BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Stories from the Wood Wide Web - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Stories from the Wood Wide Web X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://woodwidewebstories.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Stories from the Wood Wide Web REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Brussels BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261010T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261010T160000 DTSTAMP:20261003T131232Z CREATED:20260719T151518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T131232Z UID:11816-1791637200-1791648000@woodwidewebstories.com SUMMARY:Writing(with)plants in Brussels - CANCELLED DESCRIPTION:Short programme: \n\n13.00-14.00: Welcome\, conversation about plant agency with a drink and snack at  L’Atelier en Ville (included in the price)\n14.00-15.00: Walk to Egmont Park (10 min) and short forest bath\n15.00-16.00: Creative writing and closing sharing circle (outdoors\, but if it rains\, we go inside La Fabrique en Ville)\n\nLimited places. Maximum 8.  \nCome to Brussels for an afternoon of writing\, walking and slowing down among the more-than-human inhabitants of this place. This is writing(with)plants as it’s meant to be: outdoors\, with your feet in the grass and a pen in your hand. \nPRACTICAL INFORMATION \n\nWhat to bring: a notebook and pen\, weather-appropriate clothing\, plenty of drinking water\, and an open mind\nIncluded in the price of the workshop itself (30 euros): A cosy afternoon\, 2 x coffee/tea/soft drink\, 1 x slice of cake >> Participants who support the campaign do not have to pay this\, but must still register.\nYou can cancel up to 2 hours before the workshop starts. If you don’t turn up without letting me know\, I’ll send you an invoice for 20 euros.\nRegister: via the contact form. You’ll receive an invoice after the workshop.\n\n\n← Back Thank you for your response. ✨\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nFull name(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nEmail(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nPostal address (for invoicing)(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nSelect your order.\n I bought a reward at the Crowdfunding campaign (0 euro) I will join the workshop (30 euro including 2 drinks and a cake). I will join the workshop and want a copy of the book (70 euro) I will join the workshop (30 euro) and would like to see the book and decide there to buy the book or not (at the actual price of 45 euros)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Submit \n \n \n \nΔ URL:https://woodwidewebstories.com/event/writingwithplants-in-brussels-english/ LOCATION:L’Atelier en Ville\, Pl. Stéphanie 6\, Ixelles\, 1050\, Belgium CATEGORIES:Writing(with)plants in Belgium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://woodwidewebstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/peter-pan-in-brussels.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Wood wide web stories":MAILTO:wendywwuyts@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261011T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261011T130000 DTSTAMP:20260912T144231Z CREATED:20260719T154027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260912T144231Z UID:11827-1791711000-1791723600@woodwidewebstories.com SUMMARY:Writing(with)plants in Merksem (Antwerpen\, met ontbijt - in Dutch) DESCRIPTION:Kom naar Merksem voor een middag vol schrijven\, wandelen en tot rust komen te midden van de niet-menselijke bewoners van deze plek. Dit is schrijven (met) planten zoals het hoort: in de buitenlucht\, en samen. \nProgramma: \n09.45: Bijeenkomst voor Tea Bar l’Arteasan (5-10 minuten wandelen van een bus- en tramstop)\n10.00-11.00: Ontbijt in Tea Bar l’Arteasan\n11.15-12.00: Bosbad in het park (en op het kerkhof\, als de hanen niet al te dominerend zijn)\n12.00-13.00: Schrijf- en vertelkring buiten (als het regent\, gaan we naar binnen)\n13.00: Afsluiting \nPRAKTISCHE INFORMATIE \n\nBeperkt aantal plaatsen\nAantal plaatsen: 7 (+ Wendy)\nReserveer vóór zondag 03 oktober.\nWat mee te nemen: een notitieboekje en pen\, kleding die bij het weer past\, voldoende drinkwater en een open geest\nInbegrepen in de prijs van de workshop zelf (30 euro): een gezellige ochtend en ontbijt >> Deelnemers die de crowdfunding hebben gesteund\, hoeven dit niet te betalen\, maar moeten zich wel aanmelden.\nOns bord ontbijt : Yoghurt met vers fruit\, eitje\, broodjes\, koffiekoeken\, kaas/spek\, huisgemaakte confituur\, verse sinaasappelsap.\nLaat het me weten als je bepaalde voedingsbeperkingen of allergieën hebt.\nAangezien ik een tafel moet reserveren\, kun je tot 2 dagen voor aanvang van de workshop annuleren. Als je niet komt opdagen zonder dit vooraf te melden (geldt ook voor de crowdfunders)\, stuur ik je een factuur van 20 euro (prijs van het ontbijt).\nAanmelden: via het contactformulier.\nJe ontvangt na afloop van de workshop een factuur.