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11 May, 18 May, 30 May, and 1 June at 4 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EDT (New York) / 23:00 GMT / 12 a.m. BST (London).

New York, NY, United States
11 May, 18 May, 30 May, and 1 June 2015

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This Changes Everything 2015 Dialogue Series on Climate Change

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The Foundry Theatre presented their 2015 Dialogue series This Changes Everything with events in New York City that will be livestreamed on global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on 11 May, 18 May, 30 May, and 1 June at 4 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EDT (New York) / 23:00 GMT / 12 a.m. BST (London).

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Inspired by Naomi Klein’s book on capitalism and climate change, this year’s Foundry dialogues will feature a group of unlikely allies—celebrated thinkers, activists, journalists, policy-makers and artists—with whom we will explore ways to build resilience and sustainability, and make our world last longer. Four events will explore the intersections of social justice, climate change, and aesthetics—specifically to discuss ways we can build global environmental movements in which art and creativity have strong, visible footholds. Speakers and details below:

Monday 11 May, 7pm-9pm EDT:
Reimagining the Body

How does climate change and environmental trauma affect our bodies?
What do climate change, disability, reproductive, racial, and economic justice have in common?
How does the human body build a cooperative relationship to the planet?

Come join Aurora Levins Morales and Ebony Noelle Golden in conversation about these questions. Aurora will share stories about sickness and healing, suffering, and pleasure from her new book, Kindling: Writings on the Body, her experience with Sins Invalid, a performance on beauty and disability that redefines what is "normal" or "sexy," alongside her lifelong activism for racial justice, health, and the reclamation of medicinal heritages of Puerto Rican women. Ebony will share learnings from her work with choreographing, staging, and producing theatre that centralizes the bodies of women of color.

 

Monday 18 May, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. EDT:
Reimagining the Community

How do communities build capacity, resilience, and resistance for addressing climate change?
How important are things like storytelling, media portrayals, and localized responses to help communities bounce back?

This dialogue will feature stories and experiments from local artists, storytellers, organizers, activists, and policymakers in New York, especially those involved in community rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Sandy. Come join a conversation with Elizabeth Yeampierre from UPROSE, Rachel Falcone from Sandy Storyline, and Beka Economopolous from Not An Alternative and The Natural History Museum. They'll be talking about different approaches to building community resilience: through collecting oral histories, supporting Sunset Parks' indigenous leaders in responding to severe weather events, educating neighbors through toxic tours, and pressuring arts/cultural institutions and museums to sever ties with climate change deniers and acknowledge the real science behind our climate crisis. Moderated by dramaturg and theatre director, Mallory Catlett.

 

Saturday 30 May, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. EDT:
Reimagining our Countries 

How are countries affected by and responsible for climate change?
Are countries the right vehicles—
the right organizational forms—for addressing climate change?
What are the limitations and failures of countries (especially our own) in this work?

In this dialogue, scholar, journalist, and author Vijay Prashad will chat with Paulina Helm-Hernandez, co-director of the movement building organization, Southerners on New Ground (SONG). Vijay and Paulina will explore the history of countries—and state-sponsored violence—on social and environmental movements. They will examine questions of self-determination as it impacts immigrants, queer and trans communities, and low-income people of color who are most vulnerable to the effects of climate disasters. We will all ask and answer this question together: How should we transform our relationship to our countries in order to make our planet last longer? Moderated by Beka Economopolous, Not an Alternative Arts Collective and The Natural History Museum.

 

Monday 1 June, 7 p.m.-9 p.m. EDT:
Restoring our Planet  

What are we doing to interrupt trauma to our earth?
How are emergent strategies transforming our relationships—economically, socially, politically, and legally—to our planet?  

The planet is dying. Yet, in all corners of the globe communities are organizing, planting, dreaming, building, connecting, and repairing the delicate ecologies of our existence. Bolivia recently passed the Law of Rights of Mother Earth, which secures inalienable human rights for our planet, including rights to life, diversity, water, clean air, equilibrium, restoration, and non-contamination. Is this a good model? Join Michael Leon Guerrero of Our Power Campaign, Bolivian activist Pablo Solon Romero from Focus on the Global South, and Trishala Deb from IDEX to talk about these questions, and explore ways to use organizing, development, the law, and movement building to help our planet live longer.

 

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Information for participating in-person:

Where:
11 May: New York Theatre Workshop, 79 E. 4th St, New York
18 May, 30 May + 1 June: The Ukrainian Hall, 140 2nd Ave, New York
Tickets (Seating is limited, reservations strongly recommended)
Special Series Pass (all dialogues): $25 if purchased by May 1st
Single Dialogues Admission $10
Members of Community-based Social Justice Orgs: Free or pay what you can (with ID).

Special Workshop for 35 people only!
Performance Beyond Protest

facilitated by Ebony Noelle Golden of Betty's Daughters Arts Collective

When: Monday 8 May, 6:30pm-9:30pm EDT
Where: The Bruce Mitchell Room, 520 8th Ave (btw 36 & 37th st)
Tickets: $15 (Reservations required)

Ebony Noelle Golden has graciously offered to hold one of Betty's Daughters most-loved workshops to complement Foundry Dialogues 2015. Performance Beyond Protest is an an interactive cultural organizing and performance workshop for artists and non-artists invested in radical acts of love, vision, resistance, and renewal—on stage and beyond. The workshop encourages participants to dwell in a collective vision for liberation and transformation in arenas of power. Participants examine the ways we can change our orientations to our bodies, communities, country, and planet, through the lens of performance and activism, asking how we might create our work differently in light of shifting orientations to the world. 

This Changes Everything—Foundry Dialogues 2015
Get Your Tickets or Series Pass Here.

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