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Fungi Walk with Nevo Zisin

Warrandyte
June and July, 2026

Over a couple field trips we will be gathering to wander/wonder through the forest, learn a little about mushroom foraging and identification while exploring the mycelial threads that weave through the queer world of mushrooms. What do mushrooms have to do with transness? How can they apply to community organising and mutual aid?

Summer Snorkel Series

Rickets Point, Jawbone Marine Reserve
January 2026

Eco-Smut Workshop Series with Zoe De Lucca Legge, Lynx Tironi, and Marelina Hewitt

Online
August-November 2025, continuous

We will be getting into the mud, muck and marshes, playing with eco-smut as a lens for shifting perception and relation with the more-than-human world. Beginning with a conversation to situate ourselves, we will sharing thoughts and questions about what eco-smut might be and what it can do, before feeling out the residue of a leaf curling its tips to the sun, a cave curve opening its mouth, the gush of a stormwater drain, uncontainable...

Slow Reading Group

Wurundjeri Country, and online
Ongoing

Each reading group we move slowly through two texts, one critical, one creative, reading aloud together in turn, pausing for discussion as we go. This is a slow reading group, so there’s no need to prepare ahead of time, and participation is always voluntary. Come as you are: all energy levels and states of being are welcome.

Moss and Mountain excursion with Justine Walsh

Corhanwarrabul (Mount Dandenong)
March, 2025

Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Be More Moss by The Art and Energy Collective

We explore what it feels like when places, plants, waterways or stones say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to being visited, recorded or gathered, and how we cultivate these attentions and sensitivities in ourselves.

Eco-Somatics with Grey Dear

Soft Studios
February, 2025

Embodying Islands by Fei Shi
Gaia Meditations by John Seed and
Joanna Macy

Attuning to our bodies, both human and planetary via the practice of Eco-somatics. Drawing from somatic research, decolonial eco-philosophy, and ecological arts practices, we will attune to the deep enmeshment of our inner and outer landscapes, moving beyond binary perceptions into the living, slippery webs of interstitial, interspecies, and interrelational forces.

Seaweed Ramble with Lichen Kelp and Christine Rockley

Koort Boork Boork (Williamstown)
January, 2025

This session slips into seaweed ecologies, where we will wade through the shallows, touch, chew and wonder at their inhabitants in the company of Lichen Kelp from the Seaweed Society and Christine Rockley, scientific artist and seaweed expert.