The schedule will be publicly available by January 2025.
Theme: Braiding our Interconnected Futures
“The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual.”
(Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass)
Our theme explores the intricacies of braiding, and we invite all members of the community to consider our individual and collective relationships to people, spaces, technology, and the natural world.
What innovative insights emerge when diverse fields intertwine their expertise for mutual benefit? How do shared stories and traditions create opportunities for reciprocal cultural exchange? How can we build networks of support and solidarity across different social justice movements? How are our identities both distinct and intertwined to form a stronger, cohesive self? How do we define, understand, and connect the strands from various sectors, cultures, ways of being, and ways of knowing in our community?
In coming together, we honor the individual, the collective, and deep collaboration.
In alignment with the overall theme, we encourage and will prioritize proposals that bring together multiple disciplines, contexts, conversations, perspectives, experiences, and creative expressions.
Suggested threads:
- Interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborations
- Environmental synergies and mutual flourishing
- Social justice weaving
- Joy as resistance
- Integrating mind, body, spirit and community