{"id":9014,"date":"2019-09-23T13:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=9014"},"modified":"2019-09-23T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T21:27:58","slug":"seeding-utoppia-like-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=9014","title":{"rendered":"Seeding Utopia. Like, Today<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hey, Torontonians:<\/p>\n

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The official “Seeding Utopia, Fighting Dystopia” series poster, by Annette Nedilenka.<\/p><\/div>\n

There’s this local thing I’m a part of: “The Multiversity Collective” (which might not strike some of you as the coolest name on the block, until you learn that we narrowly avoided being called “Multiversity Our Strength”). Remember that “Toronto 2033<\/a>” book that came out from Spacing<\/a> a while back? That was the the Collective’s public debut, under the leadership of local Renaissance Dude Jim Munroe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, we’re at it again: the Collective’s sophomore effort is “Seeding Utopias and Resisting Dystopias<\/a>“, a series of workshops, demos, and lectures starting this\u2014<\/p>\n

Oh crap.<\/p>\n

I thought it was starting on the 26th. I’ve just visited the website and discovered it’s starting tonight at 6pm<\/em>, i.e., about two hours from the time I’m typing this (and significantly less counting from the time this post goes live). And in fact, Jim has managed to wangle some names much bigger than any of us actual Collective members: Cory Doctorow, for one, who is kicking things off mere minutes from now at the Oakwood Village Library and Arts Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sorry about that.<\/p>\n

All is not lost, however. If I’ve given you unforgivably short notice about Cory, here’s a heads-up weeks<\/em> in advance for the appearance of one Charlie Jane Anders, appearing at the same location on October 17. In fact, the series includes a solid dozen events stretching all the way into December and ending with my buddy Karl Schroeder on the 5th.<\/p>\n

Head over to the Multiversity Collective Home Page<\/a> for all the gory details. Here’s the executive summary:<\/p>\n