 Okay, we're gonna regroup in a large circle if everybody could find their seat. All right, we'd like everybody to share your mission statement, please. I know, I'm just kidding. I'm just joking with y'all. But this is an opportunity for a second wave of report backs and you can talk about any aspect of the conversation you just had for their planning, how things may have been more defined. Maybe there was a splintering and there's a new, there's a new group that's views, I don't know. So we're gonna give each group five minutes and I'm gonna hand the mic over to the first person that'd like to step up and share. I'm gonna stand amongst my group cause they'll help fill in some of the gaps. Okay, so continuing on our ideas about our framework, based off of our shared values, we identified a step as creating a database of existing works, models, people, organizations that are doing work at the intersection of art and climate change. I'm gonna take even a step before that and say that something that I'm interested in walking away with tomorrow, two things. One is, so we were talking about a toolkit for making, a toolkit of different processes or elements of ways of making work at these intersections. So that's one thing that we together, as these conveners, can draft a toolkit. And the second thing that I'm interested in and I shared with the group is individuals in this room their next steps or their ongoing projects that after tomorrow, we as a group and as individuals can continue to support and amplify and share resources and reconnect knowing what's happening in the coming months and years for this group of people. Okay, so those three elements in our immediate or close timeline. No, no, no, I'm looking at the residency, the translation training. Yes, okay, so part of these databases and toolkits, and I'm using these words synonymous, but also, yeah, okay, models, spaces for sharing processes. That something that was brought up is a process of translating science, the hard science of climate change, the social science, the politics, a training for artists, I think, and citizens, of how to translate these scientific modes into understandable vocabulary and language, Cheryl, if you have words. Oh, taking one possible part of a toolkit might be looking at developing, disseminating translation strategies from science to art, from science to story. There's usually some artists that can't just make the bridge on their own. And there's a lot of not yet discovered possible ways of doing that, yeah. Free from, yeah. Would be a big part of addressing climate change is our food system. And the food system needs to transform. So let's say you're setting a story, you're a playwright, you're setting a story in the future that has this food system that's been transformed. They need to know what it looks like. What does that look like and how might those changes reflect in other parts of society that we might not at first expect? Let's see, if you're dealing in a society that no longer has large-scale animal agriculture, what does that look like and how does that affect other pieces of our society, the healthcare system, for example, is, will be different. A lot of our health problems come from this heavily, our diet. And so, the notion of an artist saying, well, needing to talk to somebody who says, how do you translate, okay, we've moved to a mostly plant-based food system into what does that look like in a society where I'm setting my play so I can, so I can create some elements that are gonna reflect that. Sound like what you're talking about. We've got about one more minute. Perfect, okay, so I'm gonna make two more points and then if there are anything else in between there. Something that we discussed as important along whatever comes out of this individual group and the larger convening, whether it be residencies or workshops, festivals, those types of spaces is that there will be a process of evaluation and recording all along the way so that at the culmination of whatever that individual project might be, there's time and space for measuring and then also contributing to that database which was on the first step of our timeline. And then also Rob mentioned an idea of mentor, mentoring, which also came up earlier in the big brainstorm and that connecting into the database also brings with it connections to individuals, companies that can advise on a burgeoning project. Okay, thank you. Okay, so next group. We're just really struck, we're the center group and we're just really struck by the similarities between your proposals and ours. So that's really exciting. You can see everybody's shaking their heads in disbelief but we were still orbiting the idea of what our group might accomplish and we kind of settled on this idea of a body or a location that might share knowledge in the forms of case studies, workshops, environmental impact calculators, strategies for eco-play analysis. Well, and then databases of various kinds, workshops to address specific issues. We were all very happy when we found the word brokering as an activity that we would be involved with which is bringing together people who need each other and are looking for each other. So if there's somebody say from an animal welfare group who wants to create work, they could come to us and we could put them in touch with a theater company that has an interest in doing or a record of doing that kind of work. So it's connecting people, gathering, gathering, sharing, exchanging. I guess one thing we talked about, we started moving towards trying to name the center as a way to begin to define it more clearly and I shared with the group about our experience with Climate Lens. None of you from Climate Lens were in this group but I spoke for us and I was talking about how in some ways when we came together it was a similar intention to become this space for sharing information about making theater the intersection with climate. So Climate Lens has done a few things and then we wondered whether there would be a way for Climate Lens to develop itself into the center possibly by locating other conceptual entities. In other words, other groups that have formed not theater companies, not producing organizations but more conceptual resource, clearinghouse kinds of organizations. Alison mentioned one that she and Roberta, yeah and wondered whether some of these kind of embryonic entities might consider merging to become this new center. And then we could think about using one of their names, it could be the Climate Lens Center, it could be something else depending on which groups get together. But then we do have milestones. Oh sure, I hope others will chime in too but I think one thing that we began to develop an idea of with the goal of accessing the best practices knowledge that's in this room and sharing it more widely is curating a series where this group interviews itself. So individuals would sign on to interview another individual, I'm looking at Ramona maybe around 750 words, thinking about defining our work and