dearest friends it's with great pleasure that we forward you the invitation to our Ecoversties Planetarian Gathering, a very busy long weekend to reconnect and reflect about our autonomous learning spaces! The various offerings in the parallel sessions are truly amazing. In a few places you will find traces of our work in and with this large collective, as in the presentation of (still working in progress) Firefly Radio, Meduse (Mediterranean Ecofeminist Decolonial Union for self Education), and in the Film and Podcasts Publication Festival. We point this out to you just because it may be hard to orient yourself in such a generously crowded schedule and in these appointments we are sure you will reconnect also with common friends. The *OASIS* in the central part of the schedule are the time where we all regroup either in *ceremony* (Friday, day 1, to reconnect among us and all relations), in *assembly* (Saturday, day 2 to heal , share and discuss) and in a *dreaming quest* (Sunday day 3, to envision together how to move forward in the alliance) Obviously we encourage you to follow as much as possible, good luck with the joy of missing out! looking forward to see some of you, and forgive crossposting alessandra [image: Header virtual gathering.png] Dear friends, This is an invitation for you to gather together with other higher education rebels, dreamers and visionaries from around the world for our Fifth Planetarian Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance to Re-imagining Higher Education and Learning- happening online on December 4th, 5th and 6th 2020. We have designed this year’s Global Gathering as a digital learning journey to stay connected, support each other in a difficult time, and keep working together. During these 3 days you can participate in the multiple parallel ‘open space’ sessions hosted by Ecoversities Alliance’s members offering a variety of proposals and approaches, in different languages and across time zones.. Each day we will also reunite at the ‘oasis session’ – a space for grounding together as a full circle, a space-time for ceremonies, an assembly to reflect together on how to move forward and share updates, and a final envisioning session, to dream our own dreams. As we have experienced in these years, there is an emerging constellation of eco-versities — people and communities reclaiming their local knowledge systems and learning practices to restore and re-envision processes that are meaningful and relevant to the call of our times. Our primary focus in the Alliance and in this virtual gathering is to bring together people who are deeply involved with ‘alternatives’ to higher education — working within, against, and beyond the modern university — as well as in locally-rooted learning spaces that are regenerating community, cultivating new stories and possibilities, and diverse ecological, social, economic, and cultural ecosystems. We truly hope you will join and be part of us, The Ecoversity Alliance Helpful links for the gathering: - Details about the schedule: - This spreadsheet contains detailed information about the schedule of the sessions in different timezones, and ZOOM links 👉 *https://bit.ly/ <https://bit.ly/36ycLeS>Ecoversities * - The schedule is also uploaded on our website 👉 *https://ecoversities.org/news-events/ <https://ecoversities.org/news-events/> * - Register to be in the participants list and be informed 👉 https://bit.ly/3kXUXNZ