Name: INHALL Jay Griffiths: Feral Angel
Start: 2024-10-12T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-12T12:45:00+01:00
Location: 126 Hampton Road,Redland,BS6 6JE,GB

In her talk, Jay Griffiths will consider how the call of the wild is part of our psychological health.
In Wild , Jay Griffiths relates her personal odyssey to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire, listening particularly to the voices of Indigenous peoples who live in so-called wilderness. A consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands, the book is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands — wild mind.
In her talk, Griffiths will consider how the call of the wild is part of our psychological health, how there are codes of wildness and kindness braided together. The dominant culture has tried for centuries to portray nature as mindless, but Indigenous people do not see it that way. While the West has long operated an intellectual apartheid, arrogantly certain that its own expertise is the only knowledge worth the name, for indigenous cultures, it is a minded world. Shamans in particular, and indigenous people in general, perceive that animals have their own ways of knowing and that some plants can teach humans. This talk will explore the words and meanings which shape our ideas and our experience of our own wildness.
Jay Griffiths is the award-winning author of W ild: An Elemental Journey, Why Rebel and Nemesis, My Friend amongst others. She has written for Radiohead and the RSC and for Mark Rylance in a short film Almost Invisible Angels . John Berger noted of her: 'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does.' She is a wild skater, whenever the Welsh lakes freeze.