​TL/DR

​New here? This is the monthly gathering for our London community of practice for long-term thinking, at The RSA’s cocktail bar, Muse. 🍸

​📬 Please do RSVP here as it is important for us to be able to help our hosts prepare for us.

​​📖 Some context: There’s no required reading. We will likely share some more information about the theme in the coming weeks.

​More detail below (eventually including more about this month’s theme). We hope to see you there.

​~ Chris D

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​🍹Our monthly gatherings

​​Long Now London is a group of people who share an interest in long-term thinking.  We have been gathering in a variety of formats, locations and frequencies since 02008. Since 02018 we have met on the second Thursday of the month, usually in a pub, sometimes in a park, and online when necessary. 🍻

​​🌎 We are an independent local group inspired by the work of the Long Now Foundation and using their name with permission. 

​We do a variety of things throughout the year, but our monthly gatherings encourage conversations about long-term thinking, 📡 deep time, 🏺 history, 🖌️ art, 🔭 futures, 🛰️ technology, 🔧 maintenance, a wide range of -ologies and -isms depending on the crowd. 🔎

​🌍 We are in regular dialogue with other such groups around the world. 🌏 If you would like to be put in touch with like-minded people where you are, please do get in touch.

​Oh, and we write the year with an additional digit at the front to guard against the deca-millennium bug; 🦠 to encourage our minds towards further horizons, and also because it’s fun.

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​Where

​In recent months we have been meeting at ​Muse - the cocktail bar in RSA House. The RSA (The royal society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce) has been around since 01754. You can find out more about their work here.  

​At the start of the evening you can access Muse via the main RSA entrance on John Adam Street, but after a certain point you will have to enter via the designated door round the corner on Adam Street (not John Adam Street!). At that door, press the buzzer and they will come and let you in ASAP. Say you are there for Long Now and you will be directed to us (most likely filling their second room).

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​Theme and suggested reading 

​More to follow. We toyed with several variations on the name (local? locale? localism? bioregionalism?!) and are still not quite settled. What do these works mean to you? What is your locality? What is ours?

​All suggestions for associated reading, watching or listening would be much appreciated! - Chris