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

Mon Apr 24 08:14:26 CEST 2023

Love this Ruth, very evocative as a public protest performance!

> On 22. Apr 2023, at 00:14, Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
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> 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!
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> On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 11:08 PM Ruth Catlow <ruthcatlow at gmail.com <mailto:ruthcatlow at gmail.com>> wrote:
> <Apologies for cross-posting>
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> Calling all with access to London with an invitation to join us for wild interspecies festival larping fun. 🐝🌻☀️
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> 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 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interspecies-festival-preparation-workshops-29-30-april-tickets-594800212447>
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> And festival events in early June (3rd, 10th and 11th)
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> See full details below.
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> Woof!
> Ruth
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> 🌳🐝2023 is the year of the Interspecies Festival of Finsbury Park!!! 🐿️🎪✨
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> 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.
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> Here's what you can expect...
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> 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.
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> Prepare yourself for  new eyes, ears and totally new priorities.
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> 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…
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> Places and Dates:
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> Finsbury Park
> ⇨ Sat 29 April 10 AM - 1 PM, Rewilding
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> 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
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> 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: 
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> Finsbury Park
> Sat 3 June or Sat 10 or Sun 11 June 12.30-5.00 PM
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> 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>.
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> Revel in games and other activities celebrating the cultures and talents of all Finsbury Park’s species…
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> ⇨ 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…
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> 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.
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> If colonial systems of dominance and control over living beings continue we all face an apocalypse.
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> 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
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> There are 3 parts to the story of the Treaty of Finsbury Park
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Woof and welcome to the interspecies revolution! 
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> In solidarity,
> 
> Chewy
> Secretary Interspecies Assemblies of Finsbury Park
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