Dark Mountain Camp
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[edit] Welcome
Dark Mountain Camp is an informal pre-event running before the Dark Mountain Festival. The festival itself is happening in Llangollen, Wales, 28-30th May 2010, and the camp will run from 24-28th.
Space is limited to about fifty people. It will basically be a week-long Unconference with a touch of Burning Man thrown in. Themes will be as for Dark Mountain - futures, the local, the general, the hands on, and more. Bring your music, your poetry and your art, there's long evenings to fill.
I'd like there to be an emphasis on fairly practical things but that's all going to be down to us: who comes, and what kind of skills and intentions they bring with them.
You in? If so, book a place here! (We're charging a £5 fee to get a clear idea of numbers - this money will go into a beer/etc fund for participants.)
- Yes, we would be in but... this last bit about the fiver fee has just appeared and means you need banking id in order to register as far as i can see. :o( I've already told people it's free! Not everyone will be able to pay online and free should mean free or optional donation etc.*
- Agreed - bit suss to add a non-optional fee when people have already made travel arrangements etc. Has this come from some practical worry - e.g. that too many people are coming?*
- Hey - sorry for the slow reply - the booking charge was intended to give us a realistic idea of the number of people coming, which was turning into a headache, not to put anyone off - but I totally take your points and we'll rethink this and refund people who've booked. No one's going to be turned away - and I hope you'll still come.*
[edit] Getting Organized
Sign up at this link. If you'd like to bring an event or activity, please just hit the "Edit" buttons to the right of the page, type an "*" before what you want to say, and type away. I'll fix formatting if you bork something, I know wikis can be a pain.
Vinay Gupta - hexayurt@gmail.com
The tag is #dmcamp - twitter, flickr etc. Tag your posts with that, search for it to find other people coming.
The size and complexity of the event will depend on who comes, and how engaged we all get in forwards planning. Here's the basic approach: we'll divide the week up into ten slots, morning ("10ish till twoish") and afternoon ("twoish till teatime") and try and focus on doing one interesting thing in each slot. This might seem like a pretty slack schedule, but think of all the interesting people you'll meet, and all the other unscheduled fun stuff that will crop up along the way. All the things to learn, to do, and to enjoy... so two decent sessions a day is a lot, trust me. If we wind up with more interesting things than slots, we'll just have to double up unlike-events so that people aren't too badly torn.
[edit] Monday 24th May 2010
[edit] Monday Morning
- Hexayurt Building Workshop - make your own shelter for the week!
[edit] Monday Afternoon
- Freeconomy Wrexham, along with the original Give and Take, will be bringing a free stall to the gathering - free stuff, free fruit bushes, trees, free tea, free cake. We hope the stall can stay all week, and maybe venture out into Llangollen too. Bring things to share.
[edit] Tuesday 25th May 2010
[edit] Tuesday Morning
Some of the things I have found out. Discussion and proof that there is only one body form, males are actual physical females, a type of female, slightly changed. Photos not for faint hearted. How to replace a windmill bearing, the only real maintenance job for a small windmill. Discussion, including a proof that money and exchange causes an insufficiency, a scarcity, where there is none. And this scarcity, 'scare city' is only relevant for the 4 life physical needs, where to go without means death. and because we have not separated 'goods' into two types, worldwide we rely on an ongoing human made starvation and scarcity, while fields lie empty of produce, as no-one would be so stupid as to grow the four needs for free, and so abundance, a bun dance. All quite short,wont take very much of your time. Frank Bowman
[edit] Tuesday Afternoon
[edit] Wednesday 26th May 2010
[edit] Wednesday Morning
[edit] Wednesday Afternoon
(unless someone offers something too similar beforehand) "What is this place?" Noticing where we are, and our responses - exercises for some of our senses, and expansion of each others' perception.
Sorry, I don't think it's realistic for me to commit myself to offering a story walk. But please go up to Dinas Bran anyway. It's a magical place.
[edit] Thursday 27th May 2010
[edit] Thursday Morning
Making ourselves scarce? Time to talk in depth about scarcity and abundance, 'the tragedy of the commons' and the consequences of seeing the world as made of 'resources'. How do we make sense of the relationship between hard physical realities and the social constructs which play a key role in our behaviour and its consequences? (Discussion hosted by Dougald Hine of Dark Mountain Project, Vinay Gupta of Buttered Side Down and hopefully Anthony McCann of Beyond the Commons.)
[edit] Thursday Afternoon
Apologies, Zoe has had to delay her arrival until Friday, so this discussion is postponed. I will be running a session along these lines on Saturday at 11.30. See you there..
Listen for the Swish of a Way through the Woods
Beyond and beneath and as a result of the ‘ordinary life’ of Western man, the myth of eternal progress is just one story among many. For 'woman', life is always cycles and change, and usually recycling and planting and kindling a hearth, keeping kids fed and telling old stories and making time to dance. For perhaps we have always been
"entering an age of massive disruption ... where out task is to live through it as best we can and to look after each other as we make the transition to the unknown world ahead”.
--81.159.32.119 23:43, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Friday 28th May 2010
[edit] Friday Morning
- Transition and the Dark Mountain - discussion of the synergies, contradictions and interactions between the two, with Shaun Chamberlin of Dark Optimism, author of The Transition Timeline
[edit] Friday Afternoon
The Collapsonomics Congress - discussing how society might adapt to a 20% or even a 50% drop in the economy, dollar or euro collapse, or similar big contingencies!
[edit] Other Ideas / Events
- I'll bring along my shave horse and assorted green woodworking tools. I'm still learning and don't know enough to do a session but during the week I'm happy to have a go with others to make a few bits and pieces like spatulas etc - Darren Beale
