Solarpunk Writing Workshop ☀️

Join futures collective There Will Be Tomorrows for a Solarpunk writing workshop!

«Solarpunk is a shining vision of a positive future, grounded in our existing world, that emphasizes the need for environmental sustainability, self-governance, and social justice. It’s a movement dedicated to human-centric and eco-centric ends. It looks beyond the limitations of capitalism and beyond the current rift between humanity and nature. It’s a futurism that focuses on what we should hope for rather than on what to avoid.» (What is Solarpunk?, The Anarchist Library)

In this workshop we will explore solarpunk themes in writing and work on our own texts through discussions and prompts. The workshop will be led by one of our collective members, Amici Nybråten, who is in the process of putting together the first-ever Solarpunk anthology in Norwegian. While the workshop will be in English, it is possible to write in whatever language you want!

You have to register in advance to join the workshop and there are limited spots available. The workshop will be held at Deichman Bjørvika in the Disen room on Monday October 26th from 18-21.

About There Will Be Tomorrows:

There Will Be Tomorrows (TWBT) is an interdisciplinary collectively-organised group, centred around post-capitalist desire, liveable futures and social sufficiency.

At a time when contemporary crises are accumulating and accelerating, There Will Be Tomorrows aims to establish a site of active hope and resistance. TWBT bridges arts and activism by stimulating experiments in radical imagination and building a commons for post-capitalist skills and knowledge. As a community we work together to model ideas and values that offer a basis for liveable futures: alternatives to oppressive capitalist systems.

Via practice-based, collective research and the re-imagination of societal structures, TWBT aims eventually to evolve a programme of collective practical actions that address specific needs of local people and local ecosystems.
The meetings last up to three hours and take place every other week. We often invite guests and are open to new members, so the group expands and contracts in size.

Activities are organised collectively, with members proposing workshops, discussions, reading groups, screenings, creative experiments, and more.

Topics that the groups encounters include:
// Collective care // Growing food // Collective ownership // Alternative economies // Climate and ecological justice // Community energy projects // Universal Basic Income // Decolonisation // Post-consumer art and leisure // Mental health under (post-)capitalism // Speculative fiction // Freedom from work // Post-fossil and post-capitalist imagining //

Location

Deichman Bjørvika
Anne Cath Vestlys Plass
None Oslo