Community Resilience in a Time of Pandemic with Artist as Family - Happen Films Podcast #1
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2020
- In our very first podcast episode Meg and Patrick of Artist as Family join us for a conversation on community resilience and the opportunities for change that the pandemic presents.
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You might remember Meg and Patrick from our film Creatures of Place ( • Living a Radically Sim... ) that we made back in 2018. Today they're joining us from their home, Tree Elbow, on Djaara people’s land in Victoria, Australia.
We love the way these guys choose to live and interact with their community - they’re inspiring role models for us and they were the obvious choice for first guests on our new podcast.
One of the critical things we talked about was the difference between self-sufficiency and community sufficiency.
Meg: “How do we practice community sufficiency, what does that look like when it’s just us here, how do we look after each other in a non digital way in a very, very real practical sense? We’re so privileged here to live like this. How do we share that? In a time where everybody is physically distanced, what does generosity look like?”
Patrick: “Resilience is community sufficiency it’s not self sufficiency, so while we have twelve years of preparing for collapse on this particular lot in Central Victoria and within the community gardens and the community forests that we’re involved in and there’s food everywhere … feral foods and the huge amount of learning over the last twelve years we’ve put into edible flora and fauna and fungi - it’s so good to have that, that’s our main bank apart from our seed bank, our cellar and our garden and our community, but to be shut off so radically from community at the moment is definitely a… I feel a sense of vulnerability with that.”
It was really great to talk about that vulnerability with two people who are, despite feeling the vulnerability, deeply resilient in so many ways. We can’t all be prepared for every situation the future might bring, but we can choose to live in a way that is positive and loving and supportive of our selves and all the beings around us.
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I’m grateful that the earth is just able to breathe and I pray a lot for people who have lost their lives or their jobs. Be kind everyone 🥰
I am appreciating everything you say in this discussion a year on. Thank you for warming my heart, awakening my soul and reassuring me that my journey is not a solo one.
Amen and bless your family and community of friends. Resilience and community. 🕊💜🌱
This podcast series is such a great idea. I could listen to Meg and Patrick for hours, they're so inspiring!
Thanks Danielle, that's lovely to hear. If you have seen this already here is a little more from us: czcams.com/video/xkIGXDkPqEY/video.html
Thanks Patrick and Meg and the makers of Happen Films.
There’s so much in this 1hr plus video.
Patrick, you are right. There has been a monoculture of ‘human culture’, whereby the usual dominant forces suck all the oxygen out of the story-telling space.
Diversity is healthy in all spheres.
Thank you for this wonderful discussion, which clearly has been going on well before the pandemic, but is being brought out into the light.
May the magic be with you all.
May we all remember and feed the inner child.
Thanks Mun, may the magic be with you too.
Always love listening to Meg and Patrick. I settled in to listen, whilst making fig jam and a stock. Perfect accompaniment to an afternoon of cooking and as always, grateful to hear their insights.
Thanks to you all for enabling this discussion to be cast.
I really loved Creatures of Place with Meg, Patrick and Woody. This podcast is amazing, thank you. I am knitting as I watch this. I always felt that I was on the right path by trying to grow as much as I could in my little garden, try to live a simple life, re-use, recycle, make, and lately really thinking about what I was purchasing. But Patrick and Meg really brought a couple of things home - the grief one feels when we decide to change and do without something (black tea is huge for me as I lived in Pakistan and i immigrated to Ontario, Canada), and more importantly where do we go from here. Looking seriously at our future because, it may seem everything will go back to ‘normal’, and perhaps it will for a bit, but this is just one thing to happen on a global scale. And I love the really positive message that we all have a skill to share, something we can do to share and contribute. Thank you both so much, thanks to Meg and Patrick as well. Looking forward to more of your Podcasts. Stay well.
Thank you so much Antoinette, Jordan, Meg and Patrick.
This podcast has been a healing salve for the isolated single permi.
Thank you so much. You've given the gift of connectedness from afar.
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So glad to hear you enjoyed it Clare 🙂
Thank you Clare, glad we connected with you. Thanks for your comment.
