Number of participants: 20
Location: Longva, Norway
Date: August 28th, 2025
Duration: 14:00-16.00 (2 pm – 4:00 pm)
Co-conspirators: LongvaAIR
Created for Between Sky & Sea VII: Flying Blind
Ingredients: bodily memories of a walk taken yesterday where the group has experienced several encounters with geological time, movements, surges, swells and ripples between the interior space and its surroundings, shifts in weather between sunshine, gusting wind and rain, a news story about extreme temperatures and dying reindeer, a story about environmental loss and wonder, freshly harvested garlic, raw sugar, kitchen scale
Soft Score
14.00 Introduction
Welcome and introduction
Checking in
Introduction to group agreements
14.10 Grounding
An invitation to ground oneself in whatever is supporting, and to bring your attention and awareness to the space around you
To the movements, surges, swells and ripples in the outside surroundings
To revisit the encounters with geological time from yesterday’s walk
14.20 Introduction to the Ingredients
An introduction to the ingredients for a garlic fermentation preparation
To the strengths and properties connected to each ingredient and how they will be introduced in the soft score
14.30 Reading the News
Together listen to the headline, “No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say” as it is read out loud
Listen to a news story about extreme temperatures, wildfires, reindeer dying from the heat, the effects of the heatwave on reindeer that threaten the livelihoods of Indigenous Sámi communities
14.35 Reading a Story about Loss and Wonder
Together read a story by Rachel Carson about developing a sense of wonder and imagination for the natural world in order not destroy it
14.40 Co-regulating with the Daily News
Take a moment to let the news and the story about wonder and loss settle in the body
An invitation to name what generates a sense of wonder, or feelings of loss when listening to the news
Start preparation of garlic mixture, the collective crushes the garlic
15.30 Tasting and Closing the Circle
Add raw sugar to the crushed garlic mixture then taste the mixture, passing the bowl around the circle
A reminder of the mixture’s properties as well as the soft score, to help build up collective resilience, to inspire hope and determination, a visionary roadmap for the dark times that lie ahead
15.40 Connecting
Name out loud or in silence how each might connect to the earth and others, people, plants, animals, oceans, etc.
Imagine that you are not separated from what is has been named, but that everything is in you
15.50 Checking in and Last Reflections
15.55 Bee Breath
A collective breath for ecological grief
16.00 End
