PERMACULTURE FESTIVAL OF WILD IDEAS: Once Upon a Forest & Humble Habitat

ONLINE FILM SCREENING & CONVERSATION

Join Morag Gamble during the INTERNATIONAL PERMACULTURE FESTIVAL OF WILD IDEAS for an online screening of two short films in the 'Something Beautiful for the World series' by Campfire Stories

• Once Upon a Forest
  
• Humble Habitat

MEET THE FILM TEAM

We will be joined after the screening in conversation by filmmaker and Campfire Stories founder, Mattias Olsson alongside Maria Westerberg - the rewilder featured in Once Upon a Forest.

ONLINE SCREENING

We will watch these films together online via zoom. This link will be shared closer to the screening by email.

WATCH WITH OTHERS

You are invited to organise a watch party at your place! Have a conversation about how the ideas in this film make sense in your local community. 

COST: PAY WHAT YOU CAN

All sessions in the International Permaculture Festival of Wild Ideas are offered pay-as-you-like, thanks to Campfire Films and the Permaculture Education Institute.

This is collected by our registered charity, Ethos Foundation, and Morag sends 100% to support fair share permaculture design education - mostly led by and for women and youth. Morag also offers free permaculture mentoring to all these teams through the Permaculture Education Institute. 

ABOUT THE FILMS

ONCE UPON A FOREST

Documentary, 18 minutes.

Maria was a romantic, animal-loving, dreamy child who, growing up, had a hard time conforming to the demands associated with the trajectory towards "a normal life". As a young adult she became depressed, and was encouraged by her therapist to go for walks in the forest. The myriad of funny-looking twigs and sticks she found along the way immediately put her on a path to recovery. Now, 25 years later, she's a celebrated "twig poet" whose art is shown in galleries throughout Sweden.

When a climate related crisis strikes the forest where she lives and works, she's forced into a new type of creativity in order to save the place that once upon a time saved her.

This film is episode two of twelve of the series "Something Beautiful for the World": a collaborative project that explores how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine. Campfire Stories, along with Happen Films and Reflections of Life, will be sharing a total of twelve standalone episodes, filmed across five continents, releasing one per month for the whole year of 2024. Watch all the films of the series here.

HUMBLE HABITAT

Documentary, 17 minutes.

"Humble Habitat" is the name of a permaculture-inspired homestead in the Swedish countryside. David and Eliza live here, in an old military truck that they've attached a greenhouse to and turned into a tiny house. A family of upstanding beaver citizens are also an important part of the neighbourhood, as their dam building project has transformed the once dusty landscape into a lush oasis. This place, along with its creative inhabitants and their ingenious solutions, offers a glimpse of the possibility of a more beautiful world. Welcome inside!

HOST: MORAG GAMBLE, PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

ABOUT MORAG GAMBLE

Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute teaching permaculture educators and designers on six continents. She has lived for a quarter of a century in an award-winning ecovillage. Morag has also created Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture Life BLOG and YouTube collectively viewed millions of times. She hosted the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas. Morag also hosts the Ethos Fellowship alongside Schumacher College Fellow, Fritjof Capra, and Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for refugees.

ABOUT PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country, offers programs to support people worldwide to become teachers and leaders of permaculture programs and to activate permaculture communities. The Institute hosts regular global conversations exploring one-planet living and earth restoration - through film, podcasts, masterclasses, discussion forums, and many courses. 

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