Upcoming events
HAKUNA UTOPIA: EXHIBITION
Kairos Futura’s upcoming exhibition Hakuna Utopia: In Search of Micro-Utopias, uses immersive storytelling, performance art and interactive installations to inspire the imaginations of young people, encouraging them to take action for the environment and the future of their communities.
WILD FUTURE LAB
This collaborative project between Kairos Futura (KE) and New Order of Fashion (NL), connects designers in Kenya and The Netherlands with a focus on local material design innovation, world building and future partnerships.
Wilder Than Mars: Design Thinking for Local Futures
Dystopic or Utopic? Abundance or Scarcity? Join us for a two day workshop on imagining and implementing new ideas for local futures. We'll be exploring the creative possibilities of local futurism, design thinking for speculative design innovation and immersive storytelling. Let's envision a future that's vibrant, sustainable, and uniquely local. There is a $275 fee for this event that includes lunch each day and drinks. You can register at director@thefutureisonearth.org.
WilD FOOD LAB WITH STICK & BINDLE
Wild Food Cooking Adventures Wild Stick & Bindle and the team at Kairos Futura.
Registration required and group size is limited to 15 people. Cost is $45. register at director@thefutureisonearth.org
Burn Zone Lab with Wilderness Workshop and USFS
The Burn Zone Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together scientists, artists, and the Forest Service to explore creative and regenerative projects in areas affected by forest fires. Through design thinking and creative ideation, the goal of the lab is to inspire innovative solutions for ecological restoration in the vast areas of Colorado now devastated by the fires of the last ten years.
Registration required and group size is limited to 6 people. Register at director@thefutureisonearth.org
WilD FOOD LAB WITH STICK & BINDLE
Wild Food Cooking Adventures With Stick & Bindle and the team at Kairos Futura.
Foraging Bitter and Medicinal Herbs for a Mountain Top Amaro.
The ancient offering of Amaro can be made at home with our very own wild bitter and floral herbs. Participants will forage for ingredients (Mountain Hyssop, Yarrow, Cow Parsnip, Calendula, Rose Hip etc.) and taste extractions and tinctures of those ingredients which have been made in advance. We will then craft our own blend of foraged herbs and allow to infuse over a period of two weeks, creating a Digestif to enjoy after the Cobb Oven christening. Snacks by Stick and Bindle.
Registration required and group size is limited to 15 people. Cost is $45. register at director@thefutureisonearth.org
Lost Lands Research Department Installation At Intersect Aspen
As part of our ongoing series of installations in response to local issues, Aspenaut Chris Erickson will have an installation at the entrance of Intersect Aspen and we will be offering future tarot, a fun and terrifying futurist game.
Wilder Than Mars: ANNUAL FUNDRAISING FEAST IN THE FOREST
Wilder Than Mars is Kairos Futura’s Annual Fundraising Dinner. Registration is by invitation only as space is extremely limited. If you’d like to support Kairos Futura and be added to the waitlist for the dinner, contact us at director@thefuturisonearth.org
Nori Pao premieres Messages to Our Future Selves: Full Moon Prophecy Ritual
For NSEW Nori Pao will be presenting a short film, objects, and photographs generated from her project Message to Our Future Selves, which was made in collaboration with Kairos Futura as part of The Wild Future Initiative, Summer 2022. In Message to Our Future Selves, Nori led participants through recording prophecies to their future selves on clay tablets that were later fired and buried under the full moon to be unearthed in the year 2222.
During the course of this exhibition, Nori will be conducting The Burden Transmutation Ritual in three phases. The first will take place at the opening, where volunteers will surrender their burdens to the clay—recording them to later be released and then transformed.
UTE MOUNTAIN RESERVATION ART EXPEDiTion
As Part of Our Ongoing Wild Future Field Research Trips, we’ll be visiting artists and designers on the Ute Mountain Reservation in Southern Colorado as we build long term programs to include them in arts opportunities in the Roaring Fork Valley. The Ute people lived in Aspen and the Elk Mountains and Crystal River Valley before being forced off their land and onto reservations in Southern Colorado. Our mission is to give young artists from the Ute Mountain Reservation the chance to collaborate in ongoing Kairos programming in Aspen.
This trip is an initial visit to the Ute Mountain Reservation for 3 days to meet with artists there, see the surrounding area and learn about Ute craft traditions and innovators in Ute design.
Registration required and group size is limited to 6 people. register at director@thefutureisonearth.org
Into The Badlands: Rifle Fracking Expedition
In order to gain first hand experience of fracking and the realities of gas fields in the Rifle area, a group of Kairos members will go on a one day trip into the main drilling zone to learn more about the realities of what’s happening there.
Registration required and group size is limited to 10 people. register at director@thefutureisonearth.org
TERRAFORM MUKURU INITIATIVE
In Mukuru informal settlement, Nairobi Space Station is working with Wajukuu Arts to construct a mini-wetland that filters out pollution from the Ngong River. Led by Abdul Rop and Willy Ng’ang’a, this initiative will provide clean water for plants and trees while simultaneously creating a sculptural installation using large concrete vessels to construct the containment system for each marsh area.
WRATH OF THE FOREST SPIRIT BOOK LAUNCH
Join us at the Sober Monkey in Ngong Forest for a unique book launch of The Wrath Of The Forest Spirit: Cautionary Tale of Environmental Degradation, a speculative fiction journal by Wanjira Kinyua. The journal follows the journey of an entomo-botanist who travels to the year 2299 and witnesses the disastrous consequences of exploiting the environment without considering its long-term effects. It highlights the interconnectivity of the natural world and serves as a warning about the dangers of destroying the environment.
Climate Collapse Happy Hour
Join Us for Cocktails at a Climate Collapse Happy Hour Co-hosted With the Nairobi Climate Network. Climate Collapse Happy Hour is an ongoing event series hosted by Kairos Futura centered on creative, playful environmental action and with an interactive component.
The Nairobi Climate Network is a thriving community of professionals propelling climate action in Kenya.