What Gives You Hope?
The least we can say is that 2018 has been challenging – politically, socially, environmentally. At times, many times, it
Theatre
The Birth of a Climate Commons for Theatre and Performance
On a weekend in June, I sat in a blackbox theatre for three days with a group of mostly strangers.
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Annual Year in Review Part 2: Space for Healing
This year, I had the chance to see many resonant theatrical presentations take the New York stage (see more in
This Sentence: How Do We Comprehend the Effects of Climate Change?
Like you, I read thousands of words in a day, online, in books, on my social media feeds. I’m both
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Shaping New Climate Narratives: Why a Journalist/Historian Turned to Theatre for Climate Stories
Earlier this year, taking a front row seat at a church in Gary, Indiana, I watched as a young rapper,
Changing the Climate Narrative Fifty Plays at a Time
“I suspect future generations will look back and judge us not so much by what we said and did about
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The Loneliest Species
“The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and vegetable.
From Heaviness to Hope
With the US midterm election still a week away, wariness and cautious optimism hung in the air at our second
Art on a Damaged Planet: The Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Convening
From 8 to 10 June 2018, HowlRound, in partnership with Chantal Bilodeau (The Arctic Cycle), Elizabeth Doud (Climakaze Miami/Fundarte), and Roberta
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Warming Up to the Arctic Through Theatre
As a university student in the early 1990’s, my partner, the writer, Glen Retief, took part in the anti-apartheid struggle