From ‘Freedom From Torture’…..’Travelling’…. From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 08:47 on 20 May 2024
From ‘Freedom From Torture’…..
“The Rwanda Bill Passed...
Sadly, the 'Safety of Rwanda' Bill was passed in April meaning refugees and survivors of torture could be sent to Rwanda in the next few weeks.
To update you on how we got here and what it means for survivors of torture, we have created a handy timeline:
...So, We Re-Launched Our Stop the Flights Campaign
Rishi Sunak said flights to Rwanda will be taking off within the next couple of months. But, we are working to make sure that this doesn't happen.
It is rumoured AirTanker will be the airline flying refugees to Rwanda and, over the last couple of weeks, our supporters helped us send almost 100K emails calling them out.
Then, we found out that one of AirTanker's biggest customers is the airline Jet2. So, now we need you to email Jet2 too and ask them to stand on the right side of history.
And ...we are going to be at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!
We are super excited that this year, Project Giving Back have generously sponsored our RHS Chelsea Flower Show sanctuary garden. Our garden, The Freedom from Torture Garden: A Sanctuary for Survivors, will provide a space to grow our horticultural therapy programme, alongside our bread group.
The garden was designed in collaboration between six-time RHS Gold Medal winner John Warland, and award-winning designer Emma O'Connell. The garden has been designed with survivors in mind and will be relocated to our rehabilitation centre to be used for horticultural therapy after the show.
"I know first-hand how important being in nature can be for recovery. Our clients are so excited to harvest the fruit and vegetables, to bake bread in the communal oven and to have a place of sanctuary, healing and peace." - Borry Jarju, Service User Engagement Coordinator.
To find out more about our garden and our horticultural therapy programme, head to our website for more information and check out our socials during show week for behind the scenes content."
https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/sanctuary-for-survivors-garden-chelsea-flower-show
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‘Travelling’….
The next ‘Rousay Tales’ Podcast…..
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2024/05/17/rousay-tales-ep3/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Marshmallow Laser Feast
“It begins with breath, the syllables of starlight, an ancient language of the cosmos uttered by forests, mountains and bodies.”
At our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in London last December, we premiered the large-scale immersive experience “Breathing with the Forest” from celebrated art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. Conceived as an open-eyed meditation, the installation invited people to feel into the ways we are intimately linked with forests through the greater respiration of the Earth. While not always tangible, this connection is ever-present—trees inhale our breath and use sunlight to exhale oxygen. In this eternal cycle of reciprocity, the world flows into us and we flow into the world.
Over the last few months we’ve been working on creating an online adaptation of this boundary-pushing installation that draws you into an exchange with the Amazon rainforest. In this new interactive multimedia experience, narrated by acclaimed British actor Colin Salmon, explore layers of molecular exchange and synchronize the rhythm of your own breath with the cycles and currents of air and water flowing between the trees and mycelial networks. Within a soundscape of birdsong, moving water, and insect chirr, open your senses to the invisible continuities between the forest, the ecosystem beneath it, and the wider living world.
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