CONNECTING CREATIVES

PROJECTS

The Enlivenment Network 2025 Projects

As an emergent and adaptive network of networks, we will harness the energies, talents and enthusiasms of our members and network partners to develop a series of self-funding projects across 2025. Through these projects we will seek to spread the seeds of ENLIVENMENT as a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing, in alignment with First Nations knowledges, and acting as allies with First Nations peoples and their communities.

Regenesis Anthologies

In 2025, we will collaborate with partner organisations to produce Regenesis Anthologies, building on our 2022-2024 series developed in collaboration with Rosey Ravelston Books, with financial support from Bendigo Community Bank, Katoomba. Resilient Blue Mountains are our partner in the Blue Mountains. They have now issued their callout for entries for poetry, creative fiction and artworks, closing 30 June, focused on the theme of ‘sustainability’. We have also been in discussion with Bega Circular Valley, about working with their vibrant community of local creatives to create an anthology that adds to the story of circularity, which Bega Circular Valley are promoting through their Circular Precinct, part of the work of Circular Australia. Early days yet, but we are on the journey, as we regard the shift to a circular economy as a practical and vital part of rethinking the way adopt the relationist ethos in everything we do.
– Project Lead: Barbara Lepani, Blue Mountains NSW

Collaborative EcoArts-Citizen Science Webinar Series

In collaboration with NENA, we will host webinars in 2025 where leading eco-arts practitioners who are working with citizen science projects and First Nations elders will talk about how their work is part of the shift to an ENLIVENMENT paradigm, making deeper connection to the Indigenous relationist ethos of Caring for Country. The first of our webinars, Wilami Wunmabil, took place on 31 March, led by local Indigenous Elders in restoring Country, and featuring a multi-party collaboration across several local governments involved in the restoration of the Moonee Chain of Ponds from its life as a concrete culvert.
—Project Lead: Catherine van Wilgenburg

Enlivened Living Podcast Series

Hosted by Brad Diedrich, as part of his Talking Artz Series, our growing community of Creative Enlivenment practitioners will explore what it means to make the paradigm shift from normative extractivist ways of thinking, which underpin Modernity’s technocratic, transactional capitalism, to a different worldview—ENLIVENMENT.

This enlivenment worldview involves new/ancient ways of being thinking and doing, based on reciprocal relationships of enlivened living, drawing on insights from ancient wisdom traditions, deep ecology, quantum science and First Nations knowledge systems.

—Project Lead: Brad Diedrich

The Enlivenment Blog

Our blog is a home for creative non-fiction articles and commentary that will share our creative responses to the tsunami of intersecting crises engulfing our world. It will track the search for a new story of ENLIVENMENT, of courageous, resilient resistence to the techno-managerialist, neo-liberal economic global order, as it reaches its apogee in colonising the territory of our minds and emotions through algorithmic data harvesting.

This resistence, spreading like a mycelium network beneath the dominant geo-poltical storm, is informing the underground global shift to an ENLIVENMENT WORLDVIEW, a paradigm shift, discovering ways to live that align with bioregional regeneration, insights from Indigenous knowledge systems, ancient wisdom traditions, and modern science.
—Project Lead: Barbara Lepani

The Enlivenment Blog

Enlivenment Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Inspired by Bob Dylan’s biopic, ‘A Complete Unknown’, we are developing a Singer-Songwriter Showcase for later this year to find the singer-songwriters of OUR times. Our project, once launched, will issue a callout to our singer-songwriter community for entries, seeking to inspire the songs that can serve as a clarion call to an ENLIVENED way of living—a pathway through the debris of global chaos and suffering. Songs that sing up our courage and determination to resist the dark forces let loose bv Trumpism, the Tech Oligarchs, and the ruthless extractivist logic of Modernity/Coloniality, which is hooked on profit maximisation and surveillance control at all costs across different global political systems.

Meanwhile, check out Brad Diedrich’s curated playlist of songs that can help us find a pathway through the debris towards enlivenment.

— Project Leads: Barbara Lepani, Brad Diedrich, Ian McLeod, Carl Hemmings

One-on-One Soul Songwriting Workshop Sessions

Aka, The Greater Tapestry, Blue Mountains-based Carl’s sessions help aspiring singer-songwriters finesse their skills in exploring the ENLIVENMENT STORY through:

Lyric writing
Storytelling within a 3-4 min song
Song structure
Song form
Creating compelling moments within the song.

This opportunity gives your songs the best chance of really making an impact on the audience. Moving their emotions. Through these five elements, we tighten up the message, the premise of your song and maintain the listeners’ attention, from start to finish, throughout your song.
Book with Carl now, 0424 176 699. Let’s begin this inspiring work together.

Project Lead: Carl Hemmings aka The Greater Tapestry