Join us for a celebratory evening shining a light on our new project, Weight of Light, and the four brilliant local writers at its heart. We will also be joined by the wonderful poet Ilse Pedler, whose collaborative pamphlet We’ll Meet You There is published by Dialect Press.
Charlotte Levene, E. M. Potts, Roma Robinson and Philip Rush have been on a co‑creative journey to craft thrutopian stories that imagine hopeful, practical ways of living through climate change toward a more liveable future. At this event, you’ll get a first glimpse into their process, hear what’s inspired them and discover how the work is unfolding through zines, podcasts and written pieces in 2026.
The night also includes a hands‑on mini zine workshop for anyone curious about the kind of small scale, radical distribution that can inspire creative communities.
Ilse Pedler will be reading from We’ll Meet You There, a pamphlet written with poets Alice Willitts & Hilary Weston which reinvents, repurposes and retrofits poetic forms to uncover expressions for a new, thrutopian, way of looking at the world. What do we need poetry to be in our time of era-defining shifts in world-order, they ask? Can we fall in love with the future again and how could an attitude of positive futurism translate into poetry?
Details
Pavillion in the walled garden, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, GL5 4AF.
7pm - 9pm
Tickets to this evening are free, but please book below so that we can keep track of numbers.
The Weight of Light is supported by Stroud District Council.