Cultivating Creativity

• Explore what we mean by regenerative practice and how that may resonate within creative arts projects and practice.
• Learn about the permaculture ethics and explore how they may help ground your work, and support the development of ways of working which are more regenerative and restorative.
• Explore Holmgren’s Permaculture Principles and the way that they may help us work in ways that are more connected with the natural world.
• Think about patterns in nature and the way that they may inform and deepen the work that we do.
• Learn more about the permaculture network and explore how it can support you to expand your permaculture learning beyond the course.

You will:

· Connect with other creatives who are based locally and who are inspired to explore how to develop regenerative ways of working.

· Become part of a national / international community of practice using Permaculture Design in arts and culture contexts.

· Have the opportunity to reflect upon your own work and the ways that Permaculture Design may support you to start exploring new and different ways of working.

Who will lead the course?:

This course has been convened by Seed Sedgemoor. It will be facilitated by Liz Postlethwaite who is a certified permaculture educator and diploma tutor, as well as having her own practice as a community artists and creative facilitator based in Bury in Greater Manchester.

She completed a Permaculture Design Course with Angus Soutar in Lancaster in 2011. Following this she undertook a diploma in applied permaculture design which explored notions of accessibility around permaculture, and also to explore how permaculture design could be used to deepen my her own creative practice. She is passionate about the power of permaculture design as a tool to empower communities and individuals to instigate positive change.

She is now one of the leading practitioners exploring ideas around permacultue design, imagination and art. In her day to day life I create zines focused upon ideas around permaculture and imagination, she convenes a group exploring permaculture in the arts, and is involved in a community project using permaculture to manage and maintain a 120 acres of woodland and meadow by the River Irwell. She is particularly interested in developing projects which broaden access to permaculture and which make use of it in more unusual and unexpected contexts.”

Host or Publisher Seed Sedgemoor