Solarpunk spring in bloom

Solarpunk events, beavers leading the eco-revolution and more in our latest round-up

Events

Austin goes solarpunk

If you’re in Texas on 10th May, be sure to check out Austin’s Art-O-Rama 2025. It’s a solarpunk-inspired celebration of nature, art, technology and community. For details and tickets to this family-friendly, free community event, visit the EventBrite page.

London keeps on partying and playing for protopia

Our friends at the London School of Solarpunk (

LSoS

) are hosting more workshops and continuing to groove on down in the pub.

Every Wednesday In March they hosted nights of creativity and music - Solarpunk Sounds. Some of the things they did last month included creating a huge brainstorm on a piece of fabric, playing rave bingo, running a subvertising workshop, creating solarpunk soundscapes and dancing to disco.

Solarpunk Sounds is continuing this month. Details below

Upcoming dates: 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th April

Time: 6–11pm

Location: The Post Bar, London, N15 4BP

Entry: Free

LSoS are busy solarpunk bees as they are also running a mutli-day workshop and a community art exhibition (em)powering creativity. This will explore how to make art using energy, light, and heat.

LSoS is looking for people to help organise this special event. If you attended their Creative Energy Exhibition last October, you'll know the kind of experience to expect.

Sign up here and they'll be in touch:
https://forms.gle/Q7v5v4NBapiY5SKm7

In other news…

Real-world Timberborn: how beavers are healing nature

This world beaver day we celebrate these natural engineers incredible achievements. In this fascinating video from Terra Mater see how the instinctive dam-building of these fantastic beasts, once nearly hunted to extinction, creates wetlands, restores biodiversity and prevents flooding. You can also check out this EuroNews piece to see what beavers have been contributing to European natural resilience too.

Links

• Solar Server: Low-Carbon Video Games - Solarpunk Conference

• How eco-rapping is healing the planet - Climate Curious

• Growing and sharing seeds can boost mental health - Positive News

• How My Farm Became a SolarPunk Project - Alex Jurj

• What is climate change in sign language? Experts develop new vocabulary for the deaf community - EuroNews

• UK carbon emissions fell by 4% in 2024, official figures show - Guardian

• G.O.A.T. by Declaime aka Dudley Perkins - SolarPunk Stories Playlist

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See you in the sunshine,

Alex Holland

Founder, SolarPunk Stories