 Okay, everyone, we are going to get back together as a big group. So I invite you to finish your conversation and I'm going to ask everyone to reconstitute the larger circle. Okay, once more, I'm going to invite the groups to close up their conversation. For now, put a pin in it and rejoin and constitute the large circle again, please. Put a pin in it, it's not the end, but we really need to constitute the full circle. So we're really going to start at like 10.45, but you know, I mean, let's see how far we can get. I think as long as we start, I think realistically, I think if we don't start intentions until like 11.30, that's probably okay. Yeah, I think 11.30 is our hard start for them to have people have time to write something down and share for everyone to share before we leave. Which feels like two minutes to write. Yep, yep, yep. We are going to stop after every report back and allow the offerings off. Yes, I'm over in the mics. I think Jocely and I are really mic'd. You're mic'd right over the section. Yeah, I think I am too. I think you were a timekeeper, but I would appreciate that. Victoria now that we have the grace. Okay, can everyone please take a seat? We're going to get going. Okay. So this is an opportunity right now as everybody's getting settled to do another report back kind of read another iteration of sharing of what surfaced around detail. And so again, and this is loose, right? So the idea is three next concrete steps, identify resources, things that you have in hand, and then identify needs that arose, things that you may not have, but you do need. And if you want to identify the kind of leadership or who may be carrying these things forward, really specifically in your group and then planning this the way this time would flow. There's two things that we were thinking and that is around the idea of collective action versus individual action. And also kind of a reality check that you can talk about a lot of great things, but if there's no leader to move it forward, it doesn't move forward. That is kind of a reality. So we sat with that and while there's no way to obligate any one of us to be leaders, I think that we all are leaders. And so it's just letting that percolate out in the room and see where we're at. So no obligations, but hopefulness that this will surface. Does anybody feel called to be the first to share? So my group will help chime in where I'm missing spaces. So we continued on with talking about our database and populating that database, knowing that there are existing platforms to house this information about existing artists and organizations that work at the intersection of climate and theater and performance. So some of us are interested in helping to populate that database slash toolkit. We also talked about amplification and implementation of existing projects that are coming down the pipeline for individual members in the group and how there can be potentially a platform digitally for the people in this room to continue to communicate. Georgina mentioned Basecamp as an example of a platform to stay connected digitally in this way. And we were thinking that maybe the center group has ways for us to come together in person physically in the future. And that potentially though we talked about a pilot project, like a pilot residency amongst our working group down the line to take that first step on initiating a project together for the first time and then seeing what comes out of that. And that this toolkit will have resources in addition to acknowledging the existing work that's being done. Like can house curricula and workshop examples. And that I'm going to add that there's an affiliation that's already happening amongst the individuals in this room and that we can amplify that affiliation with this digital platform. And that I'm personally interested in these values that we've been talking about throughout this weekend and like codifying them in this database platform to share if others outside this room are interested in being affiliated with this group. Just to add that we talked that international aspect or perspectives is important in this and some of the resources be it APAP or other grants that allows travels from the US to the other parts of the world or bringing in artists or practitioners, scientists from into the US. So for example I do international arts festival so to create a thread green or e-mark, echo mark to some of the program we are doing and then incorporate the eco boot camp or workshop, training workshops into this existing framework. Because we started the group by all of us going around and sharing what we were already up to, it very naturally emerged that we started to discuss how we could share resources or collaborate with each other. And so then this digital platform thing is merely a representation of that collaborative sort of energy and community building. It's like a place so that we could include international and house resources. But we ended with a really interesting idea floated like about a sort of like a professional affiliation or organizing as you know how unions organize like organize as an entity. And then the online thing would be a sort of place where the entity sits. But then you plug in those of you who want you know like to sort of start to organize all of the artists worldwide who will have these interests and share resources amongst each other and foment projects together. You know to sort of create more impact. That was a really interesting idea to me. The international, what did we say? The international future concerned artists collective or something. No climate, no sustainability in the title. And also just really quickly just the importance of connecting the this group whatever it is to the outside non artist group of scientists and social scientists and sustainability professionals and a whole bunch of other folks as well. Okay. I'm going to talk about our group, Group 2, which was the center group. Is this the same group? No, it's not. Would it be okay if we just paused and allowed for the larger group to offer up any resources? So I think we heard what you have and what next steps are. Are there any needs that that first group has that you'd like to say you know ask for or you know or is there anybody in the room that has something that they can offer? Are you asking for the other? I'm confused. Are you asking the outer group now? Yes, the outer group. So those that were not in that group, if there