Before we ease out of Critical Signals 2025, we have promised ourselves, and you, a book crammed full of “Recipes for Disaster”.
We have many Recipes, but maybe not yours … yet. Some are Recipes that tell how we got so messed up, how people cooked up this climate on the edge, this teetering society, this extractive nightmare. What we need more of are Recipes of hope, of rising, of gathering and of recovery - Recipes for our communities and for our Future. Please feel free to join us for a drop-in writing workshop. Stay as long or as little as you want. Write as much, or as little as your heart desires.
We will have coffee, edible treats and we will have four writing spaces. Feel free to bring your preferred writing device - we will have paper and pens, if you are travelling light :)
The Spaces:
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Spring: share a table, share ideas, be excited, be convivial, be bold, be rambunctious.
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Summer: feel the warmth - even the heat of creativity. Go new places, take a holiday from the day-to-day, imagine new sights. Attend - or even offer - a 15 minute ‘writing summer school’.
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Autumn - relax in the ideas you harvested in the other season spaces. Or, hangout and get in the writing mood before launching into your preferred writing space. First rest, and chat outside with a coffee, biscuits, chocolate and among other writers in the space. Let the leaves fall gently.
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Winter - hunker down in the quietest of the spaces with your thoughts, your words and your softly emerging ideas. Just sit and write. Enjoy a space for making words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and metaphors into tools to build a better Aotearoa.
