International Festival of Wild and Kind Ideas (online)
May 20 - May 25
A free online event from the Permaculture Institute. (Last year’s was great).
A 6-day festival featuring 40 inspiring thinkers, doers and creatives from around the world exploring wild and kind ideas.
Replays available to those registered if you can’t get to some sessions.
Register here.
Day 1: Wednesday 20 May
- Morag Gamble: Myceliating humanKINDness
- Satish Kumar: Peace is possible
- Fritjof Capra: Principles of life
- Louis De Jaegar: Food foresting festivals and film
- Helena Norberg-Hodge: Localisation
- Charlie Mgee & Brenna Quinlan: Permaculture artivism
Day 2: Thrusday 21 May
- Jeremy Lent: Ecocivilisation
- Nate Hagens: The great simplification
- Katharine Burke: Earthwards: learning as seed
- Daniel Christian Wahl: Bioregioning & place-based design
- Manda Scott and Rupert Read: Thrutopian stories
Day 3: Friday 22 May
- Perdita Finn: Mothers of magic
- Tyson Yunkaporta: How ancient stories can guide us
- Alfred Decker, Yara and Boulos: Permaculture in Lebanon in crisis
- Mazin Qumsiyeh & Rosemary Morrow: Palestinian permaculture & resistance
- Rob Hopkins: Falling in love with the future
Day 4: Saturday 23 May
- Emma-Kate Rose & Dheepa Jeyapalan: Transforming the public plate
- Stuart Cowan: Design for life thriving
- Ansiima Casinga Rolande, Megan Banda Afshan Omar: Afroecological futures
- Nora Bateson: Who can I be when I am with you?
- Natalie Topa : Water Resilience
Day 5: Sunday 24 May
- Samantha Sweetwater: The earth misses you
- Andrew Millison: Rehydrating the planet
- Mattias Olsson: Radical neighbouring, peace and film
- Manish Jain: Deschooling our lives
- Mary Reynolds: Acts of restorative kindness
Day 6: Monday 25 May
- Hannah Moloney: Why we garden
- Michelle Maloney: Bioregions and Rights of Nature
- Pella Thiel: Creating a bioregional embassy
- Maddy Harland: Wilding permaculture and publishing
- Cate McQuillen: Deliberate optimism