Please save the date for: Climate Action and Environmental Justice - A TCG Summit.
Our inaugural summit is held in partnership with Groundwater Arts and Broadway Green Alliance as a step toward bringing conversations on climate into theatre’s mainstream.
Who: Theatre and arts leaders interested in a working session & taking action on climate change
When: Earth Day, April 22nd, 2021, 1-4pm ET / 10am-1pm PT
Registration Fee: $25
Where: Zoom, link to be provided to registered attendees
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Registration for this event will open on March 1st.
"Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us."
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
MORE ABOUT THE SUMMIT
We’ve all heard about the interconnected crises of our time: systemic racism and the pervasiveness of white supremacy, economic recovery in the face of an ongoing pandemic, and the existential emergency of climate change. The new U.S. administration is boldly addressing this perfect storm, but how is our field confronting it – not as separate, parallel phenomena, but as branches of the same, ancient tree? While we are beginning to address the first two branches with a necessary urgency, the third – climate change – remains elusive and overwhelming to many.
In this moment of reimagining, we have the opportunity to holistically consider our habits and practices of putting art into the world, and to collaboratively develop new, regenerative ones that can benefit both the theatre field and the planet. At this Summit of arts industry leaders and practitioners, we’ll examine the roots of that tree our converging crises are springing from, center the wisdom and experience of BIPOC leaders in this work, and transform ourselves in taking action on behalf of life. Learn more about the summit here.
At the Summit we will...
- Develop shared understanding about the interlocking nature of the crises we face
- Gain insight into current climate science and what it means
- Make commitments to steps theatre-makers can begin to take at your institutions
- Envision the long term version of your theatre’s commitments, and how we might formalize the work of sustainability in reopening plans
Click the link below to learn more about TCG's commitment to climate action.
Climate Action: Our Commitment