are resources that you can offer? Yeah, I just want to offer the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture has just launched the energy power and art. I don't know what the something, a department. And so you can talk to me about that. So that is kind of directly what you're talking about and it's being built right now as part of a national movement. So the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, which is, I don't know the mission statement by heart, but it is a network of people who are working at the intersection of art and activism. And in particular right now there is a department. This is all like people's, right? It's like about people driven, I don't know, structures. And so the Department of Energy Power and Art is being formed right now. I think it's public where like I think the principles are also being developed. I'm not the person in charge of that, but I am part of the leadership team of it. And so just in the spirit of not creating things when other people are already creating it. One resource is a platform to communicate to get this out, that this is building that exists, both for artists and maybe potential funders is in my monthly podcast and radio show, Citizens Climate Radio. There's a segment I do every month called The Art House, where I specifically speak with artists who are doing work around climate change. Shantel has been on the program, lots of folks have. And lots of artists are starting to listen in to hear about this. But there's also lots of middle class climate advocates who want to do something who are looking to fund things that listen as well. And so I just put an open call out there for any of you who want to be on the show. I'd love to interview you and share your work with people. But once there's more information, this is something I could include and say, hey, if you want to know more about climate change and the arts and how there's this database, there's these resources. I want to offer again that I have this platform, Artists in Climate Change, which can host articles, interviews. We could potentially host put up videos if something gets done that way. Also, I want to, you guys mentioned your small group convening again to figure out the next step. There's a grant out there called Invoking the Pause. And that's exactly what they do. They seed projects. They give money for people to get together to dream up a project that has to do with the arts and climate change. This is internally from the group, just to be clear. What I was hearing from the group was less that, I mean, yes, we want the digital platform, but there was also this huge element of keeping this group connected. So there's two parts. There is that place where we can coalesce and have all the information live, but also this idea of continuing the conversation outside of here. So that not necessarily just a platform that lives in this, that is public, but something that connects us to continue conversation, which is why I said basecamp because that's how around uses and it's pretty archaic, but it works. So that's just a different layer as far as the resources. Lonnie? I just want to say it seems like there are some individual artists in the group looking for ways to continue making work at this intersection. We offer a fellowship that has a paid residency to work on the intersection of theater and climate, guided by some of the tools we've created over the years. You can talk to me about that. We also have public workshops, one of which is a salon, which is a playwriting workshop that has been hosted at the LARC and hopefully will continue to be through the next year. And I know that also, well, I won't say. And then also we host an eco performance lab, which is a lab that has been designed by a team of artists and scientists to model interdisciplinary collaboration. Those are free and open to the public. When we hold them, you can talk to me if you need. In New York? In New York and around the country on demand. We did one in Miami. It was awesome. April was there. Rocked. Is there any other offering for the first group? Definitions? Well, in some ways this is an offering to the first group because there was just a tremendous amount of overlap between what we talked about and what the group just reported. And it was partly coming out of the same impulse to keep this gathering and this conversation going and not to let this energy dissipate. So first thing was we did come up with a name for the center. Robert's the daddy. He named the baby. And we're stealing shamelessly from Hal Round. Climate commons for theater and performance. We had talked about calling it Climate Lens Center. But there was also a concern that we wanted it to be very legible to funding agencies and so forth. So we wanted the words theater and performance in there. So for now we're proposing climate commons for theater and performance. And we're thinking of it initially in terms of two areas or principles. Connections and creations. And under connections that's where there's a lot of overlap with the ideas about databases. So we also would like to host or bring together. This is all about gathering information about what's already out there. So databases, toolkits, playbooks, proffers, proposals, things that people are already doing and that they can make available to the larger community, syllabi, bibliographies, those kinds of things. And I know a lot of this is going to be just finding so much stuff that's already out there on some of the platforms that have been mentioned with others as well. But ours, of course, wants to be theater and performance focused. The second part is creations. And here we had ideas like running labs. One suggestion was an ecological design lab. I'm going to be doing something at NYU called the multi-species lab. That could come under us. And then train the trainer modules. Maybe Elena can say more about that in a minute. Workshops, then learning together modules, which is what we're talking about, ways to work with communities to learn together with them, not just training them, but training ourselves along with them. And then various ways to continue conversations in person. So forums, seminars, convenings, convenings on specific topics. And, okay, going on in terms of structure, we were thinking of this as a distributed set of, so it's a commons, so it's several centers, many centers with maybe a variety of geographical nodes. And the ones we've identified already