Campfire Convention Firecasts

Pete Lawrence and Diane Kutz welcome you around the digital campfire talk with a trawl through what's arising for them this week, the Julian Assange ITV film, digital nomads and our tangled relationship with the state and its institutions, the rise of the WHO, 'being happy and owning nothing', Chilled Cider, Matt Coldrick and building our daily practice, symbols of contemplation an

Change-maker, song-carrier, channel-writer and earth-protector Bob Hillary talks about the inspiration for his extraordinary new album 'Sacred'"This is the time of the changing of the guard. I believe it's our duty to create the new earth. I had to sell off all my possessions to make this album. My clothes, even my instruments... it was that gnarly."bobhillary.comAn interview for C

Pete Lawrence and Diane Kutz launch a new era of the Campfire Firecast. Catch up on topical news around Campout, vox pops from the recent Spring Weekend at Braziers Park, how to have good conversations, Matt Coldrick's 'Everyday People', a Steely Dan selection and more... 

The original first Campfire podcast featuring an interview with founders of the Community Farm in Somerset. In July 2017 I visited the community farm just outside Chew Magna south of Bristol  and spoke to Ped Asgarian and Richard Garnett  I kicked off by asking Richard about food which he tellingly described as “a perfect storm of fashion and politics” Food produ

In December 2000, The Big Chill hosted one of the most memorable concerts I have had the pleasure to be involved with. Tom Middleton, our resident DJ through the years and now esteemed club and yoga session DJ, composer and sleep therapist, fulfilled an ambition. He got to score and perform two of the tracks from the seminal album 76:14 by Global Communication, his project at the t

Jason Hine has just arrived in Greece. Together with the Campfire community, we are exploring possibilities for new Ecovillages and ecovillage networks, where we look towards methods of food production, technologies of reunion, wildcrafting, organizational change, local, national and global economy and currency redesign, dance, myth, mutualistic ways of doing business, forest garde

Tree Conference founder Suzi Martineau talks to Campfire Convention's Pete Lawrence and reflects on this year's conference, shifts in thinking, social change, politics and tree hugging. 

Part Two: Campout 2018 was an extraordinary gathering, held at The Bridge Inn in the Black Mountains and curated by its own members. On the second Firecast from the event (a sequel to Firecast 011) we hear from Campfirers who came and made it what it was - "playful, freeing, inspiring, challenging, intense, healing, magic and fun" were some of the descriptions used. Featured : Loui

Campout 2018 was an extraordinary gathering, held at The Bridge Inn in the Black Mountains and curated by its own members. Here we hear from Campfirers who came and made it what it was - "playful, freeing, inspiring, challenging, intense, healing, magic and fun" were some of the descriptions used. Featured : Rebecca Denniff, David Owen, Belinda Scadding, Rose Lennard, David Abell,

“When the revolution comes, it will start here” That’s a quote from the Guardian’s magazine’s 'Let’s Move to…' feature about Frome, the independent-minded Somerset market town that is in the spotlight.In the latest firecast from Campfire Convention, Pete Lawrence (a recently inducted Froomie) renews acquaintances with writer Crysse Morrison, one of the first peop