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SHIFTING LANDSCAPES

FILM SERIES

Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time.

Note from the Editors

It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.

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Our Annual Print Edition

Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time

Our first hardcover edition, Time: Volume 5 explores the vast mystery of Time, journeying through its many landscapes: deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time. If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it?

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Breathing with the Forest

by Marshmallow Laser Feast Open Feature

An immersive experience of shared breath with the Amazon rainforest.

ENGAGE

Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (UK)

Sharpham Trust, Devon, England

Online: April 30 – June 4, 2025
In-person: June 18 – 21, 2025
Admissions Open

Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (US)

Whidbey Institute, Washington, US

Online: August 6 – September 10, 2025
In-person: September 25 – 28, 2025
Admissions Open

Podcast

Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast

An Ecological Technology

A Conversation with James Bridle

In this expansive conversation from our archive, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle looks at how the glorification of our own intelligence has shaped the history of technology, and anticipates in our future an “ecological turn” in the way we view and create it. James draws on principles of decentralized knowledge systems, a redistribution of agency among all beings, and an embrace of what is unknowable to envision how our technology could move away from the reductionism of ones and zeros and towards reflecting other kinds of intelligence and the ways we are intimately connected to the world.

This Week’s Podcast

In this expansive conversation from our archive, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle looks at how the glorification of our own intelligence has shaped the history of technology, and anticipates in our future an “ecological turn” in the way we view and create it. James draws on principles of decentralized knowledge systems, a redistribution of agency among all beings, and an embrace of what is unknowable to envision how our technology could move away from the reductionism of ones and zeros and towards reflecting other kinds of intelligence and the ways we are intimately connected to the world.

ENGAGE

The Song of the Seasons

Devon, England

June 26 – 29, 2025
In-person Retreat
Registration Open

The Song of the Seasons

Whidbey Institute, Washington State, US

May 23 – 26, 2025
In-person Retreat
Registration Open
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Utuqaq

by Iva Radivojević Watch Film

As four researchers drill ice cores in the Arctic, their presence is witnessed by Utuqaq—ice that lasts year after year.

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