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December 2019
Playhouse Emissions: Climate Change Theatre Action St. Louis 2019
Why are some young couples forgoing having children? Where does that chocolate bar come from? How might certain media outlets spin a climate change emergency? See these themes and more explored in this edition of "Playhouse Emissions: Climate Change Theatre Action St. Louis 2019"! Hosted by That Uppity Theatre Company in association with Saint Louis University Fine and Performing Arts Department, produced by Joan Lipkin, and directed by Thomas Martin, Anna Blair and Alex Knapp, "Playhouse Emissions: Climate Change Theatre…
Find out more »Stories of Climate Change
Ego Actus in New York City will present readings of 11 short plays about climate change as part of a worldwide series of readings and performances presented to coincide with, and raise awareness of, the United Nations Madrid Climate Conference (COP25). Our plays will be: Joan Lipkin – ABOUT THAT CHOCOLATE BAR Elspeth Tilley – LIN AND ASH Elaine Ávila – THE ROOKERY Julie McKee – A HOLIDAY ON ICE IN A WARM CLIMATE Elaine Ávila – BRACKENDALE Paula Cizmar…
Find out more »CCTA at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home
Lena Šimic will organize a reading of her play THREE CONVERSATIONS on Saturday December 14. This will be a private event at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home in Liverpool. Lena will read the play with her three sons. The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home is an art activist space from her home - it lasted for 10 years and this will be its last event, together with a few…
Find out more »A Letter from the Ocean in Sacramento
On December 14, A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN by Caridad Svich will be read as part of a holiday party in Sacramento.
Find out more »BNWorks 2020 Eco-plays launch with Climate Change Theatre Action
A cocktail party for patrons of Brave New World Repertory Theatre to launch our 2020 line-up of eco-plays by women writers will include staged readings of the following CCTA plays: Paula Cizmar – APPEALING Elaine Avila – THE ROOKERY Madeline Sayet – BLOOD ON THE LEAVES The plays will be performed and directed by members of the Brave New World Rep company. Re-usable wine glasses and 100% recycled paper products will be used at the event and upcoming BNWorks 2020 series. Patrons will…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Chernihiv, Ukraine
The youth drama theatre AmaTea will present an experimental performance including five original plays: Caridad Svich – A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN Yolanda Bonnell – DRIP Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF Abhishek Majumdar – THE ARROW Chantal Bilodeau – IT STARTS WITH ME The performance is a combination of drama, choreography, video animation with original music. The performance is an international collaboration between Ukrainian actors, theatre director Olena Rosstalna, choreographer Svetlana Likhtina, visual artist Vladislav Boyko, and…
Find out more »Lighting the Way: 8 Short Plays about Climate Change
Metropolitan Community College is proud to participate in this year’s Climate Change Theatre Action, an international series of readings of short climate change plays that coincide with the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings. To help represent Nebraska, eight of these plays will receive semi-staged readings on December 14 in the Swanson Conference Center of MCC’s Fort Omaha Campus. The event begins at 6:00 pm. As part of the evening, Chelsea Johnson, Deputy Director of the Nebraska Conservation Voters,…
Find out more »“Your House is on Fire”
ArkansasStaged joins international theater movement Climate Change Theatre Action to bring Northwest Arkansas an immersive staged reading at Mt. Sequoyah’s Great Hall. Funny, foreboding, and absurd, "Your House is on Fire" presents several 5-minute plays: Katie Pearl – THE EARTH’S BLUE HEART Caridad Svich – A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN Yvette Nolan – BREATHING SPACE Alister Emerson – SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING Hanna Cormick – CANARY Artists Cole Wimpee, Lacy Post, Abdelrahman (Abud) Metwally, Michael…
Find out more »Palm Beach Climate Change Theatre Action(S)
An evening of readings, videos, and dance productions at The Box Gallery, sponsored by Florida Arts Association, featuring the following CCTA plays: Peterson Toscano – BIGGER LOVE Damon Chua – STEAMY SESSION IN A SINGAPORE SPA Vitor Jatobá – FAILED EXPERIMENT Madeline Sayet – BLOOD ON THE LEAVES Joan Lipkin – ABOUT THAT CHOCOLATE BAR Mike van Graan – HASHTAG YOU TOO Lana Nasser – THE BUTTERFLY THAT PERSISTED Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF Alister Emerson –…
Find out more »The Climate Chronicles
Readings in the Shed is a performative reading form that brings together theatre artists from Mumbai to perform literature from all over the world. This December, Readings in the Shed shall perform seven plays from the collection provided by Climate Change Theatre Action. The plays are: Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF Paula Cizmar – APPEALING Damon Chua – STEAMY SESSION IN A SINGAPORE SPA Vitor Jatobá – FAILED EXPERIMENT Abhishek Majumdar – THE ARROW Lana Nasser –…
Find out more »Sila & It Starts With Me
This is a Palomar College fully mounted production of Chantal Bilodeau's amazing full-length play SILA, followed by the CCTA play IT STARTS WITH ME, also by Chantal Bilodeau, as an epilogue after the curtain call.
Find out more »Climate Change Theater Action at the Arbor Institute
Presented as part of Love Letters to the Earth Part 1: Poetry Jam for the Planet Love Letters to the Earth is a poetic celebration of our deep love for our home planet, hosted by the newly-founded Arbor Institute in Boulder, Colorado – an evening of creative performance featuring poets, actors and musicians from throughout the Front Range. The evening will include a performance of BREATHING SPACE, a one-act play by Algonquin playwright Yvette Nolan, performed by Boulder actors Danny Mann and Sara Woodyard as part of Climate Change Theatre Action. We…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Reno, Nevada
We will be reading BREATHING SPACE by Yvette Nolan as the first meeting of a new Native Voices Theater partnership at Truckee Meadows Community College.
Find out more »Graduate Class at Iowa State University on Drama and Empowering Social Change
This graduate course adopts an interdisciplinary approach that blends analyses of plays, including Chantal Bilodeau’s SILA, and the following CCTA 2019 plays: Yolanda Bonnell – DRIP Shy Richardson & Karina Yager – TRÉS MARIAS: CATEGORIES & LUZ Yvette Nolan – BREATHING SPACE Caridad Svich – A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN Lana Nasser – THE BUTTERFLY THAT PERSISTED as well as a storytelling-based computer simulation model, and strategies from the humanities, social sciences, and climate science. Through this confluence…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Oahu, Hawaii
Claire Lipschultz's niece will read CANARY by Hanna Cormick outside in Oahu, Hawaii.
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Chernihiv, Ukraine
The youth drama theatre AmaTea will present an experimental performance including five original plays: Caridad Svich – A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN Yolanda Bonnell – DRIP Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF Abhishek Majumdar – THE ARROW Chantal Bilodeau – IT STARTS WITH ME The performance is a combination of drama, choreography, video animation with original music. The performance is an international collaboration between Ukrainian actors, theatre director Olena Rosstalna, choreographer Svetlana Likhtina, visual artist Vladislav Boyko, and…
Find out more »Lighting the Way: Climate Change Theatre Action in San Diego
Sunday, December 15th and Tuesday, December 17th both at 7pm, the La Jolla Theatre Ensemble will present "Lighting the Way: Climate Change Theatre Action in San Diego," a staged reading of one dozen short plays and stories, selected from 50 commissioned works as part of the bi-annual global event. The program will include climate change-themed pieces by playwrights who hail from Australia, Iraq, Los Angeles, New York, New Zealand, Oklahoma, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and more, and be performed…
Find out more »Ithaca College Climate Change Artist/Theatre Action
Ithaca College in upstate New York will present a devised piece around a series of short plays. The plays produced are: Madeline Sayet – BLOOD ON THE LEAVES Yvette Nolan – BREATHING SPACE David Finnigan – THERE ARE A LOT OF STORIES YOU CAN TELL ABOUT HUMANITY Brian Dykstra – TWO VOICES Hanna Cormick – CANARY Lana I. Nasser – THE BUTTERFLY THAT PERSISTED Vitor Jatobá – FAILED EXPERIMENT Yolanda Bonnell – DRIP
Find out more »Art for Earth
MaldEstro school for actors from Alibi Theatre in collaboration with other members of the community is responding to the call of ‘’Climate Change Theater Action’’. We are organising an event in the historic center of Corigliano d’Otranto, in the heart of Salento, a rural area in South Italy. We have organised an intensive weekend workshop around the construction of performance with the theme of climate change called ‘’Art for Earth’’. We will be using different texts from international dramatist collaborating…
Find out more »Canaries Are Flying – Action Needed Now
Across Oceans Arts, instigates a 24/7 online engagement during these longest nights of Dec 16-27. Hanna Cormick's CANARY lights the way for online readings and sharing from the comfort of personal devices across AOA's international network. Canaries are used in coal mines to warn miners of air contamination. Their tiny bodies feel the contamination first. When the canaries stop singing the miners know they must evacuate. Directed by AD Maxine Heppner, AOA players are invited to record their spontaneous readings,…
Find out more »Montclair State, Theatre in Society: Climate Change Theatre Action
Our class at Montclair State University in New Jersey will conduct a reading and discussion around THE DONATION by Jordan Hall, ABOUT THAT CHOCOLATE BAR by Joan Lipkin, and BLOOD ON THE LEAVES by Madeline Sayet. The students will familiarize themselves with our local Sunrise Movement Hub and their next planned meetings and actions.
