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Second of two London meetups in quick succession to kickstart discussions and projects around photography and the visual arts within the Dark Mountain Project.The first meetup was attended by Cat Lupton, Tony Hall, Bridget McKenzie and Andy Broomfield.Some of the main things we talked about were:All feeling in different ways that visual arts and especially photography can enrich the Dark Mountain Project, and that this has been an underdeveloped possibility so far, given the central emphasis on…See More

First of two London meetups in quick succession to kickstart discussions and projects around photography and the visual arts within the Dark Mountain Project.See More

Join us this August for a one-day mini-festival of Dark Mountain discussions, workshops, readings and music in the Union Street Urban Orchard. This free event will be a chance to pick up where UNCIVILISATION left off and to weave other threads into the conversation.After all the talks, debates and performances in Llangollen, we're keen to open things up and make more room for the informal, the impromptu and the small scale. So we invite you to take part in an afternoon which will mix Open Space…See More

Want to go deeper into the questions raised by the Dark Mountain manifesto? For those who can make it to Llangollen early, we're hosting a free Monday-to-Friday camp with Vinay Gupta of the Hexayurt Project.The week will start with building our own Hexayurt village on the site. The programme of discussions and workshops will then be self-organised, drawing on the skills and interests of those present. You can also propose sessions - and check out the sessions already proposed - on the Dark…See More

Join our UNCIVILISED coalition at the Centre for Creative Collaboration for an evening of conversations, ideas and performances.Music comes from barbarous blues-rockers Bleak, who rewrite the constitutions of central Asian countries in their spare time.Guests this week include Viv Goodings - the master carpenter behind The Woodman's Cottage from Channel 4's Grand Designs - and hopefully a visit from Dark Mountain co-founder Paul Kingsnorth.Over the past few weeks, these events have brought…See More

You're welcome to spread the word and bring your friends - just make sure you sign up here (or on Facebook), as it's a private event - so we need your names in advance, or the Limehouse guys will get into trouble!It's been an election campaign in which the unreality of British politics seemed at times to be unravelling before our eyes, while the politicians go on making promises about a future which…See More