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Schumacher College: Ecology, Art and Creativity Links

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Ecology, Art and Creativity Links

Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Australian art dealer Rebecca Hossack is a dedicated environmental campaigner and a Board member of Resurgence Magazine. Her
gallery is a champion of non-Western artistic traditions, being the first in Europe to exhibit Australian Aboriginal painting. www.r-h-g.co.uk
Artists in Nature International Network (AININ) AININ is a platform for encounter with artists interested in Site Specific Art in the context of nature.
www.artinnature.org
Common Ground is internationally recognised for playing a unique role in the arts and environmental fields, distinguished by the linking of nature with culture,
focussing upon the positive investment people can make in their own localities, championing popular democratic involvement, and by inspiring celebration as a starting
point for action to improve the quality of our everyday places.
www.commonground.org.uk
see also, www.england-in-particular.info
The Landscape & Arts Network unites professionals and others concerned with the quality of the urban and natural environment. The Network acts as a platform for
discussion and the exchange of ideas by organising regular meetings, events and study tours. Members are encouraged to network with each other, which is facilitated
by regular bulletins.
www.landartnet.org
Learning Stone Sculpture, carving, workshops, quarries, geology, landscape Learning Stone fosters mutual interests, understanding and contacts amongst people
who work with stone.
www.learningstone.net
The Audubon Society was named after the American naturalist and wildlife painter John Audubon who lived from 1785 to 1851. In only three months more than 38,000
people joined the society, aimed at the protection and preservation of wild birds.
www.audubon.org
Free Form Arts Trust A national charity which combines the skills of artists and architects involving local people in the urban regeneration process.
www.freeform.org.uk
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Founded in October 1992 to promote the exchange of ideas and information about literature and
other cultural representations that consider human relationships with the natural world.
www.asle.umn.edu
Environmental Writing Institute The Institute forms part of the University of Montanas Environmental Studies Program and organises an annual Institute bringing
together essayists, journalists, scientists, outdoor writers, and natural historians from around the US.
www.umt.edu/ewi
Arvon Foundation runs residential courses open to anyone over the age of sixteen with a real desire to write. Courses last for four and a half days and cover many
genres, including poetry, fiction, stage drama, and writing for TV and radio. Each course is tutored by two professional writers, with a mid-week guest reader and up to
sixteen course participants. Courses take place in one of three beautiful sites in the UK : Totleigh Barton in Devon, Moniack Mhor in Scotland and Lumb Bank in
Yorkshire.
www.arvonfoundation.org
The John Clare Society was founded in 1981 to promote a wider and deeper knowledge of this remarkable poet. It currently has about 550 members worldwide. Born in
1793, the son of humble and almost illiterate parents, Clare grew up in the Northamptonshire village of Helpston and made the surrounding countryside his world. His
formal education, such as it was, ended when he was eleven years old, but this child of the unwearying eye had a thirst for knowledge and became a model example
of the self-taught man. As a poet of rural England he has few rivals.
www.johnclare.org.uk
Ty Newydd The National Writers Centre for Wales which runs creative writing courses in English and Welsh for people at all levels of experience . It also runs
courses for school groups.
www.tynewydd.org
The Mesa Refuge invites people to think and write about the edges between human activity capitalism in particular and the natural world we are obliged to
preserve. The Refuge welcomes writers who need the solitude essential to creative work the time apart, the freedom from the interruptions of daily life. Essayists,
journalists, economists, naturalists, playwrights, poets, writers of memoirs and visions all are welcome. The Mesa Refuge is a creative retreat. There is a settling in,
a letting go, a connecting with natures muse, a finding of a creative rhythm, and a preparation for returning to civilization. Residents are offered the gift of time and
space.
www.commoncounsel.org/pages/mesa.html
Chris Drury, UK based Land Artist, working with nature.
www.chrisdrury.co.uk

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