Sustainable Carlisle is a community that enjoys and participates in varied aspects of art and culture Music, Fine Art and theatre and are keen to develop this most important conduit, of the Arts, to assist our community in transitioning to a low carbon future and face the developing Climate Emergency. Please contact us if you need assistance in developing your ideas or projects.
We will making banners alongside our monthly Freegle Stall. All welcome.
We could do with an
Climate Emergency Exhibition
Extinction Rebellion Choir…..
Agitprop project… Street Theatre or maybe Puppets?
One of the areas in discussion is the Dark Mountain Project:
Eight Principles of Uncivilisation
1. We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history. We will face this reality honestly and learn how to live with it.
2. We reject the faith which holds that the converging crises of our times can be reduced to a set of ‘problems’ in need of technological or political ‘solutions’.
3. We believe that the roots of these crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves. We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’. These myths are more dangerous for the fact that we have forgotten they are myths.
4. We will reassert the role of story-telling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories that we weave reality.
5. Humans are not the point and purpose of the planet. Our art will begin with the attempt to step outside the human bubble. By careful attention, we will reengage with the non-human world.
6. We will celebrate writing and art which is grounded in a sense of place and of time. Our literature has been dominated for too long by those who inhabit the cosmopolitan citadels.
7. We will not lose ourselves in the elaboration of theories or ideologies. Our words will be elemental. We write with dirt under our finger nails.
8. The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. Together, we will find the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.
Dark Mountain: Issue 1 The Dark Mountain project has now produced a book of Uncivilised writing and art. Dark Mountain: Issue 1 is a book-length collection of new writing that goes deep into the roots of our culture, addressing the questions raised by the Dark Mountain manifesto: what do we do after we stop pretending that our way of living can be made ‘sustainable’? And where do we find new stories with which to ground ourselves, as that way of living passes?