we know. We live our whole lives in the context of escalating planetary transformation, and the ground we stand on has never been steady. Theatre is what I do, it’s how I choose to live my life, but the crisis is the air I breathe…
Rocks are my main staple in my work and for me they contain so many possibilities. You never really know what’s going to be inside when you crack it open – how it will behave, smell, look, and sound. There’s a whole world just waiting to be revealed.
“A scull (group) of Harps seals swimming on their backs is a common sight where I live, but revealing their patterns and movement from an aerial perspective provides an entirely new level of intrigue and appreciation.” Eldred Allen