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A Poetry Yurt Fundraiser*Tickets are available on Gabriola at THE SWAP SHOP- 590 North Road - $20-40 cash, sliding scale
*If you're not on Gabriola and wish to join us, email us at [email protected] to reserve your seat.
Event Description:
The world has gone mad.
We could start there.
Our land-based, old-time ancestors, for all the troubles they faced, seemed to have crafted an approach to life that made room for the limits, frailties and endings among them and that accounted for our natural human stupidities and selfishness while, at the same time, finding ways of feeding our better angels of deep, human beauty.
But, for most of us, that’s long gone and we’re left with the tailings and remnants of memory and a spiritual, cultural poverty that goes so deep, it’s impossible to know where to start.
Modern society fails its mothers and fathers, its newborns and its dying ones, its young boys and girls as they stand at the precipice of adolescence, it’s newlyweds and divorcees. It throws fuel on the fire of every conflict ensuring it ends in cancellation. The divides among us grow deeper and more entrenched (e.g. gender, the middle east, vaccines).
Many of us feel without much hope for a better day or there ever being a healthy culture amongst us again.
This gathering is premised on the idea that, while we can’t change it all, we can begin to foster the conditions in which healthy and alive human culture can flourish at very small, local levels (where all true culture lives). We can, at the human scale, feed the soil of goodwill and shared understanding between us with the needed nutrients, prebiotics and probiotics that nourish culture (which is what makes a human life living and possible).
*This evening could be a wonderful fit for you if:
You recognize the above and see it played out in your life
You are drawn to the works of Stephen Jenkinson, Martin Prechtel, Stephanie Mackay, Bayo Akomolafe, Michael Meade, Ian Mackenzie, Pat McCabe, Tyson Yunkaporta, Hanna Leigh and others working to restore cultural memory
Have seen and experienced moments of rich cultural tending and beauty and want to be a part of fostering more of that.
*What to Bring:
floor seating, if you prefer, rather than a folding chair
water bottle/closed tea mug
notebook and pen
Tad’s Bio: Since 2001, he has been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture making, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into his work helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
675 North Road, Gabriola, BC, Canada, British Columbia V0R 1X3, 675 North Rd, Nanaimo District, BC V0R 1X3, Canada, Nanaimo
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