Persistent Acts: Belarus Free Theatre
This season, I will be taking a closer look at the intersection of performance, climate, and politics with the Persistent
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A Year in Theatrical Review Through a Climate Lens
Around this time last year, I took a moment to reflect on the theatrical experiences I’d had and what I’d
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Youth Shine in Performance for Climate and Energy
Shine is a musical performance for youth-led community engagement and resilience planning. It weaves climate science and artistic expression into
Public Anniversaries and Creative Resistances
In the year since the election of That Person Who Should Not Have Been Elected, I have experienced, like many
Launching into Climate Action
Climate Change Theatre Action 2017 is officially LAUNCHED! As of last Sunday, October 1st, communities and individuals around the world
Harvesting Human Energy
Calling all dancers! Ballet, jazz, tango, ballroom, Zumba, breakdance, tap, disco, swing, line, hip-hop, pogo, calypso, square dance, cha cha,
The Nature of Positive
Climate change. Oil spills. Plastic islands. Deforestation. They await us every day in the information age. Images of violent storms
Climate Lens: Birth of a Post-Nation!
Under ordinary circumstances, we’d probably have resisted the temptation to announce ourselves with such a grandiose sub-title—or at least followed it with a self-deprecating question mark. But these are hardly ordinary times, and we’re “going big”—and exclamatory!—to counter the odious enormity that’s suddenly at the nation’s helm. Trump Nation, however, only intensifies our post-national impulse; its real source, dating from well before the last election, is the fact that the most pressing political issue of our times crosses all national boundaries. The accelerating symptoms of ecological devastation and climate chaos are global, planetary—post-national. CLIMATE LENS sprouted on January 5, 2017, when a group of theatremakers and educators gathered in New York for a retreat on the topic “Theatre and Climate Change.” The seeds of CLIMATE LENS were the various projects these people had been involved in, over the past several years, that engaged with environmental issues in general and climate in particular. These included Chantal Bilodeau, Una Chaudhuri, Elizabeth Doud, Lanxing Fu, Derek Goldman, Julia Levine, Roberta
If Not Artists, Will Museums Save the World?
I’m going to be honest with you: artists can’t save the world. Though I’m a tireless optimist and probably a
Festivity in the Darkness
My inbox is flooded with petitions and calls to action. I’m calling and tweeting more than ever. These are amongst
