Are you considering organizing an event for Climate Change Theatre Action 2021? Whether you have participated in CCTA before or are planning your first CCTA production, join us for our first Climate Change Theatre Action Meet-Up! Hear about previous participants’ experiences and ideas. Ask questions, look for collaborators, and brainstorm actions to accompany your event.
Following short presentations by CCTA participants Charissa Menefee and Vivian Cook from Iowa State University (US); Keith Barker from Native Earth (Canada); and Ilka Saal and Verena Laschinger, from the University of Erfurt (Germany), there will be opportunities to break into small groups and meet other members of the great CCTA family. The conversation will be moderated by artistic director of The Arctic Cycle Chantal Bilodeau.
Note: This first Meet-Up is designed to accommodate time zones in the Western hemisphere. A second Climate Change Theatre Action Meet-Up for time zones in the Eastern hemisphere will take place on May 16-17, 2021.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
2:00-3:15 pm ET
11:00 am PT (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 2:00 pm ET (New York, UTC -5) / 7:00 pm GMT (London, UTC +0) / 8:00 pm CET (Berlin, UTC +1)
Free Zoom Meeting
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Keith Barker is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario. He is a playwright, actor, and director from Northwestern Ontario, and the current Artistic Director at Native Earth Performing Arts. He is the winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Playwrights Guild’s Carol Bolt Award for best new play. He received a Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Excellence in Playwriting for his play, The Hours That Remain, as well as a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change.
Vivian M. Cook, originally from the mountains of Arizona, is a community-engaged performing artist. A graduate student studying community development, sustainable agriculture, and youth program management in Ames, Iowa, Vivian explores the intersection between arts, civic engagement, and sustainability. She is a member of The EcoTheatre Lab and Ames Climate Action Team and has worked as a producer, community engagement coordinator, and director for two recent Climate Change Theatre Action productions at Iowa State University.
Verena Laschinger is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at Erfurt University, Germany. She currently works on a project on image-texts. For the winter term 2019 and together with Ilka Saal, she set up a workshop on climate art/action. Twenty-five students collaborated on the production and performance of Chantal Bilodeau – IT STARTS WITH ME, Abhishek Majumdar – THE ARROW, MaryAnn Karanja – BIRTHDAY SUIT, Marcus Youssef – DUST, and Paula Cizmar – APPEALING in various locations in the city of Erfurt.
Charissa Menefee, a multi-genre writer and theatre artist, co-directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University and is the artistic director of The EcoTheatre Lab. She is a 2020/2021 recipient of an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project Commission. She writes with Code Red Playwrights, 365 Women a Year, Little Black Dress INK, and Protest Plays Project. She wrote about producing CCTA on campus in Lighting the Way.
Ilka Saal is Professor of American Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University and has taught American literature and culture at the universities of Richmond, VA and Ghent, Belgium. She has written extensively on American drama and theater as well as on contemporary African American performance and visual culture and is the recipient of a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.