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action 2019: Lighting the Way in Nanjing, PRC
Climate Change Theatre Action - Nanjing 星期一,12月16日,7:30pm Monday, December 16th, 7:30 pm Venue: NIO Home, Xinjiekou, Nanjing, PRC Featuring performers, writers, and directors from around Nanjing and Shanghai (and remotely from New Zealand and the United States), CCTA Nanjing will showcase staged readings of CCTA plays and original pieces, ending in a discussion between the actors and audience about climate change and what actions we can take to continue to address it on both a local and global scale. CCTA…
Find out more »Hawaii Cold Reads for Climate Change Theatre Action
Students from Sacred Hearts Academy's Global Issues class and Learning Across Borders (LAB) Club will perform cold readings of the following plays to explore the creative side of climate activism. Abhishek Majumdar – THE ARROW Hanna Cormick – CANARY Sunny Drake – ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF ANY MEANING Nathan Yungerberg – MISS VIOLA EVIE ANDERSON'S DINING HALL FOR BEES Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action at International School Almere
We will hold a series of play readings and semi rehearsed performances of five CCTA plays: Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF Elaine Ávila – THE ROOKERY Paula Cizmar – APPEALING Alister Emerson – SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING Vitor Jatobá – FAILED EXPERIMENT The readings and performances will be done by 5th-year drama, music and art students who are investigating the impact of human actions on the environment as part of their…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action at CSU Bakersfield
Scene Study students at California State University-Bakersfield will present seven plays as their final project. Members from the CSUB Sustainability Team have been invited to attend. The selected plays are: Six Polar Bears Fell out of the Sky This Morning - Alister Emerson Failed Experiment - Vitor Jatobá English Please - Marcia Johnson About That Chocolate Bar... - Joan Lipkin Breathing Space - Yvette Nolan The Reason - Stephen Sewell Steamy Session in a Singapore Spa - Damon Chua
Find out more »Hurricane in a Handbag: A Collection of Eco-Performances
We global warmingly invite you to this Climate Change Theatre Action event, sharing in the work of students of Eco-Performance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. This time to share will also feature the voices of playwrights Caridad Svich (A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN) and Hanna Cormick (CANARY), who have contributed to Climate Change Theatre Action 2019. These performances and readings will take place from 2:30-4 PM in Seully Hall on Tuesday, December 17, inclusive of a short talk-with if time…
Find out more »Lighting the Way: Climate Change Theatre Action in San Diego
Sunday, December 15th and Tuesday, December 17th both at 7pm, the La Jolla Theatre Ensemble will present "Lighting the Way: Climate Change Theatre Action in San Diego," a staged reading of one dozen short plays and stories, selected from 50 commissioned works as part of the bi-annual global event. The program will include climate change-themed pieces by playwrights who hail from Australia, Iraq, Los Angeles, New York, New Zealand, Oklahoma, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and more, and be performed…
Find out more »CCTA in Erfurt, Germany
As part of a university workshop on climate art/action, a group of 25 students is going to select five plays for production. The plays will be staged throughout the semester on 11/20 (Chantal Bilodeau – IT STARTS WITH ME), 11/27 (Abhishek Majumdar – THE ARROW), 12/4 (MaryAnn Karanja – BIRTHDAY SUIT), 12/11 (Marcus Youssef – DUST), and on 12/18 (play yet to be selected) in various locations in the city of Erfurt in Germany. (Photo by Verena Laschinger)
Find out more »CCTA Studio Performance in Weilheim
On December 18th, 2019, our school's theatre group performs five different plays from the CCTA portfolio: Chantal Bilodeau's "It starts with me", Stephen Sewell's "The Reason", Hassan Abdulrazzak's "Laila Pines for the Wolf", Vitor Jatobá's "Failed Experiment" and Joan Lipkin's "About a Chocolate Bar". Some of the plays are put on stage in their original English version, some were translated into German. The performances take place in different locations throughout our school building. Our vision is to "fill" our school…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Graz, Austria
Six polar bears that simply dropped from above? How can this be communicated to the general public? A group of high-school students from BG GIBS - Graz International Bilingual School in Austria have been contemplating just that. The theater group will perform two short plays – Chantal Bilodeau’s IT STARTS WITH ME and Alister Emerson’s SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING – during this event, which is part of Climate Change Theatre Action 2019 and which…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action at Archbold Biological Station
Archbold Biological Station in Florida will hold a Climate Change Theatre Action event on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019 from 5pm-7pm. This is a closed event for our staff. The staff, mostly conservation biologists, will do table reads. Casting will be spontaneous. In between the plays, we will have open discussions about each work's themes. Featured plays are: Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF Elaine Avila – THE ROOKERY Philip Braithwaite – ICE FLOW Paula Cizmar – APPEALING Sunny…
Find out more »A Letter from the Ocean in Alabama
A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN by Caridad Svich will be read by Stella Broussard at Offbeat Coffee Studio in Huntsville, Alabama.
