On Gathering
Gathering round the fire, Uncivilisatio Festival 2012 (photo: Andy Letcher)
Over the past ten years the Dark Mountain Project has run festivals, book launches, workshops, retreats, immersive experiences and performative happenings.
In this section, you can find invitations to upcoming events and reflections on past gatherings. If you would like to add an event that you think would be of interest to Dark Mountain readers, please get in touch.
Carrying the Fire
Dougie Strang
31st January, 2014
Later that day, or rather, in the early hours of the next morning, I’m lying...
The Snake in the Box
Charlotte Du Cann
3rd September, 2013
This was the fourth and last Uncivilisation Festival, held on a warm, rainy and windy...
My Pick of the Festival
Paul Kingsnorth
29th August, 2013
I don’t have many regrets about the festivals we’ve run for the past four years....
If You Go Down to the Woods Today
Paul Kingsnorth
4th July, 2013
Of course, this complaint is generally offered in a nicely supportive, tongue-in-cheek tone, but still...
To Tell of the Telling
Warren Draper
19th November, 2012
I’d love to take credit for the first event (and you can read about exactly...
Drumming in the Stories
Paul Kingsnorth
24th August, 2012
But there was a clear high point of the festival too, for me, and it...
Art, Protest and Walking the Boundaries
Dougie Strang
19th June, 2012
‘For one long moment in my life, I heard the earthsongs of England. For one...
Carrying the Fire
Dougie Strang
12th March, 2012
Later that morning Margaret Elphinstone will read from and discuss The Gathering Night – her...
Defining the Mountain
Dougald Hine
22nd June, 2010
Responses to and reports about the festival – the first substantial Dark Mountain gathering – are popping up...
New Stories for Old
Paul Kingsnorth
1st June, 2010
I’d really like to know peoples’ thoughts on the event. It was hard to evaluate...