Feral adj. - in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication

‘Language and imagination are our most powerful and natural tools for re-engaging with nature - culture is the interface between us and the non-human world, our species’ semi-permeable membrane.’ -- Richard Mabey  

 ​F E R A L
‘Captivating, beautiful and thought provoking’
FERAL is a cross-artform project by Daisy Black and Gossamer Thread Circus.
The project, combining circus performance, short film, original prose and fine art, explores a reconnection with the land, drawing on folklore and ecology around each pivotal moment of the year that has anchored us to the earth throughout history, and the process of rewilding and seasonal ecology.
The release of each short film during 2021 marked the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice and features circus performances and original prose by Daisy Black, filmed on location at Norfolk's 1500 acre rewilding project Wild Ken Hill.
Original fine art prints were released alongside each film.  
The project seeks to explore the connection between our wellbeing and the wellbeing of the land, and how we might heal both, looking at the intersection of art and activism.

The project is supported by Arts Council England, Out There Arts UK, Ockham's Razor, Sanctuary on the Faultlines, Norfolk County Council, Wild Ken Hill
and is part of 
​SEASON FOR CHANGE a nationwide programme of artistic and cultural events that celebrate the environment and inspire urgent climate action and CULTURE DECLARES EMERGENCY

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Humans are creatures of habit, and we have seen how ready societies have been to go back to business as usual as soon as the pandemic has given signs of easing off.
​But the recurrent peaks and the recalcitrance of this crisis are making it clear that the way we live and work needs to change permanently and substantially.
Large-scale restoration activities are beginning to make landscapes bloom across Europe and elsewhere, bringing joy, hope and solace to millions of people. Innovative environmentalists are proving that even heavily degraded natural systems can recover, and that rewilding works.
To you all, wherever you live: you are right to be worried. But don’t give up hope. We can work together to turn the tide
-- Lisbet Rausing

​UPCOMING SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
- FERAL films screening & exhibition at Norwich Arts Centre 2 Feb 2022 
- FERAL films outdoor screening at Woodland Lumiere in Raveningham, Norfolk - 26th Feb - 26 March 2022 - Buy Tickets 
- FERAL Films Screening & Exhibition at Anteros Arts Norwich - November 2022
More dates tbc
If you are interested in screening FERAL at your event please contact Daisy at thedaisyblack@gmail.com 

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​Watch the films
​  F E R A L 

Buy a Print 
Each season a new original print was created and released as part of the project. You can view and purchase here - 
10% of the purchase price will be donated to the Amazon Rainforest Conservation project

DONATE 
If you are  are waged/financially supported and have watched the film/s, we would appreciate a donation. 50% will support this project.
The other 50% will be split between:
- Planting a wood of native deciduous trees re-connecting two ancient woodlands at Make it Wild rewilding estate in North Yorkshire - each tree costs £15.
-  A donation to Dancer's Forest, a new initiative by dancer Adam Benjamin with the aim of creating tracts of community-owned rewilded land throughout the UK that also function as cultural spaces providing a "meaningful way of repairing and preserving the land we live on, by re-establishing an environmentally responsible connection between dance, the land and the air we breathe."

COMPLETE A FEEDBACK FORM 
This helps us develop the project and apply for funding

TAKE ACTION
- Nine things you can do about climate change  
- Support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill  by signing the petition and writing to your MP.
- Pledge with Wild East to rewild a portion of your own garden 
- Reduce meat & dairy intake - resources on how and why here and here 
- Boycott fast fashion 
- Replace household products with eco-friendly options  

FURTHER READING
​https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/with-shared-knowledge-we-could-build-a-new-world-qa-with-lisbet-rausing
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tim_flannery
https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk

Books 
Wilding by Isabella Tree 
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
Feral by George Monbiot
The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes 
Losing Eden by Lucy Jones 
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake 

Films
Kiss the Ground
​Cowspiracy 
What the Health 
Fantastic Fungi

"Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin-flowers. And the frisky ones–inkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones–rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.
​Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
Mary Oliver

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