Forest Assembly
of Educational
fictions

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26.09 — 02.10.2025
MASSIA / Massiaru, Estonia

↜ To take a place as a starting point of imagining, of thinking and learning through other places that are now inaccessible, but close to the body. ↬ To see echoes of other forests, sea shores, borderlands, class-rooms (and exits from them), ↻ relating to the place as something unstable, always changing, fading and transpiring, flickering with with multitude of discrepancies, interdependencies, transnational solidarities. ⇝

This year’s assembly brings together spaces of a school and of a forest, in Massiaru and beyond. (Non)temporary places of immediate knowledges and wisdoms; mobile partisan and poetic technologies; ↯ fugitive spaces of refuge and withdrawals; ⤼ nesting tree houses protecting land from corporate annihilation; ⤰ classrooms full of fungi and weeds, maintained through collective efforts and desires. Schooling and foresting as leisures, spare, (non)productive fallow times.

School building is a place for Educational Fiction. The first word «навуковая» in «Science Fiction» (bel: навуковая фантастыка) could be understood not only as scientific, but also as educational. Through the lenses of fictioning, ⤤ its props and settings, we wonder how can the process of imagination be unfolded and supported, in particular in the contexts of ongoing wars, repressions and revolutions? And how does that correlate with places that are thought to be «not affected» by the latter?

The assembling follows the legacies of social uprisings, strikes, pop-up gatherings, yard concerts, sabotaging and hacking, overwhelming affection and wish to move stones. For us assembling does not mean the climax of political organisation, but rather everyday practice of negotiation, generating and being together.

During these 7 days we propose an assembly as a place of mixing different activities: scores, physical exercises, games, harvesting and planting, discotheques, meals, walks, reenactments, hacks, listening, doing nothing, something that is not yet named – suggested by all.

If you want to take part, please write to us shortly on work.hard.play.0@gmail.com:

🪲 why would you like to be part of the assembly?
🌿 what possible contribution do you have in mind?

The working group will introduce minor protocols of being together. The schedule will be formed on the site by all participants in a self-organised way.

The date of arrival is 26.09 and the day of departure is 02.10. Staying for a shorter period of time is possible, however we will prioritise stays for the whole duration of the event. Possible ways of getting to Massia via Pärnu, Riga and Tallinn can be found here.

We are a self-organized initiative and unfortunately we do not have a budget to cover travel costs and accommodation, but we will be able to cover basic meals. MASSIA is maintained through membership, accommodation fees (please see a sliding scale form 15 to 35 € per day here) and self-organisation, including care and maintenance work (one hour per day, as advised by Massia collective).

The number of places is limited due to the capacity of the space. Please write to us as soon as possible in order to be sure that you will have a place in MASSIA.

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