With Karmit Even-Zur
in collaboration with
Culture Vultures
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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
Testimonials
“Through exploring visible landscape and complementing it with experience and recognition of the subtle dimension (vital-energy, emotional, spiritual dimension) this journey has become a form of initiation, healing, expansion of consciousness about myself and about the landscape through which we traveled. Such experience and deep connection to the landscape, to people is a form of holistic ecology, a way to learn, to hear and understand deeply, a way to co-create a new culture for/of Human&Earth.”
Manuela Kaniški, geo-engineer. Participant on the Strait of Gibraltar journey, 2014.
“It seems that nature has been, for a long time, trying to get our attention, for she has a story to tell. It is a tale of wonder, a tale of woe, a tale of glory, of beauty and adventure beyond the imagination. But to hear this tale is a journey in itself.
The course took 14 experienced and new storytellers on this journey. Deeper and deeper into the heart of the earth, into the heart of ourselves, so that we can listen, hear this tale and deliver it back. In these changing times we find ourselves in, there has never been a greater need for this story to be told and for this story to be heard.
The course is a beautiful combination of geomancy (earth divination) with Karmit and storytelling with Roi. It is not like any other storytelling course on offer, it is something quite other. Allowing us participants an opportunity to deliciously slow right down, and allow our intuitive self to step forward and simply listen, on a deeper level than ever before.
Outside, opening up all our senses and working very much from the place of the heart, we approached spaces in nature, and I have to say it was quite incredible what comes through, when you balance the logical, rational thinking self, with completely opening, sensing and using your intuition. It was liberating. Using movement, sound and words, we embodied nature, allowing her to speak to us and through us. We wove beautiful poetry and stories, that took us on journeys, much like the Wonder Tales themselves.
Inside, guided by Karmit, we journeyed deep into the earth, to meet with Gaia, collecting and entwining our journeys into stories to provide a collective essence of what we had experienced. The course was very much a course of the ‘heart’, for this is the place we would spend most of our time working from, because it is the energy of the heart that allows the channels to open and connect us to nature, allowing the story to simply unfold.”
Katie Jones, participant in Earth Speaks storytelling course, 2013
“…We started the process with two journeys: one journey travelling on the rhythm of the drum, introducing ourselves to the cave; the other one by car to the Pileta cave, in order to get an impression of what a functioning cave, a portal, feels like.
And that’s where I met Her. A woman standing with her two feet strong on the ground, raising her arms just as firmly up to the sky. Una mujer bien puesta, I would call her in Spanish. Or in other words an atmosphere present in the Pileta cave that two of us perceived through the above picture. Her, an energy that I first met in this cave and that I am still learning from today.
Karmit and Imelda guided us through magical moments of tuning into the land, artistic expression, and bird watching. Moreover there was always enough space to share the experiences about this for many of us yet so newly entered world. And last but not least the food was incredibly good. Thanks!!! And just now I realise that we were actually 8 people, born in 6 different countries, with 6 different mother tongues – and it was just normal.”
Katharina Hoepner, Germany, Participant in Gnosis of the Land, 2013