articulating kind of our goals and challenges and victories and publishing that series maybe as text, maybe as audio, maybe as both but moving toward that as a first step, maybe one that might even be incubated within HowlRound until we get our grants. Somebody wanna talk about the other one? We got about one minute left for the report back. I think you guys did a great job. I think the one thing that I would add is that my favorite phrase from it is that one of our three desired impacts which we discussed some of last time is growing eco-artists and that's such a great, cool image. Well done, sir. Does anybody from the third group wanna speak up and share what happened in our discussion? We just let, we just, that's all right. What happened in your mind? What happened in your mind? It was, it felt difficult to, I'm gonna go ahead and share. It felt difficult to identify a specific action that we wanted to coalesce around. We came back around to this idea of divestment and what would that look like? What campaigns have been successful? Which ones haven't been successful? And so there was some kind of, there was a little case study exploration there. The question of whether or not Emerson was divested from fossil fuels came up and I think that we were really, or I was just saying, we were thinking about civil disobedience, spectacle, nonviolent direct action which curiously are really embodied, less talking about the ideas and the philosophy. There was a lot of philosophy or fundamental organizing principles but that led to what does that look like in action and what does that look like when we have a goal? I'm gonna say something that, I'm gonna follow up on something that you said that like at the very end, Peterson, which was if we create a project, let's say a divestment campaign, that one might not be successful but it in fact trains us. So when the next one comes along, it might in fact be successful. So that was an exciting idea that came up that even when a project gets identified that doesn't come to fruition or isn't a success or doesn't win or something like that, that it doesn't matter that it's all part of training. Specifically that's what came to me. Speak for myself. Anybody else? Sure. I would add that Joyisha shared a really interesting and exciting set of principles that came out of some work that she's been doing over the last year around non-extractive work around storytelling and community engagement. I think I just radically oversimplified that but really useful I think principles for thinking about how to be elevating the stories and empowering people to tell their own stories who are most affected by these kinds of issues. And so I think that was a really useful thing that came out of that was just the sharing of that and opportunity to continue dialoguing around that. And then I think I and maybe some other people in that group sort of felt like I would be really interested in the next session of this to move in the direction of really actually talking about like nonviolent direct actions, civil disobedience and like what does that look like as performance if there are other people that feel compelled to talk about that. As we move forward tomorrow maybe that's an invitation that's out there. Does anybody else from that group want to share? Just to lay a seed that we did not talk about is the world's largest conference of fossil fuel energy executives, lobbyists, decision makers in the world happens every year in March in Houston and every year we try to disrupt it and nobody like we do it but right now we're not, we don't get the support. So just in terms of a really direct place that we could do spectacle, I can tell you I've scouted that hotel out three different times like we got it all. And then using one of these toolkits for how to extend the impact of that direct theatrical action through social media, through documenting it, creating films out of it and onward to a television show which I will get developed at Disney. Well it's got a big impact. You know, don't diss the TV people. They all started out as playwrights. So you know, that actually just flashed into my mind when you said that this notion of flash mobs or flash mob performances, these things that you watched I've watched a hundred times these videos of all of a sudden materializing out of the crowd at Grand Central Station is this dance project or this, you know, the statues for a while that people were just would freeze and just how utterly compelling in the huge number of views those things get and I'm, you know, picturing like at a meeting like this out of a sort of a flash performance that I mean, these things can do so incredible. I don't know, that just flashed into my head and I felt like I had to share it. So we have a hard stop to get out of here. So we're gonna talk a little bit about, we're just gonna close it up, right? Jamie? Yeah, and I think, yes, but before we close it up I think Chantal and Roberta and Elizabeth and I wanted to offer just a little bit more concretely like the support that we want to offer at this point to continue this group. We think it's important to say what we know which might not be as much as we want to know now but we can speak to it. So I can speak to Hal around and say that we are committed to amplifying efforts around theater and climate performance and climate. Our platform is entirely open and it's based on who wants to participate. So I hope that as you all move forward whatever actions come either directly out of this convening or just in your own work that if you feel compelled to share what you're learning or what you're doing as a model with a broader community Hal around is like totally open to that and would love to do that. Many of you have already been able to share some things thanks to the fabulous work that Chantal has been doing curating the regular series on theater and climate change but it does not have to fit into that regular series. We accept pitches all the time like 98% of the content that we put out into the world from the community both in the US and outside of the US. Also we live stream events all the time and most of them we are not actually operating the cameras at. We stream about over a hundred events a year and what we do is provide training in how to live stream marketing support through putting blog posts out there and social media and again if you're hosting other events or producing other events or there are things that you think man it would be great if we could have an audience outside of this local reality that could tune into this. Again we can be a resource for that. We also have a burgeoning, not burgeoning it's got like thousands of videos but video archive that you know that is also really great in the way of like documentation right so those are just some really clear ways that we can be of service and want to be of service moving forward if it's helpful or you know wanted by you all. Yes Grisha. Can you use a mic or is a mic? Thank you Elizabeth. Do you document events? Do you have