were New York, Yuna and Lanny. Of course, we're going to pull in some of the climate-length people. But maybe working out of NYU, a superhero clubhouse, and an association that Lanny's recently made with a really exciting outfit called the Climate Museum. So proposing that as one of our nodes for work. Lydia out of Emory. Robert and Alisa out of Boston. And maybe keeping the connection with HowlRound and ART. San Francisco, Oakland West Coast. Allison. Washington, D.C., Georgetown with Teddy. And Xavier for Miami, and in particular his Pinecrest Gardens and Botanical Gardens and Gallery. In terms of our three next concrete steps, I think we only got two. So it looked like what we were after to begin with was figure out who we are as individuals and then who we want to be as a collective. And so for the first one, our first concrete step would be to do a series of interviews, prepare ourselves up to do interviews as a kind of skill sharing exercise. And then these interviews might take the form of podcasts or small articles. We're going to figure out the format in which they'll finally be made available. The second concrete step we wanted was to figure out what sort of structure we want these comments to have. And here Lydia talked a lot about really wanting to think about new design models for organizations and for how to work together and ways to disrupt traditional hierarchical structures. So before going on to trying to create a statement of values or a mission statement, we decided we'd have a conversation or maybe a series of conversations on something called Zoom that Teddy's going to... Teddy's going to tell us about in which we will really talk about structure and we're going to prepare for these conversations by reading parts of a book that Lydia has recommended to us on innovative organization styles. Re-inventing organizations. Re-inventing organizations. La Lou. So those are off too. Can I add that a need that we have expressed in the group is an awareness of different geographical nodes that want to be a part of the idea of a commons located outside of the US in the global south? That's a need. Definitely. I wanted to add that and ask anybody who wants to have that conversation to do so. And also we talked about a living timeline to instead of fall into what's often an academic trap of responding to events or creating art after an event to have a living timeline that has in particular policy related moments to try to get ahead of. And I know how around generously has that code that we might borrow to work with mapping and things like that. So I think that's something that will be really instrumental. And just to add a quick thing about logistics for the interview series, you're of course all invited. And I think what we are thinking in terms of moving forward and capitalizing on the momentum we have here is we're going to put together a Google forum where folks can identify as being interested in either interviewing or being interviewed on a variety of media that might be most comfortable for you. So keep an eye out for that. And I hope we can get some stuff generated. Is there... Would you like to offer up something to the group? Oh, great. So one question is just like clarifying the logistics of the center or commons that has multiple locations around the globe. Is that what I'm hearing? That it's commons with these touchstone physical locations. Okay, that's cool. The conversation about structure is coming. The conversation about structure is coming. Cool. And Robert has something to say. Great. Cool. Thank you. And then the other... Call out like starting with a podcast or these interviews that Peterson has the platform. And also Ashley Mazzanik in San Diego has a podcast called Let's Talk About the Weather. And so like using these two existing climate and art podcasts as opposed to starting from scratch with something like that. And there's also the Yale Climate Communications Group has a podcast about climate change that also includes the arts. That's a really great one because it also reaches a lot of non-arts folks. So for infiltration it's very helpful. And I just wanted to offer up Colorado as a site also as a place. Oh, good. Ah! I fell right into that, right? I'm honored. Reach out to Tony... Sorry, is it Tony Leiserowitz? Like who would you reach out to at Yale? The Yale Climate Forum thing? Yeah. No, I can't... Brad, I can't remember. Or Sarah Peach. It's Bud. And Sarah Peach also. Oh, yeah. Okay. Cool. I don't know her. I know that Bud Ward is the guy. But we can figure out that out. Yeah. What's nice about the audio and the podcast is that it can be put into all sorts of smaller forms. And so I was even thinking for your website like my art house. I just could have it as a standalone and just put it up at SoundCloud. And lots of people then could link to it. And so it becomes this shared resource that can be used and reposted other places. And I then get it on radio programs as inserts and all as well. And there are also possibilities too of getting into AGU, American Geophysical Union, which has 26,000... Well, actually has 60,000 members from around the world. But American Geophysical Union, they have now an art and science steering committee that I'm a member of. And also the BECK, which is Behavior, Energy and Climate Conference. That's really all about attitude and behavior change. It's a really interesting one. And they're interested in working with artists. And there's a list of other folks too. I can see that second one again. BECK, it's Behavior, Energy and Climate Conference. And they actually just put a call out and the deadline is June 29th. And I can send it to you for people wanting to do workshops at their conference. It's going to be in October, I want to think at, in D.C. And there are also ways to get into the AGU conference, which is in American Geophysical Union Conference, which is in December as an, quote, unquote, informal science educator, which is a little loophole that I found out about. And we have a couple of sessions that are going to be about art and climate change. And we're looking for people to be speakers. And so if you're interested in doing that, and we would love to have lots of artists be part of that. What do you know who to draw from? I would like to offer up, when you guys figure out the structure of the center, like if you're looking for nodes in different places, I have a, we have a mailing list of people who participated in