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Thomas Peterson

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Thomas Peterson 

December 1, 2020December 21, 2020

A Call for Arts & Climate Courses and Syllabi

We are in the process of developing a new resource for this platform, collecting a database of academic programs, courses,

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Thomas Peterson  0 Comments

September 14, 2020September 13, 2020

American Climate Artists: For the Next Fifty Days, We Must Work on the Election

As I write this on the morning of Saturday, September 12th, the Air Quality Index for Berkeley, California, the town

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Octavia Butler

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July 22, 2020July 22, 2020

Black Artists and Storytellers on the Climate Crisis: Introducing a New Series

The climate crisis is intrinsically linked to environmental racism – there can be no climate justice without racial justice. Like

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Thomas Peterson  1 Comment

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020

Theatre for a Climate Crisis in a Globalized World

A Model for Local Action I. As of mid-April 2020 (when this piece was written), somewhere between two and three billion

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Chantal Bilodeau, Julia Levine, Thomas Peterson  1 Comment

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020

Black Lives Matter

“The way that we win on mitigating climate change is to enforce government accountability to its citizens and right now,

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Thomas Peterson  11 Comments

May 21, 2020May 25, 2020

Against Climate as Metaphor: Make Climate Propaganda (The Good Kind)

“Too much propaganda masquerading as art.” This was the first comment that appeared on Instagram when HowlRound Theatre Commons shared

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Thomas Peterson  5 Comments

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020

Gas Masks and Honeybees: The Visual Culture of Earth Day

I’ve never been all that moved or inspired by Earth Day, or at least not by the 21st century Earth

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Thomas Peterson  1 Comment

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

Kyoto Forever? UN Climate Conferences as Political Theatre

Perhaps the most consequential theatrical forums of the moment are the UN climate conferences, or COP meetings, which occur every

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© Yadin Goldman, CCTA Uptown 2019, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), New York

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February 27, 2020February 27, 2020

Climate Change Theatre Action 2019: This Is How We Respond to the Burning World

Since mid-September I’ve been greeted daily by emails, zooming in from all over the world, describing performances of short plays

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