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When we started reading together in June 2017, we wouldn’t have expected such a commitment – from ourselves as hosts or from you as participants. We feel very lucky to have grown together into a Between Us and Nature community. This alone is a beautiful gift. For our fifth anniversary we invite you to bring a text – maybe written by yourself – that you feel is most connected to the Reading Club.

Jan van Eyck participant Elia Nurvista connects her installation to the ongoing collective research around the Oil Palm with Michelle Lai, Sina Ribak, and Yoeri Guépin. At the jve Open Studio, we offered a Forest Field Recording Sound Experience, a Collective Reading, and a Music Listening Session with the intention to weave conversations around and between palm oil across the globe. The ongoing research is an attempt to understand the multilayered processes of this global commodity.

Join members of Chocó communities, people from other parts of Colombia, Kassel and myself from Berlin for a Walk in Karlsaue. Possible Dialogues is an ongoing initiative that brings people into conversations that focus on the climate crisis. This event invites participants to walk, experience and talk about nature-culture relationships, disruptions or entanglements across communities in Chocó, Colombia, the carers of the Aue Park in Kassel, Germany and the participants of the walk and conversation. More info

Inspired by spring and reading Braiding Sweetgrass we went to pick wild garlic. Then the war broke out in Ukraine. Destruction and death fueled by greed remind us of the chapter on Windigo and Burning Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Also historian Kate Brown takes us to the Chernobyl Zone, offering a biography of a lost but unforgettable landscape.

Much of Jaanika Peerna’s recent work is a lament to glaciers and natural ice. Her book Glacier Elegy book touches on ecological grief and looks at how Peerna and other key contemporary artists have used the subject of ice to highlight the global climate emergency. Joined by curator and podcast host Tuce Erel and researcher for ecologies and the arts Sina Ribak they will dive into a conversation about the topics covered in the book, including climate grief, art as a tool for transformation and collaborative approaches to artmaking

At the occasion of his book launch, authour Max Haiven invited Julio Linares, economic anthropologist and myself to a conversation around Palm Oil facilitated by artist and activist Cassie Thornton initiator and author of The Hologram.