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Mar
27

Lecture
Song of the Seasons Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Emergence Magazine

Summary

Where

Reethaus

When

Friday, March 27, 2026
19:30-21:30

What

Lecture + Conversation

Tickets

€20

Tickets for this event will be released shortly.

The song of the seasons is always beckoning us. If we are willing to listen, we can be with the seasons as they really are: a constantly evolving series of cycles inviting us into a space of intimate relationship. How can we offer our attention to each of these cycles and their seasonal expressions?

On Friday March 27, join Sufi teacher and Emergence Magazine founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in the Reethaus for an evening lecture exploring the themes of his new book, Song of the Seasons: A Meditation on Cycles, Story, and Humility (Emergence Press, April 2026). Rooted in the understanding that the seasons’ many cycles mirror the sacred nature of existence, the book is part of Emergence Magazine’s broader exploration of the changing nature of the seasons. In this lecture, Emmanuel will explore how engaging our attention with the cycles within the seasons deepens our relationship with place and the living world; how the cycle of birth, growth, decay and death that underpin all life are part of a story that can help us navigate this time of ecological uncertainty; and how we must return to a kinship with the seasons that is rooted in humility and offering.  

Tickets are available for €20 and Song of the Seasons and Emergence Magazine’s Volume 6: Seasons will be available for purchase throughout the evening. 

A related all-day workshop with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will be held the next day, Saturday March 28, exploring simple practices and ways of being that connect you with the ongoing unique expressions of the seasons. A bundle ticket for the Friday lecture and all-day workshop, including a copy of Song of the Seasons is available for €117.

 

Artwork by Maurits Wouters

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Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an author, Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker, and a Sufi teacher. He has directed more than twenty documentary films, including Taste of the LandThe Last Ice AgeAloha ĀinaThe Nightingale’s SongEarthriseSanctuaries of Silence, and Elemental, among others. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum and London’s Barbican, and featured on PBS POVNational GeographicThe New Yorker, and The New York Times Op-Docs. His first book, Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology, is forthcoming from Shambhala in summer 2026. He is the founder, podcast host, and executive editor of Emergence Magazine.

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Emergence Magazine

Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine and creative production studio that  shares stories with the potential to shift ways of thinking and being in our relationship to the living world. Widening the frame of what a magazine can be, their offerings across traditional and emerging mediums foster the community and conversations vitally necessary to seed new narratives for our shared future. Emergence publishes an annual print edition featuring a collection of essays, conversations, poems, artwork, and photo essays. They publish stories online each week: multimedia features; films; audio stories; and a weekly podcast, which includes conversations, talks, and author-narrated essays and poems.