About us
📚 Hamburg's English Literature Society is a MeetUp group for those who would like to geek out and talk about English literature, poetry and movies with fellow literature lovers.
🌹 Event Series: Bring Along a Poem
Bring along a poem you have enjoyed. Listen to the poems that others have enjoyed. We read ancient and modern poems - poems in English or translation. Rhyming poems, free verse, sonnets, villanelles - all are welcomed.
📽️ Event Series: Book vs Book Adaptation
A book adaptation chosen by popular vote, a movie screening in Hafencity, and a discussion on book vs. movie ideas. Takeout is involved. What's not to like?
Upcoming events
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One Topic, Many Books: Solarpunk 🌻
Café May, Fuhlsbüttler Str. 402, Hamburg, HH, DEFor One Topic, Many Books events, please bring one or more books that fit the topic.
All types of books allowed - fiction, non-fiction, poetry...
We will discuss the topic based on the perspectives you gained from those books.This time, our topic will be Solarpunk:
"Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and social movement, closely related to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the "punk" refers to do it yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future."
from the Wikipedia entry on Solarpunk
If you want to explore the topic a bit more, the YouTube channel Andrewism is a good place to start. Here is a short video essay introducing Solarpunk.
Looking forward to seeing you at the event <3
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