During the 60th Birthday Celebrations Sara and Damien fascinated many of us with the enchanting music they created using technology developed in the Damanhur Ecovillage to make electrical signals of plants audible. This was Co-creation with Nature made tangible in a totally new way – music created in the interplay between plants and humans.

In this interview they share about an adventure which takes this a step further: the plant – a nettle – becomes an actor in a play by Laura Pasetti (‘Nettle and I’) which had its preview in the Universal Hall on 8th November 2023. Sara says: “All of a sudden we can hear a plant … it touches our senses … it’s really powerful … to hear how the plant interacts live directly in synchronicity with the environment“.

In the interview Sara and Damien share their lifelong connection with nature, their amazing learning journey with plants, and their experience that the communications of plants have evolved since more people have learned to listen to them.

Review by Cornelia Featherstone

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Featured image by Corrina Tough.