The third volume of our series of small “chapbooks” (based on historical pocket sized booklets used to spread news, poems, ideas and music) in our Hope Tales series is now avaialble to download from the Rapid Transition website. Real printed copies are available at our events, so do look out for the next one and come along.
Each book is the printed version of the live event, where a group of collaborators meet and share ideas, thoughts, images and music on a given hopeful theme. We have so far covered Air, Land, Water and Fire. They are a celebration of the magic of getting together to create.
Hope Tales is a collaboration between the Rapid Transition Alliance, the Centre for Public and Policy Engagement at the University of Essex and the New Weather Institute, using the power of story to investigate real hope for our future.
Chapbooks were highly popular in the18th-19th centuries. A chapbook was seen as street literature and a chapman was a seller of chapbooks. They were used to publish popular or folk literature, almanacks, children’s stories, folk tales, ballads, political prospectuses, poetry and religious tracts.
