In 2026, we are continuing our collaboration with partner organisations Resilient Blue Mountains and winning prize sponsors to produce the 2026 Regenesis Anthology of short stories, poems and visual images by local Blue Mountains creatives. This year we are adding 2 more categories: original lyric + music, resulting in the 2026 Regenesis CD and showing of a 2-4 min Regenesis video.

This project reaches out to engage with young people 12 – 18 years, and adults, 18 year and over, with the video category only for 15 – 25 yr olds.

The theme for 2026 is ‘Our Kinship with Nature’. In 2025 the theme was ‘Living Sustainably’. In 2024 it was ‘Weaving Connections’, in 2023 ‘Water’ and in 2022 ‘Regenesis’.

Each year we end the project with a public event celebrating the winning entries for each category.

Through this project we seek to engage our community in exploring ideas of regenesis (regenerative enlivenment)—spreading the seeds of relationality as a new/ancient way of being, thinking and doing.

It’s the shift from extractivist competitive individualism to a relational enlivenment worldview.

– Project Leads: Barbara Lepani, David Christie, Brad Diedrich and Linda Blagg.