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Webby-winning, Ellie-, Peabody- and Emmy-nominated publication and creative studio exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality.
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Tracing her life back to its very beginnings, Kalyanee Mam shares her first “land-taste”—the sweet flavor of Battambang oranges—that slowly deepened the yearning in her heart to truly know the soils, waters, mountains, people, and plants of Cambodia.
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“To know the plants, to know nature, to know the land and where you come from, you must know and feel the land-taste or the taste of the land.”. Read a new essay by Kalyanee Mam, “Knowing Your Taste: A Companion Essay to Taste of the Land.”
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“Love is the fabric and the thread and the needle that can weave together spirit and matter, that can help unfurl time back into a cycle.”.More tickets have been added for “The Mystery of Time: An Evening at St. Ethelburga’s with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.”
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In the Khmer language, the root word for “nature” and “country” is cheate, meaning “taste,” which reflects that to truly understand the essence of the land, one must know it through the senses. Read this week’s newsletter with a new essay by Kalyanee Mam.
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In this interview from our archives, Amitav Ghosh explores the themes of his recent work, including the insidious philosophy that the Earth is inert and how this belief paved the way for the genocide of Indigenous people and the monolith of capitalism.
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What keeps a feeling of home alive when we become disconnected from the places that have nourished us; when the landscapes we inhabit are changed by the growing forces of development and ecological destruction? .
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How can the stories and relationships that link together generations help us care for a future we cannot yet comprehend? .“The Last Ice Age” by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, official selection in the Reykjavik International Film Festival 2024.
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“I was longing for a taste of the land of my birth, longing for nourishment from the soil of Cambodia.” Kalyanee Mam shares the land-tastes of Cambodia in her companion essay to “Taste of the Land.” .Read “ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste.”
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RT @emergence_zine: Modern technology has subdued our instinct to experience Time together with the Earth. Yet, we are built to be in conti….
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Modern technology has subdued our instinct to experience Time together with the Earth. Yet, we are built to be in continuous dialogue with the living world. Join us for “The Mystery of Time: An Evening at St. Ethelburga’s with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.”
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Traveling through the many landscapes of Time, our fifth print volume invites you to open to Time as a living force, a cascade of processes, an interplay of relationships.
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This week, we premiere “Taste of the Land,” the fourth and final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary series, in which Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam journeys into an ancestral remembrance of the land as inextricable from who she is.
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RT @CDouglasRice: SUCH an informative and digestible interview with @GhoshAmitav. What they don't mention in this post is how well he cont….
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In his book The Nutmeg’s Curse, scholar Amitav Ghosh writes, “the planet will never come alive for you unless your songs and stories give life to all the beings seen and unseen that inhabit a living Earth.” Listen to an interview with @GhoshAmitav.
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Open your senses to the land, and join us in exploring how this can lead to an embodied relationship with place. Filmmaker and storyteller Kalyanee Mam invites us to reconnect cheate and chett in this online course, October 8—29. Register here:
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“Stop moving. Stop rushing. Stop thinking. Start feeling. Start sitting. Start listening. Start tasting. The moment I stopped—that’s when the stories flowed.” —Kalyanee Mam. Listen to “Documenting Shifting Landscapes.”
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The truth that we are of the Earth remains present even when it becomes buried under the humancentricity of modern life. The land, so completely entwined with who we are, is both home and ancestor to us; nourishment and spirit. Read this week’s newsletter.
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“For all things.sing you: at times.we just hear them more clearly.” .—Rainer Maria Rilke. Join us for The Song of the Seasons in-person retreat. US, 2025.
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Since fleeing Cambodia as an infant, filmmaker Kalyanee Mam has tried to find her way back into a rooted sense of home. Emergence Magazine presents the exclusive premiere of our feature film, “Taste of the Land.”
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