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Kinship – Celebrating the Maranoa

Date: July 22, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
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  AELA's Earth Arts Program is pleased to invite you to join our next 'creative conversation'. On July 22nd we're excited to be joined by Jude Taggart Roberts, Vernessa Fien and Renata Buziak, members of the Yimbaya Maranoa Arts Collective, to discuss their current exhibition, Terra-rara. Hear about the local inspiration for the art works, and […]

Kinship: Celebrating Our Interconnectedness – Earth Arts Webinar

Date: May 18, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
https://youtu.be/8CdIMrRPb5Q Join us on Monday 18 May for an AELA Earth Arts 'creative conversation' - this month we're discussing AELA's 2026 Earth Arts Program "Kinship". Learn about the program, hear about previous Earth Arts Adventures and get inspired to join us! Kinship 2026 is an invitation for all creatives to celebrate, create works and events, and learn […]

Sublime Toxics with Christopher Wright

Date: September 22, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
https://youtu.be/Q4KnJywotwU Join us for a fascinating discussion about the role of the arts in enabling us to see humanity's impacts on the living world, with “The Toxic Sublime: A Photographic Exploration of Degraded Landscapes”. In his presentation, Chris will outline a current photographic project entitled “Toxic Sublime” which explores the paradoxical beauty and mystery that […]

Deep listening to nature – with Andrew Skeoch

Date: September 6, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
https://youtu.be/nPJBMdUjWtI Join us as Andrew Skeoch shares his observations from decades of making sound recordings of nature. Andrew will discuss his recent book - "Deep Listening to Nature" - in which he explores our relationship with nature and what we can learn from listening to the wondrous communications within the natural world. By tuning in […]

AELA’s Creative Conversations: with Jude Roberts and Helen Hardess

Date: August 8, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
https://youtu.be/N0DX7jC2B4g AELA's Earth Arts program connects with artists and creatives around Australia, and in 2023/2024 we're inviting amazing artists to share stories about their work and what inspires them. On 8 August, please join us for a fantastic conversation with artists Jude Roberts and Helen Hardess. Jude and Helen will talk about their personal methods in […]

Voices of Nature 2020: Poetry as the Conservation of the Wild

Date: October 1, 2020
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
https://youtu.be/r9rljD6UE-A Poetry, among all the human arts, may be the most powerful in marrying the inner to the outer. Nothing but the lyric apprehension poetry practices—the seeing, the being, and the saying of Self and world—outs one’s inner life and, at the same time, invites the wider world in. The way of poetry wakes us […]

AELA’s Creative Conversations: with Marian Drew and Michelle Maloney

Date: May 25, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
https://youtu.be/Bsf5tzadC1I AELA's Earth Arts program connects with artists and creatives around Australia, and in 2023/2024 we're inviting amazing artists to share stories about their work and what inspires them. On 25 May, please join us for a fantastic conversation with internationally renowned photographic and visual artist, Marian Drew. Marian will discuss her personal and creative […]

AELA’s Creative Conversations: with Merete Megarrity and Renata Buziak

Date: April 12, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
https://youtu.be/H2r8KDWJ0aU AELA's Earth Arts program connects with artists and creatives around Australia, and in 2023/2024 we're inviting amazing artists to share stories about their work and what inspires them. On 12 April, please join us for a fantastic conversation with artists Merete Megarrity and Renata Buziak, about their nature-inspired arts practice. Facilitated by Dr Michelle […]

Launch of the 2022 Earthwords & Artlings Anthology

Date: September 29, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
https://youtu.be/2H8MxpkBVVc Please join us to celebrate the launch of AELA's second Earthwords and Artlings Anthology: "Tipping Points" The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) believes that cultural change is a vital part of building Earth centred law, governance and ethics. To explore and recognise the role of creativity and cultural expression in supporting humanity's connection to, […]

Regenesis: The Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network

Date: September 21, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (AEST, Brisbane time)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
https://youtu.be/DiqcSD9P3bA ABOUT THE REGENESIS PROJECT Through the Regenesis Collective (regenesis.org.au), the Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network is telling the new/ancient story of RE-GENESIS, a way out of our dark path of ecological and civilisational collapse that can be traced back to a foundational story of Western Culture in Genesis, Old Testament, Verse 1.26. This story from Western culture—the […]