Letters to the Future is a Canadian/United Kingdom music and literary artistic exploration supported in part by the National Creation Fund and produced by independent producers, Neil Pearson (UK) and Miranda Mulholland (Canada).

Inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's notion that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, the project is built on the belief that artists shape policy decisions and public opinion through imagination and the power of music.

We are in the middle of our four stage unique creative process.

Preparation - Curation of songwriters, thinkers and development partners.

Incubation - Bringing songwriters and thinkers from both countries for a week in April 2025 on Prince Edward Island to envision the future we want to live in.

Illumination - Shaping the songs from the Incubation phase for the stage with our Illumination Creative Team in September 2025 at Theatre Aquarius.

Presentation - Our cross-disciplinary performance will have a world premiere and tour in the UK in February, 2026.

Jeanette Winterson writes "art does not imitate life, art anticipates life." We intend to do this.

Songwriters

Aysanabee 

Chris Luedecke

Catherine MacLellan 

Clerel 

Lorraine Segato 

Mimi O’Bonsawin 

T. Thomason

John Smith 

Wesley Stace 

Sadie Jemmett 

Michele Stodart 

Emily Barker 

Thinkers

David Sax - The Future is Analog 

The Disability Collective - Emily Maxwell, Nathan Sartore and Ali Hand - The Future of Accessibility 

Brendan Van Nijenhuis - The Future of Truth 

Rhiannon Rosalind - The Conscious Economy

Robin Mazumder - The Future of Cities 

Johanna Mizgala - A Preoccupation with Paintings and Patriarchs.

Julie Pellissier-Lush - The Future of Indigeneity 

Kiki Benzon - That Thing from the Future

Ex Officio Letter Writers

Robert MacFarlane - The Future of Rivers 

Jeanette Winterson - The Future of Storytelling 

Peggy Seeger - The Future of Folk