Sporulation: a ten Gifting Experiment

 

Sporulation: /spȯr-yə-ˈlā-shən/ the process by which an organism creates spores in response to harsh conditions. Spores are cells that can be found in bacteria, fungi, and plants. They have thick cell walls that help them survive in unfavorable conditions, and they preserve the organism's genetic material. Once conditions improve, spores can resume multiplying. 

Over the last couple of months, ten has slowly emerged from the underground. We opened the doors of our new mbari (aka website), inviting you to animate it with song, prayer, dance, and ritual. Within the skin of this new body, we are sensing the call to practice as a commonwealth of bewilderment, to host impossible dreams, and attempt to dance into them. We wish to build up the sporulative cells in our walls to continue tying fungal knots and weaving fugitive carpets as networks of practice and co-inquiry that support experiments in making sanctuary together. 

To breathe life into these impossible dreams, we are raising $8,000 USD by June 28th via the generosity and gifts of our unbelievable community. The funds we raise will help us co-create projects and gatherings, grow our core operations team, cover necessary operational costs, and support regional convenors in our growing trans-local fungal carpet An Infection. We have also started dreaming up a monstrous hybrid trans-local season festival for this October / November where we can explore experimental ways of gathering online to celebrate, grieve and become undone together. 

In the face of the so-called anthropocene, let us do outrageous, celebratory and experimental things together. Let us co-generate abundance as a way of responding to the present meta-crisis of our times, preparing ourselves to mutate into unexpected new forms and cultivate capacities that allow us to respond to the sensuous solidarities we are beginning to become aware of. Let us also grieve and decompose and put to rest our tired notions about what it is to be “human”. 

Sporulate with us by making a gift of any size to our fundraising campaign.