\n\n\n← Back Thank you for your response. ✨\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nVolledige naam(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nEmail(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nJe adres (nodig voor de invoice)(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nWelke optie kies je?(required)\n Ik heb de crowdfunding gesteund (0 euro). Ik doe graag mee (30 euro) Ik doe graag mee en wil een boek (70 euro) Ik doe graag mee (30 euro) en wil ook het boek bekijken en tijdens de workshop beslissen of ik een exemplaar koop (aan de actuele prijs van 45 euro)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nVoedingsbeperkingen of allergieën?(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nNog iets anders? \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Submit \n \n \n \nΔ\n \n\n  URL:https://woodwidewebstories.com/event/writingwithplants-in-merksem-antwerpen-met-ontbijt-in-dutch/ LOCATION:Tea Bar L’ Arteasan\, Speelpleinstraat 53A\, 2170\, Antwerpen\, Belgium CATEGORIES:Writing(with)plants in Belgium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://woodwidewebstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/caption.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Wood wide web stories":MAILTO:wendywwuyts@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261023T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261023T173000 DTSTAMP:20260925T064717Z CREATED:20260925T064717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T064717Z UID:12816-1792749600-1792776600@woodwidewebstories.com SUMMARY:Free symposium in Rotterdam: Too Close! DESCRIPTION:Happening on Friday October 23rd: Too Close! On the Pleasures and Perils of an Entangled Existence\, a one-day symposium on what relationality means in theory and practice. \n\n\nShort content:\n\n\nWe know that more just and equitable relations between humans and between humans and non-humans are absolutely necessary to everyone’s future survival\, but what does it actually mean to say that everything is relational and everything is connected? If everything is entangled with everything else\, in what terms can we begin to understand modes of being in relation? What happens if we take relation(ality) as our starting point\, both theoretically and materially? And how might we cope with living with that which constantly feels too close for comfort? \n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a free event with ample tea and coffee provided throughout the day\, and enough breaks to take everything in and digest all the content… \n\n\nThe event page with sign-up link and a downloadable full day programme can be found here: https://vu.nl/en/events/2026/too-close-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-an-entangled-existence \n\n\nSpeakers\n\nKathrin Thiele (Universiteit Utrecht)\nWendy Wuyts (TU Eindhoven)\nKatja Kwastek (VU Amsterdam)\nSebastian Scholz (VU Amsterdam)\nAudronė Žukauskaitė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)\nJort van der Laan (Universiteit Leiden).\n\n\n\nDay Programme\n10:00-10:30: Walk-in and registration with coffee and tea \n10:30-10:50: Words of welcome by organising team \nSession 1: Relationality in theory and practice \n10:50-11:20: Relation(ality) as Starting Point: Onto-Epistemology\, Viscerality\, Politics by Kathrin Thiele \n11:20-11:50: Multispecies design\, care and reenchantment in times of exilic disenchanted ecologies by Wendy Wuyts \n11:50-12:10: Q&A \n12:10-13:30: Lunch break \nSession 2: Complex ecologies\, becoming \n13:30-13:40: Welcome back! \n13:40-14:10: (Ir)rationally relational? – Naturecultures in Contemporary Art by Katja Kwastek \n14:10-14:40: Presentation by Sebastian Scholz \n14:40-15:00: Q&A \n15:00-15:30: Coffee break \nSession 3: Processes of relation \n15:30-15:40: Welcome back! \n15:40-16:10: On the Modes of Existence of Living Beings: Transduction by Audrone Žukauskaitė \n16:10-16:40: You Were in the Shape of an Arrow\, and Now You’re the Shape of a Bowl \nby Jort van der Laan \n16:40-16:55: Q&A audience \n17:00-17:30: Concluding panel discussion \n17:30-18:30: Drinks \nMy 30 minute-presentation : Multispecies design\, care and reenchantment in times of exilic disenchanted ecologies\nHow can we cope with living too close to more-than-humans in times of ecological crises? This presentation explores embodied experiences of nature connection and multispecies entanglement through the everyday practices of co-designing\, inhabiting\, and caring for a circular timber tiny house in a regenerative neighbourhood in the Netherlands\, established on a former concrete wastescape. Rather than treating design as a means of managing or restoring nature\, I approach it as an ongoing practice of becoming-with. Engaging with Val Plumwood’s ecofeminist ideas\, Donna Haraway’s ethics of making kin\, Maria Puig De la Bellacasa’s more than human ethics\, Anna Tsing’s attention to the collaborative possibilities that emerge within damaged landscapes\, Jane Bennett’s notion of enchantment as an affective force that rekindles ethical attentiveness\, Astrida Neimanis’ hydrofeminism and Stacy Alaimo’s transcorporeality\, Michael Marder’s concept of exilic ecologies\, which foregrounds the shared