climate change theater action that represent 23 countries and like 43 states, I think. So that's some of the people we could reach out to. A lot of them are in universities who might be willing to get on board. Oh, my turn. I have two thoughts. One of them is the Union of Concerned Scientists, which is in D.C., maybe Teddy since we're both in D.C., we can talk about how to get involved with them because there actually are some folks there who are interested in climate communications. And one of the folks that I know there is an actor, but his day job is that he's a scientist. And the University of Pennsylvania has, oh, I'm gonna forget what the actual title of the unit, the academic unit is, but it's like the Penn program in environmental humanities and they were really active in forming data rescue efforts all over the country. And so I worked with them on Data Rescue D.C., so this was the sort of like international effort to save federal climate data once it was being removed from websites. And they do some really interesting work around bridging climate science with humanities, not just limited to arts, but like all humanities. So that might be, I can help connect people to them. And then my other thought is just as this network, whatever thing is forming, I'm hearing a lot of, and I just contributed, academic stuff and like housing these units in, or these nodes in academia. And I just want to lift up again that like there needs to be some sort of like, where's the node that's in frontline communities? Because if it's all in academia, there's so many ways that academia perpetuates these structures and is like, I don't need to speak more, I think. We got it, cool. I just wanted to offer that if any of these groups, the center or the database group wants to engage with people who are working in this region around the coast of India and Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, I'll be very happy to connect you and also do translations, because many of the people wouldn't operate in English. Also, most people who are working in this region, I think in the coast, are sort of in fishing communities and farming communities, so they don't really access the internet in any way, but it's possible to sort of talk to them and be the wire media of this. And also there are institutions which are collectives of sort of hand loom, fishing and theater performance, which meet very regularly and do this work in cities and in villages, and they're sort of organized collectives. So again, that's probably something to connect to and I'll be more than happy to engage you with that. This is Jamie, I want to offer just a book that I think might be a good resource that has just been resonating with me over the past couple days. Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown. It's inspired partially by Octavia Butler's work, actually, but it touches on a lot of just organizing strategies, rethinking structure. We've been talking a lot about nature and trying to replicate nature, and it's a really amazing piece of work that may have resonance for this group when you're thinking about how to organize. Adrienne Marie Brown. Are there any more offerings for the second group? I just want to say that something I'm hearing in response to what we reported about this idea for the Commons, I don't want it to be received as some kind of a thing that's already formed and that others from the other groups could help or the idea is to be as open and inclusive as possible and to really wholeheartedly invite other nodes that are on the front lines. I guess we didn't have too many in our group who were able to name those, but this group, we would like those to be actually imagined from the very beginning as a part of the thing and the idea shouldn't be that somehow the center has to go out and recruit. I mean, of course, we would do that as well, but I don't want it to be thought of as a kind of already formed entity, which it began to feel to me for a second as if we'd already created ourselves. It's nowhere near that. It's got a name, that's true, but the idea, we really wanted it to be the initial container to draw in as many members of this group as possible and all their connections to the world around. That makes sense. In keeping with that, it's actually part of that learning together model. The idea is that the center is right there, and this is us, right? It's us being the center, and it's a way of perpetuating what we started today through an organized method that initially lets us know who we are beyond what we've come here to do, like very little of us know about each other and the work we do in the community. The first step is to build this community so we get to know one another and then using that learning together from one another and then sharing that knowledge across. And the fishing villages in India is an incredible learning together. In other words, there's a lot of knowledge just sitting right there in those communities that can very much be used in Miami and in Colorado. So the idea of each of us being a node and having this platform to learn together I think is important. From a logistical perspective, is it useful if another Google Form goes out for folks to self-identify as nodes and maybe self-identify some of the capacities you'd be able to offer? And self-identify your interest in joining that Zoom call to talk about the initial structure, which again, we've not really talked about. We've just talked about the need to first concretize our sort of principles and organizing body before moving on to a mission statement, funding any of those sorts of things. So would a second Google Form that includes all of that be useful? So maybe that could be presented as an intention that someone can do. And then folks will know that that's out there and they can join on. Is there somebody over here? I think one of the things that we want to keep underlining for everybody and ourselves is we are not looking to have a reproduction of academic structures or habits. So I think one of the reasons that those initial nodes came up, and the nodes, you know, honestly, it would be years before the nodes were probably functioning, but the reason that they came up was because there are resources available that perhaps we could hijack to use to create pockets outside of those academic institutions. So it's not... academia is not the goal of this, which doesn't mean academia can't be super useful, but that's all I have