Chants for Survival

Chants For Survival

On April 26th, I’m going to be holding a trial For Chant For Survival. 

It’s going to be a trial and an experiment to see how this might work…

THE IDEA

The idea is that we are going to come together for an afternoon of writing poems, lyrics, songs, texts that support the stirring and rousing of R(E)volution.

If we were to create R(E)volution together, how would it look, how would we create it? What of our current world would would we want to keep, and what would we want to let go?

What would we need to grieve together, of what has been lost, in ourselves, between us, of our environment, of the soul of our world?

What would we want to stand together for? What would we want to withstand? What would we want to resist, and revolt against? What would wish to create/grow/ build/offer up?

Chants for Survial asks us to answer these questions creatively together, through poetry, song, lyric, listening to the threads that emerge and upwell in us collectively, fine tuning our ability to listen for the threads from the future that are pulling us towards it, and the ache from behind that us urging us on.

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WINDOWS OF EXPLORATION 

WHAT HAS BEEN LOST 

How do we meet creatively, poetically, lyrically what has been lost, inside of us, between us, of our earth and of humanity?

WHAT WE WANT TO STAND FOR

What is it that we want to stand for at this moment of time? How do our poetic leaves call forth this standing in a way which can be not a battle ground of what, but an electrification and a straightening of our collective spine together?

WHAT DO WE WANT TO WITHSTAND

What do we want to resist, revolt against, rise up towards, withstand, that we feel we need to withstand to hold enough space for life to move through?

HOW DO WE MEET THIS KEY MOMENT OF TIME IN OUR COLLECTIVE HISTORY

What do we tell, of the story of the time we are living together, on earth.

FOR THE COMING FUTURE 

Here, we’ll steal an hour from the future so that history begins with us. 

The future is arriving. It’s up to us as to what we create together.

What if, we were perhaps, a three generation group of humans, who were responsible for radically shifting civilisation? What would we poetically speak in, dream in, call forth from us.

POETIC CUT THROUGH 

My belief is in the power of poetry and poetics to create change, to shift, stir and rouse R(E)Volution, and I’m going to be supporting and creating spaces for us to come together, to see what bubbles between us.

COST - PERSONAL BACKED CHARGE 

The way I want to hold Chants of Survival is with money is to create electric charge in a group as to how money flows towards change and shift.

In this way, I’m going to ask people who get involved to donate between £5-30 for the afternoon specifically to a person who you see is actively supporting the shift and change you want to see in the world. 

In this way, what I’m hoping to enculture is a system of donating that is supporting life and money to move towards shift and change, and which is moving towards individually empowering PEOPLE who are midwifing change, and holding seeds for our future.

In this way, we are actively enlivening R(E)VOLUTION.

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And if you wish to support me and The Living Language of Our World in its work, you can also support me as well, but I would ask that for Chants For Survival and R(E)volutionary medicine, you donate to someone else but me. This to me feels like a decision I’ve come to with this and recieving money for.