Subterranean fires

The soul of our city is wounded. Its starving and drying up from thirst. Culture is soul making. Soul is slow, imaginative, longs for beauty and colour and sensuality. Loves story, history, depth and roots.Small actions, ritual actions that bring soul to our public spaces are the medicine, the bread and water, that the Anima Mundi, the world soul is desiring. Soul loves craziness. Speak your dreams to the birds, say your prayers to bitumen, speak poetry to the footpath, get to know the trees on your street, dance silently under the moon, become the wind. If you have a crazy idea just do it alone and the anima mundi will feel it and appreciate it and be honoured by it. Your action, intention and imagination will echo through the depths of the city soundlessly igniting a subterraean fire. sol niger seditio
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Containers for our craziness

For me, Jefferson the procession provided a container, a holding space for my craziness and thus it was healing , it was therapeutic. To walk with others wearing a womens dress waving  a pirate flag, accomponied by a creation station, shopping trolley, and a bamboo pyramid?? It was sheer craziness, some would say idiocy or silliness. We call it Serio Ludere: Serious play. Personally it allowed parts of me that never get expressed, room to be out in public with the support of others. When it was over I felt full. Fullfilled. There was a glow inside thats still with me. We did it. Action does something that just talking never achieves.

December 21 2012: Lest we forget.

On December 21 2012 Serio Ludere celebrated with a revolutionary procession. We called it : The end of the world as we know it and the beggining of the world as we want it to be. We begun at Memorial park at southbank and completed a full loop, a circle, a revolution across the Good will bridge along the riverfront bikepath into the city via the Commonwealth Law courts and Santos building , back across Kurilpa bridge and along the river to southbank, Memorial Park.
We chose to start at Memorial Park as our vision is to inspire, heal and reenergise public spaces. Public spaces are like people. They have soul. They have memory and stories. They have a vibe, a feeling. Plato called this the Anima Mundi; the World Soul.
One of the ways we are learning to heal, inspire and reenergise is to connect with the history of a space . To respect its history, its many stories and to weave that history into new and emerging stories.  Memorial Park was built to remember the sacrifice our soldiers made first in World war 1 and then again in later wars. Lest we forget that Germany, Italy and Japan were our enemies and that we were locked in a fight for our survival with these nations. Now they are our friends, our lovers and more. Nations like people can make mistakes. Nations like people can transform..sometimes very quickly.
War is an incredibly destructive energy and yet  brings great transformation in its wake. As a nation we now need to go to war but differently. To go to war creatively. To use the passion and fury of war creativly to heal, inspire and reenergise our culture. In astrology this is Mars the God of war. Mars energy can emerge in a multitude of ways. We want to honour and respect Mars and channel his energy towards creative means lest history repeats itself once again.