[imc-st.louis] Feral Visions Tour

[Mark!]

Anyone interested in making a link for this event on the imc page? Its
already on the calendar. there is a pdf flyer on their website:
wildroots.org  Also, the new in color collage for the Derrick Jensen
interview can be downloaded from its location on the confluence website.
thanks,
mark


Feral Visions - A Slideshow about rewilding, radical homesteading, and
realizing our wildest dreams!
November 9, 2004  7pm CAMP, 3026 A Cherokee

The goal of our tour is to inspire and empower participants to break down
the layers of alienation at work in our lives that keep us dependent on
complex industrial and social systems. By showing examples of people
attempting to live outside of these systems, we hope to plant seeds of
rebellious renewal. Within civilization the ways that we feed, clothe,
warm, transport, house, and learn are highly mediated by industrial
technology, global capitalism, and political institutions. This mediation
separates us from the source of our very survival, and creates the
illusion that we cannot live apart from civilization's institutions. Many
are coming to believe that in order to live an ethical and fulfilling life
we must subvert the inefficient and exploitative paths that lie between
society and the physical world that surrounds us, and embrace more direct
means of existence.
Our presentation explores ways that people are breaking free of the
tentacles of civilization; about how people are reconnecting with the
natural world around them. We explore recovery from civilization within
physical, mental, and emotional realms, and address topics like feral
nutrition and food politics, domestication and rewilding, bioregionalism,
primitivism, collective process, uncivilized survival, ecofeminism,
anarchy, cooperative living, symbolic culture, direct action, and the
place of permaculture.
These concepts are fleshed out with photos that exemplify industrial
civilization, contrasted with photos demonstrating ways that people are
meeting their needs in ways that oppose civilization. There are photos
taken at radical homesteads, intentional communities, primitive skills
gatherings, and urban wastelands of wild food and material foraging,
natural building, natural container making, crafting of primitive
clothing, low tech living, primitive hunting, horticulture, and
resistance.
Where possible, given time and situational constraints we love to engage
groups in more participatory activities. These activities could include
medicinal and edible plant walks, cordage making, medicinal tea making,
roadkill processing into food and materials, and discussions on a variety
of topics. Following are the tentative dates for our upcoming tour of the
Midwest and Southeast. If you want to know what venue we will present at
in a particular town, want more information about the tour, or are
interested in collaborating in a participatory activity that fits into the
tour please write us at:
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wildrootsnc(a)ziplip.com
866-460-2945
P.O. Box 1485
Asheville, NC 28801
Wildroots is a 30-acre radical homestead adjacent to the Pisgah NF in
Madison County, Western NC. (about 45 minutes from Asheville). Our focus
is on experiential learning and living, while practicing, developing and
sharing skills for rewilding and reconnection.
At Wildroots, we live off the grid, carry our water, and practice
"earthskills", or earth-based lifeways. Our interests include
permaculture, gardening by the moon, natural and primitive shelter
building, hide tanning, herbal medicine, nature crafts, and wild food
foraging. These skills are rapidly falling into disuse in our throwaway
culture, but we see them as crucial to our future survival, and we intend
to help keep them alive. Some of these skills are as old as the human
species itself. The surest way to protect earth based lifeways, or
"earthskills", is to practice them, and pass them along as we move through
this alienated modern life. Just as we can propagate endangered native
plants in the ecosystems from which they have been displaced, or
re-introduce wolves into areas from which they have been extirpated, we
can reclaim our species' lost knowledge of living with the earth.
We hold events at the land from time to time, so keep an eye on our
website, or get on our mailing list to keep updated. We're looking for
long-term collective members, as well as shorter-term visitors and work
traders interested in experiential learning.
Subscribe to our listserve to receive these seasonal updates automatically
by sending a blank email to:
Subscribe-wildroots at lists.riseup.net

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