A series of online sessions on creative expressions featuring the more-than-human, this webinar series features people connecting to other species and the rest of nature in spiritual, artistic, and visceral ways. What it would be like if a River could sing about her ordeal, turtles could speak of their incredible journeys across the seas as also of vanishing coasts, and Hoolock gibbons could narrate their relationship to trees. Indigenous peoples and other nature dependent local communities have always been in communication with the more-than human world, as everything has been alive with agency. In recent times we have also seen people living in modern contexts expressing themselves as if they are a tree or a turtle or a river and so on, finding a voice within through deep listening of the natural world, and manifesting this through their writing, song making, drawing, research and activism.

This series will be focusing primarily on the voices from the global south. Many such expressions in the global north are already well known and have plenty of space for exposure. Through this series, we would like to decenter that exploration and see how writers, artists, researchers, activists are exploring these dimensions from a decolonial, indigenous, and justice perspective. We would further explore our themes of collectively examining the potential of such mediums in transforming the alienation some of us have from the rest of the earth, and of bringing back multiple aspects of being embedded within nature in our lives. This series hopes that we can collectively unravel tools for modern times that can help us rekindle our relationship with the rest of nature in meaningful ways.

1. The River is Us: A Conversation with Alyen Foning
2. Water as a Living Entity: A Conversation with Juana Vera Delgado
3. Gifts from the Sentient Forest: A Conversation with Åsa Andersson Martti, Francis Joy and John C. Ryan