The First Temenos Conference

‘ART AND THE RENEWAL OF THE SACRED’ was the title of a conference held at Dartington Hall in Devon from 13-16 November 1986. Among the speakers and artists who presented were Christopher Bamford, Wendell Berry, Keith Critchlow, Joscelyn Godwin, Yoshikazu Iwamoto, Brian Keeble, Satish Kumar, John Lane, Martin Lings, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Treasa O’Driscoll, Santosh Pall, Kathleen Raine, Jeremy Reed and Philip Sherrard. To our knowledge only a few recordings of the proceedings survive. Available here are:

The Second Temenos Conference, ‘Art in the Service of the Sacred’, was held at Dartington Hall two years later in 1988.