All Species Project is one of the most innovative ecocultural arts programs going, and certainly one of the most effective; it brings a dynamic sense of wonder back into our kids’ classrooms, even as it grounds and revitalizes our communities. Without such place-based, celebratory practices–without such collective forms for listening to, and honoring, the myriad animals and plants with whom our lives are entangled–all our scientific savvy and exhaustive species surveys will still be unable to save what’s left. –David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than. Human World
All Species Projects (ASP) exist in cities and villages in five states of the US, and in Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Sweden, and India. It also cooperates with Project African Wilderness. Though known mostly for producing festivals of “ecosensible” learning, the projects are really about interdisciplinary community education. Continue reading