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Lebanon
In this event we will be using the Arabic script "LEILA WAL ZE'B" by Hassan Abdulrazzak in a modern way. Working on repetition and rhythms, followed by a film projection on climate change and a discussion. This event will happen on the night of our monthly cinema club event "Rooftop Cinema," transforming our studio (studio Laban) into a more climate friendly space, replacing the usual stage lights with LED lights to help save energy and limit the heat. To start…
Find out more »Climate Change Action Theatre in Cumberland, British Columbia
Join Forest Stories Collective and Elevate for a staged reading event of short plays connected to critical climate change and resiliency themes. Dark, funny, through proving, irreverent and hopeful. The Forest Stories Collective and Elevate are part of a global participatory theatre project with hundreds of organizations across the planet reading from select plays through the fall and early winter of 2019. The line-up of plays is as follows: David Finnigan – THERE ARE A LOT OF STORIES YOU…
Find out more »Lighting the Way Wheeling
We are holding a concert reading of Derek Davidson's BLACKJACK in conjunction with a local crepery called The Later Gator. We have invited local theatre groups to select readings and join us. The Later Gator has a special menu, with climate change themed drinks and desserts (Mudslides, Tsunami's, Dark and Stormy, the Glacier Melt, etc.). A local agency called the Wheeling Winter Freeze Shelter has been contacted about needs this year and a list of items has been created. Anyone…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Ms. Maley’s New Paltz, New York Class
THE EARTH'S BLUE HEART by Katie Pearl will be performed in Ms. Maley's 4th grade classroom at Lenape Elementary School in New Paltz, NY. We are looking to inform and inspire action.
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Ms. Maley’s New Paltz, New York Class
THE EARTH'S BLUE HEART by Katie Pearl will be performed in Ms. Maley's 4th grade classroom at Lenape Elementary School in New Paltz, NY. We are looking to inform and inspire action.
Find out more »Scariff Youth Call to Action
Scariff Youth Call to Action will be presented in Scariff, County Clare, Ireland. It is initiated by Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board's Creative Youth team. The reading of SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING by Alister Emerson will be rehearsed for an hour and read in Scariff Community College on December 13 and at Dance Limerick on December 20, by a group of students who are present to absorb creative experiences and reflect on…
Find out more »Holiday Climate Action Party
Neworld Theatre along with fellow Progress Lab companies and collaborators Electric Theatre Company, Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC), rice & beans theatre and Rumble Theatre in Vancouver, Canada, will be hosting a gathering as part of the 2019 Climate Change Theatre Action. We'll be doing some casual readings of a few plays including DUST by Neworld’s Senior Artist Marcus Youssef, as well as Yvette Nolan's BREATHING SPACE and Jordan Hall's THE DONATION. Also, there will be a craft station focused on…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Nairobi, Kenya
EVN Community Theatre in collaboration with Awjama Somali Cultural Centre joins Climate Change Theatre Action from Nairobi. We will present APPEALING by Paula Cizmar, IT STARTS WITH ME by Chantal Bilodeau and HASHTAG YOU TOO by Mike van Graan as play readings. A follow-up discussion will be facilitated to provide the audience an opportunity to express their thoughts on climate change. Audience members will also have the chance to read the plays themselves, if they wish to do so. Our…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action on the Chattahoochee River Walk
On December 21, Shiana Tyler will read A LETTER TO THE OCEAN by Caridad Svich to her best friend and passersby on the Chattahoochee River Walk in Phenix City, Alabama.
Find out more »Solstice Reading
On Saturday, December 21 at 8:30 am, to honor the winter solstice, Martha, Clifford, located in Oregon and her sister Debbie Lewis, located in Wyoming, will connect through FaceTime and read three plays to each other, with their pets as an audience: Chantal Bilodeau – IT STARTS WITH ME Alister Emerson – SIX POLAR BEARS FELL OUT OF THE SKY THIS MORNING Kamil Haque – THE OLDE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE
Find out more »“A Letter From the Ocean” in Austin, Texas
On December 21, Jake Stepansky will read Caridad Svich's play A LETTER FROM THE OCEAN to a friend in Austin, Texas. They will stand near a tree.
Find out more »Climate Heros & Luminaries: CCTA in Natick, MA
Together with co- sponsors Common Street Spiritual Center, Roots and Wings Yoga and Healing Arts, Natick is United, Sunrise Movement Metrowest, Elders Climate Action, First Congregational Church Natick, 350 Mass Metrowest, Renewable Natick, and We Did It For You!, Dreamweavers & North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) are offering 8 plays: Yolanda Bonnell – DRIP Sunny Drake – ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF ANY MEANING Hassan Abdulrazzak – LAILA PINES FOR THE WOLF Mary Kathyrn Nagle – AMERICA'S FIRST ENVIRONMENTALISTS Lana…
Find out more »The Butterfly that Persisted: Episode 1 of Arab Woman Talking
Episode 1 of Arab Woman Talking podcast: An audio performance of THE BUTTERFLY THAT PERSISTED by playwright Lana I Nasser, followed by a talk about Mother Nature, the feminine principle and peace.
Find out more »[NERVOUS LAUGHTER] – Climate Change Theatre Action Singapore
Climate Change Theatre Action and Method Productions Present: - A showcase of plays, spoken word poetry, & general revelry in defiance of, due to, and despite climate crisis. End of the world got you gloomy? Have the blues from the widespread destruction of all that is green and good in the world? Feeling overwhelmed from the barrage of technical jargon and complex policy proposals needed to solve the apocalypse? Come down for , part of Climate Change Theatre Action,…
Find out more »Lighting the Way
This event is an immersive experience in a suburban home in Saint Helena, California. Guests will gather indoors and outdoors for plays happening simultaneously in separate spaces, becoming isolated and ultimately unified. At the plays' conclusion, we will toast the winter solstice, muse on the plays' narratives, and pool our collective resources – to discover how Napa Valley residents are already engaging with climate justice, and to learn how we can use our own unique skills to collectively do more.…
Find out more »[NERVOUS LAUGHTER] – Climate Change Theatre Action Singapore
Climate Change Theatre Action and Method Productions Present: - A showcase of plays, spoken word poetry, & general revelry in defiance of, due to, and despite climate crisis. End of the world got you gloomy? Have the blues from the widespread destruction of all that is green and good in the world? Feeling overwhelmed from the barrage of technical jargon and complex policy proposals needed to solve the apocalypse? Come down for , part of Climate Change Theatre Action,…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Montgomery, AL
On December 22, Lori Vega will read THE OLDE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE by Kamil Haque.
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Wichita, KS
Alex Wakim and Nora Haddad Cripe will read THERE ARE A LOT OF STORIES YOU CAN TELL ABOUT HUMANITY by David Finnigan to friends and family at a gathering in Wichita, Kansas.
Find out more »January 2020
The Climate Chronicles
The Climate Chronicles is presented in collaboration with Nalanda Public School. The plays will be presented as dramatic readings performed by theatre artists and supported by live music. As part of the action, students from the school were asked to respond in 100 words to someone who does not believe in climate change. Some of the students will read out their written pieces as a part of the performance. The audience will be comprised of students and teachers of the…
Find out more »Climate Change Theatre Action in Boise, Idaho
On January 24, 2020, as part of CCTA's "Encore" performances, Tom Ford will read DUST by Marcus Youssef at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise.
Find out more »February 2020
Art Meets Climate Change
Readings of five climate change plays followed by small group discussion of climate change actions, and distribution of the Sustainability Pledge asking people to take responsibility for at least one new climate action. The plays: Philip Braithwaite – ICE FLOW Jordan Hall – THE DONATION by Elspeth Tilley – LIN AND ASH Maryann Karanja – BIRTHDAY SUIT Stephen Sewell – THE REASON Readers are all from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Temple University. Feb 8 will take place at Philadelphia Ethical…
Find out more »Art Meets Climate Change
Readings of five climate change plays followed by small group discussion of climate change actions, and distribution of the Sustainability Pledge asking people to take responsibility for at least one new climate action. The plays: Philip Braithwaite – ICE FLOW Jordan Hall – THE DONATION by Elspeth Tilley – LIN AND ASH Maryann Karanja – BIRTHDAY SUIT Stephen Sewell – THE REASON Readers are all from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Temple University. Feb 8 will take place at Philadelphia Ethical…
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