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

Mon Apr 24 16:28:21 CEST 2023

Thanks, everyone for encouraging vibes : )

There's so much to reflect on around XR's efforts to bring about genuine
positive transformation and communal sense-making. I met people heartened,
skeptical, furious and despairing about climate crisis and biodversity
collapse. The organisation of distributed protests at specific government
departments and venues for climate-denying think-tanks felt purposeful and
inspiring.

NOW... a last call to anyone else with access to London - we still have a
few tickets left for this weekend's FREE interspecies festival prep
workshops.

You can join any or all of the workshops on Saturday and Sunday :

   - joining rewilders in the park with Friends of Finsbury Park
   - finding your species' voice with the multi-species choir led by Xenia
   Davis
   - costume making led by Kat Addis
   - moving like your species led by Lucy Suggate

But you do need to book so get your tickets here
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interspecies-festival-preparation-workshops-29-30-april-tickets-59480021244
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<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interspecies-festival-preparation-workshops-29-30-april-tickets-594800212447>

Even if you can't come to the festival in June you can still connect with
your Mentor Species <https://treaty.finsburypark.live/?page_id=375> and
shape the festival.

: )
Ruth

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 7:15 AM Gretta Louw via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> 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:
>
> 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!?
>
> <DCMS.jpg>
>
> 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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> Co-director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab
> +44 (0) 77370 02879
>
> Mastodon: @Ruth at assemblag.es
>
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> balanced.
>
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>
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-- 
Ruth Catlow
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Co-director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab
+44 (0) 77370 02879

Mastodon: @Ruth at assemblag.es

*I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender
balanced.

**sending thanks
<https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html>
in
advance

*Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through
exhibitions,
labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking.
furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/>

*DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies
research hub

for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now.

https://decal.furtherfield.org/

Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee

Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205.

Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London,
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