Library of Change 🌍

A platform to creatively connect people with agency to make a difference in the world. One word at a time. Podcasts, Tiny Books and Exchanges to fuel the fire.

[Library of Change 🌍 @libraryofchange]

Our LET'S STICK TOGETHER with @EmilyTracy8 @SarahCuddon @Bromley_by_Bow has come to an end, a project that became a way to sit with the times we were living through, creating some beautiful conversations, collages and podcasts. A write-up: https://t.co/91kE9tYVEv

[Toby Litt @tobylitt]

This is an amazing speech. A true novelist’s takedown. Empathy as satire. Essential viewing.

[Dissonant Futures Collective @DissonantFuture]

Check out @angelaytchan's powerful Coda 'Holding Playful Clarity', four landscapes that visualise the bumpiness that comes with trying to imagine the depth and spread of climate change emotions. More and all four collages here: https://t.co/89tt0dPOix

[Dissonant Futures Collective @DissonantFuture]

Happy Earth Day! Every day is #EarthDay...
Read @Emmabob3 playful, thoughtful Coda 'Heart-Space Astronaut' on our website here: https://t.co/41Rom0tMUq

[Leslie Tate (he/she/Leslie)✍️🌈'*•.¸♡ ♡¸.•*'⧖☮🙏 @LSTateAuthor]

MEMORIES & CLIMATE https://t.co/Gy419ZibFg
😍🍎💥THANX 4 RTS/LIKES!❤☀😍
@DissonantFuture @Minghowriter @CliftonHart8 @BOCArnie @crossmansusanna

#ClimateEmergency #VirtualReality #installation #art #Artists

[Dissonant Futures Collective @DissonantFuture]

Our fourth Coda - In a World of Constant Noise, What If We Stopped to Listen - is by @GudrunSoley, a reflection between Glasgow and Iceland on strangers, tears, awe and motherhood - and what it means to connect the dots. Read more here: https://t.co/fngwz9FLdD

[Dissonant Futures Collective @DissonantFuture]

Today's Coda 'The A-Z of Future Grief' is by @LenaLongstream, a factual fictional essay that weaves poetry into a conversation between @Anna_HeartWire and @frantzen_mikkel, with photos by David Alexander. Read more here: https://t.co/T5dEFUgPIT

[Louise Hobson @louisedhobson]

𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠

Join a walk+talk with @angelaytchan exploring the shoreline as a site to consider colonial climate histories & presents #SwayBarry

🗓 Saturday 28 May
⏰ 11:30am
📍The Knap/Porthkerry Park, Barry
🎟 Info+tickets: https://t.co/xupzLRxM57

[Common Wealth @Common_WealthHQ]

Really exciting workshop this Saturday 12-3.30 at Common Space - VR and writing to explore Climate Grief with the brilliant @Emmabob3 and @DissonantFuture Link is here to sign up, FREE + free pizza pieces! ❤️https://t.co/J7JUBu4OpU

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Overheard:

“Not interested in ‘defense of poetry’ argument. Poetry is a primal ancient force and art form. It has been here long before our individual lifetimes & will stay long after.

What we need is to defend ourselves *with* it. A tune to walk to as long as one still walks”

[Rachel Long @rachelnalong]

A real honour to be part of this cultural ‘mixtape’, truly a fiya anthology edt. by the truly brilliant #kayochingonyi for @canongatebooks, and this morning, how lovely to be featured in @guardian alongside @InuaEllams and @warsan_shire xxx 🖤🔥💫🖤🔥👊🏾

https://t.co/eW8UVRsPKK

[StudioOlafurEliasson @olafureliasson]

22 May is #BiodiversityDay — a chance to act #ForNature and protect the #biodiversity we depend on. @UNBiodiversity

Image: ‘Algae window’, 2020, installation view @@KunsthausZurich in 2020 (photo: Franca Candrian).

[Culture Declares Emergency @CultureDeclares]

Calling declarers 📢 What do recent changes in legislation mean for cultural activism in response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency?

Join the CDE our next Declarers Breakfast this Weds!

📅 25th May 22 9-10am
📍 Online

Full info and registration 👇
https://t.co/Seo70uaMnN

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Yes, this is Odessa, and yes it's in the middle of war. These sandbags in the background are preparation for the invasion.

What can I say, some places on earth just can't stop humming the tune:

[advaya @advaya_co]

Regenerative Activism 2022 is a series of four dialogues and workshops on the radical imagination & reclaiming the future, featuring the following speakers: (early bird tickets available until 14 Mar on https://t.co/JDdttLTQOk)

[Anne Beate Hovind @annebeatehovind]

Galleries: Katie Paterson grinds historic fragments into dust @FuturelibraryNO https://t.co/582o8lJzq1

[Poetry Please @bbcpoetryplease]

Hello out there. Hope you're all keeping well. We'll be back on air later in the spring and we would love for you to help us refresh our list of poetry requests and recommendations. What are the poems and poets you'd most like to hear read on @BBCRadio4?

[Library of Change 🌍 @libraryofchange]

Thrilled that Let's Stick Together, our @ace_national funded project with @EmilyTracy8 - inviting older people and their families to collage sound and image to reflect their lives during the pandemic - will be archived for the future at both @ArchivesHackney & @LBTHArchives.

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Being deaf, people ask me about silence a lot.

And, now we are all watching--yes, in silence--a 30 mile long convoy heading to kill civilians.

That kind of silence.

So, let me say it once again, in real time:

Deaf do not believe in silence. It is the creation of the hearing.

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Ostap Slyvynsky is a terrific poet from Ukraine, who deserves readership here, too. Translation by Anton Tenser and Tatiana Filimonova:

[Eric MacLennan @MyBedroomVoyage]

@libraryofchange @ace_national @EmilyTracy8 @ArchivesHackney @LBTHArchives @SarahCuddon @LenaLongstream @Bromley_by_Bow Great news!