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Ilka Blue left a comment for Brendon Crook"Hi Brendon,
Welcome to Oceania DM. I'm planning a gathering/workshop 'Slow Wing' on the same weekend as Uncivilisation Festival - 16/17 August - it will be held in Northern Rivers NSW. Once details are confirmed I'll post more…"
Ilka Blue left a comment for Douglas Strang"Hi - Thanks for your message re: Slow Wing happening in Oz on the weekend of Uncivilisation in the UK. I contacted Paul (Kingsnorth) to seed the idea, and he also suggested getting in contact with Matt Wicking (who I've also now contacted re:…"
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OCEANIA DM (OZ, NZ, PACIFIC)
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Douglas Strang left a comment for Ilka Blue"Hi Ilka,
It's great that you're organising a DM gathering in Oz, at the same time as Unciv. Good on you. We'll raise a toast to you all from the UK festival! It might be worth giving Matt Wicking a shout, he and his band 'The…"
Ilka Blue added a discussion to the group OCEANIA DM (OZ, NZ, PACIFIC)SLOW WING
It's on! After a long lead in I can confirm there will be an event held on the same weekend as Unicivilisation Festival (Aug 16th & 17th). The event is called Slow Wing and is designed as a satellite workshop of the UK event - this means we'll be burrowing down deeply and slowly into one of the ideas/issues posed by the Dark Mountain Project.There will be more info shortly, with details etc. This year the event will be held in the Northern Rivers NSW and is a day event only (ie -…See More
Ilka Blue added a page to the group DOWN UNDER THE DARK MOUNTAIN (AUSTRALIA)DOWN UNDER QUILLS & TOOLS
A page to list all creative tools for mountaineers dwelling down under the Dark Mountain - any person, place or project which could help us to:
live with the unravelling
refute the problem/solution model
challenge anthropocentric stories
weave…
Ilka Blue added a discussion to the group DOWN UNDER THE DARK MOUNTAIN (AUSTRALIA)DOWN UNDER GATHERING
Are you interested in gathering the weekend August 17th & 18th 2013 to coincide with our fellow northern mountaineers Uncivilisation festival (August 15 - 19)?Location: suggestions welcome. we're pretty spread out on the east coast thus far, this place came to mind http://bigci.org/ for it's environment, essence and proximity to Sydney (well it's in the Blue Mountains) - it seems like a pretty special place.Weekend: As we are a small group I…See More
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- Tell us a bit about yourself. (You don't have to share anything you don't want to, but please write something here, so we know you're not a spam robot.)
- I am the resident Bard at The Last Tree - a transdisciplinary studio exploring human potential within the ecological universe, through storytelling (as a key adaptation tool).
- What drew you to the Dark Mountain Project?
- A pause in the frantic panic that seems to be banging increasingly louder in the anthropocentric world.
I'm discovering the key that storytelling is and I'm on board for strengthening non-human relationships. What a world!
- Do you have a blog or website you'd like to share?
- http://www.thelasttree.net
- Do you use Twitter - and if so, what's your Twitter name? (We're @darkmtn)
- ilkablue
Ilka Blue's Blog
Staying Behind
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:16 0 Comments 0 Likes
You said ‘sit back and think about the magnitude of that’ then you turned, lantern in hand, and left in the darkness with your fellow mountaineers. I gasped for fear, for oxygen. My tears spoiled and singed-dry in this new world of…
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- At 22:00 on August 4, 2012,
Joanna Austin said… Hi Ilka - I only came across DM a few weeks ago but it really hit me and I have started to tell a few friends about it. The movement seems to be going well in the UK but we can get it going here. I used to read a fair bit of poetry and recall the Pantheist movement (Coleridge wrote about it) which spoke of God or spirituality in nature. Strictly speaking I am an agnostic now but have started to think that while DM is not a belief system, the ideas are wonderful and make us all think back to what was important and should become more so now - the landscape and the animals that permit us to be here.
Ideally I would like to get more people from Aust (I am in Sydney) talking and perhaps even meet as a group one day - it is so energising to meet properly like minded types and it would be wonderful to think and talk about what the definition of civilization is because I dont think it is what they are telling us.
what brought you to DM?
- At 0:23 on August 11, 2012, Joanna Austin said…
Hi Ilka
Thanks for those ideas. I want to read more about deep ecology - have looked briefly at some main precepts and I like what I read. One of the issues that has concerned me for a long time is the motivation for many people behind their climate change and environmental activism, as it seems mainly to be about salvaging the human race, rather than considering the planet for its own sake. Also, I see that population control is an important concern and I wholeheartedly agree with that! I have always thought that a responsible attitude to population control is the key but so many people will not discuss this issue.
I am going to start on my reading - there is a whole new DE world out there I think.
You may be interested in a book (originally a long lecture at Massey University in Canada) by Ronald Wright called "A Short History of Progress"
what was your Masters thesis or course work on?
jo
- At 20:22 on April 20, 2013, Douglas Strang said…
Hi Ilka,
It's great that you're organising a DM gathering in Oz, at the same time as Unciv. Good on you. We'll raise a toast to you all from the UK festival! It might be worth giving Matt Wicking a shout, he and his band 'The General Assembly' recorded a Dark Mountain inspired EP, and he played at Unciv a couple of years ago. I think he's Melbourne based but might be up for coming up to Sidney. You'll find him on this network.
All best, Dougie
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