Thank you for your having these amazing guys, Meg and Patrick. Meg your generosity shines through the skills you are sharing through your videos. Thank you.
Thanks all for this lovely, inspiring conversation! It is so comforting to hear how you, Meg and Patrick, are still transitioning. I sometimes get impatient because I think we aren’t going fast enough. But first of all my husband needs lots more time transitioning than I do and although we live among very nice neighbours, most of them are not interested in anything permaculture or just sustainability. I hope by living the way we do we can inspire people as well.
I love the three things you mentioned, Meg, grow food, catch rainwater and say hello to your neighbours. All three are firmly embedded in our lives. 💜
Thanks for all the wonderful films, Jordan and Antoinette! Thanks for all the sharing, Meg and Patrick (and Woody and Zero as well)!
Beautiful video!
Covid pandemic has had different impacts on people and the earth. It has slowed down the busy lives of people, many people lost their lives and their livelihood.
But at the same time it has reduced global world pollution, lot of wild animals are freely moving on the streets as they see no humans around and don't feel threatened and scared to come out.
We need to understand the importance of balancing and sustaining life for human growth along with caring for our natural resources and surrounding.
Spot on
Well said!
Thank you so much!!! Awesome podcast. Blessings to you all ❤
These resilient people have all the reasons in the world to be jubilant while the world is in chaos. They are hundred steps prepared than most people are in their lifestyle, environment and diet. Now the skeptic world is regretfully listening to your testimony.
you all are such lovely people. thank you.
Thank you Happen Films! Thank you Meg and Patrick!
Yes yes yes!!! I needed this! Thank you 🙏 safety and health to all
I love you guys! The information you spread is more powerful than you know, and it’s definitely changed my life
Awesome chat guys.....thank you so much ......inspiring 🌈
This is awesome!!! Love the idea of the podcast. Great work!
Thanks to all four of you... so inspiring and comforting in these times! 💚
Thank you so much, this really helps. It helps to see other people doing similar things who are much further in the journey. I am going to start bicycling more again. And growing more food.
What a wonderful bunch of humans you four are. Thanks for sharing.
Be safe to all. I hope this pandemic will be over
Thankyou so much for this awesome podcast
Another year later here I am. This was a wonderful podcast! I am in Florida and became a widow five days before lockdown 2020. It's been hard on me
such an inspiring conversation Thank you from Vancouver Bc Canada and from a recently retired woman looking for ways to concerse and contribute in my neighborhood
Gratitude and sorrow to those giving their lives for this change and opportunity. Blessed be🌍🌎🌏🆓
So many of these issues have been racing through my mind lately - what a perfect dialogue for me to listen to tonight... Thank you so much for sharing your insights!
So awesome ❤
One day when the borders open again, I'd love to attend some of your workshops!
Great video! Definitely always appreciate seeing the faces that are talking rather than just hearing the podcast, so thank you for doing this the way you have!
Thank you for sharing the message, beautiful people! :* For creating so love full life and sharing with us. I am 25 and feels that this kind of living is the right way for the earth and for a human being. This video and in general all happen films are making my dream become more real because it´s a great way to see all the details and learn. Ačiū Gracias!
Search for the good in the bad... I am hopeing this pandemic will develop a different generation of children that will not have the level of entitlement that the past generations (as you say from baby boomers). I'm nearly 50 and I have wished for the huge range of unnecessary products in our supermarkets to be interrupted.... For people to realise that we are not entitled to anything at any time. Also travel and tourism though amazing is also not something we are entitled to.
And to be so aware of how privileged we are to have our houses to self isolate in... There are millions who do not....
I did not vote for our government in Australia but I am grateful for them right now.... They are so problematic but there are millions in the world who have far worse governments and broken medical systems.
Love listening to all of you, and wish you health and safety..... And breathe deeply 🙏💙🌱🌺
I love listening to them.
Great convo! Feeling gently held by the compassionate outlooks and inspiration.
