Solastalgia Gallery

Solastalgia Gallery Experience

This event was part of The National Sustainable Living Festival 2021.  You are invited to continue participates in an eco-resilience Eco-Art experience, join in a Kinfolk event to chat with others and exhibit in the Eco-Art virtual gallery.

Glenn Albrecht, an Australian environmental researcher and philosopher created the term solastalgia. Solastalgia is the feeling of homesickness, sadness and loss you have "when you are still located within your home environment".

This ECO-ART EXPERIENCE contains 3 parts:

1. Participants engage anytime in the self-guided Eco-Art experience provided in the booking email links. (Ecopsychology practice with eco-art creative expression) 
2. Share an image or 2 of your creative expression artwork and a short reflection about the experience. 
3. Join an online Kinfolk gathering to share experiences and view the gallery. (OPTIONAL ATTENDANCE) 

THIS GALLERY WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS THROUGHOUT 2021.  

Joanna Macy’s work on despair and empowerment has inspired many people around the world. She says feeling our pain cracks open our love, and when we don’t fear our pain, we are free to take action in service of what we love and appreciate. Many of us get blocked and ill by trying to avoid feeling pain, we distract and numb ourselves which prevents us from opening to the wider perspective, vision, and actions we are capable of taking for life on our Earth. This experience draws on our innate wisdom coming through us from deeper ecological awareness, reflection, creative expression, and human connection.  Together we realise we are not alone with the various forms of discomfort, and we can truly feel alive when we share our pain, our love and appreciation, and our visions and actions for a life-sustaining regenerate culture.

PARTICIPANTS:  Suitable for 16+.

BOOKING/FEES:  Sliding Scale: $10, 20 or $30. 100% of profits are directed to Warburton Environment to protect the threatened species in the forests from logging by VicForests.

IMPORTANT DETAILS: 

• YOU WILL RECEIVE A BOOKING ORDER EMAIL AFTER REGISTERING. This email has the information you need to participate in the practice. 
• PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM/JUNK MAIL IF YOU DON'T RECEIVE IT AFTER BOOKING
• PLEASE provide your artwork and reflection before the end of 2021

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR:  Deb Punton - Greensong is an ecopsychologist (not a psychologist) environmental educator, and permaculture landscape designer. She has facilitated S.O.S (Sustainability of Self) groups on-line and in-person focusing on living with the challenges of the climate and ecological emergency. She practices sacred activism and is passionate about building our relationships with our shared humanism and our other-than-human world.  

ONLINE (optional) GATHERING INFO: 

This is an interactive (camera on) session, please ensure your camera is on and you are ready to be fully present for the whole time.  Zoom sessions will NOT be recorded. We will share our experiences and Eco-Art gallery artwork. You will be emailed the zoom link a week prior to the online event. 
If the specific online session is booked out, or you cannot attend, please subscribe for the code to access hidden tickets for the Kinfolk online gathering or contact Deb.

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