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Urvision
A summer gathering in the beginning of August 2009 in a forest south west of
Stockholm
Workshops Update
This year we have confirmed workshops on subjects ranging from bow-making and primitive fire to plant walks and discussions about community, politics and living in the forest. In the spirit of decentralization we have organised less workshops than last year to give space to people wanting to offer their own at the gathering as well as to give more time to meet, socialise, make, plan, cook and dance together.
If you feel like giving a workshop at the gathering, get in touch or just bring whatever you need to the gathering to hold it.
Confirmed workshops/discussions so far:
- Guerilla gardening
- Primitive fire making
- Community building
- Bow and arrow making
- Anarcho-primitivsm
- Basketry
- Plant walk
- Attention exercises
- Fishing
- How to live in the forest
- Natural contraception
- Native parenting
- Massage
- Wilderness first-aid
- Felting
- Drum making for kids
- Cordage
- Deer skinning and butchering, fat rendering, jerky making
- How to build a winter shelter
Food update
Well, now it's soon and finally time for Urvision. Last year we were many people who wanted to share this experience in the woods, and we believe that there will be many people also this time. But this year we can't guarantee that there will be enough free food for us all to stay full and happy.
We will rely on the kindness of the dumpster-gods and -godesses during the gathering week. But to be sure
Bring food.
If you wonder
something, mail us at
kollektivet@vildvaxande.org
or call +46
76 117 46 64¨.
General Info
The last two
gatherings have been very rewarding but also very intense and maybe too
organized. This year we would like to make it more relaxed with less
schedule and formal workshops, and more spontaneous being and
socializing.
We also hope for a less institutional feel through more
decentralisation.
Essentially we want everybody to participate more in the making of this
years gathering! In this way we could avoid overburdening a few of us,
and make a gathering that is created more directly by All of its
participants!
Suggestions and ideas are highly appreciated, and anyone who is
interested is very welcome to come along.
This year there will be less food provided. We plan on providing only
uncooked breakfasts, and a collective cooked meal for dinner, and
otherwise have firepits where people can cook for themselves when they
want to. The idea is to try to have a more self-organizing approach to
this year’s camp.
We also plan to have an earlier meeting in the forest in preparation for
Urvision, for people interested in learning wild food gathering,
preserving
and cooking techniques. More info about this soon!
In preparation, as well as during camp, there is all kinds of tasks that
you could help out with: collecting and storing all sorts of food
(including wild foods), driving and carrying stuff, making firepits,
cooking, gathering wood etc.
There will also be a childrens’ area at this years camp. We are hoping
on
having a couple of adults there for most of the time, and maybe having
some activities for the kids. If you have any ideas for this, or are
interested
in helping out, please get in touch.
More information will later be available at this webpage, and we
will announce how you can find out where it is.
We also plan to have the duration of the gathering to be less fixed. The
scheduled program will be August 10 - 16 2009 but people will be at the
site from August 3 to set it up. Everyone is welcome to take part in the
setup of camp, and to have some nice unscheduled time in a beautiful
environment!
We also need some people to stay to take down the camp and clean up
after August 16, but then we can carry on hanging out in the woods for
the rest of the summer (and perhaps winter, for the wild at heart…)
The Wild Growing Collective
Dead Society
A film by Thomas Toivonen
Vargatid
A zine for a native relation to Mother Earth
(in
swedish)
Fimbulvinter - Anarcho-primitivism in Swedish
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critical of civilization
