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Memory of Winter – Zoë Schlanger
Memory of Winter – Zoë Schlanger
When is the right time to bring new life into the world? Journalist Zoë Schlanger explores how the moment of spring emergence is increasingly the biggest gamble of a plant’s life amid unpredictable freezes and erratic warm spells.
Theia – Brian Isett
Theia – Brian Isett
Pondering the age-old question his young daughter will inevitably ask—Where did the Moon come from?—biologist Brian Isett uncovers the story of how the Earth got Her seasonal song.
A Hollow Bone – Terry Tempest Williams
A Hollow Bone – Terry Tempest Williams
Bringing us into her love affair with the receding Great Salt Lake, Terry Tempest Williams embraces a fearless interspecies intimacy and summons us to be present with the losses in this landscape.
Emergence Magazine Vol. 6
Emergence Magazine Vol. 6
Reflecting a world where the seasons are no longer familiar, our new print edition moves through themes of requiem, invitation, and celebration, exploring how the myriad expressions of the changing Earth unfold through the seasons.
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The Heart of Requiem – with Terry Tempest Williams, Susan Murphy Roshi, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
The Heart of Requiem – with Terry Tempest Williams, Susan Murphy Roshi, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Volume 6 contributors Terry Tempest Williams and Susan Murphy Roshi explore how embracing impermanence and reconsecrating place can help us shape a requiem for the seasons in this first episode of our Seasons conversation series.
Learning to Listen to Plants – with Monica Gagliano
Learning to Listen to Plants – with Monica Gagliano
How might our knowledge of plants transform if it embraced the voices of plants themselves? In this conversation, research scientist Monica Gagliano shares her radical work bridging Western science and the act of listening to plants.
The Substrate of Mystery – with Merlin Sheldrake
The Substrate of Mystery – with Merlin Sheldrake
How can we learn to build flexible ecological, social, or structural systems of exchange? In this conversation, acclaimed mycologist Merlin Sheldrake says a wild world of possibility opens when we begin to think like mycelial networks.
Is a River Alive? – An Interview with Robert Macfarlane
Is a River Alive? – An Interview with Robert Macfarlane
Listening for the voices of rivers, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane finds himself in the depths of their mystery. Tracing his journeys with three willful waterways, he asks how we can remember rivers as spirited beings.
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Song of the Seasons – Berlin
Song of the Seasons – Berlin
Join us at Flussbad, Berlin this March for a lecture and workshop led by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, drawing from his new book Song of the Seasons to explore how we can offer our attention to the seasonal expressions around us.
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Shifting Landscapes Film Series Engagement Guide
Shifting Landscapes Film Series Engagement Guide
Through reflection, discussion, and practice, our new Engagement Guide invites you to weave each film in our Shifting Landscapes series with your own story; open dialogue within community; and cultivate connection with your landscape.
Song of the Seasons – London
Song of the Seasons – London
Join Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee at St. Ethelburga’s in London this April for a lecture exploring the themes of his new book and how engaging with the Earth’s seasonal cycles can help us navigate this moment of ecological upheaval with love.
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Seasoning a Kid: Snow Line – adam amir
Seasoning a Kid: Snow Line – adam amir
Filmmaker adam amir takes his young son Rumi out to meet each season with annual practices welcoming the return of snow, migrating animals, blossoms, and berries.
Five Studies on Light – Boris Acket & Studio Airport
Five Studies on Light – Boris Acket & Studio Airport
Immerse yourself in light, the most essential element of the seasons, with this interactive film featuring five experiential studies on light’s physical properties, created by Studio Airport and Dutch installation artist Boris Acket.
Seasons: A Conversation at the Tate Modern
Seasons: A Conversation at the Tate Modern
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A Mystical Ornithology – by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts
A Mystical Ornithology – by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts
Acclaimed poet and ornithologist J. Drew Lanham tends to reverent exchanges with the migrating birds that stop over at his home in rural South Carolina in this film by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts.
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