The Arctic Circle is hosting a virtual event: The Stories of the Climate Crisis on November 18, 2020 from 7:00PM-8:30PM.
Join the The Arctic Cycle and the Human Impacts Institute for an evening exploring the stories and storytelling of the climate crisis.
We usually think of climate change in terms of natural disasters and policy failure, but this narrative doesn’t tell the whole story of the massive transition currently taking place. Storytellers can – and most often do – balance this doom-and-gloom approach by highlighting ways in which we are learning and growing, culturally and technologically, in big and small ways.
This salon brings together storytellers from the fields of journalism, theatre, and fiction to discuss what stories we need to tell ourselves to succeed.
This event is part of the Human Impacts Institute's 2020 Creative Climate Awards, a month-long festival of art and ideas that connect us to climate action for a just and livable world.
Speakers:
CHANTAL BILODEAU (moderator) is a playwright whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, art, and climate change. She is the founder of The Arctic Cycle and in her capacity as artistic director, has spearheaded local and global artistic initiatives for over a decade. She has been instrumental in getting the theatre and educational communities, as well as diverse audiences in the US and abroad, to engage in climate action through programming that includes live events, talks, publications, workshops, national and international convenings, and a worldwide distributed theatre festival that coincides with the United Nations COP meetings.
AMY BRADY is the Deputy Publisher of Guernica magazine, Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Review of Books, and co-editor of House on Fire, an anthology of personal essays about climate change. Her writing on art, literature, and the environment has appeared in Slate, McSweeney's, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and many other places. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has won awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, and several academic organizations. She is also a recipient of a CLIR/Mellon Research Fellowship at the Library of Congress.
LANXING FU is a Chinese-American theater artist and co-director of Superhero Clubhouse, an interdisciplinary community incubating performance for environmental and climate justice. With SHC: she is playwright and co-creator of Mammelephant (The New Ohio / HERE Arts Center), program director of The Living Stage NYC (University Settlement), and co-creator of PLUTO (no longer a play) (The Brick), and JUPITER (a play about power) (La MaMa). She has been a facilitator, educator, and speaker with Asian American Arts Alliance, The New School, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, TCG National Conference, Cultivating Ensembles, and more.
DEVI LOCKWOOD is a journalist and the author of 1,001 Voices on Climate Change which will be published in August 2021 with Simon & Schuster (Tiller Press). You can read her writing in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Washington Post, Bicycling Magazine, Yale Climate Connections, Rest of World, and elsewhere.