Whether it is Horses on Dartmoor, birds of migration including storks and geese for our forthcoming show Flight Patterns, or the intoxicating rutting season for deer, Company Gabrielle Moleta is ablaze with active animal observation.

Just back from a first encounter with Dartington Arts School and Schumacher College, Gabrielle was invited to work with the Post graduate students from the Movement, Mind and Ecology MA. To read more about Schumacher click here.

Also teaching on the programme was Kara Moses ,wildlife tracker and nature connection facilitator Our lively discussion in the library at Dartington facilitated by Drs Rachel Sweeney and Marie Hale, exploded out of the initial question - how Kara and I encounter animals. It was an exciting, stimulating and provocative evening bringing for the first time two very different strands of work together. The original impulse of Dr Sweeney to imagine this convergence of our different disciplines shows just how revelatory the thinking is in this place.

Whilst at Dartington there was a screening of Fabrizio Terranova’s documentary film about Donna Haraway entitled Storytelling for Earthly Survival. If you haven't seen it, and a phrase (of Donna Haraway’s) like ‘some of the best thinking is done as storytelling’, strikes at your core, watch it.