A six-day workshop with David Abram at the outrageously beautiful Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, British Columbia August 9th-14th, 2019. At a moment when so many ecological limits are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its own embedment within the biosphere, how can we swiftly catalyze a collective recognition of our thorough dependence upon ...
A new film about the work of David Abram (Creative Director of the Alliance) is currently in production, directed by two visionary artists, the multiple award-winning Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler and Scottish filmmaker Emma Davie. Here is the briefest glimpse — just a tiny teaser — from the film. The password is “animal”:
The Alliance for Wild Ethics is engaged in the ongoing and many-faceted work of rejuvenating oral culture – the culture of face-to-face and face-to-place storytelling.* We excavate stories that live in the land, stories rooted in particular places, tales that contain not just human characters but other animals who figure as protagonists, mentors, and tricksters, ...
From late March to early April of 2017, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher David Abram will co-lead an expedition to the Kalahari desert of Botswana, to visit and learn from a remarkable hunting and gathering community of San Bushmen, practicing the arts of tracking and bird language with an exuberant people whose culture is widely recognized ...