BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EcoGather - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:EcoGather X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ecogather.ing X-WR-CALDESC:Events for EcoGather REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Karachi BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0500 TZOFFSETTO:+0500 TZNAME:PKT DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241126T030232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T203410Z UID:101849-1733742000-1733747400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION: A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241116T064439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T044011Z UID:101564-1733337000-1733342400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241203T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241203T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241106T015404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T081650Z UID:101276-1733247000-1733252400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Mystery DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n If we step away from the dominant culture’s compulsion to classify\, measure\, quantify\, and know everything it can\, we find ourselves in the realm of mystery. There is a whole other side of the world that cannot be known\, but only marveled at and dumbfounded by. There is a whole other kind of knowing not ground in causal certainty\, but a certain kind of intuiting\, or feeling\, or experiencing. Join us this week as we explore the mysteries in the world around us and appreciate the mysteries in our own lives. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\n\nMarin Morgan: A Quantitative Cosmology\nBayo Akomolafe: The poetics of the preposterous\nPhoebe Zerwick: What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living\nMary Oliver: Bone URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-mystery/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pq2djbntzw0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241126T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241126T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241106T013850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241127T014906Z UID:101272-1732640400-1732645800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Prefigurative Politics and Workplace Democracy DESCRIPTION:Register! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/prefigurative-politics-and-workplace-democracy/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/signal-2024-11-02-130037_002.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241120T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241120T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241106T013200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241116T063250Z UID:101269-1732100400-1732107600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/conversation-starter-office-hours-2/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/opsus5s_6rc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241119T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241106T025119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T034943Z UID:101286-1732042800-1732050000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Re-Commoning DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nGenerative \nIn this final generative EcoGathering of the lunar cycle on Commoning\, we will unveil the beginnings of EcoGather’s digital learning commons to receive feedback and proactive input from our community of learners on how best to develop and manage the space to be most useful and enlivening to its users. We will practice applying what we have learned throughout this lunar cycle to a real-life example. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-re-commoning/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/xkghqbh2tg0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241114T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241106T012530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241116T063307Z UID:101267-1731603600-1731610800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/conversation-starter-office-hours/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/opsus5s_6rc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241113T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241113T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241105T202924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241113T015819Z UID:101228-1731526200-1731533400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Commoner's Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nFocus \nDavid 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 requires community\, history\, connection\, communication\, and reciprocity. We may have forgotten the skills and knowledge that make commoning a part of life\, but it is possible to intentionally reclaim the mindset of a commoner with community and practice. How might we learn from examples of historical and contemporary commons to begin reclaiming the commoner’s consciousness? How does a commoner think and view the world? In this EcoGathering\, we will dive deep into a focus session on a piece that explicates the examples of commoning\, and the shared characteristics of commoner cultures\, so as to begin reclaiming these skills in our own communities. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n\n David Bollier: Think Like a Commoner\, Chapter 10 – The Commons as a Different Way of Seeing and Being\nFrontiers of Commoning with David Bollier Podcast: Leah Penniman on ‘Black Earth Wisdom’ URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-commoners-consciousness-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sheperd.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241111T200000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241111T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241105T202546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T013032Z UID:101226-1731355200-1731360600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: The Fight for the Congo DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nUpstream Conversation \nOn this special EcoGathering\, we’ll convene to discuss the Upstream podcast episode featuring Vijay Prashad\, The Fight for the Congo. \nThe extraction of materials so necessary for our way of life is inextricable from the suffering of humans and more-than-humans in the DRC (and pretty much anywhere else where mines are operated). Thanks to the work of people like Vijay\, we are forced scrutinize the central promise of the dominant culture – that through inevitable progress\, technology\, growth\, and a “clean energy” revolution\, we can maintain our current consumptive lifestyles and even do good for the world through that consumption. Join us as we explore what it might mean for the DRC to have more sovereignty over its natural wealth\, whether any minerals can ever be extracted ethically even with national sovereignty\, and why we want to extract more minerals from the Earth at all. \nFor people newly interested in EcoGatherings\, we host community-focused virtual gatherings almost every week covering a variety of topics. Those can all be explored here. They’re completely free and you’re always welcome to hop in and out of the calls as you please. \nFor our regular EcoGathering attendees\, this call will be in addition to our usual call cycle. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n1. Upstream Podcast: The Fight for the Congo with Vijay Prashad URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-the-fight-for-the-congo/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/TheFightfortheCongoEcoGathering_28Sanyika_29.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241107T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241107T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241015T214455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T032003Z UID:101010-1731002400-1731007800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Enclosure and Primitive Enclosure DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nConversation \nEnclosure 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 to cooperatively manage those resources. The history of enclosure is often overlooked\, yet it is a vital piece of the puzzle about how we got to this point of disconnection on the brink of civilizational collapse. In this EcoGathering\, we will discuss the forgotten history of enclosure\, how it is continuing to claim ever more abstract frontiers\, what will happen when it finally runs out of new ones and how we might resist enclosure and reclaim commons. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n1. Daniel Quinn: Our Religions: Are They The Religions of Humanity Itself?2. David Dean: Roots Deeper Than Whiteness\, from White Awake3. How to Find a Public Restroom from How To\, With John Wilson4. Book on Fire Podcast: Caliban and the Witch Introduction5. Upstream Podcast: Capitalism\, The State\, and How We Got Here\, with Christian Parenti \n \n \n \n \n \n test URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-enclosure-and-primitive-enclosure/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/d1yre0gltks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241029T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241029T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241015T212903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T213320Z UID:101008-1730201400-1730206800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: The Commons DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nConversation \nIn 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 assumptions\, misconceptions\, fears\, hopes\, around the Commons. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-the-commons/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/xkghqbh2tg0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241023T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241023T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241015T211748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T212254Z UID:101005-1729706400-1729711800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Attending DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nGenerative \nAttend. 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 how conscious human beings extend themselves to and arrive at the present moment. Modernity often frames attendance as a chore or a calendar task to be completed\, but attendance is much simpler than this; in truth\, we are constantly in attendance to one thing or another\, stretching our minds and energy to whatever is unfolding before us. As we move towards an uncertain future — one we cannot predict with any degree of certainty — we must be ready to adapt the ways in which we show up in attendance to it. \nAfter moving through the necessary sobering work of hospicing\, processing\, and grieving death and loss\, we gather for the last meeting of this lunar cycle for a generative session on attending the birth of something new. Drawing on the framing language provided to us by Vanessa Andreotti and the work of midwifery\, we will explore the skills required of us to attend to the birth of futures that are presently unimaginable. The future is forever fluid. We can never be prepared for what is to come\, but by developing our practice of attending the present moment — and offering care for that which is nascent and precious — we may become better equipped to show up\, extending ourselves in attendance to life as it is born before us. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-attending/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2t4ji-narqa.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20241010T204627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T204627Z UID:100934-1729335600-1729341000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Grieving DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nFocus \nIn 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 integrate death into our understanding of life\, many of us have a misconstrued concepts of and strained or guarded relationships to grief. In the absence of an abiding cultural reverence for grief\, and with a lack of practices and norms that make space for its sonorous\, unfurling expressions\, grief is often hidden or minimized. It is viewed as an obstacle we must overcome at a pace compatible with faith in progress. Grief is also viewed as private — some thing we must experiences in solitude. By treating grief as something private\, we miss the opportunity to collectively harness the transformative power of inevitable change in a world that is simultaneously living and dying all around us\, all the time. If metabolism promises to transform life through death\, grief is the guiding force that allows us to remain connected to that living energy. \nFollowing the full moon in this lunar cycle\, we gather together to honor grief as a great gift which allows our love for life to metabolize into other shapes and forms after death. As the scale of loss and mass death we collectively witness expands – be it by genocide\, pandemic\, wildfire\, flood\, or other ecological/cultural events of collapse – so\, too\, must our practice of grief. Through discussion and ritual\, we will dive into the depths of grief to shape our practice of collective grieving and deepen our understanding of its power in cultural transformation. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-grieving/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-asset.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241001T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241001T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20240930T211224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241112T223629Z UID:100585-1727809200-1727812800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Hospicing DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 1\, 20247:00 PM 8:30 PM\nRegister Here!\nConversation \nIn 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 in the glass of a mass individualist delusion that a valid measure of the quality of a life is how well it eludes death. In a dominant culture obsessed with vilifying death\, we’ve lost our ability to acknowledge it’s inextricable relationship to life itself. Denying death’s inevitability leaves a gaping hole in the understanding of the intimate section of life on the precipice of death – in denying death\, we deny life itself. What would it look like if we were to recognize and actively tend to what is dying before us with the same loving care that we give to what is living? \nThis October lunar cycle invites us to explore the ways that we can – and must – welcome death back into the discourse. We will gather for the first session to discuss what is means to actively hospice as a verb\, a beautiful and seamless addition to the lexicon thanks to Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s inspiring work Hospicing Modernity. As we stand on the precipice of a long-denied cultural death of the modern\, dominant culture of Western patriarchal capitalism\, we will hold space for the unsettling acceptance of what must be relinquished as necessary work for showing up fully to the birth of what is to come. Over the course of this cycle we will come together to hospice\, grieve\, metabolize\, and attend together\, bearing witness to and welcoming the infinite cycle of death and life. Join the first session to offer your awareness to that which is dying around and within us and develop your own stamina for letting go of attachments to the futurity built from what we’ve known. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n  \n\nFirst Voices Radio: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti\nEmily Shaljian: In the Presence of Death: Hospicing\nStephen Jenkinson: The Meaning of Death\nTrebbe Johnson: Earth Hospice: Hearing the Cries of the Earth URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-hospicing/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/unsplash-image-F9LRM5rq03Q.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195527 CREATED:20240511T002219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240511T002219Z UID:879-1716377400-1716382800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Roots & Fruits DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-roots-fruits/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR