Vancouver Climate Change Theatre Action

 

“Climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us...that we need to evolve.”  - Naomi Klein 

Vancouver Climate Change Theatre Action

November 22, 2015

STUDIO 1398, 1398 Cartwright, Granville Island

2 pm – 4 pm

FREE – First come, first served

For Immediate Release: October 16, 2015

On November 22 at 2 pm, Vancouver actors will read short plays by Reneltta Arluk, Kendra Fanconi, Jordan Hall, Kevin Loring, David Geary, Elyne Quan, Elaine Avila and others, as a Vancouver response to the international CLIMATE CHANGE THEATRE ACTION (CCTA). CCTA is a global series readings and performances intended to foster discussion around climate change during this November and December, coinciding with the United Nations 2015 Paris Climate Conference.   

The Vancouver action is open to the public and admission is free. The program will culminate in an opportunity to meet and discuss ways for theatre makers to react creatively, practically and locally to the climate change crisis.  The event is organized by The Only Animal, with the assistance of Playwrights Theatre Centre, playwright Elaine Avila, and Event Coordinator Mark Vulliamy.

The main goal of the international project is to invite as many people as possible to participate in a worldwide conversation about climate change.  Vancouver’s Climate Change Theatre Action is an initial response by local theatre artists – writers, actors, directors - to the international call to engage with a global crisis.  As Elaine Avila, one of the international co-organizers, notes, “Coming together to tell stories is one of the best ways we have to organize and educate ourselves, to feel and to understand.”

“This artivist action on climate change is an opportunity to reflect, with multiple communities, on one of the most vital issues on the planet, continuing our mission toward a theatre that can illuminate the relationship between humans and nature,” says international co-organizer Caridad Svich.

“I’ll go on. It feels better to be in action than to be in despair. I’ll go on. I’m “out” on the climate change issue. It’s my work. I’ll go on. Creatively, with hope, with beauty. With a love of the impossible. I’ll go on.” -  Kendra Fanconi

to volunteer:  Mark Vulliamy  mark_vulliamy@telus.net

media contact: Kendra Fanconi  Kendra@theonlyanimal.com

For more information on the international Climate Change Theatre Action, a joint venture between NoPassport, The Arctic Cycle and Theatre Without Borders, please go here.