About this Event
A very warm invitation to join us at Rich Mix for a special evening to celebrate Nora Bateson's new book 'Combining'.
Combining is a blend of intellectual inquiry, essays, emotional engagement, storytelling, poetry, and graphic art; Combining is an invitation to nurture genuine connections and navigate a world brimming with "Warm Data"!
Throughout combining, Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle issues at multiple levels, understand interdependence, and embrace ambiguity.
Insisting on our collective responsibility to confront the looming threats to humanity's survival, she advocates change through interdependencies and challenges us to rethink our perspectives on relationships, community, and the very essence of being human.
In Combining, love, humor, curiosity, and vulnerability entwine amidst the trials of a world in flux. As we face the Polycrisis, Nora Bateson urges us to swerve from the traditional paths and to dismantle the illusions of fitting in. She beckons us to step into a world where learning, uncutness, and readiness converge, promising both revelation and revolution.
"There will be no Community without first Communing"
Event Information:
Doors open at 6pm, and you are welcome to turn up for a pre-event drink at the bar and to get your seats in the theatre where the reading will take place. Seats for this event are not allocated, so please get there in plenty of time to settle and say your 'hellos!'
The Reading will commence at 7pm sharp, followed by a Q+A with Nora, alongside Vivien Leung and Rachel Hentsch, who were part of the team that created 'Combining'.
After the reading, we hope you will join us back in the bar for a celebratory drink alongside Nora and the team.
The event finishes at 9pm.
Advance Praise for Combining:
“Nora Bateson writes like no other — her ‘ecology of communication’ is poetry, observation,wisdom and rage blended into a coherent narrative that sinks down deep and swirls. ... Nora takes risks to behave differently, in how she gives us pieces of herself; in how she speaks with clarity about the messiness of being on the edge of destruction, whilst embodying the prayers of our ancestors. In how she brings together that which systems of harm repetitively sever – logic and heart, ecology and psychology, trauma and oppression, science and art.Prepare to go to the places we are not supposed to go, in order to be in the spaces we are truly meant to be.”
Taiwo Afuape, Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist, Author of Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma
“Nora Bateson is doing with words what language has no capacity for. I fell in love with it right from the start.”
Bayo Akomolafe, Author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home, Global Senior Fellow of The Othering & Belonging Institute
“A masterwork. Please avail yourself of this heartfelt, brilliant, yet entirely accessible guide to the lived experience of complexity. Bateson shows how to engage with our personal and collective challenges less as problems to be solved than as systems calling for understanding, compassion, and harmonious engagement. Continuing the inquiries of Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and a couple of Batesons before her, Nora has defined a new and vital landscape in a book that will take its place alongside their best remembered works. There is still a way for us to flourish; here’s how.”
Douglas Rushkoff, Author of Team Human and Survival of the Richest
“ ... The imagery in Nora’s writing is an exquisite depiction of Living Systems. We all can grow from this brilliant work of art, poetry, stories and more woven together, magically.”
Carol Sanford, Author and Podcaster, Executive Producer of The Regenerative Business Summit
“This compilation is full of delicious insights that call us to witness the awe-inspiring breadth of possibilities that emerge from our entanglement. When we loosen our grip, and dive into the web of relationships we will begin to understand the abundance of potential pathways we have before us...”
Vicki Saunders, Founder, Coralus (formerly SheEO)
“Nora Bateson reminds us in this book—and in how she thinks, speaks, and inhabits this world—that our hope lives not in our cleverness, but in our vulnerability, in our wildness, in our feral creativity, and most of all among our relationships, in our animate communications with each other and all living beings. This book is an exercise in living ecologically.”
Rex Weyler, Co-Founder, Greenpeace International
About the author:
Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, international lecturer, research designer, and author, as well as Founder and President of the International Bateson Institute. She is the founder and creator of the concept “Warm Data” and the practices of the Warm Data Lab and People Need People Online.
Nora wrote directed, and produced the documentary, An Ecology of Mind, A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of patterns in the ecology of living systems.
Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles published by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity.
Nora and her husband, Mats Qvarfordt, share a household of handicraft, music, art, and cooking.
For more information visit www.warmdatalab.net
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, United Kingdom
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