Easter Artist Hunt 2026Author’s Note: For the 2026 Easter Conference Economics As If Life Matters I organised a special edition of the Artist Hunt entitled The Stories that Took Root. It is a perfect example of what we at the Theatre of the 7 Directions call eco-theatre.

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(A young person is playing a simple game with shells and stones.)

Hello! I am FF3. Oh, that’s my nickname, maybe I should introduce myself more formally. Findhorn Foundation SCIO, nice to meet you! (She shakes some people’s hands.)

I am a new seedling growing from two older ancestors, two great trees who have fallen. One is my slightly older sibling, called FF SCIO 1, and the other is a huge tree called FF Trust. Both feed me with their stories of courage and collapse. I am learning every day, not just from the past but from the present; there are so many new shoots in our Community. A spiritual spring can happen in every season, you know? But you have to have faith – and I do have faith.

I am young, but I am also strong, resilient, and curious. My mycelial threads weave through Park Ecovillage Findhorn, through decades of spiritual practice, experiments in community, shared doubts, difficult conversations, and quiet breakthroughs. From those hidden roots, I draw nourishment and transform it into care for Planet, Place, People, and all beings. For me, abundance is not about having more; it is about being able to give more, more wisely, more tenderly.

FF3 photo Lucca RichardsonI am young, but my roots are old.

I speak through my signature programme, Experience Week: From I to We. I call to people who are curious about inner listening, about how to live together, about what it means to be in conscious relationship with themselves, with others, and with all dimensions of life in the everyday. I live in the ordinary moments: walking paths, sharing silence, daring to be honest, daring to love even when it is not perfect.

I keep asking myself, “what happens when we look around at our Community ecosystem and see the I in the We, and feel the We in the I?”

I am this new seedling, saying, “slow down, notice, explore. Will you grow with me, and help me grow?”

GAME: “Circle of the beings”

While they arrive and before starting, the character is playing and she invites the audience to play.

Before the audience arrives, the character places a small circle of stones, pine cones or walnuts on the floor or on a low table, leaving some pieces aside. She quietly moves pieces in and out of the circle, as if tending a tiny forest or community.

As people arrive, she gently invites them: “Would you like to add one stone to our little forest? Place it where you feel it belongs.” During or just after the line about “Community ecosystem,” she may pick up one stone, move it slightly, and say, “See? When one of us shifts, the whole pattern changes”, using the game as a live metaphor for I and We.

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Actor: Maya Karpova

Photographer: Lucca Richardson