displacement and estrangement experienced by both human and more-than-human beings under conditions of ecological crisis. Together\, these perspectives invite an understanding of care as a situated\, embodied\, and reciprocal practice of learning to inhabit everchanging disrupted worlds. \nDrawing on autoethnographic reflections\, I examine moments of pleasure\, discomfort\, vulnerability\, and surprise that arise through encounters with living and material companions. An ailanthus reclaiming disturbed soils and dancing with thunder storms\, a hornet creating its nest in a nearby abandoned structure\, and ongoing negotiations with mosquitoes reveal entanglement as neither harmonious nor merely burdensome. Instead\, closeness becomes a site where enchantment and friction coexist\, unsettling anthropocentric assumptions about health\, safety\, control and the Self. \nIn addition to my observations in and around me\, I also write and facilitate new stories\, informed by practices such as forest bathing and writing(with)plants\, decentering the human perspective and inviting for a different worldview. In this way\, multispecies design is a transformative practice of care and reenchantment\, which expands our boundaries of our (ecological) self. \n\n⏳ Time: 10:00-17:30 \n\n\n📍 Location: Nieuwe Instituut\, Rotterdam \n\n\n👄 Language: English \n\n\n\n\n\nFull event info and sign-up form: https://vu.nl/en/events/2026/too-close-the-pleasures-and-perils-of-an-entangled-existence \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent poster: Daan Timmer \n\n\nArt: Rinella Alfonso \n\n\n\n\n\nThis symposium is organised in partnership with the Environmental Humanities Center at VU Amsterdam and with financial support from VU Amsterdam and the Dutch Research Council (grant VI.Veni.221C.026 as part of the research project CINEAGRI — Global Elements of Cinema). URL:https://woodwidewebstories.com/event/free-symposium-in-rotterdam-too-close/ LOCATION:Nieuwe Instituut\, Rotterdam\, Museumpark 25\, Rotterdam\, 3015 CB\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Symposium in the Low Countries ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://woodwidewebstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Event_poster-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261025T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261025T163000 DTSTAMP:20261004T193333Z CREATED:20260918T205837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261004T193333Z UID:12747-1792933200-1792945800@woodwidewebstories.com SUMMARY:On-land writing(with)plants in Minitopia in Den Bosch (in Dutch) DESCRIPTION:Kom naar Minitopia Poeldonk in ‘s Hertogenbosch voor een middag schrijven\, wandelen en vertragen te midden van wilgen\, circulaire tiny huisjes en de meer-dan-menselijke bewoners van deze plek. Dit is writing(with)plants zoals het bedoeld is: buiten\, en met de pen in de hand. \nProgramma (3\,5 uur)\n\nWelkom en verhaal van de plek (bij een kop koffie/thee/frisdrank en een stuk taart) – in mijn tiny house:  Een introductie in de geschiedenis en het heden van Minitopia: hoe dit experimentele woonproject is ontstaan\, wat circulair bouwen in de praktijk betekent\, en een kijkje in mijn eigen circulaire houten tiny house.\nEen korte rondleiding in Minitopia \nEen bosbad in het wilgenbos\, een moment om echt aan te komen\, met alle zintuigen open.\n Writing(with)plants Schrijfuitnodigingen geïnspireerd door de planten\, bomen en het landschap om ons heen. Geen voorkennis of schrijfervaring nodig.\nNagesprek met koffie:  We sluiten af rond de tafel\, met soep of thee.\n\nPraktisch\n\nWat mee te nemen: een notitieboekje en pen\, kleding passend bij het weer\, genoeg drinkwater\, en een open blik\nInbegrepen in de prijs van de workshop zelf (30 euro): Een gezellige namiddag\, een kijkje in een tiny house\, 2 x koffie/thee/fris drankje\, 1 x taart (van Minitopia gemeenschap)\nJe kan afzeggen\, maximaal 2 uur voor de workshop begint. Kom je niet zonder me te verwittigen\, stuur ik je een invoice van 20 euro.\nAantal plekken: 6 (+ Wendy)\nAanmelden: via de contact form. Je krijgt een invoice na de workshop.\n\n\n← Back Thank you for your response. ✨\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nName(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nEmail(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nPostal address(required)\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nMessage\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nSelect your order:(required)\n I will join the workshop (30 euro). I will join the workshop and want a copy of the book (70 euro)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nIndien gewenst voor de factuur: Naam bedrijf en BTW nummer \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Submit \n \n \n \nΔ\n \n\nWriting(with)plants is een schrijfpraktijk rond het meer-dan-menselijke\, ontwikkeld door Wendy Wuyts. Dit on-land moment vindt plaats bij Minitopia Poeldonk\, waar zij als onderzoeker en schrijver woont en werkt. URL:https://woodwidewebstories.com/event/on-land-writingwithplants-in-minitopia-in-den-bosch-in-dutch/ LOCATION:Minitopia Poeldonk\, De Vaartgraaf\, 's hertogenbosch\, 5216 JH\, Netherlands CATEGORIES:Writing(with)plants in the Netherlands ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://woodwidewebstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-21.35.00.png ORGANIZER;CN="Wood wide web stories":MAILTO:wendywwuyts@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261030T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261030T160000 DTSTAMP:20260925T060305Z CREATED:20260918T211413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T060305Z UID:12750-1793368800-1793376000@woodwidewebstories.com SUMMARY:Writing(with) water lilies DESCRIPTION:A writing(with)plants session is a two-hour guided gathering where participants slow down\, learn more from\, with and about plants and plant people\, and foster imagination muscles. \nThe session is for free\, but you have to register\, as there are limited places\, to ensure quality of the session. \n\nWhat happens in a typical session?\n\n\nA standard two-hour session usually follows a structured\, reflective flow:\n\n\n\nIntroduction & Intentions: A brief overview of the vision behind writing (with)plants and setting a calm headspace.\n\n\n\n\nSharing Circles: Participants share personal memories\, scientific facts\, folklore\, or cultural stories related to plants as teachers.\n\n\n\n\nExploring the “Guest Plant”: The group focuses on a specific plant chosen for the session (such as mugwort\, olive\, or local forest flora).\n\n\n\n\nCreative Invitation: A guided prompt or meditation invites participants to practice “shapeshifting” or imagining the world from the perspective of the guest plant.\n\n\n\n\nReflection: A final sharing circle where attendees can read or discuss what they wrote or drew.\n\nIn this session\n\nguest plant: water lily\, an ecofeminist plant\ninspired by this academic essay: Gibson\, P.\, & Gagliano\, M. (2017). The feminist plant: Changing relations with the water lily. Ethics and the Environment\, 22(2)\, 125-147.\nWe recommend to read this paper beforehand and/or to visit a pond or a botanical garden and observe the water lily for a while.\nhost: Wendy Wuyts\nTechnical assistance: Lisa Sattell\n\nAbout water lilies\n\nWater lilies are floating and rooted. You cannot categorize them easily.\nIn Norway\, water lilies are the blood drops from a water creature called the nøkken. The Norwegian word for water lily is nøkkerose. Two years ago I wrote a blogpost about this: https://woodwidewebstories.com/2024/09/20/the-water-lily-the-serpent-and-the-nokk-an-ecofeminist-trinity/\n\nSelected quotes from the essay by Gagliano and Gibson:\n\n“Water lilies flourish in clusters and hormonally communicate together within their community. They can self-reproduce and have mobility across the water surface\, being both earthed and waterborne.” (p.125)\n“Vilified for being too passive\, too silent\, disparaged for having inferior abilities and condemned for being immobile\, the water lily nevertheless defies these anthropocentric denigrations.” (p.126)\n“This lily has an idealized history as the Nymphea bride or “veiled one.” Its long\, representational life has created its iconic status and its associations of purity.” (p.127)\n“The water lily’s roots nestle in the silt below the water but its leaves and flowers are mobile\, floating across the reflective watery surface. Water lilies communicate chemically within their vegetal community so that they can better flourish\, signaling to each other if there are adverse conditions or imminent threat.” (p130)\n“Does rootedness\, then\, discount these capacities of beginnings and becomings? What if humans\, like the water lily\, could do both? Stay rooted but also keep mobile. Plants not only move locally but across vast distances. The thirty-five species of water lilies are rooted in the soil in bodies of water but their fragrant flowers and waterproof leaves can float across the aquatic surface.” (p. 135)\n\nWhy this timing?\nIn some folklore from places which root in me\, they say that the veil between our world and other worlds is thin around 31 October / 01 November. That is why we celebrate the death and welcome their spirits at our homes. \nAs the water lily is not only an ecofeminist icon\, but also a hydrofeminist icon\, a real shapeshifter and boundary-destroyer\, she/they seem a great plant companion or familiar to share stories about visits from other worlds and boundaries. \nHow to register?\n\nThis online session is for free\, but we ask you to register beforehand.\nRegister via this link to receive the zoom link for this session: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/PytnwIOvQ4eb1aYz3uiL3w URL:https://woodwidewebstories.com/event/writingwith-water-lilies/ CATEGORIES:Writing(with)plants - online sessions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://woodwidewebstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Writing-with-plants-2026-2027-cycle-11-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Wood wide web stories":MAILTO:wendywwuyts@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR