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Climate Change Theatre Action Still Waving
Massey University presented the Climate Change Theatre Action event Still Waving—a series of readings and performances—livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced howlround.tv network on Monday 23 October at 2 p.m. NZDT (Wellington, UTC +13) / Monday, October 23 at 12 p.m. AEDT (Sydney, UTC +11) / Monday, October 23 at 9 a.m. SGT (Singapore UTC +8) / Monday, October 23 at 2 a.m. BST (London, UTC+1) / Monday, October 23 at 01:00 UTC / Sunday, October 22 at 9:00 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / Sunday, October 22 at 6 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7).
Climate Change Theatre Action was a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented October 1 – November 18, 2017 to coincide with the United Nations COP 23 meeting. Fifty playwrights from around the world were commissioned to write one- to five-minute plays about an aspect of climate change. These plays were then made available to producing collaborators interested in presenting an event during the project’s time window. Events can be as simple as a reading in a classroom, or as elaborate as a rehearsed presentation for a theatre audience. Collaborators were encouraged to design their event to reflect their won aesthetic and community, and to include additional material by local artists.
They come from every continent on the globe, represent over 25 cultures, are from industrialized and developing countries, urban and rural areas, and range in age from early 20s to mid 60s. Some are from low-lying island nations threatened by sea level rise, others are from countries facing severe heatwaves, floods, or droughts. Some are recent migrants, some inhabit the country their ancestors chose or were brought to, and many live on and fiercely protect the land where they were born. Together, they create an incredibly diverse and talented group with widely different perspectives.
Playwrights:
Hassan Abdulrazzak
Keith Josef Adkins
Reneltta Arluk
Elaine Ávila
Catherine Banks
Chantal Bilodeau
Philip Braithwaite
Jody Christopherson & Ryan McCurdy
Mindi Dickstein
Clare Duffy
Angella Emurwon
Kendra Fanconi
Lanxing Fu & Jeremy Pickard
David Geary
Miria George
Jordan Hall
Vinicius Jatobá
C.A. Johnson
Marcia Johnson
Hiro Kanagawa
MaryAnn Karanja
Amahl Khouri
Catherine Léger
Ian Lesa
E.M. Lewis
Jessica Litwak
Kevin Loring
Abhishek Majumdar
Anita Majumdar
Kasaya Manulevu
Shahid Nadeem
Sharleen Ndlovu
Dave Ojay
Achiro P. Olwoch
Giovanni Ortega
David Paquet
Sarena Parmar
Katie Pearl
Elyne Quan
Lynn Rosen
Ian Rowlands
Lisa Schlesinger
Stephen Sewell
Saviana Stanescu
Caridad Svich
Jordan Tannahill
Elspeth Tilley
Meaza Worku
Nathan Yungerberg
Maya Zbib
CCTA 2017 is a collaboration between the Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, NoPassport Theatre Alliance, The Arctic Cycle, Theatre Without Borders, and York University, and is supported by the Compton Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and a York University Canada 150 Grant.
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The performance starts at 10 minutes in so please skip to 10:00 if you'd like to avoid waiting 10 mins for the audience to find their seats. :-)