From microbial drag spectacle to everyday ecological citizenship
Flowing into existing community venues – climate cafes, community centres, local gatherings – bringing microbial drag interventions, toolkits and pooling practices into spaces where people already are. Embedding radical generosity into the everyday.
On a bright dry 4th of July, last Saturday we held a Pooling Party. We thought of this event as a gathering of people to explore the Everdayness of the second year of Flow.Walk.Drag. In short, how can we embed what we learned from walking with Cholera and E. coli last year to sustain and embed radical generosity and wonder into the everyday.
One of our main lessons was the need to check our capacity, recognise the high and low tides in our own bodies when working towards ecological citizenship. We wanted to share thoughts about sharing resources, mutual aid and countering a scarcity mind-set that can set in when we sit in climate grief.
The event was part workshop and part cultivating connections, through imaginings and nourishing ourselves with a shared meal, plus welcoming our Margate partners to Liverpool.
(more…)You are warmly invited to a Pool Party – won’t you dive in and make waves with us? On the 4th of July Saturday, we will gather to test the waters of solitary and reciprocity.
This party is about pooling together – our resources, capacities and needs together – to embed radical generosity and wonder into the everyday.
The event will be part workshop and part cultivating connections, through imaginings and nourishing ourselves with a shared meal, plus welcoming our Margate partners to Liverpool. Lunch is on us!
Book your spot here.
We’ve arrived. The last act of E. coli’s Margate Tour is out and it ends overlooking the Southern Water pumping station. Margate’s poo bungalow.
From this viewpoint on Princes Walk, we ask the big questions. Who is responsible for all this shit – literally and figuratively? Who is E. coli, really? And what do we do now?
This final act traces the privatisation of water in England, the billions paid to shareholders, the £90 million fine and what it didn’t change, and the citizen scientists and activists refusing to let it go. It’s a lot. And it ends with a decision that’s yours to make.
Head over to Instagram @flow.walk.drag to cast your vote 🗳️, before midnight on 6th June! A lucky random winner will win some very special Flow.Walk.Drag E. coli merchandise.
Thank you so much for walking with us and with E. coli. We hope she leaves a lasting impression – though not in the way she usually does.