people pitched you to document events and then does it happen that way or the opposite way? What do you mean by document? Like SLI, like you'll do a live stream. Yes so yeah like the same process for if you wanted to write and we have a it's all on we'll follow up with links but it's basically like a Google form and you just say hey I'm doing this event here's what it looks like and we lay out our values and you know it's kind of a self curation process and it's a first come first serve thing on the calendar. We are able to live stream two things at once not more than two things so that's like really the factor and then we'll work with you to figure out what kind of you know on tech stuff and supporting in that way. Yep I'm gonna pass it over to Chantel now to speak. Sure and there's the world map right? Cause yeah cause people were talking about databases do you want to say a little bit more? Yeah sure sorry this is turning into like a hell round promo which is not what I intended but so another resource that could be of interest is the world theater map which is our latest tool it is a user generated database of like theater events theater makers and organizations all over the world it's currently in English, Spanish and French and it works like Wikipedia anyone can add information to it and actually one of the idea behind this was to try and create something that could be an open tool to help when people have conferences like this and say if only we had a database of X if only we had a list of people who did Y if only I could know who you know outside of my local region or even within my local region is interested in X kind of work or X topic you know wouldn't that be great so yeah so climate change is an interest on the map so you can search and find for people who have identified that they are interested either in work you know as individuals as organizations and shows also that have been tagged as like you know having climate change as a thing oh there's Annalisa, hey Annalisa and yeah and because it's like Wikipedia you can right you can enter data about yourself you can also enter data for other projects or people that you may know right so it's entirely open and it might be you know it might also be a tool for you it also links to HowlRound content so if you've ever like written for HowlRound and you make a profile on the world theater map it'll show up right or like if you've done a live stream it'll show up yes and we've also published an API of this so in the spirit of like openness if there's ever also like we keep hoping that somebody will take the code and repurpose it for something more specific right it's trying to do a lot of things right now but like there's a universe where you know I don't know I could imagine like 20 different ways that a map might be useful in these in like the conversations that we're having but one that's maybe a little bit more specific to what we're talking about Okay I also want to offer I have this platform called Artist in Climate Change which you can find artistinclimatechange.com We do essays, interviews a lot of essays by artists themselves so one thing is after this convening I would welcome from every one of you you know if you want to write about your project or your practice we like to feature artists we engage with climate change, the environment and we try to serve as a little bit of a database for featuring work and being a place where people can find us there's also a group on Facebook called Artist in Climate Change so there's about I think close to 1500 members right now that are from all over the world and that's a place where we can exchange conversation we can have conversation and exchange tips and you know whatever we may want to talk about and then I want to say you know I'm not unfortunately not I don't have a big institution behind me like the Arctic cycle is very small but I am deeply invested in this intersection and then trying to I don't want to go at it alone so that's why that was you know one of the ideas for convening this so I am really invested in what comes out of this and in helping move it forward even though I can't you know I wish I could say oh I have the next grant for us to get together again I don't but I you know I would be interested in working with everybody to see how we can keep moving things forward so I don't know if you have looked at the theater without borders web page but I know that Vijay is now looking it up and we're a group of volunteers it's a network of volunteers like you're all volunteering and Shantaz volunteering and it's a mechanism to connect artists globally we've been operating for about 15 years and we do have people all around the world who are I guess I mean there is no membership where there's no money, there's no membership there's no desk, there's no telephone it's just us and so under if you scroll up a little but you can see artist safety funding information opportunities and under initiatives Vijay if you see the little initiative thing there's the climate lens and when climate lens met we offered to have a web page so it's a WordPress site we can easily add pages the thing I would say that I've kept thinking about is theater without borders is basically a virtual information portal but because we're all volunteers we come and we go and one of the things we tend to do and have done especially for theater and peace building and conflict zones is we have hosted gatherings and it's a needs motivated response because we're volunteers so if we feel like there's a need then we feel we should show up and that's why Theater Without Borders is committed to Chantal and Elizabeth and we did do in 2010 at La Mama a huge conference on theater and peace building and conflict zones 400 people attended from over 40 countries we have no money so we did a $500,000 conference for zero we passed the hat I've been thinking and we're talking to Chantal and to talking to Elizabeth we just have to do one again and it has to be about this topic so it's in my mind if that's important to people that would be important to me slash us so there are resources if you tell us we will come I wanna second a lot of what was said and I also wanna stand in my commitment to organizing subsequent convenings and we're gonna take the temperature I think again tomorrow and find out how many people in this room feel like that would be important or desired and just to kind of figure out how that might gel I also am located in Miami and in Brazil and Miami is on the Florida peninsula and it's a place that a lot of people don't get to and it's an independent republic on its own and it really sits in a space of the Caribbean so I think it's, I just am representing that area of this, of our, it's a bio, a very interesting and important bio region and it's connected, it's also a shore like Brazil is one shore of that same Caribbean as our other cities around the Gulf Coast so I just, I think it's an interesting nexus and I'm just there and you can come visit me anytime you want. Thank you. Okay.