Light Touch Legacy #43 #cong24 #legacy

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1. We all have a mark to make.
2. An ecological approach asks for a light tough.

this year:
introduction to creative process, various national schools.
dramaturg, script editor, motherKraft, Project Theatre.
author, organisationlessness: research shared at Laboratory for Social Choreography, Duke University.
editor, we weave community, publication for community mental health social enterprise.
artist, Creative Climate Action Fund, Citizen Innovation Lab Limerick, Creative Ireland.
dramaturg, script editor, Songlines, Culture Night Kilkenny.
swimmers charter, Thomastown Community River Trust.
in the works:
Next Cultural Institutions, position paper for Laboratory for Social Choreography, Duke University.
Green Magic, concept development.
playWildParty, participatory theatre format.

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By Jeffrey Gormley 

when I roll out a large sheet of paper and give children absolute freedom to draw whatever they want, at least one will put their hand on the paper and draw an outline
it happens every time, and very often when I work with grown ups too
of course, these young artists don’t realise that they are recapitulating a move that has been core to art for tens of thousands of years, as seen on the walls of caves throughout the world
hand outlines, finger prints, foot prints
these are the primary marks that we leave on the world
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we all have a mark to make
we can’t help but leave traces everywhere we go
carving initials in a tree trunk, signing our name
writing a poem, speaking up for a cause
starting a company, building a house, making a family
I don’t think of legacy any more
I focus, here and now, on the mark I am making on the present situation
I tune in to how my move, my action, my speech, my gesture can be part of the coming to matter of what is happening now
because I think in terms of ecology, I aspire to the lightest touch possible
I ask myself: what is the lightest, most accurate, least imposing intervention I can make, that can still help this situation to become what it wants to be?
what is the lightest trace I can leave?