EMBARGOED FEB 10 2025
Community workers, environmental activist and individuals, with aspirations, even audacious ambitions, are invited to the launch of FOUNDATION X at YYY 11am Wednesday February 12.
There was a time when such people might well have looked to government, a charity, a church, a philanthropist, whoever, whatever to support an aspiration but that world has changed.However, thinking about change, big changes, Nelson Mandela is right there in the ether to remind us that “it always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Indeed, 25 years into the 21st C increasingly communities and their placemakers need to look within to shape their cultural landscapes [LINK] in ways that fit their circumstances and their aspirations.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Indeed, 25 years into the 21st C increasingly communities and their placemakers need to look within to shape their cultural landscapes [LINK] in ways that fit their circumstances and their aspirations.
Eminent scholars such as Simon Schama tells us about the 'disappointment of revolutions' in a lecture at Cambridge University about a year ago and we would do well to take careful note.
He has also told us back in the 1990s that "landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a single natural system that has not, for better or worse, been substantially modified by human culture. The cultural habits of humanity have always made room for the sacredness of nature."
Schama opened up a radically new and original path into history, when he explored the scenery of Western culture, both real landscapes and the landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of 'home', the dark woods of the Western world's imagined origins and colonial aspirations.
All that said and acknowledged there are aspirations to achieve 'things' sometimes 'little things' some of which as Kev Carmody tells us From Little Things Big Things Grow [LINK]. The process is often long and slow but like eating an elephant it can be done one chunk at a time.
Not always popular 'things', but we might muse upon a people who were imagined to be extinct and who are not, cultural identity acknowledged, stolen cultural property returned, dams built and dams not built, pulp mills that have not been built, a museum built, all contentious, all spiked with audacity, and then look around us and take a a good look at all that is yet to be done and think about how it might be and why it should be.
Sir David Attenborough on May 8, he will celebrate 98th birthday and as we reflect on all the amazing stories of nature he has given us there is much to muse upon. In one of his most inspiring quotes on nature he tells us that ... "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
Sir David also reminds us that human-made materials: "The amount of human-made material including concrete, plastic and bricks now outweighs the total mass of biological matter on the planet".
The network of people who imagine the need for FOUNDATION X see 'bamboo' as one of planet earth's miracle plants along with hemp, coconuts, bananas et al. Bamboo sequesters carbon prodigiously and it offers lutruwita Tasmania opportunities to engage in sustainable environmental repair.
- Why FOUNDATION X ? Well everything that is sustainable and substantial is built upon one!
- Why X ? Well X = whatever matters now & RED because it will be READ
- Why bamboo? Well, it is said that the list of things you can do with bamboo is extraordinarily long while the list of what one cannot do with bamboo is extraordinarily short.
Looking for that 'first chunk of the elephant', that first step on a 1000 mile journey, the 'what if' question begged an answer. So, what if Tasmania was engage with say:
- Bamboo in its cultural landscape; and
- As the foundation for a 'pilot' Community Cultural Enterprise; and
- With a Community of Ownership & Interest; and
- Bamboo was right there hanging in the air and offering itself as grist for the mill; and
- lutruwita Tasmania too was right there offering an opportunity to engage with the BIG PICTURE!
So, community workers and others with aspirations, indeed audacious ambitions, are invited to the launch of FOUNDATION X at YYY 11am Wednesday February 12.
TWO QUOTES
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens.
"One of the Best Books of the Year", Landscape and Memory is a bravura exploration of the ancient relationship between natural landscapes and the human imagination. Simon Schama excavates the layers of significance that human beings have imposed on forests, rivers, and mountains to create a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art.
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