This groundbreaking handbook is a resource for artists, community activists and anyone wishing to reach beyond the facts and figures of science and technology to harness their creativity to make change in the world.
This timely book explores the pivotal role artists play in re-thinking the future; re-inventing and re-imagining our world at a time of systemic change and uncertainty. Playing for Time identifies collaborative arts practices emerging in response to planetary challenges, reclaiming a traditional role for artists in the community as truth-tellers and agents of change.
Sixty experienced artists and activists give voice to a new narrative – shifting society’s rules and values away from consumerism and commodity towards community and collaboration with imagination, humour, ingenuity, empathy and skill. Inspired by the grass-roots Transition movement, modelling change in communities worldwide, Playing for Time joins the dots between key drivers of change – in energy, finance, climate change, food and community resilience – and ‘recipes for action’ for readers to take and try.
The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age by Marina Cantacuzino
This inspiring book examines themes of forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict transformation. It brings together 40 thought-provoking and powerful real life stories from survivors and perpetrators of crime and violence around the world who have chosen to explore forgiveness as an alternative to resentment, retaliation and revenge. They are from a diverse range of situations and places including Africa and the Middle East and include a piece by one of our Movement Medicine teachers – she doesn’t use her own name for reasons she explains in her piece, but you might recognise her dancing feet.
“The testimonials in this book have taught me a great deal about forgiveness, which I think I thought was something rather easier than it is. They make me weep and they make me really think about what it is to forgive and what it is to try and understand someone instead of demonising them. I think this is probably one of the most important projects in the world today.”
Emma Thompson, actor