Building Worlds, Building Power

Fri May 29 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm UTC-07:00

The Freight | Berkeley

Bay Area Book Festival
Publisher/HostBay Area Book Festival
Building Worlds, Building Power
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This conversation between Nnedi Okorafor and Marshall Ganz will travel across story and structure, imagination and power.
About this Event

Marshall Ganz and Nnedi Okorafor, moderated by Walidah Imarisha


The Freight


What happens when visionary worldbuilding meets movement building? In this rare and unmissable conversation, acclaimed novelist Nnedi Okorafor, whose Africanfuturist fiction reshapes the boundaries of speculative literature, sits down with legendary organizer Marshall Ganz, architect of modern grassroots leadership models. Guided by writer, educator, and visionary thinker Walidah Imarisha, the conversation will travel across story and structure, imagination and power. Together, they will ask: How do the stories we tell determine the futures we fight for? How does organizing become a living narrative of hope and resistance? And how can collective imagination move us closer to liberation? This will be a gathering of minds that reminds us that crafting worlds and building movements are acts born of the same radical impulse: to dream together, and remake what has been made.


Introductory live music performance by Bushwick Book Club Oakland

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Freight, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, United States

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USD 21.99 to USD 126.99

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