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SEEDS Festival invites a diverse group of artists, movement practitioners, architects, scientists, spiritual leaders, and activists to creatively research ecology and experiential arts. At SEEDS, we will explore how physicality, practice, and science-based inquiry inform one another, through collective experimentation. The festival, itself an ecosystem, will provide a rich nexus for dialogue, reflection, and action.
Our hope is that the questions that emerge through this project will cultivate regenerative and innovative practices to steward our environment. SEEDS Festival asks: What does experiential study offer our understanding of ecology? What questions are relevant for the interaction of art, science, and healing? How can new interdisciplinary forms enliven creative research? In working with global concerns, how can we both utilize and honor indigenous practices and gain greater understanding about the movement of lineages? How can we learn through our behaviors, experiments, and art making to cultivate the planet?
The festival will host workshops, collaborative design projects, panel discussions, live performances, films, and interdisciplinary investigations. You can participate in the whole festival, attend a portion, or create a proposal based on the calls that follow our festival mission below. Everyone who comes to SEEDS will offer his/her unique perspective to the collective inquiry, so we hope you chose to attend even if your proposal is not accepted. Please come!
SEEDS 2008 will focus on ecology . In basic terms, ecology studies the interactions of organisms with their environment and with one other. It is a rich term because it highlights feedback and interdependence. Ecology invokes mind, matter , and movement, revealing the connections between realms as diverse as the natural world, social landscapes, human behavior, and imagination. Through the theme, SEEDS Festival intends to explore ecology both as a subject of inquiry, an approach, and a metaphor, thereby inviting new applications of ecology to intermix with what we collectively know.
SEEDS Mission
SEEDS will provide a nexus for research, exchange, and practice in the materials of living bodies and the earth.
SEEDS will provide a forum for a field of questions to emerge from interdisciplinary exchange.
SEEDS proposes education through action.
At SEEDS, we will embody a diverse ecosystem, and in doing so, create more potential for a communal, vital, and accessible whole earth system.
SEEDS Festival 2008: Ecology is a work-in-progress. Our current make-up is as follows:
Festival Curators
Olive Bieringa, Margit Galanter, Jen Harmon, and Mark “Moti” Zemelman.
Festival Support
Earthdance Staff, Gopi Krishna, Shira Wohlberg, and the Earthdance Programming Committee.
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