Learning From Sparrows - Index

SESSIONS

International Permaculture Festival of Wild Ideas

May 3 - 11, 2025

DAY 1

• Welcome with Morag Gamble
• Satish Kumar - Rewilding Education
• Wanjira Mathai - Green Belt Movement Forest Restoration, Kenya
• PANEL: Dominique Chen and Guy Ritani - Absurdity and Groundedness
• Open Forum Discussion
• Ecological Design Film screening 1

DAY 2

• Ecological Design Film screening 2 with Christopher Zelov (director)
• Kakoli Mitra - New EaRTh online magazine & how to be involved
• Rosemary Morrow - Wilding Permaculture Aid
• Ruth Andrade - Wilding Permaculture Philanthropy
• YOUTH PANEL: Maia Raymond & Lulu Vierkötter - Designing for Practivism

DAY 3

• Albert Bates: Planetary Repair
• PANEL: Michelle Maloney and Mary Graham - First Nations Law and Earth Law
• Open Forum with Morag Gamble
• PANEL: Seth Tabatznik and Renata Minerbo: Rewilding and Regeneration
• Pella Thiel: Rights of Nature and Ecocide Law
• Mary Reynolds: Acts of Restorative Kindness to the Earth

DAY 4

• Fritjof Capra: The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision [Book]
• Jeremy Lent: Ecological Civilization
• Regeneration Pollination Networking Session
• TWO SHORT FILMS from Happen Films: with guests Donna Kerridge & Jessica Hutchings
• PANEL: Looby Macnamara and Chris Evans: Designing Permaculture Adventures &
  Creating Permculture living learning centres
• SHORT FILM from Happen Films with guests Kat Lavers and Megan Norgate

DAY 5

• Erin Axelrod: Wilding Business
• John Seed: Deep Ecology
• SHORT FILM from Campfire Stories about Dougald Hine & Anna Björkman's project in Sweden
• John D Liu: Ecosystems Restoration
• Daniel Christian Wahl: Bioregioning
• Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics

DAY 6

• PANEL: Wilding Young Hearts in Gardens - Permaculture with school children

• Amanda Sturgeon: Biomimicry and Rewilding cities

• Maddy Harland: Permaculture and Rewilding

• Poppy Okotcha: A Wilder Way (new book)

• TWO SHORT FILMS from Campfire Stories, with filmmaker Mattias Olsson
  and featured forest rewilder, Maria Westerberg

DAY 7

• Brian Von Herzen: Marine Permaculture

• Kai Sawyer: Peace and Permaculture

• Ruby Reed: Rewilding our hearts and minds

• Rob Hopkins: How to fall in love with the future (new book)

• DOCUMENTARY: The Sequel. Screening 1

• Helena Norberg-Hodge: Ancient and Local Futures

DAY 8

• DOCUMENTARY: The Sequel. Screening 2 + Discussion

• Rupert Read: Transformational Adaptation (new book)

• Rachel Musson and Holly Everett: Wilding Wellbeing

DAY 9

• Schumacher Magazine & Permagardens: Morag Gamble joined by guests

• SHORT FILM and discussion with Andrew Millison

• PANEL: Permayouth East Africa

• Brenna Quinlan and Charlie Mgee: Renegade Permaculture Artivism

• GLOBAL PREMIERE: Learning from Sparrows - new doco about social permaculture
  - with PANEL (2 screenings)

REPLAYS