Upcoming
RadicalxChange | Sydney Chapter
Thursday 11th June
5:30 - 7:30pm
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
RadicalxChange is a global movement empowering people to build more positive, participatory, pluralistic futures. It works across political, technological, cultural and social domains to update social operating systems spiralling towards collapse, supporting human agency and supercharging collective action with tools, methods and connections to cooperate across diversity, decentralise power, and make decision-making fast, fair and perhaps even fun.
Some say monopolisation, polarisation and authoritarianism are inevitable. We know otherwise. Leadership is found in diverse communities around the world, and the transitions we need are more joyful and generative than those narrow frames allow.
Australia has its own questions to grapple with. Land, democracy, technology, inequality, and what kind of futures we want to build together here. We'd love your perspective on what that could be.
Come help us spark radical imagination and shape achievable alternatives. We're the generation that gets to shape a future worth looking forward to, and we'd like to build this with you.
Warm Data Lab
Thursday 23rd July
5:30 - 7:30pm
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
Warm Data comes from understanding not just the parts of a system, but the interrelationships that integrate those parts into a living whole; what Nora Bateson describes as “information that is alive.” Rather than focusing on isolated facts or solutions, Warm Data Labs help us see how contexts overlap and interact in the complex systems we inhabit, from family and work, to ecology, culture, education, technology, and community.
Host: David Johnston, former Managing Director, Weleda Australia
Regenerating: Towards an Australian Rewilding Congress
Date to be announced soon
6 - 9pm
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
United by a shared commitment to nurturing Australia’s living systems, gathering around a table will be Traditional Owners, ecologists, farmers, artists, land stewards, investors and others working within capital flows and policy, all drawn to the urgent yet hopeful work of ecological regeneration and exploring the possibility of an Australian Rewilding Congress.
Stories will be exchanged, local projects shared, and common threads woven of place and long-term stewardship. An evening of grounded intentions, seeding the beginnings of a network rooted in support, learning and strategic alignment of resources and coordination toward the restoration of Australia’s biodiverse ecosystems.
This will be the second gathering of its kind to continue deepening the coordination of this critical movement.
Conveners: Simon Harris and Kirsty de Garis.
‘Leviathan’ by Alexander Beiner
Expressions of interest
2 Esther Lane, Surry Hills
Social commentator and human potential advocate Alexander Beiner presents Leviathan.
A feature-length documentary that invites you to journey into the deep code of culture. The film explores our current social, economic and technological reality through the lens of psychology, history and myth to bring us face to face with the collective shadows we can integrate to find freedom.
Starring some of the brightest and most heterodox thinkers in their fields, Leviathan investigates why trust in our institutions is declining so rapidly, what social media is really doing to our hearts and minds, and how we can move into a new economic paradigm that chooses life over blind extraction.
Leviathan is a story of collective potential, revealing how we can transform the mindset that drives our broken systems into a source of creativity, imagination and radical hope.
Starring Yanis Varoufakis, Nora Bateson, Douglas Rushkoff, Minna Salami, Josh Schrei, Alexa Firmenich and John Vervaeke.
Tannins & Tangents
Esther Lane gatherings owe their best tangents to Freeman Vineyards, who arrive bearing vineyard harvest and leave behind ideas that wander home with us.