Permaculture Action Hubs are physical gathering & workshop spaces where music festival attendees can learn about a plethora of topics that inform and accelerate the just transition. Topics and skill-shares range from regenerative farming to community organizing, alternative economies to seed saving, and restorative justice to mushroom cultivation.
It is common for us to have 60-150 workshop attendees at each ~hour long session from 9am-6pm every day of a music festival or large gathering. That’s 2,500 people on average receiving free collaborative education facilitated by experienced workshop teachers in a single weekend. Similar to mobilizing people from concerts to action days, we do this to meet people where they’re at and offer them an accessible and fun inroad to movement-centered education that is vital to a regenerative and liberatory future.
Check out some sample Permaculture Action Hub schedules from previous festivals:
Sonic Bloom Festival 2018
Lightning in a Bottle 2016
Summer Camp Music Festival
For a more in depth look with at a past schedule with workshop descriptions and facilitator bios, check out our Symbiosis Gathering 2016 Permaculture Action Hub schedule.
Ryan Rising facilitating Power & Permaculture: The Logistics of Liberation workshop at Symbiosis Gathering 2016 in the Permaculture Action Hub.
Solar Cooking workshop with Brennan Blazer Bird and SolutionCraft at the Symbiosis Gathering Permaculture Action Hub in 2016
Brennan Blazer Bird starts off the Solar Cooking & Appropriate Technology workshop in the Permaculture Action Hub before taking everyone outside to see the demonstration systems.
For photo galleries of some of our preview Permaculture Action Hubs, check out the following links:
Summer Camp Music Festival Permaculture Action Hub 2018
Lightning in a Bottle Festival Permaculture Action Hub 2016
Symbiosis Gathering Permaculture Action Hub 2016
Lightning in a Bottle Festival Permaculture Action Hub 2015
Symbiosis Gathering Permaculture Action Hub 2015
Lucidity Festival Permaculture Action Hub 2015
We set up Permaculture Action Hubs at large gatherings and music festivals as a central space for workshops, classes, panel discussions, and skill-shares focused on regenerative ecology, social transformation, community building, and permaculture design. This is a space where people can network with individuals and projects, as well as catalyze community organizing and action.
Past Permaculture Action Hubs have included a main workshop and speaker space, a networking node for bioregional organizing and informal workshop sessions, and demonstration systems of natural buildings, greywater filtration, solar ovens, garden beds, alternative energy, and more.
Past speakers have included Dr. Vandana Shiva, City Repair’s Mark Lakeman, Erica Wohldman, Penny Livingston, James Stark, Lydia Neilsen and many other amazing facilitators.
Sonic Bloom Festival Permaculture Action Hub 2019
To host a Permaculture Action Hub at a festival or gathering you are producing, write to us at Contact@PermacultureAction.org
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