Crew News: Creative Inspiration in Service to Life
Monthly Newsletter - February
Greetings Earthling
Welcome to our February edition Crew News.
This year our intention is to use this newsletter to offer you monthly updates, news and creative fertiliser to nourish, provoke and inspire your practice and actions as we try to navigate the mystery and overwhelm of these times while cultivating our courageous creativity that is being called for from us all.
Vibes for this time.
News from Basecamp
We are deep in recording mode, releasing two podcast episodes each month in conversation with some stella crew on Spaceship Earth. And planning some other surprises.
Our last episode with Dr Ros Watts has been landing well it seems from feedback. Big up your Tree vibes.
We have moved the entire podcast back catalogue over to Substack and turned on listener support.
If you can afford to help support the funding of this work we’d be very grateful.
We have recently finished our latest Winter Community Solo - an epic 5 week journey with a stunning crew.
In the words of one:
“Thank you all for sharing parts of yourselves, your stories and your warmth. Evva, Dan and Mark you guided us so beautifully.
This experience was far more profound than I had expected and has given me wisdom I didn't know I needed. “
We are now offering Community Solo to teams who want to work more deeply to build trust, connection and courage in these unravelling times.
In big news for us our flagship (un)learning course ‘The Remix’ is back for a second year, in a new form and now open for applications
Finally I’ve been writing short posts on Linkedin Mon, Tues, Weds & Thurs (MTWAT), it’s an experiment for me and seems to be appreciated, I store them here on the Substack, under MTWAT
We’d love to hear from you, if any of this stuff is connecting, please do comment, start a chat, reach out if something lands.
Thank you for your support.
Until next month, Take care of youself
Peace and Out
Dan and the Basecamp Crew
WATCH
Creative Activism in service to life from our friends at Patagonia Europe
Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation tells the story of a country united by its lands and waters, and the power of a community to protect the wild places and animals that helped forge its identity.’
‘Our relationship with nature not only defines our history, it shapes our future, too. Yet beneath the surface of Iceland’s fjords, an industrial fish farming method threatens to destroy one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses. Open net salmon farms wreak havoc on the fragile environments they’re placed in, polluting pristine ecosystems while mistreating the farmed fish and driving local salmon populations to extinction. It’s an industry at odds with Iceland’s untouched landscape, and as a growing local movement has shown, nothing replaces nature.
Warning: you might not eat farmed salmon again after this, which is probably a good thing
READ
Bayo Akomolafe: The Children of the Minotaur: Democracy & Belonging at the End of the World
A long, provocative, mind expanding read from our dear friend and Remix guest teacher Bayo Akomlafe:
“In our days of heat domes, microbial politics, chemical warfare, hormonal fixations and dopaminergic addictions, social algorithms, deepening cripistemologies, and the ever-present mythopoeic prospects of alien life bracketing modern subjectivity, it would seem imprudent to continue to consider the subject of belonging through the historical convenience of the liberal human subject. Through the humbling insights of posthumanist inquiries, ecofeminist questions, and indigenous research, belonging must now be brought down to earth, composted among other immanent things, and allowed to live and die and live again with its contradictory earthlings. It is in the heat of the heap that we revisit belonging’s most persistent modern political project, now stripped of its elite white linen clothes and mired along with earthworms, molecular critters, and ecological processes of all kinds: democracy.”
LISTEN
Vivien Sansour: Palestinian seeds of survival, shelter, and subversiveness
An episode for this moment from the brilliant and vital
Podcast.A powerful, troubling , insightful, tragic, but essential listen with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Project—an initiative centered on caring for and preserving seeds as keepers of ancestral connection and models of subversive advocacy.
What can grief teach us about being truly alive? And how might seeds, and the compassionate acts of tending to them, be the “helpers and teachers” of mediating our collective grief?
PRACTICE
Cultivating presence with Roshi Joan Halifax from Upaya Zen Center
Feeling overwhelmed with the suffering and violence in our world.
Try 6 minutes cultivating presence with Roshi Joan Halifax from Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico
PARTICIPATE
The Remix 2024: Activate your courageous creativity
The Remix is back for the second year - this time it’s a 6 month journey, on-land and online. More info here and here and register your interest here
If you are looking to cultivate your creative practice with a community of fellows in an experiential and transformative (un)learning journey designed for these unravelling times - then please get in touch, we’re pouring everything we’ve learned into this, it’s going to be very special.
SUPPORT
Support the making of an important film from Reclaim The Sea
Reclaim The Sea is a C.I.C that aims to support people to reclaim the sea as a safe space when it has previously been one of trauma.
Working predominantly with refugees and asylum seekers, they run swimming, SUP and surf lessons in a trauma informed way to allow people to experience the sea in a safe and supportive community.
Reclaim The Sea - The Film is a documentary following their women's programme in 2023. It showcases the bravery of participants, many of whom who have never been in the sea before, exhibiting how their confidence grows over the course of the programme. Help support the making of this important film.
DANCE
Deep, pumping vibes from Simon Vaurambon and Guy J
Simon Vaurambon is a DJ and producer from Argentina.
He produces beautiful cosmic dance tunes and moves us with his deep, trippy, booming vibes. This 3 hr mix is Simon with the masterful Guy J recorded live in Argentina late last year.
One for running, dancing, walking, shuffling, in the kitchen, dark, woods etc.
Enjoy!
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