{"id":15009,"date":"2025-01-09T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15009"},"modified":"2025-01-12T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T09:11:46","slug":"what-we-leave-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15009","title":{"rendered":"What We Leave Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s recent stay in Sydney coincided with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sydneyfestival.org.au\/\">Sydney Festival<\/a>, a major arts festival held for three weeks in January every year since its inception in 1977.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On my penultimate day in Australia your correspondent had arranged to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mca.com.au\/\">Museum of Contemporary Art Australia<\/a> and arrived rather early. While waiting to rendezvous, a volunteer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caveurban.com\/\">Cave Urban<\/a> outside a gazebo at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therocks.com\/venues\/tallawoladah-lawn\">Tallawoladah Lawn<\/a> persuaded yours truly to take part in <em>What We Leave Behind<\/em>, a participatory event involving lots of split bamboo, market pens and people&#8217;s imaginations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/sydney_fest.jpg\" alt=\"Leaflet reads WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND CAVE URBAN Come down to Tallawoladah Lawn outside the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia) to share your messages of hope for our planet. Your written messages will be woven into this stunning bamboo art installation. 8am-7pm daily\" width=\"600\" height=\"660\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/sydney_fest.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/sydney_fest-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Members of the public were invited to leave <em>messages of hope for the planet<\/em> on strips of bamboo which are being woven into a structure.<\/p>\r\n\r\nMy positive message: &#8220;<em>Let homo sapiens finally live up to its Latin species name<\/em>&#8220;.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s recent stay in Sydney coincided with the Sydney Festival, a major arts festival held for three weeks in January every year since its inception in 1977. On my penultimate day in Australia your correspondent had arranged to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and arrived rather early. While waiting to rendezvous, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17,15],"tags":[36,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-15009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15041,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions\/15041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}