Where is the Hope?
Climate Change Theatre Action 2017 took place October 1 – November 18, 2017 to coincide with the United Nations Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany (COP23).
Close to 140 collaborators in 23 countries hosted events, reaching an audience of 12,000. In the US, 90 events took place in 60 cities. Plays were read and performed, live and on radio, and presented in a variety of settings including: theatres, high schools, middle schools, universities, yoga studios, community centers, libraries, churches, museums, cafes, bars, people’s living rooms, and outdoors.
The plays are published together in Where Is The Hope? An Anthology of Short Climate Change Plays available from the York University Bookstore. The anthology is also available from your domestic Amazon.
CCTA 2017 was supported by a Connections grant from the Social Science Research Council of Canada, and by a York University Canada 150 grant.
Participating Playwrights
Producing Collaborators
Universities & Colleges
Allegheny College
Arizona State University
Centre for the Arts (Musisches Zentrum) / RUB
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
California State University, Fullerton
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
Creighton University
Eckerd College
Edgewood College
Emory University
Hastings College
Iowa State University and The EcoTheatre Lab
Kansas State University
Macalester College
Massey University
Missouri State University
Montana State University
New York University Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
Normandale Community College
North Dakota State University
Northwestern University
Oklahoma City University
One World Theatre
Pomona College
Presbyterian College
Quest University
Randolph-Macon College
Red Universitaria Ambiental
Ruhr University Bochum
San Jose City College
Spotswood College
State University of New York at Oswego
Southern Arkansas University
Targu-Mures University of Arts
The College of Staten Island
The Ohio State University
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Alaska Anchorage
University of Central Oklahoma
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Dayton
University of Delaware
University of Exeter
University of Graz
University of Iowa
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
University of Manitoba
University of Maryland
University of Missouri
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of South Wales
University of Southern California
University of Waikato
Warner Pacific College
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Theatres & Arts Organizations
Across Ocean Arts
Artichoke Dance Company
Creatives for Climate (C4C)
Beaufort Players
Broadleaf Theatre
Chimera Ensemble
Craftsman Theatre Company
Culture*Park Theatre
Full Circle Theater Company
Hudson River Playback Theatre & Infinite Arms Puppet Theatre
Hurrah Hurrah
In Tandem Arts
In/Visible Theatre
INKBLOC Ensemble (Member Associate Project)
International Human Rights Art Festival
Khoyout Troupe & Cairo Climate Talks
Laboratório de Ecopoeticas
Luciole International Theatre Company
Mountain Community Theater & Peter Gelblum
MultiStages
Pi Theatre and The Only Animal
SJW Readings
Tennessee Women’s Theater Project
That Uppity Theatre Company
Theatre Delicatessen
The Anthropologists
The Arctic Group’s Polar Bear Plunge: Vantage Point
The (Beat) Theatre Collective
The Blue Room Theatre
The Children’s Zero Waste Climate Quilt Project
The Museum of Kairos
The Play’s the Thing
The Punk Theatre of the Lehigh Valley
The Studio Theatre
The Wilbury Theatre Group
Toronto Cold Reads
Upstream Artists’ Collective and Brooklyn Yard
Vampingo Productions
Vortex Theatre
Individuals
Cecil Castellucci
Abby Gilster & Casey Lowenthal
Kirsi Jansa
Olivia Kaloudi
Melissa Kaplan, Dylan Rogers & Anna Szabo
Ginni Manning & Sally Moss
Natalia Martinez Sagan
Ariel Martz-Oberlander
Cui Yin Mok
Zaza Muchemwa
Denise Yvette Serna & Iris Sowlat
Together Apartment
Tom & Ruth Small
Cathrine Winsnes
Schools
Benjamin Franklin High School
Choate Rosemary Hall School
Green Umbrella Learning Lab, Phillips Exeter Academy
Main Street Middle School
Malard
Maryknoll School
St. Andrew’s School
St. Mary’s International School
Environmental Groups
Earth and Water Network
Worthing Climate Action Network
Radio
Camino Real
Faith Group
Peace & Justice Committee of Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation