‘Radical Love - Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar’ Film Screening and Post-screening Talk

Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden is delighted to welcome Satish Kumar, a friend and returning teacher of KFBG, during its 70th anniversary celebrations. In 2024, Satish was honoured with an inspiring documentary film about his life and philosophy, and you are invited to a special screening that celebrates Satish’s life and legacy as well as his esteemed presence at KFBG.

Known for his 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, Satish is an Indian pacifist, activist, author and educator who has been inspiring global change for almost 70 years. Between his home in southern England and a profound experience in India, the film captures Satish Kumar’s transformative journey. Directed by Brazilian Julio Hey, ‘Radical Love’ is a film about love and forgiveness, optimism and hope.

This is also a chance to connect and reconnect with like-minded others in the beautiful Kadoorie Centre with a light vegan dinner provided by Food Hub, and be inspired to take Satish’s legacy of radical love forward in your own lives.

More about ‘Radical Love’

‘Radical Love’ narrates the story of Satish becoming a monk, then an activist in the Land Gift movement and going on a peace pilgrimage around the world. The film also tells the story of Schumacher College, a centre for transformative learning founded by Satish in 1991, and Satish’s friendship with Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist from India. This intimate portrait follows Satish as a living demonstration of a life imbued with the powers of simplicity, collaboration and love.

KFBG 70th Anniversary – Awakening of Memory

The Radical Love film screening event is part of the celebrations marking the special occasion of KFBG’s 70th anniversary. It integrates a wider series of activities curated to deepen our connection with the Earth.

Guided by the theme ‘awakening of memory’, these gatherings call us to remember our place within the greater community of beings. This anniversary is an invitation – to return, to remember and to share the stories that bind us to this living landscape of KFBG’s mountain and the Earth itself. It is about how we live in the present and the future we shape together – deepening the dialogue between people and nature, and carrying this shared legacy forward in an ever-changing world.

Speaker

Satish Kumar

Raised as a Jain monk from the age of nine, Satish Kumar became a campaigner for land reform at 18, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India and peaceful world into reality.

In 1962, concerned about nuclear proliferation, he began, with his friend E.P. Menon, an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington with no money, through deserts, mountains and supposedly hostile territories to deliver a message of peace to the leaders of the four nuclear powers at the time.

In 1973, he settled in England and was invited by the renowned economist E. F. Schumacher to be the editor of Resurgence magazine, now titled Resurgence and Ecologist. Under his editorship the magazine has become, according to the Guardian newspaper, ‘The spiritual and artistic flagship of the green movement’.

In 1991, Satish co-founded Schumacher College, in Totnes, Devon, UK, an international residential education centre named after E. F. Schumacher, which aims to provide transformative learning for sustainable living.

Satish writes, teaches and leads workshops internationally on holistic economics, reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity. His books include Soil · Soul · Society: A New Trinity for Our Time, No Destination, Earth Pilgrim, You Are Therefore I Am, Elegant Simplicity and Radical Love.

Event Details

Date: 23 March 2026 (Monday)

Time: 17:45 - 21:15

17:45-19:00  Registration and Dinner

19:00-20:20  Film Screening

20:20-20:30  Break

20:30-21:15  Face-to-face dialogue with Satish

Venue: Kadoorie Centre (adjacent to KFBG)

Language: English (Film with Traditional Chinese subtitles, no English subtitles)

Fee: 

HK$120 for joining film screening and post-screening talk

HK$80 for simple vegan dinner with drink

HK$40 for shuttle bus arrangement

• 5:30pm from Tai Po Market MTR Station to Kadoorie Centre

• 9:30pm from Kadoorie Centre to Tai Po Market MTR Station

*Important: If you choose the shuttle bus service, please arrive on time. Late arrivals will need to arrange their own transportation.

Application: CLICK HERE

• Please submit your online application form on or before 13 March 2026 (Friday).

• Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Payment is not refundable after acceptance, unless the programme is cancelled due to inclement weather.

  
  

Enquiry

Please send an email to Ms Jamie Ngai (Education Department) at jamie.ngai@kfbg.org

Terms & Conditions

Upon submission of your application and payment, you are deemed to have accepted all Terms and Regulations of this retreat, and the guidelines below:

Kadoorie Centre Rules and Regulations 

KFBG Visitor Guidelines

In case of any dispute, the organiser has the right to the final decision.