Journeys into Earth and Sea
A six week online course with the Dark Mountain Project on deepening our creative relationships with the Earth BOOK NOWWHEN:
6 – 8pm GMT, Wednesday evenings from 13 November – 18 December
TUTORS:
Charlotte Du Cann, Nick Hunt, Ava Osbiston, Joanna Pocock
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This is an online course
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About this course
Join the Dark Mountain team this winter for an elemental journey into terroir and territory and enter the heart and imagination of the lands and waters that sustain life on Earth.
How can we become kin with land and sea in an age of climate crisis and Disruption?
Over the last decade, the Dark Mountain Project has held a unique space in which art, story and myth entwine to help us face the realities of a time of ecological unravelling. As a mass extinction accelerates, it feels urgent that we actively transform the ways we engage with life and reconnect with the wild world around us.
Join the Dark Mountain team this winter for an elemental journey into terroir and territory and enter the heart and imagination of the lands and waters that sustain life on Earth. Based on this year’s spring and autumn Dark Mountain issues inspired by land and ocean, this course aims to reconnect people with place through embodied encounters and creative work, fostering a culture of collaboration with the more-than-human world.
As well as sharing stories, tools, and practices with fellow travellers, this course is an invitation to dialogue with the Earth. We will work with the land and water bodies of our local territories (rivers, lakes, ponds and oceans) to develop creative responses to the planet that weave together nature and culture, myth and experience, just as the land joins the water at the foreshore.
Our exploration will run from November to December. During these weeks you will be in the company of four guides: with Nick Hunt, step out of the confines of geopolitics into the aliveness of the land; with Ava Osbiston, explore creative improvisation in wild habitats; with Charlotte Du Cann, voyage out from the colonial mindsets of civilisation and into the fluidity and intelligence of the ‘dark ocean’, and with Joanna Pocock, venture beyond the horizon to meet with the dreaming of the Earth through an uncivilised writing practice.
We look forward to journeying with you!
on this course you will
- Work within a Dark Mountain frame
- Be able to have in-depth conversations with fellow artists and writers around the world
- Deepen your creative practice
- Explore your relationship with the living world
- Engage in group exercises and solo weekly activities
TUTORS
Charlotte Du Cann
Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She has taught creative non-fiction and reconnection with the wild in many places, including Schumacher College, Arvon, School of the Wild, Writers Rebel and the Natural Beekeeping Trust. Her most recent book After Ithaca investigates the mythology of radical change, revolving around the four tasks of Psyche.
Nick Hunt
Nick Hunt is the author of three books about walking in Europe (Walking the Woods and the Water, Where the Wild Winds Are and Outlandish), and a work of gonzo ornithology (The Parakeeting of London). He is also an editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. As a storyteller he has performed at festivals around the UK, and he has led writing and storytelling workshops live and online.
Ava Osbiston
Ava Osbiston is a multimedia artist and Integral Coach based in Devon. She has been a core member of the Dark Mountain team since 2015 often contributing to our issues with her visual artworks and she has been the visual art editor for Dark Mountain: Issue 21 and Dark Mountain: Issue 25 alongside supporting the editorial team by managing our submissions process. She is passionate about improvisation in all forms and is currently in the process of co-creating a semi-improvised theatre group in response to the river Dart.
Joanna Pocock
Joanna Pocock is a writer currently living in London. Surrender, her hybrid memoir-travelogue about the American West, won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize in 2018. Her words have appeared in Dark Mountain, The Nation, The New Statesman, Orion, Guardian US and The Times Literary Supplement. Her next book, Greyhound, is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2025. Joanna teaches Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, London.
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Begin your online booking below. You will receive an e-ticket for this event. You are welcome to email us at shortcourses@dartington.org or call us at 01803 847008 with any queries you have. Full Short Course T&Cs can be found here >
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