Potlatch is this weekend
If you're in the Seattle area and have an interest in speculative fiction, you ought to stop by the Deca Hotel this weekend for Potlatch. It's a small, literary speculative fiction convention that offers a single track of programming, and its annual auction helps to support the Clarion West Writers Workshop.
If you come, please look for me and say hello. I'll be there on Friday and Saturday, and I'll be on one programming item on Saturday afternoon:
SATURDAY 4PM
What Dreams Need Come: A Task List for Visionaries
At the National Book Awards, Ursula K. Le Guin issued a call to auctorial arms (video | transcript). She warns of hard times coming, charges us to dream alternatives to the ways we live now, in the sway of fear, obsessive technologies, and corporate profiteers. What stars should we navigate by to take up her call? What existential threats to society, to freedom, to the makers and making of indispensable dreams, loom largest? We’ll try to map the shoals together.
If you come, please look for me and say hello. I'll be there on Friday and Saturday, and I'll be on one programming item on Saturday afternoon:
SATURDAY 4PM
What Dreams Need Come: A Task List for Visionaries
At the National Book Awards, Ursula K. Le Guin issued a call to auctorial arms (video | transcript). She warns of hard times coming, charges us to dream alternatives to the ways we live now, in the sway of fear, obsessive technologies, and corporate profiteers. What stars should we navigate by to take up her call? What existential threats to society, to freedom, to the makers and making of indispensable dreams, loom largest? We’ll try to map the shoals together.