ANNOUNCING the launch of UNDERGROUND PHILOSOPHY
For the Melburnians -- with something for everyone at the end
A new form of Voicecraft event begins on Friday the 14th of June.
It’s still about bringing people together to connect and relate with the heart of value in life.
It’s still about building a cultural space where it’s possible to share a deeper presence and rigour of dialogue with critical questions and tensions in our time.
It’s still about the craft of voice and cultivation of relationship with mystery.
But it is about taking more palpable steps into a series of tensions that continue to constrict the authenticity and responsibility of voice. It is about loosening up and enjoying the sense of jeopardy that noticing the flicker of shadow in culture may at times portend.
This first Underground Philosophy event.. which I am coming to think of now simply as Underground Philosophy: An Initiation intends exactly that, to initiate the process of creating a field of interaction where spirited adults gather to share and create value, experience depth and vitality, and connect to and metabolise key relational energies (a precondition for critical existential insight.)
Of course, this has been the work of Voicecraft for years. Which perhaps is why it feels appropriate to make the invitation.
This time, the format and physical context is different. This is an audience only event in a small theatre at the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton, with time to connect and converse afterward. But no facilitation like last year’s in-person public events.
WHAT TO EXPECT
You will hear multiple voices in the second part of ‘the show’, but the first part will be something more like real live philosophy. Less like leaving Plato’s cave. More like burrowing deep beneath for the metabolisation of rock necessary to make soil.. alongside an encounter with everything else we might find buried.
WHERE & WHEN
FRIDAY 14th JUNE. 7-9PM
The Motley Bauhaus - Theatrette, 118 Elgin Street, Carlton
You can regularly expect guests at Underground Philosophy. They might be well known or influential. They might be of rare integrity but known to just a few. They might be provocative, or simply sincere in their care for real value.
When you come to Underground Philosophy, you come not for any name in particular but because you recognise the need for a context where we pocket our phones, slow down time, and keep the overton open with courage, respect, and intelligence.
This is how Voicecraft is pledging to create value in Melbourne in 2024.
It will only happen with your courage and support.
Discernment on the Way,
Tim
https://www.voicecraft.io/events
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The rest of the work of Voicecraft continues. For instance, this is a truly extraordinary recent session on AI, Alignment, and Existential Risk for the Humanity, Technology & Nature Expedition in the Voicecraft Network, welcoming again the one of a kind philosopher Forrest Landry.
Sounds like a great place!