Fri 5 Mar
From 12noon – film is available to watch on demand all weekend.
Watch: Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
2016 Fabrizio Terranova, 90 min
Available to watch on demand all weekend.
Feminist thinker, writer and historian of science Donna Haraway shares her life, influences and ideas in this documentary film by director Fabrizio Terranova. Haraway is best known for her work on gender, cyborgs, unconventional partnerships and post-colonialism – including the ground-breaking ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century’ (1985).
Keynote talk: The Parables of Octavia Butler
adrienne maree brown in conversation with Ama Josephine Budge
7pm – 8:15pm
Writers and activists adrienne maree brown and Ama Josephine Budge in conversation, exploring the work of Octavia Butler. The power and inevitability of change is central to Butler’s visionary stories, as well as the reimaginations of social relations across race, gender and class – how can we collectively seed, cultivate and create the worlds we want, and build habitable futures?
Sat 6 Mar
Workshop: What-if?
A Speculative Science Fiction Writing Workshop with Season Butler
11am – 1pm
Writer, performance artist and teacher Season Butler leads a workshop on fantastical, futuristic writing: how to conjure voice, subjectivity, and compelling, engaging prose. There will be breakout sessions to practice exercises within the workshop and writers at all levels are welcome. Only available with the New Suns plus ticket.
Panel talk: Among the Stars
A poetry live reading with Precious Okoyomon and Dorothea Lasky + discussion with The White Review
5pm – 6pm
For millennia we have stargazed for inspiration and knowledge via astrology, astronomy and space exploration. With poetry readings and conversation, Dorothea Lasky and Precious Okoyomon explore the relationship between stars and the soil: how can what lies beyond our world help us here on earth?
Sun 7 Mar
Workshop: Journaling / Diary writing with the London Review of Books
12pm – 1:15pm
Led by Alice Spawls, co-editor of the LRB, this workshop explores journaling as a foundation for creative writing. Focusing on skills for independent editing, playing with time and structuring prose, the workshop will draw from a combination of Octavia Butler’s writings and diary pieces from the LRB.
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Bookers can continue to watch all content back until Tuesday 9 March 11.59pm.
