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Venerable Visionaries
Join in the largest conversations we can have with each other and with the world led by cultural artisans, leaders in the eld, elders, artists, activists, poets, philosophers, and storytellers.
Learn alongside those
in their mastery who are willing to ask the kinds of courageous questions that, as poet David Whyte says, “have no right to go away”.
These erce, forward- thinking, fantastically brave and venerable visionaries live and lead on the frontiers of their own lives. Their leadership summons us to step up to our own edges (both inner and outer),
and to live out our own deeply creative and unique contributions toward a more life-sustaining and radically possible world.
VENERABLE VISIONARIES
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DAVID ABRAM
Becoming Animal:
Into the Depths of an Earthly Cosmology VEVI3701
Come join David Abram, cultural ecologist, wild philosopher
and author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal, for a spirited conversation on storytelling, wonder, and the untamed magic that moves between the body and the breathing earth.
See bio on page 46.
Length: 2 hours
Date: Wed. May 27, 2015
Time: 7pm-9pm
Cost: $25 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Wed. May 13, 2015
Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth: Falling Awake VEVI3700
The innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a transformation
in our human relation to the more-than-human land. Join renowned cultural ecologist and geo-philosopher David Abram for an in residence retreat
at Stowel Lake Farm on Salt Spring Is. Exploring our animal experience of the animate earth. Together, we’ll stir the forgotten rapport between our creaturely senses and the sensuous terrain — making forays into the wild
ecology of perception, and the elemental magic of language and storytelling — pooling our discoveries toward the aim of cultural metamorphosis.
See bio on page 46.
Length: 1 evening, 2 days
Date: Fri. May 29 - Sun. May 31, 2015 Time: Fri 7pm-9pm, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 10am-2pm
Cost: In residence and meals: $695 + applicable taxes. Camping and meals: $495 + applicable taxes. Special Islander offsite accommodation
and onsite meals: $395 + applicable taxes (Must register by phone). Transportation is the responsibility
of participants.
Best to Register by: Fri. May 8, 2015
- Space is limited
ROBERT BATEMAN The Art of Seeing
VEVI3702
As one of Canada’s foremost artists and environmental champions, Robert Bateman paints wildlife and nature as an aesthetic way to express the particularity of our planet. He urges us to slow down, pay attention, take time to really “see into” things rather than merely “look at” them so that we can get acquainted and fall in love with nature and in so doing, become the protectors of it for the sake of all future life. All proceeds go to the Salt Spring Conservancy “Stewards in Training” program for kids. There will be a ne selection of his books for sale and signing.
See bio on page 47.
Date: Fri, Dec 12, 2014
Time: 1pm-3:30pm
Cost: $20 + applicable taxes
Best to Register by: Fri, Nov 28, 2014
FRANCIS WELLER
Drinking the Tears of the World:
an evening talk VEVI3107
In this talk on the many ways grief arrives in our lives, we will delve into the soul’s
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Royal Roads University Continuing Studies 2014-15
About Stowel
Lake Farm:
Just a 30 minute ferry ride away, Stowel Lake Farm is
a highly productive certi ed organic farm and a community & wellness centre nestled amidst bee-loud glades & gardens, acres of wild forests, and a small freshwater lake, ten minutes from Fulford Harbour on Salt Spring Island. The farm is home to a vibrant community that hosts retreats & weekly classes in addition to working the land. The ethos of the farm re ects an ecological philosophy that takes into consideration the livelihood of all creatures. Accommodations are simple yet comfortable, food is handmade with love & care with much of it arriving directly from farm to table. This wondrous place is well tended. Each building has
a unique look and feel with post and beam structures and design elements and details that speak to a deep sense of aesthetics that prevails here. stowellakefarm.com