Gift Culture – Horst Kornberger

Our next Gift Culture recipient is Horst Kornberger.

Horst is an accomplished artist, writer, poet, researcher, philosopher, educator, director, speaker, story-teller and much more. His cultural gifts have been enlivening this and many other places around the world for years. Creativity lives at the heart of all Horst’s projects – particularly the fostering of the creativity of others through imaginative work. He is, in short, a tender of human capacities; a creator of capital.

This Gift Culture experiment seeks to recognise and support such individuals in the crucial role that they play in our societies. Horst has given so much, over such a long period, it seems to only make sense that he be supported in order that he may be able to continue his work – continue to give his gifts, and to help others give theirs – long into the future.

While the $50 we are giving remains a micro-gift, and lives largely as a symbolic gesture, may it also live as a recognition of the important work that Horst does, and the need for such work to carry on. May it also help to carve a social pattern into the world – one in which capital is able to flow, as free gift, to cultural creatives so that they may be able to meet their needs, and thereby contribute their offerings – not as purchases, but as free gifts – to society as a whole, where they are so desperately needed. May capital flow to where it seeks to go – towards human capacity.

Horst’s new book Global Hive: Bee Crisis and Compassionate Ecology is available in paperback, or on kindle. It will be launched in Perth at the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Allen Park, Swanbourne at 4pm on Saturday December 1.

The new website showcasing his writing courses is: The Writing Connection.