Upcoming
Upcoming
Imagination Bootcamp: Mending
What could repair look like—if we really imagined it?
What to expect:
This 90-minute workshop at the Folger Shakespeare Library invites adults to stretch their imaginations together. Through close looking, creative exercises, movement, and playful prompts, we'll explore the theme of mending: what becomes possible when we turn our imagination toward the many shapes care and repair can take.
Imagination Bootcamp: Togetherness
Your imagination is bigger with company. (Pizza included!)
This 90-minute outdoor workshop invites kids and their grown-ups to stretch their imaginations together. Through movement, playful prompts, close looking, and creative exercises, we'll explore the theme of togetherness: who we are with others, what strengthens our connections, and what we might build together. Stay after for pizza!
No physical exercise involved — just a serious workout for your imagination.
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.