Creating New Suns: A Time for Collective World Building

“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns.”
—Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

What if we are those new suns—improvising our way into futures that don’t yet exist? This workshop is an invitation to play seriously with uncertainty, contradiction, and hope. Led by poet, social therapist, and performance activist Steven Licardi, we’ll explore world-building as a collaborative, creative, and political act.

Imagination becomes method
Dialogue becomes raw material. The practice of “yes, and” becomes a way to step outside what’s scripted and rehearse what’s possible. Drawing inspiration from prophetic sci-fi writers like Butler, Le Guin, Constantine, and Dick, we’ll play with science fiction and how it doesn’t predict the future—it performs it.

Shape What Doesn’t Yet Exist
This isn’t a lecture or a roadmap. It’s a space to build something together, in real time. Come ready to experiment. Come get messy. Come create what doesn’t yet exist.

As Octavia Butler might say: the future isn’t something we enter—it’s something we shape. Let’s shape it together.

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Leader Biography

Steven T. Licardi is a neurodivergent social therapist, science fiction writer, spoken word poet, and performance activist working at the intersections of art and social policy. He travels internationally using the power of storytelling to create empathic dialogue around, to confront the realities of, and to assist communities in dismantling historic narratives of mental health and madness. His work can be found at thesvenbo.substack.com & thesvenbo.com/books