Tuesday, October 1, 20247:00 PM 8:30 PM Register Here! Conversation In the cycle of life and death, death is grossly misunderstood. Dying has been marketed as the ultimate defeat to living – it’s a product of disaster, discomfort and disease. We often shroud it in euphemisms to avoid offending life. It is an unwanted crack […]

Register Here! Focus In the approach and the wake of death, we are presented with grief. A word too small to encompass the extent of what it carries in meaning, grief is a masterkey to an entire warehouse of complex emotions, memories, and depth in understanding the world. Because our modern culture largely fails to […]

Register Here! Generative Attend. Tend. Attention. Tendrils. Etymologically united by the root tendere – to stretch toward, give heed to – these words convey a process of extension. Stretching one thing towards another, be it a body towards a place, energy towards a recipient, mind towards an idea, or roots towards the unknown. Attending is […]

Register Here! Conversation In this lunar cycle of EcoGatherings, we will discuss the ways that Commons are misunderstood, and the role that a more nuanced understanding of their past, present, and future might serve us in a just transition from this world into the next. To begin the cycle, we will conversationally unpack our own […]

Register Here! Conversation Enclosure is seen by many as the beginning of capitalism as a dominant economic system. It is an ongoing process of claiming once commonly managed resources (both physical and abstract) as private property that can only be accessed through a financial transaction, while facilitating the forgetting of the skills and culture needed […]

Register Here! Focus David Bollier said “There is no commons without commoning.” The commons is more than just a collectively managed resource. It is a nuanced, adaptive, participatory culture that […]