Upcoming
Upcoming
Imagination Bootcamp: Togetherness
Imagination Bootcamp is a participatory workshop that treats imagination as a trainable skill — like a muscle you can strengthen — especially in times when hope feels hard to hold onto and the future feels overwhelming.
It's designed for people who are feeling the weight of what's happening in the world (injustice, cruelty, uncertainty, powerlessness) and want to practice imagining something different, together.
Lincoln Park (Monday, March 23, 3:45–5:15 PM) "Togetherness Training" — an imagination bootcamp for kids and their adults, held outdoors at Lincoln Park. 90 minutes, $5 donation covers pizza afterwards. Led by Isabella Bruno and Marina Gross-Hoy. This is not physical education.
Imagination Bootcamp: Mending
Imagination Bootcamp is a participatory workshop that treats imagination as a trainable skill — like a muscle you can strengthen — especially in times when hope feels hard to hold onto and the future feels overwhelming.
It's designed for people who are feeling the weight of what's happening in the world (injustice, cruelty, uncertainty, powerlessness) and want to practice imagining something different, together.
Folger Shakespeare Library (Wednesday, March 25, 4:00–5:30 PM) "Mending Our Spirits" — an imagination bootcamp for adults only, held at the Folger Shakespeare Library. 90 minutes, $5 donation to the Library. Led by Isabella Bruno and Marina Gross-Hoy. This is not physical education.
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Written by environmentalist and collective mobilizer of the “Transition Towns” movement, Rob Hopkins proposes that we are “all frogs in the boiling pan of imaginative decline.” Let’s gather together at the pond to discuss this intriguing and sure-to-be-provocative book!
Time is Eastern Standard Time, GMT+5.
All are welcome, sign-up via Eventbrite for reminders and call-in info.
More description from the the dust-jacket
Imagination is central to empathy, to creating better lives, to envisioning and then enacting a positive future. Yet imagination is also demonstrably in decline at precisely the moment when we need it most. In this passionate exploration, Hopkins asks why imagination is in decline, and what we must do to revive and reclaim it. Once we do, there is no end to what we might accomplish.
From What Is to What If is a call to action to reclaim and unleash our collective imagination, told through the stories of individuals and communities around the world who are doing it now, as we speak, and witnessing often rapid and dramatic change for the better.