Nameless Catalogue Moray Art Centre 2010
The access to artists who lived 500 and 600 years ago has become a great source of inspiration and enlightenment to me as an artist.
The access to artists who lived 500 and 600 years ago has become a great source of inspiration and enlightenment to me as an artist.
This workshop addressed the social dimensions of our community culture by focusing on the Community Centre Through the Years as well as exploring the Gritty Bits (warts-and-all).
Forty words, all told. That was it — a life changing encounter in the CC.
The organisers had taken a major leap of faith in leaving much of the programme unplanned and pregnant with possibility. How could an event seeking to develop a New Story be otherwise? What emerged was deep, powerful and chaotic.
I eat in the CC (Community Centre) at every opportunity, and have been doing so without change since I first arrived here ten years ago.
The history of any individual or organisation that is on the edge of turning 50 is bound to a complex and many-tiered story. The history of the Findhorn Foundation is definitely that!!
If ever I doubted the transformative energy field within the Park Ecovillage, the sequence of events leading up to the 2011 arrival of legendary American environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill was proof of the magic and miracles that manifest here.
Writing this account, assisted by an extensive archive of the project, it is simple enough to list in a few words the genesis of the woodland garden. The reality however was hours of work by a committed group and various visiting volunteers over a number of years, and plenty of coffee, tea and biscuits.
We endeavour to map the evolution of the beautifully complex ecosystem which is our community as it has unfolded over more than six decades.
The 1988 Orientation Group met up for a 30 year reunion, online and in person, completing with full hearts giving thanks for the many gifts of the last few days and the last three decades.