Art Talk: Culture and Saving the World

How can climate storytelling help us navigate complexity and envision hopeful futures? How can performance humanize politics? Why should artists and diplomats partner? Join us for an intimate conversation with the international team of artists and diplomats collaborating on We Hear You — A Climate Archive, a global performance project exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency. With Dramaten, Georgetown University and The Embassy of Sweden in Washington. Open for all! April 25, lunchtime. Change of venue to room 550.

Start time: 2024-04-25 at 12:15

End time: 2024-04-25 at 13:00

Location: Room 550

Speakers: Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Ashanee Kottage, Swedian Lie, Helene Larsson Pousette, and Cynthia Schneider.

About We Hear You—A Climate Archive: We Hear You—A Climate Archive is a global performance project exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency. Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s urgent question “Can you hear me?,” We Hear You seeks to amplify—and to record for future generations—the ways that young people today are experiencing changes in the fundamental forces of the earth. Between March 2022 and June 2023, the project commissioned 77 young people from around the world to share their climate stories. This April 25, Dramaten presents 77 Messages to the Future, a world premiere production inspired by these stories.

We Hear You—A Climate Archive is a collaboration between Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden), The Earth Commons — Georgetown University’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability, The Embassy of Sweden in Washington, DC, and The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. We Hear You is co-conceived by Caitlin Nasema Cassidy and Jacob Hirdwall. Additional support for this project is provided by the Swedish Arts Council and Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.

More info: aclimatearchive.com and @aclimatearchive

A light lunch will be served.

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