The task here is to look at theatre and climate change within the context of the current administration. Yep, that administration. The one that is attempting to eliminate climate consciousness from the national narrative by removing the climate page from the White House website, threatening to slash the EPA by one-third, and green-lighting the Keystone Pipeline project in the face of enormous coordinated dissent. Yep, the one that favors entertainment—heck, the one that is entertainment—but is not at all interested in artworks activating complex, nuanced conversation around current issues, and proposed to eradicate the NEA and the NEH completely from the federal budget. Yep, that administration. Well, shall we start the way we often do? Theatre is a storytelling, community-based phenomenon that manages to survive, if not thrive, on next to nothing and is the perfect means to effectively counter the current administration’s “alternative facts” and erasure, especially in these divisive times…blah, blah climate blah f*cking Trump blah Pruitt EPA zzz blah NEA slashed z zzzz Betsy DeVos zz zzz education
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Confronting Earth’s Trauma
Last year, I traveled to the Galápagos Islands. I felt I had stepped back to a place I recognized from
Non-Human Narratives: Stories of Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses
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Exploring Tourism and Contemporary Societies’ Effect on Three Utopian Ideals
What makes people chase that utopian destination and what happens when they get there? Since 2013 I have been interested
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Jumping Rope With the Wind
It’s hard to keep up with Daan Roosegaarde, the internationally acclaimed visionary creative change-maker whose nature-driven social design lab, Studio Roosegaarde,
If Not Artists, Will Museums Save the World?
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The Visual Magic of Phantom Limb
Phantom Limb Company produces visually stunning work for the stage that combines dance and puppetry. Co-founded in 2007 by artist, director,
Artists Doing Nature Research
This week, the Jan Van Eyck Academy, a post-academic institute for art, design and reflection in the quaint town of
Pages from the Frozen Sea
Pages from the Frozen Sea is a scattering of photographs of the ways that ice can freeze a moment in
Plastic, plastic, every where!
Plastic, plastic, every where, All the fish are bereft; Plastic, plastic, every where, Not a soul is left. I met