Dear Friends of the POP-UP School,
We are re-inventing our campus!
Look what’s coming in 2024.
New Spirit, New Logo
I believe 2024 will be an inflection point, bringing us an entirely new view on what is possible.
A new spirit is being born.
It is our responsibility to both enact and reflect, to sing and to dance, to recognize and amplify this new spirit. It is the spirit of voyaging to the future, and coming back to tell the others about the worlds we have seen. To demonstrate with confidence and vigorous joy, that the future is calling us to these new worlds. Yes, along the way, there will be destruction and terror, unimaginable horrors and intense grieving for what will be lost, for massive cultural and planetary extinction events. But in this chaos, a new spirit is waiting to be born. The new spirit is a set of twins, yin and yang, eros & thumos — but this time they will not be made two, as they vow to voyage together.
Live Events
First, we have the three live retreats at Sky Meadow. This is a unique chance to create a deeper intimacy with the people who help make this community possible. Don’t miss out on the energetic surge that will sustain you through our adventurous times.
Visit the retreat website here
Alongside the live events, I will be dispatching reflections, photos, and media from the retreats in the Retreat Briefs section so that more people can participate and contribute virtually.
2024 - Media Presentations, Dialogue, ++plus ++
Practice Sessions
Media Presentations
(for paid subscribers only)
The first seven months of 2024 will be dedicated to the idea of Lyric Culture. Lyric Culture will emerge from a series of short posts and recorded presentations, featuring multimedia like this short video: Eutopia, Game of Life, which is a montage of Moebius’ art.
Course content will consist of a “suite” of essays, each focused on different themes of Lyric Culture. Essays will include written content, multi-media presentations links and prompts for conversations we will have in the live on-line sessions. Live on-line sessions will cover two rotations a month, each session being 2 hours.
Saturday 12 noon (eastern)
Tuesday 1 pm (eastern)
Friday 4 pm (eastern)
January - The Lyric Voice
February - On Lyric Thought: Resonance
March- On Lyric Thought: Integrity
April - On Lyric Thought - Gesture & Song
May - Lyric Culture - The Rhythms of Being
June - Lyric Culture - Particular Beings
July - Lyric Culture Re-Cap
Aug - Break
See full schedule & direct links here
Practice Sessions
Starting in March, 2024, each live, on-line session will consist of two parts. In the first hour there will be break-out groups around Lyric Culture.
In the second hour, there will be practice sessions exploring The Natural State, according to these scheduled themes:
March - May: Recognizing the Natural State
June - August: Cultivating the Natural State
Sept - Nov: Abiding as the Natural State
Dec: Natural State Immersive
These practice sessions support the practices offered at the live retreats, helping you to get a strong foundation so that your time at the retreats will be more generative.
This gives everyone an opportunity to attend one part of the session or another.
See full schedule & direct links here
Campfire -
Open Mic Sessions - for all subscribers
We will be hosting Open Mic “campfire” sessions the first (or last) Sunday of each month, 12 noon (eastern). See schedule for specific dates.
The Oracle - excerpts for all subscribers, video commentary for paid subscribers
This year includes a new section called The Oracle. It will basically be a kind of book-review section, featuring authors who are under-represented in our spaces, and are offering alternatives to the “malware” that plagues our thoughts, and points us toward new ways of thinking and futuring. I will post my book notes for all subscribers, but special video presentations on the material will be for paid subscribers only.
Birds on a Wire - Amped up for 2024 - Free Media
Look for more video interviews and panel discussions coming in 2024, including series with promising, new authors. Most of these will be cross-posted from other media venues, as I am eager to promote more of our work through other channels.
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Bonnie love this. (PS logo gives me the feeling at 29 seconds into this video "Dragonfly Emergence From Nymph to Adult Part 2: https://youtu.be/RI_DPcQjzQM?si=2oQrb8puRpd5VXoD&t=29 ... )