OPEN FUTURES: A Solar-Powered Open Mic

In these dystopian times, we choose to gather. To dream better. To imagine louder.

To tell stories that grow like gardens. 🌻

OPEN FUTURES is a solar-powered open mic and creative gathering for artists of all disciplines — musicians, poets, storytellers, dancers, performers, filmmakers, dreamers of any kind — to share works that sprout from hope, imagination, and regenerative futures.

You have 10 minutes max to present something — improvised or prepared — that fits within a solarpunk or optimistic future context: an ode to a train powered by algae, a love story under bioluminescent trees, a beat inspired by community gardens in the sky, a paragraph or two on where were you, when humanity took the unanimous vow to heal the earth and themselves.

What is solarpunk?

More than a mood, it’s a movement, a radical commitment to envisioning futures rooted in sustainability, equity, joy, and community care. It resists dystopia – not with naïve optimism, but with collective imagination and grounded action, where -everyone- is free.

We’ll gather at 15:00 for a soft arrival and some plant music. Tempelhofer Feld Exact Location TO BE ANNOUNCED at Fën's and this website on the event day.

At 16:00 sharp, our host Roberto Andrés (co-founder of the ecological film collective ) will open the portal with a storytelling monologue, setting the tone of this imagined world — from 2025 to 2044 — and leaving you, the creators, to fill in the rest.

The mic will be open until 19:00, followed by music, movement, mingling, and magic. DJs will carry us into the golden hour while plants (yes, literal plants) sing their own songs through the magic of .

✨ What to bring:

• A piece to share (or just your ears and heart)
• Your own drinks & snacks (to share?)
• A plant companion (optional — if you want to listen to its music with us 🌿🎶)
• A donation (optional) — we’ll have boxes supporting ecological, peace-driven organizations around the globe

🎭 Dress code: Be yourself. Be your solarpunk self. Bring color, bring soul, bring authenticity.

This is a space for the bold, the kind, the curious. For those tired of dystopias, hungry for connection, and ready to create the futures we need.

💚 Presented by — a Berlin-based ecological collective dedicated to regenerative storytelling, circular creation, and the filmmaking of futures we actually want to live in.

🎤 Moderated by Roberto Andrés

Come plant your story.

Host or Publisher Fën