SINCE 1986, ECOLOGY + IMAGINATION
The only platform that brings rich and creative content drawn from the fringes of societyUdit excearcium quate veni te periatibus, con. The only platform that brings rich and creative content drawn from the fringes of societyUdit excearcium quate veni te periatibus, con.
PEOPLE
BEHIND
THE
SCENES
Whitney Smith, Publisher / Editor
Founder and publisher/editor Whitney Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist and journalist with an extensive career blending advocacy and the arts through the platforms of music, publishing, theatre, performance art and new media. His advocacy work has been in social justice, municipal and environmental politics, bioregionalism, community economic development and popular education.
Smith founded the Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture and co-founded Shadowland Theatre, EarLick, and Suitcase Theatre. In his teens he migrated from modelling, film making and acting on television to radio broadcasting and print journalism. As a composer and musician he is most passionate about two genres: musical theatre and neo-classical big band jazz and swing. The 17-piece Whitney Smith Big Steam Band produced two albums. Swing's Mistress and Life Drawing, the latter featuring his original compositions. Between jaunts road-hopping and photographing for jWC, Smith can occasionally be heard strumming his beloved German archtop behind a soulful warbler's rendering from the American songbook.
Read MoreAn exploration
of the spaces
between:
THE RAW
THE COOKED
THE UNTAMED
THE CIVILIZED
THE WILDERNESS
THE CITY
WHAT IS WORTH THINKING ABOUT, worth knowing about, and worth sharing with others? We want to publish what matters to us and you — and to us these are contributions of all kinds that address what matters now for later, whether it be in the zones of nature, society, culture, science, politics, or elsewhere.
The publication, The Journal of Wild Culture, and its organization, The Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture (SPWC), grew out of founder Whitney Smith’s experience of foraging for wild foods and selling them to chefs in hotels and restaurants. So, food and nature and our relationship to the untamed are subjects close to our hearts. But there is much that can be seen through the wild culture bifocal lens where wild and culture appear together — contradictorily and harmoniously — at the same moment. That’s where you come in.
Much is spinning out of control, and it’s often the job of humans to see if what is getting too wild can be brought back into balance. The Journal of Wild Culture wants to be part of the discussions and stories that are at the center of this rebalancing work. For us, one aspect of it is what we call ‘new future practice’: how we can live today for a future that is morally and physically sustainable.
We are based in Toronto, inviting members, contributors and volunteers from everywhere into a stimulating, playful, and moving exploration that navigates the edge . . . between the inner and outer landscapes . . . between wild and culture.
Gayle Grin Designer
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Chellis Glendinning Editor-at-Large
Chellis Glendinning is JWC’s Editor-on-the-Lam. She is an author, essayist, poet, political activist, and psychologist whose specialty for 25 years was recovery from PTSD. She has written seven books. Off the Map: An Exploration Deep into Empire and the Global Economy and Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade both won the (U.S.) National Federation of Press Women award in nonfiction. She is working on a memoir of a generation, The History Makers, and finishing a bilingual novel to be published in Bolivia. Glendinning lives in an antique house in Chuquisaca, Bolivia.
Lisa Wilson
Angel Emeritus,
wildculture.com
Lisa Wilson has a degree in economics and is a member of the Economic Research Council. Past research has focused on defence, environmental and health economics and in these areas she is an active and strong advocate, often at the parliamentary level.
Her role in the development of The Journal of Wild Culture online cannot be underestimated, as she has been an important and generous supporter on the financial, management and editorial side. In London she is a key member of the editorial, administrative and the social enterprise teams where her unique and intuitive reading of how 'wild culture' can be embodied into a non-partisan political universe has a strong voice. A great lover of music, Lisa is also involved in live music and musical theatre production projects of various kinds.
CONTRIBUTING
EDITORS
- Roxanna Bikadoroff
- David Cayley
- John Davis
- Angela Lord
- Chris Lowry
- Ryota Matsumoto
- Stephanie Mills
- Tom O’Bedlam
- Edward O’Connor
- O. Fern
- Stephen Richer
- Rick Simon
- Tim Wilson
BE A FELLOW EXPLORER.
JOIN THE SOCIETY OF
THE PRESERVATION OF
WILD CULTURE.
Founding editorial staff of The Journal of Wild Culture print magazine, based in Toronto (1986)
- Whitney Smith
- Publisher / Editor
- Chris Lowry
- Senior Editor
- Peter Ferguson
- Kim Galvez
- Consulting Editors
- Bernard Stockl (1956-1993),
Designer
Founding editorial staff of The Journal of Wild Culture online, based in London (2012)
- Tom Jeffreys
- Managing Editor
- Liam Desroy
- Rosie Jackson
- Editors
- Joe Hedges and
- Garden Branding Agency
- Designer
Founding board members / donors of The Journal of Wild Culture online, (2012)
- David C. Ferguson
- David Levine
- Richard Stursberg
- Tom Vosa
- Donald Wilson
- Lisa Wilson