to say. Great. I have a question in terms of that comment. My organization is part of the Climate Justice Alliance and we are a network of 74, I believe, organizations at the front lines. And honestly, people who are working at the front lines don't have capacity to be part... Like, it's a luxury, honestly, for me even to be in this space right now, like I have a lot of work to do. So I'm just thinking, like, your question about recruitment, right? Like, I'm just questioning what Annalisa is bringing up in terms of if you actually want the front lines to be part of this authentically, it's not gonna happen because people at the front line do not have the luxury to just sit and think about things, you know, just expound on it. Support them even from jump, right? So even from jump, even to have the time and capacity and energy to even help you think about this, isn't something people are gonna provide willingly just for free. So I just, I need to bring that up. And if, so it's kind of this chicken and egg situation right now, and I just want you guys to be really clear on that. Are we ready to move on to the next formation? Does anybody from the... There was another group that formed with a Jillson and I talking a little bit about meetings and, but we can save that for last. So group three broke into two and one of, I'm not gonna actually share a lot because what we were talking about is doing direct action on Sarah Week and so that is not something that I want publicly available to the people who we are directly targeting. So I won't be sharing. Yeah, we could take the time to share the principles and praxis. I believe you were really trying to get that done. I don't know what happened. That's the Climate Justice Alliance. So this is the story shift principles and praxis. It is a set of principles that were created by a group of about 25 people who are working at the intersection of art, culture, climate and social justice. Talking about extraction, we brought a summit of people together similar to this in February of last year with the intention of creating new work for expressing just transition immediately came up that you can't talk about just transition and extraction without talking about the fact that art and culture and storytelling oftentimes is inherently extractive and so this was created as a set of principles that we have adopted as a leadership team and we have invited people to join us in signing on so you can kind of it's quite extensive but it's only a starting point. It's iterative. It is in the spirit of emergence and truly emergent strategy so this project is being developed as we speak but these are a list of people who have signed on and if you keep going down you can see the list of other artists and creators who have signed on, organizations who have signed on and so you are welcome to sign on to this or talk to me more if you want to know about how the project is developing we have been blessed with three years of funding to really delve into these principles in practice in five locations which is New Orleans, Jackson, Mississippi, Brownsville, Texas, Puerto Rico and North Carolina. Is there anybody that would like to offer up anything in terms of sharing perhaps the principles in practice? I would just like to, I'm so excited about this and sorry for my ignorance. I just want to make the connection with Rising Voices. I can't remember if I mentioned this before. It's a group of Indigenous knowledge holders and Western trained scientists some who are also Indigenous knowledge holders coming together to work together in terms of climate change especially in frontline communities and they have a bunch of, they're not principles and they're not quite demands but they're whatever they are the list of stuff that has gone to the United Nations and there's a plug-in also with folks at the United Nations Congress of the Parties and so anyway, so I'd love to talk. It's really great. Ajil Sen, you want to talk about our conversation? Okay, our big group, me and Elizabeth we just talk about the possibility to organize a convening in Brazil and the idea is first to involve the Brazilian people, the Brazilian artists and also the people in Latin America and we thought specifically about Colombia, Argentina, Peru and Chile but not only and the global South Sea in general so we will try to invite people from South Africa, India, etc. and the idea is to stimulate to connect practical practices of artists and cultural people about climate change, that's the idea and we would like to do that in my town, my hometown, it's São João del Rey or in a small town in near São João del Rey Tira Dentist, it is two very important cities in the history of Brazil by mining companies, gold mining and it's a very historical city and very important and people can arrive there from here to Belo Horizonte it's the capital of the state and we thought about organizing some singing five days and more five days before that will be a kind of residence to people who want to come to organize something practical with the community so we will start with this residence one week before and then during the conference at the end of the conference we just work for this resident people they will show, act or do something during the end of our convening and we have two possible dates to organize that one is in June or in September next year and yes, it's Tuesday, sir 2019 2019, yes and yes, it is and now the three steps I will be back to Brazil and contact my institution and the other institution there to try to check the possibilities to organize it and to the next step the second step is to form a collaborative organizational group and in the end we will find a way to have money to pay that the university maybe can help us a little bit with a little money but with the infrastructure and but we need to fund raising we need to find money elsewhere and from here and from everybody who has money to give us that's the idea I forget something there's some grant opportunities that we can, once a project gets defined we can apply to some specific grant sources and so that is that's a strategy and not guaranteed of course but we'll that invitation will be open to anybody and we on a case by case basis we'll see if there's affiliations in the United States that could provide for travel which is a really real expense it's not cheap but there's I think there's a lot of ways to there's a lot of work arounds and of course everybody's inviting