Mid-summer is almost upon us already, as we look back on a busy spring. Starting in March, we tried out a new format for 3E activities. Danish 3E participant Mie Natius organized a rolling residency that lasted three months, through maple syrup season and the Plant Movement event into planting (and black fly!) season. Participants came and went, staying for periods from a few days to several weeks. Mie did a fantastic job of organizing the house, orienting arrivals, and helping orchestrate activities. In total, nearly 30 participants rolled through, making for a very animated season, with many new connections made. Generous contributions from participants, the largest sourced from grants, supported the guest house financially through this period, enabling us to remove it for the duration of the residency from the short-term rental market that is its usual means of sustenance. The maple season was a fruitful one. We produced 265 liters of some of the highest quality syrup we’ve made. The trees were copious this year and the season unusually long. We could have kept going a lot longer than we did, but the amount produced was nearing our distribution capacity, so we ended early. All in all, the rolling residency was a great success. It’s a model we’d love to repeat.
In other news, the indigenous blockades of lumber extraction on unceded territory in Quebec are intensifying – a more detailed update will follow soon. The purchase of the new 4 acres to be added to the 3E land base will be concluded in the coming days. Against the background of the purchase, a working group has been meeting around the question of what “giving the land back to itself” might come to mean, philosophically and pragmatically. A proposal is on the table to rouse the SenseLab/3E journalInflexions out of dormancy with a special issue presenting reflections coming out of this process.
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