Climate Change Theatre Action
Chicago
Global Hive Labs.
Climate Change
Theatre Action
Chicago
A Curated Conversation
November 14-16, 2017, 6:30pm
The Pride Arts Center, 4147 N. Broadway, Chicago
Producers Denise Yvette Serna and Iris Sowlat are pleased to present Climate Change Theatre Action – Chicago, three evenings of readings and performances on the topic of global climate change in support of the United Nations COP23 meeting chaired by Fiji and hosted in Bonn, Germany. This multi-disciplinary international event features short films, dance, puppetry, live performances, and a call to activism.
Developed with artists from China, France, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, The United Kingdom, Canada, across the United States and Chicago, this collective effort supports and encourages individual action on climate change and steps towards a better future for all. Performances are pay what you can, and will have general admission and re-seating all evening.
Gallery
Event Activities
7:00 Opening and Land Acknowledgement
7:10 Migration by Ryan Oliveira and featuring: Paula Anglin, Niki Charisse Franco
7:20 Rise (film) by Katarina Kikta
7:30 Gaia by Hiro Kanagawa and featuring: Samantha Michelle Nava, Kim Egan, Liam MacDougall
7:50 Minor Flood, Major Constellation: Sirius and the Cartographer Map the New World by Lisa Schlesinger and featuring: Leslie Coffman, Athanasia Sawicz, Izzy Tortuga, Kim Egan
8:00 The Nymph of the River by Roberto Dassoni and Carolina Migli-Bateson and featuring: Carolina Migli-Bateson
8:20 This by Caridad Svich and featuring: Athanasia Sawicz, Jessica Smoot, Amanda Winston, Terri Lynn Hudson
8:30 Breath (film) by Nita Bowerman
8:40 The New Galileos by Amy Berryman and featuring: Laura Stephenson, Samantha Michelle Nava, Whitney Pipes
8:50 Nature (film) by Iman Kerroua
9:00 Appreciation by Katie Pearl and featuring: Laura Stephenson
9:10 Rube Goldberg Device for The Generation of Hope by Jordan Hall and featuring: Rukmini Girish, Ophelia Harkness
9:20 Nocturne by Jordan Tannahill and featuring: Anna Marck
9:30 The Blue Puzzle by Clare Duffy and featuring: Rebecca Joy Fletcher
Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA) is a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented biennially in support of the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP meetings).
Presented by Denise Yvette Serna & Iris Sowlat
in support of the United Nations Conference of the Parties
In collaboration with Pride Arts Center, Global Hive Laboratories, BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective, La Compagnie Certes, and Fusion Theatre Company, in association with the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, NoPassport Press and theatre alliance, The Arctic Cycle, Theatre Without Borders, and York University.