to and we're hoping to meet you in Brazil next year I will say that one of the things we identified is the need for professional simultaneous interpreting and that's expensive but it's really important and if we have this group there will be minimum English Portuguese and Spanish and maybe other languages so that's just something that we'll have to budget for and figure out I have a Spanish interpreter simultaneous I can recommend it might come for like probably just travel almost free yeah, thank you well I just wanted to offer that already I've heard back from two out of the three theater without borders people I reached out to Elaine Avila who is part of the original climate change she's Portuguese-speaking she's on board to come tell her when and Daniel Banks who is also Portuguese-speaking on board to come is there anything else for we move on for the Brazil convening it might be interesting to apply to the Hemispheric Institute was that already mentioned yeah, yeah I could help with that I'll get you and I'll get us in touch with them Chantel? yay this is great it's like a lot of energy stuff is happening we have a few more minutes together and one thing we really want to do is to give everybody a chance we're gonna pass cars around give you a chance to take two minutes and write down an intention for when we leave this room an intention can be something you've already said you were going to do it can be completely related to the project you've just talked about the ideas you've just talked about it can be something you want to do in your personal life or within your institution like what April offered up earlier how she wanted to bridge the gap with the theater department and her institution it can also be something you would like to contribute to the big group you know an intention for the big group it's really, really, really open but it would be nice for us all of us to write something down and then share it and have that live physically in the space and then you can leave with your card and be reminded of what your intention was this weekend and we also are inviting people who are following us online to tweet an intention if they want to participate and we, oh yeah we also wanted to mention that everything that has been talked about in terms of ideas and offerings these have been noted so you know if you feel like somebody offered something to your project and that you were not able to or you don't remember who it was or you couldn't exactly write it down we'll be able to circulate that information and same thing with the intentions like you can leave with your card but it will be noted and if something surfaces that means putting people in touch with each other we'll make sure that that happens so let's take the next two minutes for you to formulate an intention and then we'll go around and share them with each other you stay with the card but we will share it you will speak it is everybody good? do you need more time? all good? okay I guess I'll go first so it's it's several in one I guess I wrote I was inspired with what we did with how around did in terms of sustainability for this meeting more sustainability principles in my practice I also want to support the projects that are emerging today and continue to build a group and I want to keep reaching out to people who are not or who are underrepresented my intention is to take one action Monday through Friday to support the growth of the organization that we started talking about today in my group whether that's small or large or on the personal level or on the collective level always with this kind of idea that the National Black Theater had to constantly say how do we improve my intention is to see about establishing a queer arts eco justice fund possibly through the transgender funding project justice funding project and also to follow up and about providing content for artists and climate change audio content and I have an artistic intention something that being with you reminded me of my earliest work with climate change I want to return to this metaphor of living in living with and living on broken bodies I intend to organize, create, produce a creative vision oriented performance based direct action at Sarah week 2019 I'm going to talk about the front line with story ship principles and praxis in partnership with front line impacted communities in the climate justice alliance and beyond that directly confronts all of our complicity and accountability around climate change I mentioned this morning feeling sane and I think it's because I spent a lot of my time in spaces where people never talk about climate change and it debilitates us collectively I'm sure over time there's still a step I'm going to take as I'm going to talk about it constantly even in spaces where people get mad at me when I talk about it I think about ways to connect more people in Latin America and global south to discuss climate change and stimulate a deep discussion and make enforcement to change the way we think and do theater now to continue building kinesthetic literacy or awareness as foundational self knowledge for justice and activism and specifically to contribute and support the direct performative action for the Sarah meeting as part of our group and also to develop multidisciplinary co-workshops for potential center and which is part of the other group so I intend to create an arts theater climate change convening in Utah probably Salt Lake City in the next 12 months in connection with this effort that we've started here and I just want to say I don't know if I'll get the microphone again so as someone who's been doing this work sort of from the science communication perspective for 12 years now I just can't tell you how gratifying it is to see so much effort and energy coming from your community this community this performing arts community on this effort I mean it's just hugely gratifying and inspiring so thank you so I wanted to make an attention just to go back to my own community of Standing Rock and see how we can start talking more about climate change and how we're having a treaty meeting coming up in July and I would like them to start thinking about how they incorporate these climate change practices and initiatives and principles into our our constitutions and how we can work on it within our tribe and then I would also like to reach out to other organizations that are already doing or I am going to reach out to other organizations that