The EcoTheatre Lab, Iowa State University Theatre, and the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment present Climate Change Theatre Action 2021 at the Octagon Art Festival on September 26 from 10-4 pm. Including performances, climate action resources, community engagement activities to support the Ames climate action planning process, and work by The Art of Climate Planning artists.
Plays:
all of us were born in the crisis by David Finnigan
Listen to Vanessa Nakate by Aleya Kassam
The Pageant by Paula Cizmar
Up a Creek by Kelli Fitzpatrick, Kentaro Kumanomido, and Leah VanSyckel
Bedtime for My (future) Daughter by Caity-Shea Violette
What We Give Back by Madeline Sayet
Initiation by Angella Emurwon
The Climes They Are A’ Changin’ by Summer Awad, Jessi Brock, and A’Ja Lyons
A Window by Whiti Hereaka
When by Wren Brian
Community Partners:
The international Climate Change Theatre Action initiative
Ames Climate Action Team
ISU Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Climate Reality Campus Corps at ISU
ISU Office of Sustainability/Live Green! Initiative
ISU Parks Library
Ames Public Library
Ames Main Street Farmers’ Market
Community Engagement Living Lab and Play Ames: Imagine Your City
Octagon Center for the Arts
Ames High School Earth and Space Science Classes
Ames Middle School Science Classes
