Eliza Swann, THE ALCHEMICAL IMAGINATION: Creativity as Catalyst for Radical Transformation

FREE. Registration Requested. The Alchemical Imagination: Alchemy and Radical Creativity is a 45 minute talk by modern alchemist and artist Eliza Swann on alchemy as a hands-on practice of transformation — of matter, perception, and the worlds we build together. Moving beyond myth and metaphor, Swann explores alchemy as a creative discipline rooted in responsibility, renewal, and revolutionary possibility. This talk asks what alchemy can offer us as we face ecological collapse, move through grief, and insist on new forms of living. Alongside vivid stories of historical alchemists, Swann centers poet and activist Diane di Prima as a key contempora