Thinking with the Southern Hemisphere of the Brain is a series of stimulating talks on creativity, each followed by group conversation. They will be presented by Horst Kornberger at Mattie Furphy House, at 7pm on the first Monday of each month, beginning on the 6th of February with 'The Age of Creativity.'
Monthly titles include:
1. The Age of Creativity - is creativity becoming the defining capacity of the future?
2. Communities of Fire - can community be restored in an age of isolation?
3. Mythos Reality - the presence of myth in contemporary reality and how we can work with it
4. Biography - the Inevitable Artwork - is our life an artwork? If so, what are the skills to craft it to perfection?
5. Spirit of Place - How to be local in a global world? How to be global in local situations?
6. From Gaia to Sophia - can we restore the mytho-poetic sphere of the earth?
7. The Imagination - literary fossil or untapped resource?
8. Story Medicine - the meaning of stories in our personal lives
9. Compassionate Ecology - can science become compassionate?
10. Poets in Precedence - once poets and writers shaped the paradigm of their times. Are they still doing it?
Mattie Furphy House is located in the Bush Heritage Area adjacent to Allen Park, Kirkwood Street, in Swanbourne.
$5 at the door.