equinox#6 festival in Stockholm by AwareNest

👇 Scroll down for program and FAQ 👇

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Equinox festival - a full day to invent the future together  🎉🎉

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🎉 Program of the Equinox#6 festival, by AwareNest 🎉 

09:00 Check-in and mingle
Coffee and light snacks will be served.

10:00-13:00💡MORNING: parallel Deep dives💡
(pick one workshop in the tickets section)

We will play our famous workshops in parallel, in small groups (up to 7-10 people).These workshops aim to help us find meaningful individual and collective actions based on a robust understanding of a topic, that is built together as a group.
Duration: 3 hours for each workshop unless specified
Language: English, or Swedish where specified

Learn more about the morning workshops in the ticket section!

13:00 Lunch Mingle
 Bring your own food, or buy a delicious vegan wrap through us in the order form.

14:00-14:45 and 15:15-16:00 ✨ Afternoon - Shorter Guest Sesssions ✨
(registration on site during the lunch break)

In the afternoon, we’re excited to welcome you to an inspiring program created together with fellow sustainability organizations and networks.
Through short, engaging sessions, you’ll explore practical sustainable actions, take part in meaningful emotional work guided by a climate coach, or meet people who are passionate about strengthening democracy.

You can register for the afternoon sessions on site during the lunch break. Scroll down to find the list of activities!

16:00 More networking on site

17:00+ After fest
Join us at a café/restaurant nearby

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Join us for a day where science meets creativity and community becomes a source of hope.

Many thanks to our host, Folkuniversitetet

List of afternoon Guest Sessions:

• 👘 Repair Café, where you can learn how to fix holes in your clothes (jumper, socks, T-shirts, jeans) in a simple way. Bring your broken garments! by Women and Climate Stockholm

• 🎈Playback Theatre - Intro Course & Performance
  Jens offers a 45 minute intro course, preparing you to perform as an actor directly afterwards ("How was your day?" in the next 45 min slot). The actors improvise on stories from the audience, honoring the experience of the teller in empathic, fun and artistic ways.
  
  
• 🌽 Plant Based Campus invites you to discover the journey of shifting a campus' food habits, and some of the key principles of organizing democratic grassroots movements, followed by group discussions. More about PBC at Stockholm University.
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• 🎣 #BreakFreeFromPlastic - Brand Audit on aquatic plastic waste. Coalition Clean Baltic invites you to count and document the brands found on marine litter. Identify the corporations accountable for waste in Stockholm, polluting the Baltic Sea. You will also learn how to use the tools to track plastic waste yourself.
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• 👾 AI Safety, Between grand promises and dizzying risks: with developments in the field of AI, everything could be at stake. Which uses of AI are appropriate? Join AJ Weeks, an AI safety expert and community lead at Stockholm AI Safety.
  
  
• 🎓 Green jobs coaching circle - Leave inspired to get the job you are looking for and get to know fellow job hunters. With Rosanna and Adrian from Young Sustainability Professionals. Learn more about YSP here.

• 🌐 Digital detox: can we escape big tech and regain control over our digital lives? Explore ways to reduce your dependency on huge tech companies through European, open source alternatives. By Ghislaine and Antoine from AwareNest and Low-Tech Sweden.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is AwareNest?
We are a joyful open community of sustainability workshop facilitators in Sweden, rooted in the local Climate Fresk network. Our goal is to trigger the personal and collective shifts required to bring back societies within the principles of the doughnut economics: wellbeing for all, within safe planetary boundaries!

We spread sustainability awareness and engage people from all backgrounds by using collective intelligence workshops (often inspired by the pedagogy of Climate Fresk).
Learn more about us at www.awarenest.se

How can I help you?
Thanks for asking, we definitely need you! In fact, the EQUINOX festival is brought up by a whole community of people just like you.
The best thing you can do for us? share and invite people!

Bring your friends, parents, your plant, your neighbor! Everyone is welcome.
We have prepared posters and communication templates here, but remember: the best way to convince people is to share YOUR story. What made the previous festival special?

Will there be food?
Thanks to your participation, we will make sure that sugar and caffeine will not run out. We will serve fika throughout the day with tea, coffee, and light snacks.
If you want to have lunch on site, you have two options: bring your own (cold) food, or buy a yummy vegan wrap through us for 95sek. Please select the option in the order form :)

How much does the event cost?
We want everyone to feel welcome to the festival. This edition has a 100 sek registration fee + adjustable donation (set at 100sek by default - please put more if your financial situation allows it or less if you can't afford it!). The workshop ticket includes all the afternoon activities.

All facilitators and organizers are happy volunteers. Our costs: rental of the venue, fika, and paying train tickets for the facilitators who don't live in Stockholm. Any excess will be used by AwareNest for future events like this one!

How can I pay?
You may pay by card via Stripe at checkout, or by Swish within 24h. Just follow the instructions in the order form. If you need another form of payment, contact us via the email at the bottom of this page!

Can I invite my colleagues?
This event is organized and run by volunteers, and the main goal is to invite the general public.
Although the topics are relevant for your professional activities, we expect you to join primarily with your "private person" hat on, just like us. Our community is happy to deliver all these workshops in a professional context, if that is of interest to your organization. Write to us at hej@awarenest.se.
Therefore, our rule of thumb is: maximum 3 participants from the same organisatoin. This does not apply to not-for-profit organizations.

Can I come late/ leave early?
Please reward yourself and the groups by attending the full duration of the workshops that you register for! Arriving late or leaving early could significantly affect everyone's experience.

I can't join... will there be other opportunities?
Who makes other plans on a Saturday?! :)
We at AwareNest want to continue organizing events, in Stockholm and throughout Sweden, so stay tuned on our social media @awarenest-se. We are also very happy to collaborate with other organizations on engagement and education projects!

What is an EQUINOX?
Equinox is the English word for "dagjämning": the astronomical event happening twice a year in March and September,  when the Earth's axis is perpendicular to the sun's rays. On these days, every place on Earth gets the same amount of day and night, and many countries define it as the shift to a new season. This sparked the idea for us to host a recurring festival on these dates.

Are you ready? Register now!