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Transition Tales
 

It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.

--Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
 
The Transition Tales programs use story, performance, and other arts to encourage citizens and students to envision a positive future.
 
Within the greater Los Angeles basin, several programs explore Transition ideas through storytelling, poetry writing, game playing, performance, and more.
  • Arts for the Future - Jocelyn's 8-part workshop on the creation of original music, poetry, performance art. coming fall 2010 (earlier if demand calls for)
  • Quest game - this interactive game gets the resourcefullness juices flowing! (read more below)
  • Theatre - Gene F's drama program (in formation)
  • Novel - the novel Legacy describes positive possibilities for the Transition era in Los Angeles
  • Storytelling: The November 14, 2009 conference of the LA storytellers included a Transition Tales workshop by Richard B. 
  • Please contact Transition Los Angeles if you are interested in participating in any of these programs.
listing last updated Jan 2010
 
 
TRANSITION TALES RESOURCES

Examples of Transition Tales

About Transition Tales

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Transition Tales workshop

Los Angeles, July 2009  

  
     
     
 

"Transition Tales" are visions of a positive future world. In a sense the whole transition movement is a story we are telling ourselves as we step into it. Transition Tales are the more specifically located stories, told of a time and place and of people. They help us to collectively envision a future in which we are meeting the challenge and also to negotiate our feelings from the present day. They can entice us to take the next step and affirm that however small step might feel it's part of the interweaving of a larger whole, which we have glimpsed in these stories from the future.

Transition Tales are an especially effective way of introducing young people to these issues and of engaging their creativity and imagination in what future we would like to create together.

 

  
     
     
 

VISIONS OF LOS ANGELES

CIRCA 2040

 
 
We all have our gardens on our property. We all bike or walk to different businesses in our neighborhood instead of driving to Target.

We won't be relying on cars, things will have to be closer to where we live. We can buy in our neighborhoods. Local store owners open back up again and we'll have communities again.

Collecting water in cisterns, every drop that falls on the house. Using it several times before it escapes into the outdoor planting beds.

Horses ... wonderful creatures to work with. [We'll rebuild] the relationships with our animals that we used to have.

A legitimate subway system that goes at least from downtown to the beach and hopefully a lot more expansive than that. Some neighborhoods where cars aren't allowed, period. Pedestrian friendly, bike friendly. High speed trains up the coast.

Community bread ovens and that sort of thing. Large scale projects-oriented spaces for each block or each neighborhood. Foster the climate of tactile expertise.

Tool libraries where you can take the thing out for the day. Access to all these resources without having to have ownership of them.

More barter in trading for things.

Composting toilets.

 
 
These visions are from actual
Transition Tales workshop participants.
Join us and add your vision!