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The Spring Prize October 2021
Including... Music by O.COM in partnership with the Marginalised Mirror, Namibia
♪ Yeah ♪ An online prize ceremony live from Lush Glasgow City
(singing in foreign language) An online prize ceremony live from Lush Glasgow City
Music & Dance
Plus a whole week of online peer learning
The prize ceremony was hosted in partnership with Untelevised and Lush Glasgow City
The event was translated into seven languages with the help of Coati
We welcomed two new funding partners to create two special awards, with the Abundant Earth Foundation, and Be The Earth Foundation
The Spring Prize 2021 is hosted in partnership between Lush and Ethical Consumer
What is the Spring Prize?
- The Spring Prize is essentially a prize fund.
It currently runs every two years.
The Prize seeks to both raise the profile
of regenerative work
and deepen the movement's collective understanding
of what regeneration is through skill shares,
and events, and other things.
In between years,
we've started to look at how else we can support applicants
who apply through regional events,
skill shares mentoring, other financial support.
So, essentially it's a Prize fund,
tries to raise the profile of regeneration
in its most holistic form,
and it uses itself as like a vehicle of discovery
for what regeneration means
for their various different movements and projects
around the world working around eco-social regeneration.
Each application, each context is so unique.
What regeneration looks like and plays out
in each context is, therefore, different,
and that's why, in the Spring Prize,
we've never tried to rigidly define what regeneration is,
and we welcome the different voices in.
(singing in foreign language) Permayouth East Africa Network
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♪ (singing in foreign language) We love you oh ey yo ♪
♪ You've made our life so easy ♪
♪ Now we're doing (singing in foreign language) ♪
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(upbeat music) 2021 Spring Prize Awards
2021 Spring Prize Awards
(singing in foreign language) We awarded 20 prizes to 18 organisations (Permaqueer, Australia)
What we've found is that because we're looking for projects (Permatil, Timor-Leste)
that are quite holistic in their approach, (Permatil, Timor-Leste)
and things don't happen in isolation,
like we're tackling climate change,
we need to be looking at social justice,
and we look for projects that are exploring regeneration (Education for Climate Action for Peace, Malaysia)
environmentally, socially and economically. (Education for Climate Action for Peace, Malaysia)
(singing in foreign language) (Kenyan Peasants League, Kenya)
Local Events
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(Maria speaking in foreign language) Good morning to each of you. We are very happy to welcome you here
in the center of the Mesoamerican Institute of Permaculture
IMAP. This moment is very pleasant for
all of us as a team and we are happy to have
obtained this award and be recognized in an international way.
We are going to carry out the Lush Spring Prize awards celebration.
It is dedicated to all the producers
of our community
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(man singing in foreign language) (Permatil, Timor-Leste)
(man singing in foreign language) (Permayouth East Africa Network, New Youths) ♪ Everybody in the world ♪
(man singing in foreign language) ♪ We are telling you face, permaculture is good, eeeh ♪
(man singing in foreign language) ♪ Farmer have never been a poor ♪
(man singing in foreign language) ♪ Or die with hunger ♪
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Online Peer Learning Events
(singing in foreign language) Online Peer Learning Events
- We work with this kind of iceberg image, (Bianca Elzenbaumer)
which is now covered, Carlo, (laughs)
and this is how we imagined the economy.
So basically, we imagined the economy to be like an iceberg
where the top is the capitalist economy
that's like capitalist companies,
it's salaried work,
it's global finance,
but also the economy we say
is what we need to do to live well,
and there is a whole part that is submerged
under the metaphorical waterline,
where we do things that allow us to live well,
and that are part of the economy that are not accounted in,
you know, when you open the newspaper,
and you talk about the economy,
you actually almost never talk
about the lower part of the iceberg.
- I would like to ask everyone here today a simple question. (Maria Chan - Spring the Garden Spring!)
How would you decorate your home?
A place filled with colour, freshness and life
or a house of darkness and dust?
I personally find the answer pretty simple.
This planet is home to all of us,
and it's a place we have shared for generations,
and we'll continue to share, most likely given,
we don't go to space for generations to come,
and no matter how we try to deny
or ignore the layers of dust
building up in our beautiful home,
one day or another,
we're going to have to work hard,
bring the broom out the closet, and start working.
- I've seen some really interesting things (Toad Andrew Dell, Permaqueer - Regen Autonomy)
being spoken in permaculture
about how the future is going to be us co-housing
and sharing things like that,
and being spoken about as if it's a straight innovation
when these practices have been innovated out of necessity
by a lot of queer people for a very long time.
And I think that queer people,
are also in a really unique position,
not having inherited ancestry.
So we have to find our fellows,
we have to find or re-engage in a cross-cultural dialogue
a lot of time with people who are very diverse to us,
so I think there's been a lot of social innovation
in queer spaces.
- So for us, (Simon Mitambo, African Biodiversity Network)
the solution lie deep in our cultures,
in terms of the way we work to connect
with our ancestral wisdom,
and this is where our inspiration
for self supporting system comes in.
- For me, regeneration has always been (Precious Phiri, Regeneration International Spring Prize Judges)
really like what others have said,
but it's also always been far above just practices,
and it's always been far above copying and pasting
because it honors the uniqueness of each region,
and as we're going through the project
and looking at all the different work
that was going on,
as a person, looking at the project
and in the spirit of the regenerative framework
beyond just agriculture,
it was important for me to sort of take off
my contextual view that I know
and resonate and read from the heart of the person
who wrote the application.
And that uniqueness and that diversity
brought in regeneration and like George has said it so well
that regeneration really is about
a thriving human space,
and other living organism spaces
or in the physical ecosystem processes and services
that are the essence of that place
and the social and cultural dynamics
that hold that place together,
as well as economic drivers,
what they call thriving in their own language,
in their own terms.
- I could see the dots connected. (Sahana Chattopadhyay, Resourcing our roots of Regeneration)
It's almost like in a people who are gathered here today,
people like us,
are literally dotted all over the globe.
All over the globe as nodes.
I literally see ourselves
as nodes of a networks coming alive.
It's almost like we are collectively holding together,
collectively co-creating narratives
for a future that is completely different from the past
that is no longer a homogeneous narrative
driven by a handful of white European men.
That is a narrative that is co-created from the margins,
from the unheard, unseen, unknown voices.
From the voices that have been deliberately delegitimized
for centuries, that have been deliberately wiped out
from living memory,
that have been deliberately kept away,
whose stories we have refused to include in the mainstream
because they threatened the mainstream.
(man singing in foreign language) Find out more on the Spring Prize website and Vimeo: www.springprize.org www.vimeo.com/lushspringprize
- [Voiceover] The marginalized generation
indigenous led agriculture or regeneration,
the Ovazemba culture
in (speaking in foreign language) are one.
Let us manage the environment well
to provide many more benefits
and greatly improve our quality of life
for today and the future generations.