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Summer gathering August 11-17 2008 in a forest southwest of Stockholm
Urvision is a vision of our native lifeway. We invite you who are longing for a life beyond civilization to a week of visioning, networking, thought and skill sharing, in a natural environment. We invite you to a week where we’ll be a part of the wild, where we can find energy and get inspiration in our striving towards a balanced life. Our vision for the gathering is a week which includes all aspects of a life as hunter-gatherers, the way we’re meant to live. We’re striving for a perspective of wholeness that touches the practical, mental, social and spiritual aspects of native living. This perspective also includes how to best defend nature, which we’re a part of, against the destructiveness of civilization.
Urvision will be held in the spirit of freedom, in which giving is receiving. So if you don’t have any money, you can still come to our gathering. The food, vegan and paleo, will be free or based on donation. And during the days of the gathering, you can come and go as you please. The gathering could become nomadic, as we don’t acknowledge the civilized land ownership and therefore won’t ask for permission to be on a spot uninhabited by humans. This also goes hand in hand in our striving towards a nomadic life.
For more information about what we’re planning to do during the gathering, about what’s good to bring and for directions, contact us through www.vildvaxande.org. The same way of contact applies to all other questions.
Finally we want to say that a part of the vision for the gathering is a celebration of life. A celebration of the wild and free, in the spirit of gratefulness for all we’re being given. For a life in harmony with nature,
The Wild Growing Collective
Here is a flyer which can be downloaded and printed.
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Programme
Here is a preliminary programme for the gathering. Things will be moved, added, and taken away, but this is what we start from.
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Food and drink
We will try to offer as much as possible of the food for free, but we would anyway be grateful for contributions, preferably in the form of food, but otherwise money. Food we are looking for are for example nuts, egg, meat and fish for the paleodiet, and beans, lentils, rice, pasta, bread etc for the veggies. Of course we would also like to get vegetables and fruit, but that is easier for us to get hold of.
A big part of the food will be dumpstered, wich means stuff that the stores would otherwise discard. That means that the paleo menu unfortunately can't offer wild meat, but industrial meat, since that is what is possible to get. So if you don't want to eat that or the vegan food, you should bring your own.
Please bring some food, because then there won't be so much work for the organizers to go dumpstering.
We will take turns in doing the cooking.
We drink lake water, which shouldn't be a problem, but if you have a sensitive stomach it could be good to bring a water filter or purification tablets, or to boil the water.
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Things that are good to bring
Tent, sleeping bag, knife, warm and rain proof clothes, bowl and spoon, torch, food and/or money to donate, musical instrument, money to shop for in the distro, maybe a small axe, bag for gathering plants, maybe leather for different handicrafts, moose antlers for flint knapping, blankets for the sweat lodge, leather and strong needle and thread for moccasin sewing.
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Please don't bring
Dogs and cameras.
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We would need help with
Food, financial donations, large cooking utensils, initiatives for workshops and discussions, help with preparations and cleanup before and after the gathering, tarps, first aid kits, buckets. If you can contribute with something, we would like you to write and tell us, so that we know.
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Children
Are most welcome.
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Location and "sign-up"
To help us plan the gathering we want you to contact us, and tell how many you are and if you eat paleo or vegan food. Then we will give you the location and a description on how to get there. Do it by mail, or by phoning us on +46 76 11 74 664.
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