Upcoming and past events

Tree Mourners: Ecosomatic Performative Actions for a Dying Forest
Feb
21
to 22 Feb
fieldwork, participatory performance

Tree Mourners: Ecosomatic Performative Actions for a Dying Forest

Tree Mourners is an ecosomatic performative project rooted in Southern Italian lament practices derived from ancient Greek moirología, engaging collective mourning as an embodied, emplaced response to forest loss, ecological crisis and the need for renewed human–more-than-human relations.

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Semina Mundi - Seeding the Ecosomatic Community in Italy: A Generative Gathering
Mar
21
to 22 Mar
gatherings, Italian Ecosomatic Network, Rete Ecosomatica Italiana

Semina Mundi - Seeding the Ecosomatic Community in Italy: A Generative Gathering

A Generative gathering of two days to seed the Italian Ecosomatic Network through the exchange of embodied practices and co-creative processes of designing and planning between artists, dancers, performers, theater practitioners, scholars, ecologists, educators, trainers, teachers, therapists, activists, cultural and holistic practitioners.

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Ecosomatic Connectedness and Cultural Regeneration: A Practice-Based Conversation
Apr
1
Knowledge exchanges, Events

Ecosomatic Connectedness and Cultural Regeneration: A Practice-Based Conversation

A practice-based conversation exploring ecosomatic connectedness, place, sensing and cultural regeneration. Featuring audio and transcript from a live dialogue between Raffaele Rufo, Jessica Cudney and Michelle Rozek within the Ecosomatic Conversations Series, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Performative Arts (Birmingham City University) in collaboration with Birmingham Dance Network.

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IFEEA Open Call for New Core Members
Dec
12
Announcements, Calls

IFEEA Open Call for New Core Members

The International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA) is launching an open call for new core members, marking its next phase of development towards a core group of seven to eight members who will share responsibility for the forum’s direction, programming, and evolution. Submit your application by 12 December 2025 by sending an email to info@ifeea.earth

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Practices in Conversation #4: ‘Inter-Species Attunement & Hydrofeminist Practice’ - IFEEA Community Event
Dec
11
lectures and talks, conferences, online presentations

Practices in Conversation #4: ‘Inter-Species Attunement & Hydrofeminist Practice’ - IFEEA Community Event

The event will offer two ‘Practices in Conversation’: Aline Usurelu (Romania) ‘Let Your Heart Flow with Water: Coming Home Through Hydrofeminist Practice’ and Dila Yumurtaci (Turkey/Portugal) ‘Becoming With: Ecosomatic Practices of Inter-Species Listening and Attunement’. This is the fourth of a series of community events co-hosted by IFEEA generative- and core-members aiming to create a platform for sharing & conversing on eco-embodied practices - starting from what members do.

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Practices in Conversation #3: ‘Ecosomatic Gestalt & Feral in the City’ - IFEEA Community
Oct
23
lectures and talks, conferences, online presentations

Practices in Conversation #3: ‘Ecosomatic Gestalt & Feral in the City’ - IFEEA Community

The event will offer two ‘Practices in Conversation’ - Claire Loussouarn (UK) ‘Feral in the City’ and Sebastian Bechinger (UK) ‘Ecosomatic Gestalt’. This is the third of a series of community events co-hosted by IFEEA generative- and core-members aiming to create a platform for sharing & conversing on eco-embodied practices - starting from what members do. Join us for a journey of embodied practices that deepen our connection to self, community, and the more-than-human world while inspiring ecological care and creative reciprocity. Participants will have an opportunity to experience the proposed practices and will have time to ask questions and engage in the emerging conversation.

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‘Tree Mourners’ - Performance Lecture (III Gaia Congress: Earth as Body)
Oct
7
to 8 Oct
lectures and talks, conferences

‘Tree Mourners’ - Performance Lecture (III Gaia Congress: Earth as Body)

  • Facultad de Bellas Artes (UCM) – Espacio "La Trasera" (map)
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Performance-lecture by Raffaele Rufo at the III GAIA Conference - The Earth as Body: Matter, Senses and Performativity, Complutense University of Madrid 2025. Tree Mourners explores ecosomatic actions of grief, care, and kinship with dying forests with video excerpts from field projects and interactive ecosomatic explorations.

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Genius Loci: International Symposium of Ecosomatic Arts - ‘Bodies, Places, Communities’
Sept
18
to 19 Sept
international ecosomatics gatherings

Genius Loci: International Symposium of Ecosomatic Arts - ‘Bodies, Places, Communities’

Two days of in-person and online presentations, conversations and sharing of practices, performances, lecture-performances and demonstrations to explore the role of ecosomatic arts as gateways to respond to ecological crises through processes of perception, care, creation, and participation.

The symposium is aimed at national and international artists, scholars and educators oriented to the environment, and engaged in the community in the fields of somatics, dance, choreography, performance, theater, music, visual, multidisciplinary and curatorial arts, ecology, education, anthropology, philosophy, archaeology, and other related disciplines.

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‘Nature in Motion’ - Panel discussion on Ecosomatics (XDance Festival Helsinki)
Jun
4
lectures and talks, festivals

‘Nature in Motion’ - Panel discussion on Ecosomatics (XDance Festival Helsinki)

This panel discussion on ecosomatics features Raffaele Rufo, Petra Kuppers, Jared Gradinger and Maria Huhmarniemi. The event is part of the upcoming inclusive dance festival, XDance Festival 2025, which will take place from June 2nd to June 8th in Helsinki under the project "Nature in Motion." This is an initiative funded by the ERASMUS programme, exploring how movement and nature can come together to create more inclusive, accessible, and enriching experiences and connections for all.

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