With Karmit Even-Zur
in collaboration with
Culture Vultures
dates to be confirmed
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THE POETICS OF CRAFT SEFROU, MOROCCO
‘In any creative work, be it the artist or the artisan, the creative person unites with the material they are working with, which symbolises the world outside him/herself. The worker and the artefact become one. The human being becomes one with his creation. ‘ Erich Fromm
The word Poiein in Ancient Greek (ποιεῖν) means making. It is where the word Poetry comes from. Plato had pointed at the connection between craft-making and poetry, calling us to gaze at the rich worlds of form and meaning that come to life when we take raw material from our landscape and create with it. It is possible, when we look at a handcrafted object, to appreciate the emotion and soul life that the maker had infused in it.
Praxis Mundi
A collaborative psycho-magical act of healing and
metaphoric redistribution of power along the 0º Meridian
Jane Glenzinska & Karmit Evenzur
Praxis Mundi
A collaborative psycho-magical act of healing and
metaphoric redistribution of power along the 0º Meridian
Jane Glenzinska & Karmit Evenzur
Praxis Mundi
A collaborative psycho-magical act of healing and
metaphoric redistribution of power along the 0º Meridian
Jane Glenzinska & Karmit Evenzur
Sefrou is located in the heart of the middle Atlas. Traditionally, a market town located amidst fertile farming lands, it is known for its fruit orchards, cherry festival and the large Jewish community that lived there up until the last century. Sefrou is still home to a large community of local artisans, metal smiths, woodworkers, weavers and button makers. Though the community is still thriving, few are the ones of the young generation who wish to learn these skills.
Visiting local crafts people in their workshops, we will learn about their work and daily lives as a way to get a sense of the place through the people and their working spaces. An orientation of the city from the inside out hosted by Culture Vultures, will lead us into a deeper relationship with Amazigh women who spin and weave and we will participate in a hands own textile workshop.
We will be introduced to ‘The Loom in Local Rituals’ and how women used the loom as a sacred medium for protection. On Sunday we will make a day trip to a mountain market town in the Middle Atlas where the wool comes from, to meet women who practice unbroken textile traditions in the region.
Alongside these visits our work will consist of listening to the stories that emerge from our activities, as well as engage with traditional stories from around the world to bring into clearer focus the role of craft-making in the life of the Soul. On our last day we will share these stories in a storytelling evening (no previous experience necessary). Daily shamanic practices will help us access ancestral knowledge and seek healing for modern day’s rupture between skill and community, craft and Time.
Karmit Even Zur
EARTH SPEAKS
Gnosis of the Land
water
03-07 November 2016
Gnosis of the Land explores the earth energies in and around the desiccated wetland area of Laguna de la Janda, an area of outstanding natural beauty in Southern Andalucia, Spain. We invite people to connect with ceremonial experiences ancient peoples had on this land, using shamanic and geomantic techniques to access their knowledge and wisdom and to connect to the history, mystery and esoteric knowledge, deeply embedded in this land.
Geomantic studies of the area show us that the Laguna de la
Janda was once part of a larger earth temple complex. Rivers, springs, salt marshes, and the extensive aquifer system of Vejer / Barbate, are part of this sacred landscape. Memory from ancient primordial forces live on in the waters and is active in the relationship between the Ocean Salt water and the fresh water. If we look “with our eyes closed” we may well catch a glimpse of priestesses still active in the landscape, singing enchanting songs as guardians of place. This is a most magical place for a group to step ‘outside space and time’ collectively and connect to the deep mysteries of Creation, primordial waters, cosmic intelligence, and the sacred sexuality of Gaia, Mother Earth.
Shamans have always understood that Nature is the visible face of
Spirit, that shamanic work is about opening portals between the eternal
realm of the sacred and the earthbound world of everyday reality, that
material reality is maintained and revitalised in close cooperation with
beings and processes in other realms. This will be our fourth year together here on the land and we are honouring our promise to the spirits of the land to continue to forge bonds of reciprocation between us and earth consciousness.
We are actively looking for people to bring unique skills and talents to this area so all of us together can map ancient mysteries held in the landscape. It is through reviving this ancient wisdom that we can consciously join the earth’s living systems in the paradigm shift, that is so needed, to different level of global consciousness. This is the paradigm of sacred wholeness and healing of the separation that has now existed for centuries between human beings and the land they live on. If you feel called to be here, we would love to hear from you!
Participation is by application. Please contact us to receive more info.
Karmit and Imelda
The drained wetland area of Laguna de la Janda is bordered to the East by the Alcolnocales Natural Park mountain range, extending all the way to Serannia de Ronda, and to the West by Vejer de la Frontera and the Barbate salt marshes. It is situated a few kilometres inland from the Strait of Gibraltar, where two oceans and two continents meet (Africa and Europe) and where migrating birds rest on their epic migration journeys North and South. All around this site we find rock paintings
depicting fertility rites that inspired ceremonies that kept the land, animal and human population healthy and in sacred balance.
Here is a film made by Imelda Almqvist inspired by our work in la Janda over the last two years.
Date
3rd - 7th November 2016
Tuition Fees
Gift economy - responsible contribution
Accomodation
Participants will make their own sleeping arrangements in Vejer de la Frontera (advice avalabile upon request) and will be picked up and dropped off each day for the work.
Participation by Application
Imelda Almqvist is a Dutch shamanic painter, practitioner and teacher based in London, UK. She teaches courses in Making Sacred Art and Shamanism internationally. Sacred Art is art inspired by “other worlds”, it makes visible ‘invisible words’, it reflects the spirit world. Sacred Art honours beings and powers greater than ourselves and reveals the heart of Divine mystery that animates the cosmos and dreams our world into being. Read more...
Karmit EvenZur helps people who want to deepen their connection to the earth, define a new relationship to their environment, resuming a new stewardship towards the landscape and recognising it's Sacredness. She facilitates seminars in holistic connection to the land, where together as a group participants explore tools of perception into the subtle realms of the land... Read more...
