How can we become kin with land and sea in an age of climate crisis and disruption?
Over the last decade, the Dark Mountain Project has held a unique space in which art, story and myth entwine to help us face the realities of a time of ecological unravelling. As a mass extinction accelerates, it feels urgent that we actively transform the ways we engage with life and reconnect with the wild world around us.
Join the Dark Mountain team this winter for an elemental journey into the heart and imagination of the lands and waters that sustain life on Earth. Based on this year’s spring and autumn Dark Mountain issues inspired by land and ocean, this course aims to reconnect people with place through embodied encounters and creative work, fostering a culture of collaboration with the more-than-human world.
We will work with the land and water bodies of our local territories (rivers, lakes, ponds and oceans) to develop creative responses to the planet that bring together nature and culture, myth and experience, just as the land joins the water at the foreshore.
The course will include exercises and discussion and provide opportunities for:
- Working within a Dark Mountain frame
- In-depth conversation with fellow practitioners, writers and artists
- Deepening your practice inspired by the books
- Exploring a core relationship with a wild or feral place near where you live
During these weeks you will be in the company of four guides: with Nick Hunt, step out of the confines of geopolitics into the aliveness of the land; with Ava Osbiston, explore creative improvisation in wild habitats; with Charlotte Du Cann, voyage out from the colonial mindsets of civilisation and into the fluidity and intelligence of the ‘dark ocean’, and with Joanna Pocock, venture beyond the horizon to meet with the dreaming of the Earth through an uncivilised writing practice.
Practical information:
The course comprises four 2-hour group Zoom sessions, with time for solo walks/encounters and a creative task during the month. A Zoom link for the sessions will be sent two days before they take place.
Group size: 16 people maximum
Price: £120
Deadline for registration: Friday 15th November
You can find out more about the sessions and book your place here.
We look forward to seeing you soon!