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Language, Landscape and the Sublime is a conference and creative summit set within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in one of the UK's most spectacular landscapes. This part of the UK contains more protected landscapes than any other, ranging from its sublime coastline to the dark and brooding beauty of Dartmoor. The symposium takes place June 29 and 30 at Dartington Hall and in parallel on June 30 at Sharpham House. 'As the world shrinks' says keynoter Prof. John Wylie 'distances are overcome and rendered insignificant, the near and far lose their salience as means of orientation and understanding...Yet, just as this happens, new distances are felt...between us and 'land' and 'nature' - a sense of separation, alienation and loss which it then becomes imperative - ethically, environmentally - to overcome.' In his talk, Wylie will posit 'the distant' as a hypothetical to help us through this almost circular conundrum and to move beyond landscape as a metaphor of apartness and alienation. And so the tone is set for two days of probing, knowledge sharing, discussion and hands-on workshops. Artists and presenters from every continent (except Antarctica) join us to share their thoughts and sift their ideas. In addition to exploring landscape and language in its most contemporary guises, we also look again the fundamentals of what we have learned to think of as the quintessential 'English landscape'. We do this through the particular lens of the tricentennial of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, one of the UK's seminal landscape architects. For those of us who grew up in England, his design paradigm seems to be ingrained in us almost, it seems, from birth. Our rural idyll is made up of gently sloping open pastures dotted with sheep, the exquisitely-formed view corridor studded with the occasional mature oak trees and hazy disappearing horizons. Registration at £165 remains open until the last remaining tickets are sold. These are now relatively few in number, so we would advise you to book sooner rather than later. You can book and find further details of the event at languagelandscape.info<http://languagelandscape.info> Complementary to the conference is a 5-day residential workshop<https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/transcribing-landscape-portraits-and-tales> from June 20-24, led by artist Richard Povall and poet Fiona Benson with special guest artist Garry Fabian Miller. Transcribing Landscape<https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/transcribing-landscape-portraits-and-tales> takes place at Schumacher College and is part of their renowned short course programme<https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses>. Special pricing is available for those wishing to participate in both. Find out more<http://languagelandscape.info/prices/> at languagelandscape.info/prices<http://languagelandscape.info/prices>. Richard M Povall PhD FRSA artist * researcher * teacher 4 Coleridge House, Chillington, Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7 2JG UK 07968 208583 | www.richardpovall.net<http://www.richardpovall.net> | @richardpovall | facebook: richard.povall FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email has been scanned for email related threats and delivered safely by Mimecast. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan