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**Apologies for cross-posting** Booking remains open for In Other Tongues, convened by Schumacher College and art.earth at the beautiful Dartington Hall in southwest England. In Other Tongues comprises an international symposium/conference from June 7-9 followed by a small-group residential short course from June 10-14. Each event requires a separate registration (very few places remain for the Short Course). In Other Tongues explores relationships between our human selves and other species and organisms with which we share the planet through story, poetics, dance, and philosophy. Keynote speakers at the conference are biosemiotician Prof. Wendy Wheeler and poet Alyson Hallett; other presenters include sound artist Tony Whitehead, leading us into the sonic world of night-time and dawn-time; Felix Prater, Laura Cooper and Cherie Sampson helping us discover animal lives and our animal selves; Lori Diggle, Nancy Miller and others reminding us of the power of myth and story-telling and its continuing and new relevance; John Hartley will take us on to the river; Stephan Harding will be joining us to explore the science of interspecies communication. Others are materialists, guiding us to new insights into stone, field, water, fungi. We will encounter languages familiar and strange, and we’ll aspire to co-annunciate new forms of communication together through this unique gathering amongst the long, heady days of summer along the River Dart in some of England’s most beautiful countryside. More details and booking is at inothertongues,info <http://inothertongues.info/> The short course is led by Alyson Hallett and writer-illustrator Mat Osmond. Throughout the course visiting guests will (thus far) include acclaimed poet Alice Oswald –– who will lead a walk on the Dartington estate and give a reading of her work –– writer-performer Phil Smith and art.earth’s Director Richard Povall. Creative use of words form the core of the course along with image-making, voice and embodied exercises. We will work both indoors and outdoors as we deepen and attune more to ourselves and our experiences of place. Numbers are very limited. This course is for anyone in need of an opportunity to engage with new approaches to creative practice or their creative selves, and to explore a condition of radical permeability – between senses, processes, materials, modes of speech. It’s for those willing to approach arts practice as an ongoing dance with unanticipated correspondences and unsought resonances. This course is for those who wish to engage in an unpredictable, shared process of practical enquiry with all the uncertainty and curiosity of a complete beginner, irrespective of their prior accomplishments. If you or someone you know or work with would love to attend but for a lack of financial resources, we do have a few remaining stewarding bursaries. In exchange for a few hours work, you can attend the conference event for £60. If you are interested, please contact us at [log in to unmask] Download more details at artdotearth.org/pdf/IoT-shortcourse.pdf <http://artdotearth.org/pdf/IoT-shortcourse.pdf> or visit inothertongues.info <http://inothertongues.info/>