Role of Sci-Fi + Imagination in Climate Solutions (Virtual)
In partnership with Milkweed Editions
Dates & Times:
Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 pm CT
Venue: Virtual
Cost: Free with registration
This virtual session will explore the themes of the upcoming Cli-Fi anthology, Metamorphosis, published in partnership with GRIST, featuring global contributors. We'll discuss the imaginative possibilities of a new world, with insights from authors and curators, and consider how these ideas resonate locally, particularly in Minneapolis.
Sanjana Sakar is an author, filmmaker, and climate activist on a mission to make climate action the hottest place to be. Her work amplifies “thrutopian” stories with a lens on climate justice, radical imagination, and adrienne maree brown’s “pleasure activism.” As the founder of GARMI, a climate newsletter and creative studio, she leverages systems-thinking storytelling to reclaim extractive narratives and world-build towards a healthy human future on Earth. Sanjana has been featured in Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Anthology, the Hollywood Climate Summit, and the Webby Honorees, and she’s worked with organizations such as the Center for Cultural Power, Visit California, and The Washington Post. She is based in LA on Tongva land.
Louis Evans (he/him) has been going to Passover seder at his Papa and Bubbe’s house since the year he was born. He is a writer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His science fiction has appeared in Vice, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Nature: Futures. His climate fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Little Blue Marble, Fusion Fragment, and more. He’s online at evanslouis.com.
Tory Stephens creates opportunities that transform organizations and shift culture. He is a resource generator and community builder for social justice issues, people, and movements. He currently works at Grist Magazine as their climate fiction creative manager, and uses storytelling to champion climate justice, and imagine green, clean, and just futures.
In another life he owned a kick-butt streetwear company, and he would have gotten away with eating the last cookie too, if it weren't for his three meddling kids.
Jamie Liu is a writer, climate resilience planner, and Sunrise Movement volunteer. She was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, California, and currently lives in Brooklyn.