“On the trail of nature” – that is the motto of a very special nature experience day on Sunday, June 26, in Atzing near Mehrnbach. The “Lebensraum:natur” association is organizing a project that is primarily about the message: “We want to convey the urgency that each individual can make a contribution to nature and the ecosystem.”
That’s what veterinarian and club chairman Josef Voglsperger says, but he emphasizes that this event is “a joint project of many participants” and describes it as a “participatory festival”. In 35 different subject areas, not only the diversity of nature, but also the complexity of the ecosystem and the often unnoticed networking in nature are processed: explanatory, instructive, not moralizing.
“It’s about giving visitors an experience that goes beyond pure information,” says Josef Voglsperger, on whose large and biodiversely designed property the event will take place. “And it’s not just meant to be funny, but a reminder of the urgency that every individual can do something to protect creation.”
The subject areas are widely spread: the palette ranges from the ground, insect dwellings, flowering areas, a tree circle to Mehrnbecka 40a, “Art drives flowers”, a “Um-teifi-Platz” or the topic “Networking”. The necessary commonality – for example in the areas of hunting, agriculture and forestry – should also be emphasized.
An experience with all senses
“Our own experience is important to us, it’s the only way to leave an emotional impression,” says Peter Estl, who is responsible for the association’s homepage and wants to make it possible to experience it again through the presentation on the website. The experience is important, and both protagonists emphasize: “This is not an exhibition site, it is the private garden and thus the immediate living space of the people who are at home here.”
When Josef Voglsperger talks about the experience, he also points out that this should be an experience with all the senses. “There are also contemplative places here, places to come down, to retreat. Only when the brain and the heart are equally involved does the experience become more intense and our message clearer,” say Voglsperger and Estl. Among other things, didgeridoo players will contribute to the acoustic accompaniment in the tree circle. It is important to Josef Voglsperger and Peter Estl that the commonality of all (more than 100) participants is expressed and that the experience is made possible “in a simple way – in the sense of elementary and uncomplicated”.
Source: Nachrichten
