19-21 June 2020 Programme www.campfire.world - 2 - Welcome to Campfire Convention’s World Harmony weekend • Campfire Convention is bringing We have been preparing the and values and brings people give to Campfire’s cause over people together across six ground and sowing the seeds together, however we can in the weekend, we would also online spaces through summer that are ready to break through these shape-shifting and very invite you to support each artist solstice weekend to celebrate - a fertile combination of uncertain times. or speaker if you are enjoying a three day World Harmony learning, the arts, new media, their contribution. Relevant We thank everyone who has festival. heart-centred business and links will be given in their blogs gifted their time and genius to conscious social networking. during their event. The time is right for a new style make this happen and to you of gathering, one that has at its World Harmony introduces for your support. We hope you Enjoy the weekend and heart an ethos of inclusion and Campfire’s organically arising enjoy the abundance of energy, keep it lit! co-creation. On a personal and online event blueprint - an ideas, music, poetry, creativity Pete Lawrence collective level, we have become exploration of how we bring peppered with inevitable and the Campfire team compartmentalised and together polarised energies chaotic spontaneity that will fragmented. This is an organic around a shared vision of unity be in full flow throughout the https://www.paypal.me/ opportunity to harmonise at and connection. weekend. With around 150 campfireconvention all levels, fusing together the different happenings across six This is new territory for us as www.campfireconvention.uk various elements of life to areas, anything could happen! we co-create something we stitch a new garment, shape an hope can represent a new If you have been an early evolving paradigm fit for these approach to online events that supporter by buying a World Harmony - Summer Solstice extraordinary times. also reflects Campfire’s ethos firestarter ticket or intend to a fundamental shared wish for more unity and harmony in the So here we are, on the cusp of the first online World Harmony world as we watched life reorganising itself. We all know that the solstice weekend for Campfire Convention. An incredibly Co-Creation world needs a radical reset and that is precisely what is happening. auspicious space in time, happening in tandem with planetary alignments and cosmic energy waves that have the potential to for powerfully amplify the themes of world harmony, unity, love and “To be alone by being part of the communion at a time when there is much unrest and polarity. We will soon be in the midst of this super wave - an energetic World Harmony universe - fitting in completely to convergence and amplification of the solar eclipse, the solstice and • an environment of woods and the new moon. silence and peace. Everything you None of us are sure about how the weekend will unfold and that is okay as we all work together to weave a healing, joyful experience t’s anyone’s guess as to when the idea of a World Harmony do becomes a unity and a prayer. for each contributor, volunteer, participant and supporter that Isolstice event was birthed, though in terms of linear time it ripples out to the rest of the planet. Each of us can learn from has been a matter of weeks! It was partly because the Little Chill Unity within and without” this new experience of co-creation and from each other. The live event couldn’t take place as originally intended and that the contributions from everyone so far have been above and solstice weekend is a potent opportunity to bring people together beyond our expectations and we are grateful beyond words. This year is a year like no other in our lifetimes. A year when to gather and lift each other up. we are seeing immense global changes and a dismantling of As Thomas Moore said, “To be alone by being part of the universe We knew that this was an invitation to think differently, whilst systems that no longer serve us; disassembling of ideologies and - fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence learning from past wisdoms and insights about festivals. An dichotomies. A year when we are all on a journey from service- and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity opportunity to think more creatively and leap fearlessly into to-self to service-to-all; a clarion call for love, unity and a more within and without” exploring alternative ways of co-creating, connecting and peaceful life. There is little certainty, as we write this. What we Campfire’s World Harmony weekend brings together musicians, collaborating. To find new friendships and to work with people do know is that things are not as they seem. We also know that conversations, poets, writers, our nature connections as well we barely know and some whom have only just met. It may inviting harmony, love, unity and balance into our own bodies is as honouring a variety of ancient practices and traditions have been during a pillow talk where one or both of us woke up the first step towards harmony in the collective, embracing an with a celebration of mid-summer and the experiences of an with a particular inspiration, dream or something that has been infusion of love as we each do our bit to create a healing grid of extraordinary first half of 2020, the solstice, the new moon and marinating overnight and needed to be expressed. We reached unity consciousness. this solar eclipse. [email protected] www.campfireconvention.uk World Harmony - Summer Solstice - 3 - - 4 - The spirit of Campfire • ampfire is community What if it actually did what it being manifested. This is all What we are dreaming into Csocial networking for social says on the ‘social network’ about benefits for the few, being involves and includes change, both online and face- tin? Help build and strengthen not the many. handing over to the community to-face. communities? That’s the vision and shaping a truly modern co- We need to reclaim our safe for Campfire Convention, a new operative that can pioneer new Let’s imagine a world where space in which we can spill all kind of conscious social media model for a community network social media is a safe space for our most intimate thoughts, that works for its members as we enter post- capitalist era. free and diverse expression, hopes, fears and passions. and seeds new ideas and social where our data is kept secure Bringing people together has change for the benefit of all. It was through the Big Chill’s and where people and planet been the common thread flowering that I saw the power are placed firmly before profit. In the light of the unravelling through my life’s work. Joining in community, and people This safe space is created implications of the ‘surveillance the dots, then stepping back to uniting around a purpose by the community, for the capitalism’ model in social watch the sparks fly. It’s never or common interest. This community. Currently, social media and its reliance been more urgent to ignite led me to explore further media is funded by advertising on advertising and the synergies around social change how communities can make or dictated by algorithms and monetisation of data, the and conscious transformation a difference, so for the last arguably exists primarily for the full effects of us choosing and here, Campfire can play a decade or more I have been benefit of shareholders. to participate in a digital central role. inspired to evolve a new form advertising platform are now of social networking. Continued on Page 5... Above: DJ Greg Wilson World Harmony - Summer Solstice Myself and a small team have spent the last four years building “Now is a time of huge change because of what is happening the site to the soft launch stage. At a great personal cost, we’ve succeeded in inspiring a growing team of volunteers, writers and event trailblazers to come together to build something of value. politically. Many people are waking up from their slumber We’ve started to grow a network of support around us including people like Brian Eno, our first patron. Now, we’re ready to take and beginning to think about things that maybe they haven’t things to the next level – and push the platform closer to its full potential. for a generation. That’s a positive thing. The important thing Campfire can be an important model for future directions in is that Campfire enables a dialogue and enables people to go community social networking. That’s why I can’t ignore the fire in the belly that drives many of us to make this work for everyone so away and think maybe I could put an event on, maybe I could we can develop new frameworks and community connections that help speed up this transition that is already in progress. do something. It’s ideas... it enables people to meet together Campfire isn’t a service, it is ‘in service’, it’s a murmuration that we can all join and be part of rather than ‘what’s in it for me’. Check to discuss things but go away and enthuse others with ideas out Campfire’s ethos and values here. Help us share... together we can get to where we want to be. and start similar situations so these things start to build..