Plumwood Mountain | Active Listening Workshop

A bioacoustics and collaborative chromatogram making workshop facilitated by Sophia Dacy-Cole, Ruby Kammoora, Broni Sargeson and Sammy Hawker.

This workshop is being held at Plumwood Mountain, half an hour from Braidwood and on the unceded lands and waters of the Walbunja people of the Yuin Nation. Plumwood was the home of ecofeminist philosopher Dr. Val Plumwood and has been under the care of a trust since her passing in 2008. 

Participants will meet at the highway gate and walk to Val's house and garden at top of the coastal escarpment (4.8km return). Plumwood Mountain shares tall eucalypt (E. fastigata) and ancient ‘Plumwood’ (Eucryphia moorei) forests with the neighbouring Budawang and Monga National Parks. Hosting a diversity of temperate rainforest and dry sclerophyll communities, Plumwood is home to the greater glider, the common wombat, and the superb lyrebird – among a variety of other creatures. 

During the workshop participants will listen to a live amplification of the garden through contact microphones/hydrophones and then co-create an artwork with a sample of soil. This workshop will explore listening as a form of activism, the sentience of the unseen, and disintegration as metamorphosis where boundaries of the human and more-than human dissolve.

Recommended Reading: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/val-plumwoods-philosophical-animism-attentive-interactions-sentient-world & https://valplumwood.files.word... 

Cost | $45: This price includes an 8 x 8 inch chromatogram print (edition of 15 + AP). 
If you are experiencing financial difficulties but would love to join please email (samantha.v.hawker@gmail.com) and we can work out a solution. (Cost breakdown: $10 donation back to Country | $10 General Running Costs | $25 Printing & Postage Costs.)

Pack:  Attendees are asked to bring 2L of water and a packed picnic lunch. Extra water for topping up water bottles will be available on the day. All art materials will be supplied but you are welcome to bring your own sketchbooks, cameras, binoculars etc.

Sickness: If the host and/or organiser is sick then the event will be postponed. Participants will have the option to refund or attend a rescheduled workshop.  

Inclement Weather: Attendees will be advised of event cancellation no later than 5pm on the day prior to the event due to forecast storms or the like. Participants will have the option to refund or attend a rescheduled workshop.  

Trip hazards or walking accidents and incidents: Attendees will be required to wear suitable clothing as well as sneakers or hiking footwear – no open toed shoes. The event host has a current First Aid Certificate. Please do not wander far from the group at any point as it is possible to become lost.

Sun Hazards: Attendees will be asked to wear sunscreen, long sleeved clothing and pants and a hat. Supplementary sunscreen will be carried by assistant.

Insect Bites and Allergies: Attendees will be encouraged to wear insect repellent prior to the walks. Supplementary Insect repellent and a first aid kit will be carried by the assistant on all walks. The event host has a current First Aid Certificate. Please be aware of leeches.

Mobility and Activity Restrictions: This walk is 4.8km return and is recommended for able bodied people who are comfortable with a medium-grade bush walk. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Consent: This event may be documented via photo/video. If you are not comfortable with this please let the organisers know. 

*This workshop has been discussed with and endorsed by the Walbunja Custodians from Batemans Bay Local Aboriginal Lands Council.