Introducing: Lectures in parks // Guerilla education for everyone

Friends,

For the last year we built strange little worlds inside venues. Sound systems, workshops, lectures, rituals, games. High-production experiments in collective imagination.

In the Spring we lost our main home in Tottenham, and summer arrived with a new question. What happens when we take the school outside?

Guerilla Education

Over the next four weeks we’re running a series of short lectures in public parks and outdoor spaces across London. This is a simple experiment in guerilla education. Low-cost. Mobile. Replicable. Human-scale. Just grass, trees, bodies, ideas.

We want to expand our practice of decentralized learning and create temporary post-capitalist social infrastructures wherever we happen to gather. A park becomes a classroom. A patch of shade becomes a research lab. A picnic blanket becomes a platform for collective dreaming.

Late sunlight, notebooks, passing dogs, radical hope.

We’re also using this programme to support new speakers. We provide the infrastructure. We help with organisation. We create the conditions. Then we encourage people to step onto the stage for the first time and share what they know.

Bodies / Relationships / Snails

The first talks already feel delightfully impossible.

We’ll hear from Cat on reforming institutions. Aitan will guide us through body-work and embodied knowledge. Alex & Mimi will be speaking on relationship anarchy and the structures that support collaboration, collective processing and creativity.

Other upcoming topics include eco-identity, Yoga Nidra, snails, collective radio, reimagining cities and the politics of car parks.

Dates for the diary

• 23.06 - Let’s Body-work / Relationship Anarchy

• 24.06 - Eco-identity / Yoga Nidra

• 26.06 - Snails / Reframing Institutions

• 01.07 - Car Parks: How & Why / Collective Radio

• 02.07 - Toxic Things / Reimagining Cities

What We’re Building Next

We’re interested in what happens when education becomes lightweight enough to travel. When knowledge doesn’t need permission. When learning can happen beneath trees instead of fluorescent lighting.

These lectures are small prototypes for a bigger question: how do we create resilient networks of collective intelligence during a time of climate crisis, institutional failure and social fragmentation?

Keep an eye on our WhatsApp broadcast group for details of specific lectures and locations as they’re announced. You can also follow us on Instagram for updates, photos and last-minute park-based adventures.

See you in the shade,

The London School of Solarpunk 🌻