Artwork by Maurits Wouters
Song of the Seasons
An Evening in London with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Artwork by Maurits Wouters
The song of the seasons is always beckoning us to listen. Spring unfolds into summer, into autumn, into winter with every circumambulation around the sun, forming a cycle through which the Earth creates Herself anew. Can we remember how to be with and respond to this song that is present throughout all of creation?
Sufi teacher and Emergence Magazine executive editor and founder Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee returns to St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London at the height of spring for a special evening lecture drawing from his new book, Song of the Seasons: A Meditation on Cycles, Story, and Humility (Emergence Press, April 2026). Rooted in the understanding that the seasons mirror the sacred nature of existence, the book sits within Emergence Magazine’s broader exploration of the changing nature of the seasons. Emmanuel will speak about the book’s themes of cyclicality, attention, attitude, storytelling, and reuniting spirit with matter, and explore how simple acts of noticing the Earth’s seasonal cycles with devotion, humility, and reverence can help us navigate this moment of ecological upheaval with love.
ABOUT EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an author, Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker, and a Sufi teacher. He has directed more than twenty documentary films, including Taste of the Land, The Last Ice Age, Aloha Āina, The Nightingale’s Song, Earthrise, Sanctuaries of Silence, and Elemental, among others. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum and London’s Barbican, and featured on PBS POV, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Op-Docs. His new book, Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology, is forthcoming from Shambhala in summer 2026. He is the founder, podcast host, and executive editor of Emergence Magazine.
DETAILS
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2026, 7-9pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, 78 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AG
Learn more and purchase tickets here.