Future Histories: Writing Workshop

Project yourself forward into the year 2100. You live in the hot, humid megacity of Raleigh, North Carolina, where it feels like New Orleans does now on a good day. Here, communities thrive, and humans live in vibrant partnerships with other species —plants, birds, mammals, insects, fungi, and even microbes. What does your world look like?

The Long View Project – a creative experiment envisioning possible, positive futures – invites you to participate in a one-day, intensive script-writing workshop to explore questions like this and create a 10-minute audio scene of the future.

In this low-risk, high-energy workshop, you will collaborate with other creatives, gain experience in imaginative storytelling, enjoy delicious snacks, and receive constructive feedback both from peers and a live audience.

It works like this: We’ll provide a prompt. You’ll write with a partner or a small group, share, receive input, and revise. By the end of the day, you’ll leave with a script for a 10-minute audio drama depicting a scene or story from a potential future.

That night, all scripts will be presented at a public reading. From the scripts created, we’ll select one script to produce. If selected, your script will be professionally edited and recorded. The finished audio will then be featured in “How Did We Get Here?,” a new series of podcasts and live shows that challenge experts to contemplate the plausibility of out-there futures, produced by University Theatre, the Climate and Sustainability Academy’s Long View Project, and the University Libraries. All participants will receive proper attribution.

No one can know the future. But anyone can imagine it. And we’d love you to imagine it with us!

Workshop

• 6-hour writing workshop where you will collaboratively co-create a ten-minute audio play set in the imagined future of Raleigh 2100.
• All scripts will be read before a public audience later that day.
• One play will be selected to be recorded for inclusion in a "How Did We Get Here?” podcast produced by University Theatre, the Climate and Sustainability Academy’s Long View Project, and NC State Libraries.

Host or Publisher University Theatre