The Hedonist International’s 2nd World Congress will take place from June 9th to June 13th. It will bring together people from all over the world who are interested in hedonism, to promote their networking and to open new perspectives for resistance. We will discuss theoretical concepts, try new forms of action, talk about social conflicts and about alternative methods of political intervention. Last but not least, we will experience that a happy and good living is possible – here and now. It is foreseen that contributions, panels, and workshops will be added spontaneously.

The Congress program is planned along the topics Protest, Party, and Action.

Protest
The topic „Protest“ will contain theoretical debates as well as discussions about actual political and social conflicts. We want to talk about conditions of life and work we want to achieve and social conditions we want to overcome. Any subject is welcome – fpr us, the most important thing is to attract people who are politically active and who are willing to discuss and to share their knowledge and their experiences with others.

Contributions can deal with rather scientific topics like Predictive Behavioral Targeting, critique of ideology, religion or capitalist economy. They can discuss political concepts as the general basic income or the guarantee of access to public goods as transport, or housing. It could be the critics of lookism, sexism, or gentrification. Maybe you will like to discuss copyright problems, digital rights movement, or censorship. Last but not least, we hope to gather some interesting information about social movements all over the world that hedonists should know something about.
We will invite active political groups who will tell us about their struggles and their concepts.

The lineup of strategical topics will be of similar manifoldness. It copes with questions as “How to politicize common party people?” or “What could Hedonist alliances look like?”. Is there something like a Hedonist agenda? How do we deal with social disparity? What is our concept of revolution, and do we even have one? Is Hedonism a political philosophy and, if yes, what does that mean? How can we become truly “international”? Are we to learn from the 1968 “fun gueriller@s”, and what would we like to respond them?

Party
Obviously, this topic will address - ‘Party’! It will contain workshops and discussions on underground & commercializing, making music and killing music, net labels, on reclaiming public space, on repression, drug politics, and safer use, and about all the technical stuff like PA, lights, and decoration.

Action
Under the topic ‘Action’, we have subsumed practical issues. We want to find and offer solutions to all the problems that arise when you start to act. Creative techniques of protest and demonstration, the arts of adbusting and spreading information alternatively, building pirate radios or mobile sound systems – we want to try new forms of action and promote successful old ones. We will share our experiences and maybe, some spontaneous actions will be the outcome of the work at the Congress. Regarding the good life here and now,, ‘Action’ will contain workshops on, for example, guerilla gardening, yoga practice, and good recipes when you have to cook for many. Healthy pre- and after-party food will be a subject, too. After all, we do want to have a little bit of fun as well!

the preliminary schedule of the congress:
Thursday June 09 arrival, bands, performances, cinema
Friday June 10 day program: workshops and talks
Friday June 10 evening and night program: bands, performances, cinema
Saturday June 11 day program: workshops and talks
Saturday June 11 evening and night program: bands, performances, cinema
Sunday June 12 dance workshop
Monday June 13 surprise, surprise; dismantling

The congress will take place on the location of a former border casern and a former railway station in the village Riebau.

More Information:
http://worldcongress.hedonist-international.org/ (only german at the moment, english following soon)