SoC Alumn* × Miss Read × Open Sourcing Love × Station of Commons

This three-day program brought together workshops, presentations, publisher lectures, book launches, and sound-based formats as part of the MISS READ pre-fair program, activated by the SoC Alumn* network in collaboration with Open Sourcing Love (OSL) and Station of Commons. The event worked with publishing and radio not only as outputs, but as infrastructures for gathering: a sequence of situations where reading, listening, and addressing others become shared practices across distance.

Session led by Zuleykha Ibad, Evgenii Bakhtin and Kas / @yourfriendkas Presence-in-Delay, a session structured around listening and letter-writing. The session opened with poetry by Ayaulym Lenkhan and continued as a collective “healing letter-writing” practice. Participants were invited to write postcards as a thread of connection over distance messages of care and support addressed to the extended SoC Alumn* community, to be sent from Berlin across geographies, time zones, and political borders. In parallel, the collaboration also hosted The Chain of Care, a letter-writing session focused on solidarity practices (including writing to political prisoners), using the postcard as a simple tool for contact, persistence, and responsibility.

Open Sourcing Love Open Sourcing Love is an international crowd-sourced movement and an art collective created by Anna Kin and Aigerim Tumenbay, whose practice is based on the alternative use of social networks for communication and connection. OSL contributed to its first offline publication, WAVES: Radio as Collective Imagination (Journal of Contemporary Audio Practices, Vol. 1), published by Miss Read Berlin (2024), which reflects on radio and audio practices as political forms of collective organisation