Big thank you. And more please. 😁
Lovely words in the intro from Patrick as a busy person myself i really resonated with this
Appreciate this podcast ! Love the magic part, I experience it within my beloved Canines all where and still are so important in my I life. Stay healthy and succes with all the new possibilities. I will educate myself more into this precious concept of permi-life within my own area in Belgium.
You're all lovely keep making a positive loving impact
Great talk. Thank you very much.
Gave up coffee? Wow! Looking great guys, and sounding surely centred in your truths.
Very well done!
Hey. Gorgeous stuff, Y'all. Thank you! And Patrick; I reckon you should use your hands to help express your speech whenever you wish, even if it may sometimes glitch the mic. Consider it a form of hugging... speech-mic-glitch-hugging. We need more speech-mic-glitch-hugging! Ha ha. Take care. Much love to you all. x
Would love to see an episode with Tom & Sarah from the coromandel!
That was brilliant - thank you. Can episodes 3,4,5,6 & 7 be with Artist As Family, too? :)
Thanks Helen, that's very lovely to hear. If you'd like a little more from us and you haven't watched/listened already, then this may be of interest: czcams.com/video/xkIGXDkPqEY/video.html
@@artistasfamily I'm a bit of an artist-as -family nerd and have read/watched everything I can find, including your book. :)
It is the weirdest time for sure. All the world is forced to slow down, take stock and see value differently. Or just watch Netflix :-) Not sure how we get out of this, but the world will never be the same.
Thanks for this, i really enjoyed the conversation. That headphone though...
Yes, Patrick's malformed inner ear wasn't really factored in to AaF's planning for this podcast.
We should all get familiar with the Grand Solar Minimum and what it means for our Food Supply! Start a garden today your life will depend upon it!
I am watching this in November so hopefully, you have now stopped calling this a pandemic..such lies, not yours obviously but lies none the less! Your work is so good so hopefully, you have see more of the truth now.
I think they woke up eventually.
Stay Happy...
Great conversation. Happen Films is such a light in my life. Patrick, I didn’t catch the name of the book you were talking about re: eternal adolescence. Can you share the title?
Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
May be, It's been imposed FOR all so we learn TRUE LESSONS of what we are doing and mostly think if our "alternative" ways are IN FACT AND NOT ONLY IN SPEECH, ALTERNATIVE!
There are many things that are called alternative but they are the same just with a cosmetic difference. If it wasn't like that, there should be NO DOUBT OR WORRY, but because there is worry and doubt shows that not only going to live in the forest or living in a camp van or a tiny house and having a garden, etc., is synonymous of understanding of life and the big questions of life. Perhaps we have not come to just build, grow food, dress like hippies, make money, sell organic food, etc, but there is a more profound and transcendent propose for being in the Earth that is really common to all beyond the superficial differences that for being superficial are not really "alternative" because at the core they continue to support the system we pretend to "change" or be an "alternative" of it. (If it was Truly alternative and different, why there is doubt and fear for others nd one self?) Perhaps the change does not come from the outside in but the opposite. And this is time for EVERYONE to STOP AND REMAIN STILL, because even the "alternative" characters NEVER REST AND ARE ALWAYS DOING. May be...
Hopefully not off the subject but do Meg and Patrick have a site or channel- anything?
czcams.com/channels/90Jv6gBc7mf4dyfTyWj4tQ.htmlvideos
Are you offering these podcasts as audio downloads?
The podcast is currently available on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/4TEGs49IuNSzmLvup9EU87 or as a direct mp3 download www.buzzsprout.com/972601/3220378-1-community-resilience-in-a-time-of-pandemic-with-artist-as-family.mp3?blob_id=11507464&download=true
It'll be coming to apple podcasts soon!
Being home more is a perfect time to seek our Maker.. He gave us life, resources and this earth... He left us a book, that has been much misused or twisted, but the humble will understand it rightly- the Holy Bible
It is so depressing that society has not learned the lessons of pre covid. Society is back to normal even playing catch up here for the year 'lost' to covid.
You fell for the lies as well. Sad.
BS times and should be avoided ❗