Upcoming Programming
While we take a hiatus from public programming in Fall 2024, we invite you to stay connected by joining our community reading group. We’ll be back with new offerings in 2025!
Fall Reading Group: Hospicing Modernity
This fall, SfLF will be reading the book Hopicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, and we’re inviting you to join us.
Thresholds: A Summer Poetry Workshop
In a world at the threshold, on the brink, in which it’s easy to feel overwhelmed with information, emotion, and anxiety, how can poetry be a place of opening, of receptivity, and flow between?
Community Garden Workshop
Learn the fundamentals of seedling prep and explore communal gardening as a well-being practice for our climate-changed future.
Future of Water: a speculative art show
An art show offering visions and creative answers to the challenges facing our watershed.
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood
Theater Bookclub, in partnership with The School for Living Futures, presents a reading of The Children, a play by Lucy Kirkwood.
Living Futures Saturday: Ahanu & Schapira
Our April 6 event will feature presentations from cultural organizer and performer Dasan Ahanu and writer Kate Schapira, followed by community conversation and connection.
Living Futures Saturday: Keul & Maxwell
Our March 2 event will feature presentations from poet Kristi Maxwell and painter James Keul, followed by community conversation and connection.
Living Futures Saturday: Cornes & Takada
Dr. Saskia Cornes is an assistant professor of the practice at Duke’s John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and Program Director of the Duke Campus Farm. A Renaissance literature scholar…
Living Futures Saturdays: Spring 2024 Season Pass
Running February - April 2024, Living Futures Saturdays is a monthly event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a…
Living Futures Saturday: Kalmus & Del Valle
Running October - December 2023, Living Futures Saturdays is a monthly event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines.
Join us in person in Durham, NC or via livestream for presentations by climate scientist, activist, and author Peter Kalmus and artist Natalia Torres Del Valle followed by community conversation and connection.
Living Futures Saturday: Krop & Wright
Running October - December 2023, Living Futures Saturdays is a monthly event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines.
Join us in person in Durham, NC or via livestream for presentations by Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop and musician and designer Napoleon Wright II followed by community conversation and connection.
Call for Artists: The Future of Water
Applications are now open for The Future of Water, a speculative art project commissioned by The School for Living Futures in partnership with the Durham Art Guild and with support from the Durham Arts Council.
What May Come & How: Speculative Fiction
In this 6-week fiction workshop with award-winning writer Mary Margaret Alvarado, students will engage in the grave and happy labor of dreaming other worlds. We will follow our most vivid, feral visions, and then do the craftwork of making those live.
Living Futures Saturday: Alexandre & Soto
Running October - December 2023, Living Futures Saturdays is a monthly event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines.
Join us in person in Durham, NC or via livestream for presentations by artist Claire Alexandre and ecologist and musician Diego Ellis Soto followed by community conversation and connection.
Living Futures Saturdays - Fall 2023 Series Pass
Running October - December 2023, Living Futures Saturdays is a monthly event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines. Join us as we listen, learn, and create community and new knowledge.
A limited number of Series Passes are now available for in-person attendance!
Climate Social at Duke Gardens
We need each other – building community is an essential component of climate resilience and adaptation. Join the School for Living Futures and Duke Gardens for an exploration of what your neighbors and local climate organizations are doing here in Durham. Climate-curious to climate experts – all are invited! Light refreshments provided.
Plant: A Workshop for the Climate Curious
A workshop for people holding questions about their place in the climate movement.
Danielle Purifoy & Justin Cook
Danielle Purifoy & Justin Cook present in this event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines. Click below to learn more and register for in person or virtual tickets.
Danielle Purifoy: “Plantations are not Forests”
Justin Cook: “Journalism for the Climate Imagination”
Julia Gartrell & Germane James
Julia Gartrell & Germane James present in this event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines. Click below to learn more and register for in person or virtual tickets.
Julia Gartrell: “When Not Fixing is the Fix”
Germane James: TBA
Crystal Cavalier-Keck & Way of Belonging
Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck & Way of Belonging present in this event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines. Click below to learn more and register for in-person or virtual attendance.
Way of Belonging: “Seasonal Living: a pathway to intimacy with the natural world”
Crystal Cavalier-Keck: “Groundswell: Spreading Practices of Cultural Competency”
Bryant Holsenbeck & Bevelyn Afor Ukah
[In-person event SOLD OUT. Virtual Tickets still available.]
Bryant Holsenbeck & Bevelyn Afor Ukah present in this event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines.
Bryant Holsenbeck: “Life as a Hunter-Gatherer”
Bevelyn Afor Ukah: “Our Ecology: Shifting Our Gaze Inward”
Series Pass
[SOLD OUT] Season Pass (In Person) for Living Futures Saturdays, a monthly event series featuring climate-engaged presenters from a variety of disciplines. The Season Pass includes discounted tickets to all four events:
2.4.23: Artist Bryant Holsenbeck & justice educator/artist Bevelyn Afor Ukah
3.4.23: Indigenous leader & activist Crystal Cavalier-Keck & Eco-somatic practitioners Way of Belonging
4.1.23: Northstar Church of the Arts E.D. Germane James & artist Julia Gartrell
5.6.23: Black geographies scholar Danielle Purifoy & photographer Justin Cook