[NetBehaviour] 🌳🐝2023 is the year of the Interspecies Festival of Finsbury Park!!! 🐿️🎪✨

Sat Apr 22 00:14:31 CEST 2023

p.s.
We had a little off-larp action at the XR gathering today ;)
And will be there tomorrow for "The Big One for Biodiversity" march
starting from Victoria Street 1-2.45pm. Perhaps we will meet there!?

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Woof and BUZZ!

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:08 PM Ruth Catlow <ruthcatlow at gmail.com> wrote:

> <Apologies for cross-posting>
>
> Calling all with access to London with an invitation to join us for wild
> interspecies festival larping fun. 🐝🌻☀️
>
> In brief, we would love to welcome you at FREE prep workshops next weekend
> (4 to choose from) 29-30 April
>
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interspecies-festival-preparation-workshops-29-30-april-tickets-594800212447
>
> And festival events in early June (3rd, 10th and 11th)
>
> See full details below.
>
> Woof!
> Ruth
>
> *🌳🐝2023 is the year of the Interspecies Festival of Finsbury
> Park!!! 🐿️🎪✨*
>
> *This is the year of the** Interspecies Festival
> <https://treaty.finsburypark.live/> *
>
> *when we celebrate a new era of equal rights for all living beings.Here's
> what you can expect...*
> *1. Festival Prep Workshops 29-30 April*
>
> Get ready for the Interspecies Festival of Finsbury Park, learn about the
> game’s Mentor Species <https://treaty.finsburypark.live/?page_id=375> -
> the dogs, the stag beetles, the bees, the Canada geese, the grass, the
> squirrels and the London plane tree.
>
> Prepare yourself for  new eyes, ears and totally new priorities.
>
> Attend any or all FREE workshop activities:
> ⇨ Learn how to think, move and speak like your given Mentor Species…
> ⇨ Make amazing costumes to enhance your Mentor species masks. Wow everyone!
> ⇨ Learn 3 short songs in multispecies choir rehearsal
> ⇨ Dig the soil and plant new trees with the Rewilders of Finsbury Park…
>
> Places and Dates:
>
> Finsbury Park
> ⇨ Sat 29 April 10 AM - 1 PM, Rewilding
>
> Redmond Community Centre
> ⇨ Sat 29 April 2 - 4 PM, Multispecies Choir
> ⇨ Sun 30 April 1.30 - 3 PM, Costume Making
> ⇨ Sun 30 April 3.30 - 5.30 PM, Multispecies Movement
>
> *The Interspecies Festival welcomes ALL human people over the age of 9.
> FREE, booking required. Book your tickets here!
> <https://interspecies-festival-preparation-workshops.eventbrite.com/>*
> *2. **The Interspecies Festival Events** 3, 10 or 11 June*
>
> Place and Dates:
>
> Finsbury Park
> Sat 3 June or Sat 10 or Sun 11 June 12.30-5.00 PM
>
> Join us for an afternoon of immersive role-play, exploring the park in
> fantastical new ways as one of the Mentor Species of Finsbury Park
> <https://treaty.finsburypark.live/?page_id=375>.
>
> Revel in games and other activities celebrating the cultures and talents
> of all Finsbury Park’s species…
>
> ⇨ Multisensory Mystery Tour: see, hear and smell the old forest through
> the sensory superpowers of squirrels, trees, and dogs…
> ⇨ Multispecies Choir: squeak, squawk, howl and honk “songs” of lament,
> celebration and protest…
> ⇨ Interspecies Daycare and Spa: relaxation, movement and care routines for
> all ages.
> ⇨ Help shape the first-ever interspecies treaty of cooperation for
> bountiful biodiversity…
>
> *The Interspecies Festival welcomes ALL human people over the age of 9.
> FREE, booking required. Book your tickets here!
> <https://interspecies-festival-preparation-workshops.eventbrite.com/>*
> *And if you’ve forgotten, here is the story so far…*
>
> The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025 <https://treaty.finsburypark.live/> is a
> collaborative project that depicts the story of the dawning of interspecies
> democracy. It’s a new era of equal rights for all living beings, where all
> species come together to organise and shape the environments and cultures
> they inhabit, in Finsbury Park (and urban green spaces across the UK, the
> world, and beyond!). Like many urban parks, Finsbury Park is fraught with
> environmental issues from noxious gases and traffic noises to governance
> struggles and financial sustainability.
>
> If colonial systems of dominance and control over living beings continue
> we all face an apocalypse.
>
> Based around a set of LARPs - or live action role play games - the Treaty
> of Finsbury Park 2025 is an immersive fiction played from more-than-human
> perspectives. Powered by the Sentience Dial
> <https://treaty.finsburypark.live/?page_id=9> it encourages the blooming
> of a bountiful biodiversity born of interspecies political action. Think
> like a dog, bee or even grass and help change the way we all see and
> participate in our local urban green spaces FOREVER
>
> *There are 3 parts to the story of the Treaty of Finsbury Park*
>
> Part 1. 2021-2022. The Interspecies Assemblies - these were games where
> everyone got to plan the Interspecies Festival of Finsbury Park 2023 - an
> event which to celebrate the drawing up of the treaty itself.
>
> Part 2. 2023. The Interspecies Festival of Finsbury Park - all the species
> of Finsbury Park are invited to join the festival in Summer 2023. Everyone
> then will be invited to choose from a set of proposed Treaty obligations
> and share their priorities and feelings.
>
> Part 3. 2023-25. The Treaty of Finsbury Park - a treaty of interspecies
> cooperation will go on display at Furtherfield Gallery along with Festival
> highlights and an invitation to ALL park users to pledge their support to
> bountiful biodiversity in Finsbury Park.
>
> By planning the Interspecies Festival together, human people from the
> locality and around the world have been engaged in building empathy
> pathways to other beings. They have been learning about what really matters
> to them and their habitats. They have been intensively exploring what it
> might mean to acknowledge the equal rights of more-than-human beings. They
> have drafted the Treaty and decided how to connect even more deeply with
> all the species of the park through a festival for all.
>
> Woof and welcome to the interspecies revolution!
>
> In solidarity,
>
> Chewy
> Secretary Interspecies Assemblies of Finsbury Park
> ReplyForward
>
>

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