The Outer Circle
Bibliotherapy For The Anthropocene is a performance in the guise of a reading group: it is a faux-Quaker meeting, a reconvening of the Dead Poets Society, a space awash with awkward silences, cheap jokes and ways of coping with the end of the world, ways of coping with living in the Anthropocene: it is usually undertaken in a locked room. No prior reading is necessary. Opportunities to participate are rare. We will come to gather together in a state of reverence, the sort of reverence you would bring to a church perhaps, to listen and think and talk and wonder aloud and in silence at what it is to be alone and together at this time of geological change, transitioning from one epoch to another. I preferred it in the Holocene.
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There will be pieces of paper in everyone’s hands, there will be stickers, and biscuits and tea. Everyone will receive both something different and something the same, no one has to read out loud, no one has to say anything, everyone has to be present, everyone has to sit down, so find yourself a quiet place at a quiet time and join us on Friday 28th May at 6.30AM or Sunday 6th June at 7.30PM. At the end, we will find ourselves a song to listen to and quietly re-enter the world with a new perspective.
These are the rules
Everything else is up to you
Welcome to
Bibliotherapy For The Anthropocene
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