Feral Visions - A Slideshow about rewilding, radical homesteading, and realizing our wildest dreams! Coming to Chicago this Wednesday, 10/27 at 5:30 PM at New World Resource Center, 1300 N. Western Ave.

http://www.wildroots.org/index.php
http://www.greenanarchy.org

The goal of our tour is to inspire and empower participants to break down the layers of alienation at work in our lives that keep us dependent on complex industrial and social systems. By showing examples of people attempting to live outside of these systems, we hope to plant seeds of rebellious renewal. Within civilization the ways that we feed, clothe, warm, transport, house, and learn are highly mediated by industrial technology, global capitalism, and political institutions. This mediation separates us from the source of our very survival, and creates the illusion that we cannot live apart from civilization's institutions. Many are coming to believe that in order to live an ethical and fulfilling life we must subvert the inefficient and exploitative paths that lie between society and the physical world that surrounds us, and embrace more direct means of existence.

Our presentation explores ways that people are breaking free of the tentacles of civilization; about how people are reconnecting with the natural world around them. We explore recovery from civilization within physical, mental, and emotional realms, and address topics like feral nutrition and food politics, domestication and rewilding, bioregionalism, primitivism, collective process, uncivilized survival, ecofeminism, anarchy, cooperative living, symbolic culture, direct action, and the place of permaculture.

These concepts are fleshed out with photos that exemplify industrial civilization, contrasted with photos demonstrating ways that people are meeting their needs in ways that oppose civilization. There are photos taken at radical homesteads, intentional communities, primitive skills gatherings, and urban wastelands of wild food and material foraging, natural building, natural container making, crafting of primitive clothing, low tech living, primitive hunting, horticulture, and resistance.

Where possible, given time and situational constraints we love to engage groups in more participatory activities. These activities could include medicinal and edible plant walks, cordage making, medicinal tea making, roadkill processing into food and materials, and discussions on a variety of topics. Following are the tentative dates for our upcoming tour of the Midwest and Southeast. If you want to know what venue we will present at in a particular town, want more information about the tour, or are interested in collaborating in a participatory activity that fits into the tour please write us at:

wildrootsnc@ziplip.com
866-460-2945
P.O. Box 1485
Asheville, NC 28801