Category: Announcements

Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns

Learning, Unlearning, Continuing – Ecotopian Antiracism Reading Circle Returns After our summer break, our Antiracism Reading Circle has started again! We meet every Sunday at 19:00 Central European Time (till 21:00) on Signal, and everyone who feels connected to Ecotopia – past, present, or future – is warmly invited to join. Whether you’ve been on the Biketour before, plan to come, or are just curious about the community and the work of unlearning racism, you are welcome. We’ve reflected on how we want to continue, and decided on this Every other week we continue reading Me and White Supremacy by…

Continue reading

Ecotopia Winter Meeting is happening!

hello everyone, missed us? —- some people have started to form an orga for ecotopia 2025. wanna be part of it? send a message through our contact form —- next year we’ll go to northern france! and possibly some surrounding regions/countries. —- there will be a winter meeting in vienna on the second weekend of january. please come if you want to do orga work! please only come if you know you have some capacities for orga work! —- Thursday 09. and morning of Friday 10. will be some time for arriving, hanging out, catching up —- 10.-12. will be…

Continue reading

Antiracism Reading Circle: Let’s learn together!

The Ecotopia Bike Tour touches by it’s nature on many aspects of life where people with racial privilege will have a different experience than those without, for example crossing borders, hitchhiking to the bike tour, dumpster diving, camping in places where people may not expect us… We also find that during the bike tour, we often lack understanding of each other’s struggles. While Ecotopia has the values of antiracism and “trying to be open for all” we also find aspects of our own biases back in how we organize. It should also be noted that the bike tour remains mostly…

Continue reading

TeleGram channel of Ecotopia

Hey, so there it is, better late than never maybe. In the future it might get multi-lingual t.me/EBTecotopiabiketour This channel is notoriously late, chaotic, neglected. It’s actually better to come check out than to read. Smtms we don’t have enough internets (or electricity), sometimes too much of it, and anyway it’s mostly meant as ‘counter’ to ‘social’ media.

Continue reading

Writing To Prisoners – Event

ABC TKU and Ecotopia Biketour welcome you to come and write letters to prisoners, and to learn about and discuss prison abolition practices, and queerness within prisons. Come hang out and share your experience with resistance against prisons, to remember our friends and comrades incarcerated while fighting for a better world that we want to live in together. Let’s organize ourselves and create alternatives: Abolishing prisons! We are super looking forward to this event together with ABC TKU! In Kirjakahvila 16-20 (Vanha Suurtori 3 25100 Turku) exact time to be announced

Continue reading

Bicycle Flea Market

Bicycle Flea Market! Wanna get rid of your old bike? You got a fancy two-wheeled gift but you already have three? Do you want to be charitable and help some bikepunks? Where? In the park Alppipuisto next to the bridge When? 28th of June Starting 6pm, open end Why? This year the Ecotopia Biketour starts in Helsinki! Since the trip to get there is long, many of us come without a bike or full equip(ment). So we need you and cheap fleamarket prices! What? You can bring anything Bike-related. Fully functioning bicycles are of course the most welcome. You can…

Continue reading

finally – the ✨official✨ route for ecotopia 2024!

hi dears, finally, here are the dates for the tour this year! below you can find some info on the projects and events we will be visiting/having. in the schedule you will always have an arrival date and a leaving date. this doesn’t mean you have to join on the arrival date or leave on the leaving date. it means that we as a tour plan to arrive and leave according to this schedule and you can join whenever fits you. :) schedule: —- Pyöräpaja HELSINKI (finland) 26.-30.06. –> preparation of the tour ! 01.07. – official START of the…

Continue reading

what about ecotopia 2024??

—- hi everybody! —- after we kept getting questions about when and where ecotopia will happen this year, we realised that this info isn’t very visibly online yet. —- so here you go: we are going to the baltics, starting in southern finland and possibly ending in poland. so far we have fixed positive responses from a few projects but we’re actively working on it right now and we’re optimistic that there will be more answers soon! —- this is our very rough plan so far (please do not book tickets based on this!): —- towards end of june: starting…

Continue reading