Letters to the Future | Informal Workshop

Write a letter to the future while grounding your imaginings in action for the present! Join the Climate Lounge team, who will guide you through a process of crafting a letter to someone in the future, through a combination of imagining, writing and somatic embodiment.

This informal workshop will give you the opportunity to connect with yourself and a radical hope for the future while being part of DearTomorrow’s global storytelling project, using the power of words to create the conditions for change.

Please note this is a first come first served opportunity and space is limited.

The World We Want

Alexandra Dodd, Julia Martin, and Onezwa Mbola speak to Zayaan Khan about decolonising the way we live in the hope of a sustainable tomorrow.

Past, Present and Future

Megan Choritz, Mphuthumi Ntabeni and Jean-Paul Willemse speak to Stevlyn Vermeulen about how their different novels are a product of our history.

Beyond Dystopia | Finding New Futures Through Speculative Fiction

When the world feels broken, imagination is more necessary than ever. Join Climate Lounge for a writing workshop that aims to move beyond the familiar grammar of dystopia and into the work of imagining liveable, just, and ecologically alive futures.

The workshop will draw on the visionary fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, the Solarpunk movement, and the African Speculative Fiction anthology Our Move Next that imagines into being Pan-African visions of a post-Capitalist world. Together, we will explore how fiction can not only warn but also dream, design, and plant seeds for futures that transcend doomerism and dystopia.

The workshop will include a discussion on craft, close reading, and generative writing exercises, that will leave you with an expanded sense of what speculative fiction can be.

Intentional Recalibrations

Sanah Ahsan, Siphokazi Jonas and Lebogang Matseke speak to Maneo Mohale about finding ways to balance the world.

Beyond Dystopia | Finding New Futures Through Speculative Fiction

When the world feels broken, imagination is more necessary than ever. But what happens when even our imaginations are saturated with collapse and catastrophe?
Join Climate Lounge for a writing workshop that aims to move beyond the familiar grammar of dystopia and into the work of imagining liveable, just, and ecologically alive futures. The workshop will draw on the visionary fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, the Solarpunk movement, and the African Speculative Fiction anthology Our Move Next that imagines into being, Pan-African visions of a post-Capitalist world. Together, we will explore how fiction can not only warn but also dream, design, and plant seeds for futures that transcend doomerism and dystopia.
The workshop will include a discussion on craft, close reading, and generative writing exercises, that will leave you with an expanded sense of what speculative fiction can be.

Letters to the Future

Write a letter to the future while grounding your imaginings in action for the present! Join the Climate Lounge team, who will guide you through a process of crafting a letter to someone in the future, through a combination of imagining, writing and somatic embodiment. The workshop will give you the opportunity to connect with yourself and a radical hope for the future while being part of DearTomorrow’s global storytelling project, using the power of words to create the conditions for change. You will also have the option of your letter to be featured in the upcoming Letters to the Future installation at Open Book’s main festival in September.