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
is a year-long project taking place over 2021 with short films and/or outdoor performances on the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice.
This series of four performances will explore a reconnection with the land, drawing on the folklore around each pivotal moment of the year that has anchored us to these natural processes throughout history, and the process of rewilding and seasonal ecology.
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.
During the months of lockdown many of us have experienced the myriad health benefits of engaging with nature, and has in turn highlighted the natural catastrophes we are now facing, and that change must be grass-roots, community-based, and timely.
It also tracks a personal journey of re-habilitation and recovery after injury and management of a chronic illness, marking at each point in the year what's happening in the body - an offering that is unfiltered and honest.
F E R AL
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
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.
-- Lisbet Rausing
is a year-long project taking place over 2021 with short films and/or outdoor performances on the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice.
This series of four performances will explore a reconnection with the land, drawing on the folklore around each pivotal moment of the year that has anchored us to these natural processes throughout history, and the process of rewilding and seasonal ecology.
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.
During the months of lockdown many of us have experienced the myriad health benefits of engaging with nature, and has in turn highlighted the natural catastrophes we are now facing, and that change must be grass-roots, community-based, and timely.
It also tracks a personal journey of re-habilitation and recovery after injury and management of a chronic illness, marking at each point in the year what's happening in the body - an offering that is unfiltered and honest.
F E R AL
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
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.
-- Lisbet Rausing
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Watch F E R AL - Spring - short film
Watch F E R A L - Summer - short film
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 funding we have secured relies on us raising a portion of our own funding to continue. Just as you would buy a ticket to see a show or gig, we would appreciate an offering for our offering.
The other 50% of your donation 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
PRINTS
Each season a new original print will be 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
CREDITS
Original prose and performances by Daisy Black
Filmed & edited by Alex McAleer
Filmed on location at, with generous permission of, Wild Ken Kill Norfolk's 1500 acre Rewilding project
Music from Laura Cannell featuring Polly Wright and Kate Ellis
Original compositions and voice mix by Ash Day
Copyright Daisy Bourne 2021 not to be reproduced
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
TAKE ACTION
- 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
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
- 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
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
Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
Mary Oliver
Full music and soundtrack credits for Spring -
Water's Deep Cathedral by Laura Cannell from the album The Earth and Her Crowns
One for the Rook and Help Me to Salt Help Me to Sorrow by Laura Cannell & Polly Wright from the album As The Crow Flies
Bellowing by Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis from the album February Sounds
All the Land Ablaze by Laura Cannell from the album Beneath Swooping Talons
String Tension composed by Ash Day
Short extract from ‘The Names of the Hare,' late thirteenth century poem
'The stag sprouting a suede horn,
the creature living in the corn.'
Short extract from the confession of Isobel Gowdie, executed as a witch -
'I shall go into a hare, with sorrow and sych and mieckle care.'
Short extracts from Nature Cure by Richard Mabey in the voice mix
Voices mixed by Ash Day
Voices: Charlotte Eastaugh, Lucy Enskat, Turps Sargeant, Stephanie Lamey, Nicolas Buscall and Jack McAleer
Water's Deep Cathedral by Laura Cannell from the album The Earth and Her Crowns
One for the Rook and Help Me to Salt Help Me to Sorrow by Laura Cannell & Polly Wright from the album As The Crow Flies
Bellowing by Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis from the album February Sounds
All the Land Ablaze by Laura Cannell from the album Beneath Swooping Talons
String Tension composed by Ash Day
Short extract from ‘The Names of the Hare,' late thirteenth century poem
'The stag sprouting a suede horn,
the creature living in the corn.'
Short extract from the confession of Isobel Gowdie, executed as a witch -
'I shall go into a hare, with sorrow and sych and mieckle care.'
Short extracts from Nature Cure by Richard Mabey in the voice mix
Voices mixed by Ash Day
Voices: Charlotte Eastaugh, Lucy Enskat, Turps Sargeant, Stephanie Lamey, Nicolas Buscall and Jack McAleer
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