June and July, 2026
Over a couple field trips we will be gathering to wander/wonder through the forest, learn a little about mushroom foraging and identification while exploring the mycelial threads that weave through the queer world of mushrooms. What do mushrooms have to do with transness? How can they apply to community organising and mutual aid?
January 2026
August-November 2025, continuous
We will be getting into the mud, muck and marshes, playing with eco-smut as a lens for shifting perception and relation with the more-than-human world. Beginning with a conversation to situate ourselves, we will sharing thoughts and questions about what eco-smut might be and what it can do, before feeling out the residue of a leaf curling its tips to the sun, a cave curve opening its mouth, the gush of a stormwater drain, uncontainable...
Ongoing
Each reading group we move slowly through two texts, one critical, one creative, reading aloud together in turn, pausing for discussion as we go. This is a slow reading group, so there’s no need to prepare ahead of time, and participation is always voluntary. Come as you are: all energy levels and states of being are welcome.
March, 2025
We explore what it feels like when places, plants, waterways or stones say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to being visited, recorded or gathered, and how we cultivate these attentions and sensitivities in ourselves.
February, 2025
Embodying Islands by Fei Shi
Gaia Meditations by John Seed and Joanna Macy
Attuning to our bodies, both human and planetary via the practice of Eco-somatics. Drawing from somatic research, decolonial eco-philosophy, and ecological arts practices, we will attune to the deep enmeshment of our inner and outer landscapes, moving beyond binary perceptions into the living, slippery webs of interstitial, interspecies, and interrelational forces.
January, 2025
This session slips into seaweed ecologies, where we will wade through the shallows, touch, chew and wonder at their inhabitants in the company of Lichen Kelp from the Seaweed Society and Christine Rockley, scientific artist and seaweed expert.