A degrowth festival

ALTSHIFT 2026 // Building a house in the ruins of empire

For this year's festival we are getting our hands dirty! We invite friends and allies from climate and social justice movements to co-create a space where we rehearse the worlds we need, beyond oppressive systems & toward our collective survival. Together, we want to experiment with practices that sustain, challenge and connect us, while navigating the messy waters of relating across difference without falling into in-fighting and fragmentation. We will rehearse community practices and structures that can keep all of us alive - as alternatives to the oppressive systems around us - while diving into the messy waters of relating across our differences without falling into fragmentation.

Join us in the forests of East Germany for six days of resistance, renewal, and reimagination. In this temporary community, we co-create spaces for critical, embodied, transformative and playful education around post-growth cultures and practices. We’ll not only explore the many dimensions of post-growth but embody them—through collective care, common strategizing, radical solidarity and rest. Expect mind-tickling conversations, hands-on workshops, art, music and performances that inebriate the senses, alongside nourishing food we cook and share together.

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AltShift is created by the Shift Slow Association (external link)