Imaginal Futures: An Evening Of Local Visioning, Dreaming, & Possibility

​Who are we collectively as a community? What is possible? What lives at the center of all of our dreams of a more beautiful Salt Spring? What can we do here and now to move incrementally towards a more beautiful world right here in our community?

​If these questions inspire you, please consider joining us for an evening of visionary panelists, participatory dialogue, and community building. Further activating and developing the grassroots movement building efforts already underway here on Salt Spring and across Cascadia, you’ll hear from a number of visionary leaders to inspire you with insights, experiments, and templates that our community could directly apply in our own self-organizing movement to transform Salt Spring into a global leader in sustainability, circularity, and commons stewardship. After the panel, we’ll spend the rest of the evening in facilitated “open space” that will support a community dialogue around our own desires, needs, and visions for our beloved island home.

​This community convening is intended to weave Salt Spring within the larger regenerative movement and to activate a deeper sense of solidarity and beloved community amongst local community members and civic stewards. Hosted by OpenCivics (opencivics.co) and Salt Spring’s own Patricia Parkinson and her co-founder Benjamin Life, we want to leave you with a felt sense of hope, possibility, and connection with new friends and allies.

Doors open at 5pm.
Programming will run 6-9pm.
Open space until 10pm.
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This space is intended to center feminine voices and be a safe space for divergent pluralistic co-exploration of possibility.

Panelists include:

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• Benjamin Life, co-founder of OpenCivics (@omniharmonic)

​• Roxanna Shohadaee, co-founder of Design Science Studio

​• Fernanda Ibarra, leader in collective intelligence & regenerative economics (Holochain/Holo, Metacurrency, Commons Engine)

​• Clare Attwell, co-founder of Regenerate Cascadia

​• Polly Orr, Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust

​• Akemi Walsh, Westcoast Bathhouse


This event coincides with a private excursion to Carmanah Walbran for visiting international luminaries. This event will occur the day after we've returned from our immersion in the wisdom of the ancient old-growth.

​Child care and light snacks will be provided.