July 17-19, 2009
Arthur Morgan School
Celo, North Carolina
Katuah Bioregion
A conference working in the tradition of Isaiah's "just
remnant," justice to the human community and crucially, the bioregion.
At the end of the warm, stable, Holocene period, the earth is entering
a "long emergency," an era of climate change, with accelerating
species extinction and potentially rapid warming. Embracing these trying
times, join us in creating a remnant "quilt" of just, sustainable,
hopeful practices to preserve Katuah. The conference will feature presentations,
roundtable with representatives from a broad range of bioregional organizations,
experiential exercises, and field trips. Poetry reading featuring Thomas
Rain Crowe and contradance Saturday night with local musicians. Food
will be local, vegetarian, mostly organic, and fabulous.
The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss speaks of human cultural activity
as bricolage. The bricoleur is a scavenger, a tinker, making a living
collecting society's remnants. Areas of our bricolage:
ECOJUSTICE
the land ethic, wildlife corridors, stream
buffers, healing forests
VIABLE SMALL TOWNS and RURAL PLACES
sustainable agriculture,
cooperative enterprises and small business development, distributed
energy
PLACE-BASED CULTURAL REMNANTS
Cherokee keepers
of traditions
Appalachian farmers
and crafters.
 Keynote:
Prize-winning poet/activist Thomas
Rain Crowe, "Bioregion & Beyond: What I Stand
For is What I Stand On...Organizing and Activism in the New Millenium - a Local History" |
 Paulus
Berensohn, world renowned
craft artist/teacher, guiding the practice of "Somatic Deep
Ecology" |