are doing working our initiatives and are within indigenous communities I am committed to finding or making alternative ways of organizing a commons or a collective that challenge dominant power structures but still sustain and nourish those who are a part of it I am generally open to sharing tools and knowledge with anyone who wishes to learn and to also learn from everyone whose knowledge exceeds my own it's like a very individual personal intention to become very clear about for myself who I'm accountable to and how and why and then also I'm going to be at the TCG meeting next week and hoping to continue conversations about divesting the American regional theater from fossil fuels in as many spaces as I can but would love to talk with people if there's a bigger strategy than just me talking in one-on-one conversations also I'm going to go to India first of all I just want to say this is so amazing and great and everybody's intentions and yes may we all actually do them would be really wonderful so I'm going to work on the database mapping of the field so it's user friendly for non-arts entities and humans as well and work on becoming a node in the mycelial mat if I'm saying this right of distributed centers which would be really exciting I want to connect and complement the efforts of effort that I'm involved with A2A Awareness to Action that involves scientists and social sciences natural scientists urban planners transportation specialists blah blah blah and artists so that hopefully we can work together and complement each other and then forge pathways for new roles for the arts in the face of climate change and including paid employment opportunities so for the commons I'm committed to working on node registration and some of the operational support in order to start to have these conversations about structure I'll partner with Robert and some of the first initial emailing bits and then I'm also committed to being an advocate for the members of this group and trying to be a conduit through which you can connect to my home and my communities and I hope amplify your voices and work namely through the labs new cross currents international and politics festival and then to that core pathways program that's at Georgetown University that we're a small part of but there's a larger group hopefully that can support bringing arts into every one of the interdisciplinary examinations of this topic in addition to that node networking work with Teddy I also set an intention to lay the groundwork for an interview series through various partners that have been identified today I just have a more personal phrase that speaks to wanting to work on a more inclusive global dynamic timeline that represents immediate needs for action and also continuing to press my host institutions on their wasteful and hegemonic practices and that phrase is work with but beyond not merely in response to my intentions are to reach out and collaborate with artists and thinkers and educators on climate change and I'm committed to work towards building international art community who are working on global issues starting from my region and my continent I've written two things the first thing is to is very simple is to think very deeply about what happened in these three days because I think a lot happened and also I was about three minutes behind everybody most of the times because I haven't heard this much English at this speed so I was by the time I could figure out okay this is exactly what is being said there's something else so I really need to sit down and figure this out which also led me to think that there are probably many assumptions and frames of thinking that we are operating in which are not the same and it's interesting to think about it if you're talking about global warming then what are these frames the other thing that I go out with very strongly is to make the conversation around climate change with a particular lens of caste politics very very urgent in urban India which I think is not there at the moment and I think I have to figure out how to do that so I have one very abstract commitment which is this weekend has refocused my thinking on the idea of abundance and reframing a lot of this work around there is enough and figuring out how to tap into that and that actually feels like a pretty radical shift to me and bringing that message out and then more practical commitments connecting with the theater performance people at my institution at Hampshire College talking to some possible nodes within the college of funding around doing workshops for students in hopes of building greater capacity I'm interested in contributing to direct action campaigns that have performance components particularly targeting fossil fuels and then I have an intention to write an essay about creative climate pedagogies in and out of the classroom that's kind of been bubbling around in my head and I feel kind of recommitted to doing that I commit to learning more about some of the resources that we heard just today including story shift and US department of arts and culture and I will follow up with members of my working group and whomever is collaborating on the digital aspect of the commons to continue this conversation about housing a digital space for us including the technology that that involves and also how the Arctic cycle and these existing platforms can be involved and I will touch base with everyone about upcoming projects and what's happening in your own work and how artists and climate change can amplify that I would first of all like to offer creative and Spanish speaking services to this group as time permitting and all that but just so you know and then I intend my intention is really to sort of bring Mexico into the conversation I hear obviously about Latin America I don't know how to do it but to really invite Mexico and also the Latina Latino Latinx community to the creators aspect of climate the climate change commons so more specifically I intend to form like a unite with superhero clubhouse and anyone else in New York can sort of say I can help facilitate a monthly writers group or something like that for people of color creators in climate change to just have that continuity so my intention is to really incorporate and develop the discussions with the working group and then also everybody who I met here into the upcoming project in which I'm inviting Japanese contemporary composer working with the community and make