We live in a volatile and elusive world, where the future is difficult to envision as anything other than crises, disasters, and unpredictable change. Such a situation can make one feel perplexed, powerless, and disheartened. It’s increasingly challenging to think comprehensively. It’s becoming more difficult to make long-term plans and carry them out together. It’s even more challenging to look into the future at all. But literature helps us do that. And Literary Festival Prima Vista 2024: “Futures Better and Worse” shows how. At the festival, writers, artists, academics, and culture enthusiasts from different countries take the stage to map out and interpret the societal fears and hopes related to the future in the most expansive and diverse way.
Featuring: Cory Doctorow (USA), Lydia Sandgren (SWE), Isaac Rosa (ESP), Halyna Kruk (UKR) Tõnis Vilu (EST) Lesley-Ann Brown (USA), Emmi Itäranta (FIN), Josh Sawyer (USA), Julia von Lucadou (GER), Preiļu konceptuālisti (LV), David Hartley (UK), Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir (IS), Penny Boxall (UK), Maarja Pärtna (EST) Meelis Friedenthal (EST), Berit Petolai (EST), Tõnis Tootsen (EST), Merca (EST), Urmas Vadi (EST), Doris Kareva (EST), Johanna Rannik (EST), Emma Lotta Lõhmus (EST), Helena Aadli (EST), Karin Orgulas (EST), Hildegard Reimann (EST), Anastassia Kuznetsova (EST), Saara Liis Jõerand (EST), Andreas Kübar (EST), Oliver Issak (EST), Jan Teevet (EST), Henri Hütt (EST), Timo Toots (EST), Liis Ring (EST), Anne Richter (GER), Argo Vals (EST), Olga Povoroznyk (UKR), Eike Eplik (EST), Maarja Kangro (EST), Kristel Mägedi (EST), fs (EST), Aime Hansen (EST), Andres Roots (EST), Ron Whitehead (USA), Jinn Bug (USA), Christiane Vadnais (CAN), Riste Sofie Käär (EST), Aapo Ilves (EST), Joelle Taylor (UK), Paweł Frelik (POL), Migro (POL), Adam Strug (POL), Ignė Zarambaitė (LT), Lesley-Ann Brown (TT-USA-DK) etc.