how nature works and the way people think. Gregory Bateson
NY Woodlanders Gathering 2013
August 22-25 General Details
Ideas/Concerns
"Duff" (I'm inviting Tim Gallagher, whose middle name is Duff)
The political importance of "Loose Parts". Loose Parts is an area of a natrure play area where there are , well, just loose parts. No plans or instructions. Miraculously, kids (and others) seem to find things to do with all these parts. It's a political exercise in trusting, power-sharing, empowerment. It's not unlike Rob's early suggestion of the Big Swap... the Take It and Leave It area of Woodlanders.
Implications of Time as Circular or Ceremonial
Woodlanders as Widsdom Carriers: David Sobel's Work
Woodlanders as Community Builders: Nuevo Durango ++
Robert Bly says this is the time of savagery
Activities:
Why Make?
In times of Destruction, Create Something Maxine Hong Kingston
and I added: In times of Creation, Destroy Something.
OBJECTS with Nature
Fairy Houses: Politics of The Small: modelling mythic thinking
GIFTING
Spiral Bench for somewhere?
Leaving "art" in public places?
IMAGING with Nature
Tree Rounds Prints, Joe Connor
MUD: Murals and Stencilling
Card Making to explore other realms
Wet Black Dirt, like this
Pine Cone Print, Jim Caufield
STONES
Mongolian Deer Stones
lightly incising those creek stones?
WRITING
Haiku
ARRANGING
Ikebana
Stone Stacking
HEALING/HEALTH
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease." Hippocrates
MORE MAKING
Paper Making with Andrea Colman
Latex Block Prints: Jim Caufiled This is a print from the carved latex block I devised,
inspired from last year's circle of life. With fabric paint, rollers, etc.
folks could again bring their T shirts (or whatever) for printing
VISITING Woodlandery Places
Grasshopper Grove, Cornwall, NY 45 minutes away
There's a Surrealist Cabaret in Sugar Loaf on Friday Night, August 23
Contact Dan for activities you want to lead or share