it as a pilot project to do the residency dream residency that we talked about and that will be in San Francisco in May and then also develop within my own organization initiative to revive and share and collaborate together the older practice eco practice of Japan and other countries so those are my practical ideas and what I want to do my intention is to follow up learn more about and activate some of the resources that were presented here insofar as they can help develop the Los Angeles node and of this work and not going to mention them specifically looking forward to the list and also to participate in the climate commons working group when those invitations come through and with the there's a I haven't actually offered this as a resource but I want to now there's part of my work in LA is to create a development channel for the climate activism fine arts and climate activism environmental social impact type stories to the mainstream entertainment Hollywood development process and so if anybody has that kind of those kinds of stories that they feel are promising for that sort of development that could reach more people I want to hear about them and their intentions the first is to write a kick ass report in a way that honors the experiences and perspectives of everybody here and I hope you'll all help keep me to task my second is to amplify the values that we all stand for and to do that better by engaging and learning from the spirit of artwork that has been or will be created by the makers in this room and because what I do is I write plays and I teach that primarily looks like me reading plays written by people here so please send them to me I would love to organize some kind of play share or reading list and definitely like April was saying I'm interested to learn more about teaching and pedagogical strategies that can make me a better teacher my intention is to continue to grow my personal climate awareness locally and globally I have a lot to learn and to continue to work with Chantal and Elizabeth, Jamie Halround and everyone here in this group to offer theater without borders network connections and support for all the work that's going forward. So I knew I had to come here but I did not know that I belonged here so when I get home I'm going to plant a live oak in my front yard and dedicated to each and every one of you to remind me that today I made the decision that I'm going to find better ways of integrating my participatory art practice in theatric and theater performance centric centers like yours and offer myself to work with each and every one of you in whatever way you need to help make better human beings who will need not need. Besides following up with a Jillson to form our working group so that we can potentially host another gathering south of the hemisphere I want to reconnect with you around Mexico and also think of bringing in fellow travelers from the Caribbean Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican, Haiti and I also want to make a commitment to stay in embodied practice and for me that means dance surf and that when I get too much in my head I lose I lose the grounding and recommit to sharing my resources however small or large with artists. I want to work intensively and collaboratively particularly with folks in New York Lanny Julia and others with Lanny and Lydia in particular on thinking deeply and creatively about the structure for the climate commons for theater and performance I also want to redouble my efforts to articulate and name the alternative ideologies and imaginations that are going to be needed for the times ahead and I want to rededicate myself to theorizing what theater and performance have to offer to those new ideologies and imaginations First I commit to supporting the comprehensive documentation of this gathering which is obviously in process now but not over so including helping MJ with the report getting all the photos together all the notes, all of the resources that have been named here and making them available to you in short order and to the broader public I commit to one of the great gifts of this convening was it really forced us at Helen to look at our own practice in having these gatherings so I commit to making a commitment to moving even deeper and more forward in our future convening practices and maintaining this level of sustainability and even finding ways to go deeper and I commit to helping to support this nascent commons in whatever ways we can at HowlRound moving forward Thank you everyone Can we give ourselves a round of applause This was beautiful Thank you and you know we've talked a lot about abundance and I think now we just saw it in action which is really exciting like all the things that just the people in this room can bring to the table so thank you so much for this and before we go Jamie has a few more words to say So I'll start with the practical so you will be getting a lot of info from us in the next week things like contact lists also an evaluation of this time that we've spent together please we'd love your candid feedback on what went well and what we could do differently next time you know many hours of thought went into this gathering and there are already many things that I know we're looking at each other going oh yeah we didn't think of that so we'd love your feedback and lastly I just want to I mean I really want to take another moment to lift up the technical staff and the HowlRound staff have been supporting us all weekend so that is Peggy, John, Michael Ramona Carolina Stokely, Abigail, Vijay Dante Victoria, Shasha who's not here and I also want to really give a special like huge shout out to Stokely who is the co-producer on this whole gathering and really you know has been holding it down with the many emails that come in at all hours of the night and gatherings like this and is really the sort of you know unsung hero of this whole gathering and would not have been possible without their work so thank you Stokely and last but not least thank you to all of you I mean three days the time, the energy, the headspace it takes to be here we're just so appreciative I think I can speak for Chantal Roberta and Elizabeth and say that this is beyond inspiring and more than we could have imagined and that's thanks to all of you so thanks so much safe travels we aren't in a huge rush to get out of the space so if you want to say your goodbyes or your see you later as you have time and thank you