18 July: A collective reading of Charles Eisenstein’s book Climate - A New Story

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Viktorija Damerell, untitled, 2021.
 
Viktorija Damerell: A collective reading of Charles Eisenstein’s book Climate - A New Story
 
Sunday, 18 July, 11:00
 
Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo str. 3
Nida LT-93127
 
Participants (max. 20 people) must register here.
 
What happens when we meet ecological crisis not through guilt, blame, rational reasoning or prophecies of doom but from the place of love? What does it mean to heal the planet from the point of Story of Interbeing? Why do I feel so numb and how does that contribute to the crisis? Why the current environmentalism often mirrors war mentality and why that doesn’t work? How can holding rivers, forests and other beings of nature as sacred be the most pragmatic and effective environmental approach? How come the Navajo belief of the prairie dogs’ cry summoning the rain was not a superstition? These important questions will be examined during this group reading, offered and moderated by Viktorija Damerell.
 
Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His viral short films and essays online have established him as a genre-defying social philosopher and countercultural intellectual. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator. His is the author of Sacred Economics and Ascent of Humanity, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. His talk.
 
Viktorija Damerell is an artist, mainly active in fields of sculpture, performance and text. In 2017 she has graduated MA of Contemporary Sculpture in Vilnius Art Academy, currently living and working in Marcinkonys and Vilnius. She is interested in the idea of living, conscious and purposeful universe and at the moment is translating Charles Eisenstein’s book “Climate - A New Story” into Lithuanian.