JOIN US FOR THIS SPECIAL SCREENING CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE LADAKH PROJECT

TITLE: Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

WHEN: Two Screenings

Saturday 7th June AEST - with Helena Norberg-Hodge
Sunday 8th June AEST

WHERE: Zoom - link will be sent when you register

DURATION: 59 minutes

COST: Pay what you can

All tickets are offered pay-as-you-like. All payments are collected by our registered charity, Ethos Foundation, and Morag sends 100% to support the Ladakh Project.

Following the first livestream, film club host Morag Gamble will be joined by the filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge, for a discussion and Q&A - opening our month of localisation events.

We are delighted to be collaborating with Local Futures to celebrate the World Localisation Day throughout June.

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ABOUT THE FILM

Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land high in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than 1,000 years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and cooperation, with an intimate and location-specific knowledge of the environment, enabled the Ladakhis not only to survive, but to prosper.

Then came "development". Now in Leh, the capital, one finds pollution and divisiveness, inflation and unemployment, intolerance and greed. Centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from modernization.

Ancient Futures is much more than a film about Ladakh. The breakdown of Ladakh's culture and environment forces us to re-examine what we really mean by "progress" – not only in the 'developing' parts of the world, but in the industrialized world as well. The story of Ladakh teaches us about the root causes of environmental, social and psychological problems, and provides valuable guidelines for our own future.

Find out more about the book 'Ancient Futures' by Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director of Local Futures:

Find out more Local Futures.

HELENA NORBERG-HODGE & MORAG GAMBLE

HOST: MORAG GAMBLE

Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute teaching permaculture educators on 6 continents. She has lived for a quarter of a century in an award-winning ecovillage and has taught at leading ecological learning centres such as Schumacher College where she met Helena, and subsequently volunteered with her in Ladakh in 1992 and 1995 - a huge inspiration and foundation for diving so deeply into permaculture. Morag's courses and programs always connect to Helena's relocalisation and counter-development work. She is also the creator of the Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture Life BLOG and YouTube collectively viewed over 10 million times. Morag also hosts the Ethos Fellowship - a 12 month youth leadership program, Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for refugees, and mentors and hosts the award-winning global Permayouth.

GUEST: HELENA NORBERG-HODGE

HELENA NORBERG-HODGE, a pioneer of the new economy movement, is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day. She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. She is the founder of the International Alliance for Localisation, and a cofounder of the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network. Helena is a recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”

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