D-CENTRE

(Denman Centre for Autonomous Living and Learning; a registered BC non-profit society)

D-Centre is a place for sharing skills and sensibilities that help us to live with greater self-reliance as the currently dominant order fragments and fails, around and within us.

We bring together elements of horizontal organizing, post-permaculture, decolonial land-based knowledge, radical theory, spirituality, and science and engineering .

We are keen to challenge the ways that many of these skills have become professionalized and isolated, so we are making space for horizontal learning, with the aim of deepening our relationships with ourselves, the land, our neighbours, the Indigenous peoples whose territories we live on, and our friends and allies in the region.

We want D-Centre to remain truly decentred, as one node in overlapping networks of mutual aid.

THE BIG POND EVENT SPACE

As part of our efforts in recovering the property, we have restored an old cabin and the area around it, and are now using it to host events. The site includes a large open/treed space with spots for setting up tents, outdoor fire and cooking facilities, potable water supply, solar power and wireless access, a hot shower, outhouses, and grey water systems.

In case of heavy rain - unfortunately very unlikely in the summer! - the cabin can accommodate a few people (on one bed plus sleeping mats), and includes a covered outdoor cooking/meeting area. 

We are happy to make this space available to individuals and groups who want to organize events that resonate with our vision and approach, and which will help us to build long-term relationships of reciprocity. We imagine some of these generating income to help pay our costs, some breaking even, and some taking the form of a gift.

Please go to the Events page for an idea of the kinds of things we have been doing, and are planning to do.