 Okay, are we all ready to start? There are some post-its being passed out right now, and I will tell you in a minute what we're going to do with those. So it was good morning. It was very exciting to me to see that some ideas were starting to bubble up both in the inner and the outer circle this morning, and now we're going to try to, and also using maybe some of the stuff you have written when we were all reflected silently, we're going to try to action-alize some of these things. So we're going to shift gear from, I guess, talking about all of this stuff and try to see if there's anything we can put into practice. We talked a lot about change, and I was reminded in talking to Rob yesterday that the first step in making change is actually taking a step, right? If we just think about it, it doesn't happen. So we have to be brave enough to take a step and see whether that step works or not, and there's another step to be taken after that. So we're going to altogether try to take a series of first steps. I'm going to give you the overall frame of how we're going to work this afternoon and tomorrow first, and then I'm going to tell you what we're going to do specifically now. So this afternoon and tomorrow, we're going to have three sessions where you're going to work in small groups that we're going to form, and where you'll have a chance also to change groups. So you're not locked to any one group, and we are going to brainstorm and develop some ideas and see how far we can take them. So this is an opportunity to work in collaboration. Again, to try to push ideas that we can only work on together. That's something that you can do by yourself and to see where we can get. So I really encourage you to put some stuff out there, to be generous and to try to take advantage of the power that's in the room. The first working session, so after lunch, we're going to establish... So we're going to develop ideas to establish the why, who, where, and what of these specific ideas, and we'll come back to that for each session and explain it more in detail, but I want to give you an overview. And then after we do that, the short groups will report to the big group. Then we're going to do a second session where we will focus on the ideas we have developed further and talk about the when and how, and we'll also do a report. And then on Sunday, we're going to do again another session with these small groups where we try to strategize how to move forward with this idea and then make some commitments to ourselves and to each other. So before we do all of this, I would like to do brainstorm together to see what we can surface that we may be able to work on this afternoon and tomorrow. And there are three things to keep in mind. One is we talked yesterday about spheres of influence, and I think the four spheres were personal, the field, the community, and civic. And of course there is value in working on any of these levels, but maybe just to think for yourself where you feel the most comfortable, where you feel you have the most influence, or what you're most passionate into addressing in all of these fields. The second thing is we don't have to reinvent the wheel, right? If we're compelled to do so, we can, definitely. But sometimes we can do a big change, like we can effect a big change down the line by changing a little thing here. So we can think big, but we can also think like, what is this small shift that I need to make that will get me to that direction instead of that direction? The third thing I've already said was to make a change we need to take one step, so that's what we're going to do. So we are, with the post-its that you have, we are going, I'm going to ask you to think about the three conversations that we've had and think about what we just talked about, the things that have surfaced, and how could we put some of these things, what are some ideas to put some of these things into action? And I'm going to use, it was Annalisa who said, you know, what if we got the American theater to divest from fossil fuels? Like, that's one concrete idea, right? So I would ask you, we're going to try together to surface as many ideas as possible, so we're not going to judge them or discuss them in terms of are they good or not right now, we're just going to try to generate them. And I'm going to ask you to write them down, only one idea per post-it, but you can write as many ideas as you want, but one per post-it. And when you have an idea to write it down on your piece of paper, come to the board, put it up on the board, and then just say briefly what it is. And if the rest of the group has any questions, you can ask just for clarification, right? Not to judge whether the idea will work or not, but just for clarification, you can ask questions. And we're going to go like that until we have a bunch of ideas on the wall, on the board, and until we can start maybe see particular directions to see if some ideas can be clumped together and there are certain topics that emerge. What else do I have to say? Oh, yeah. We are going to... Two things. We're going to work. This has been said a number of times this weekend. We're going to work from a place of abundance and with the assumption that we have everything we need in this room, right? Thinking about the people we have right now, who is here? I mean, of course, it will expand and we can call on other people afterwards, but just meaning... I don't want to be prescriptive, but let's assume that everything we can come up with, we can realize for now. And then we can, you know, later on, we can start to edit ourselves, but let's just start with the most generous, generative possible scenario. So, if you have ideas, please write them down and then we'll just, you know, come as you're ready, just put it on the board, say briefly what it is, and we can just keep going like that and see what happens. Yeah? There's a microphone there if you want to say briefly. Come to Miami in December during Art Basel and let's create a sea-level rise performance together as a way of starting our collaboration at my studio garden and theater. Thank you. Okay, this is not that new or innovative, but if you've heard of Kilowatt SmackDown, I believe it's nationwide, but at Emory, there is a group that's really strong, works with local businesses to do evaluations on their energy uses and gives them information on the things that they can do. And so it's all free, and so, of course, people are like, oh wait, I can make these changes and, you know, it'll save me money. They love that. So, to get Kilowatt SmackDown to do an inventory on theater companies locally. Also, as we go along, if you feel like your idea is maybe somehow related to one that's already there, try to clump them together, right? Struck by a desire to experience some of the fabulous work that I know all of you are creating already, I'd love to propose a global, digital, radically accessible living archive of work created through a climate lens. Along those lines of what Robert just described, invent a model that supports or creates a method for recycling plays. In other words, it can exist in one community and then be brought to another community by using either the same resources that were used to create it in the first place or find some sustainable way to create bare bones productions and also address the concentration of opportunities to see theater and help spread that to areas where that isn't as possible. Thank you. Yes, adding on to both of these and bringing in what we talked about yesterday. A digital or otherwise resource hub for measuring impact. Giving slash giving away power, money, space and resources to the front line most impacted to create their own vision, creative expressions and solutions. And then connected to that centering and connecting the U.S. south to the global south through co-creation, co-production, collaboration and visioning. I think it's very important to be organizing meetings like that in another land. So I'm inviting everybody to a meeting in Brazil and I think it's very important that we have a discussion in another place with another language and with another kind of people. On that note, I'm interested in an inquiry generated dramatic theater that might be verbatim theater inspired that could have a couple of communities represented but with the aim of engaging intersectional issues of environmental racism and justice and eradicating ignorance. So for example, could there be productions generated by what questions the audience has of a community beyond their immediate experience but in which they have to engage their own complicity? One of the challenges I have in doing this work is I don't get to do it all the time because there's all this other stuff to do. And so I think some friends and I have been throwing around an idea and I don't know what the noun is. It's like institute or collective but it's a place to go where you can drop in and drop out and be constantly involved in the engine of problem solving around this issue. And somewhere that's not totally in nature and not totally urban and a place that's easy to get to because I think if we don't have our collective brains focused on it 24-7 then we're not going to get where we need to go. You're talking about a physical place. Yes, I'm talking about a physical place where you... And it would be a place for conversation and thinking and problem solving in a sort of... Much like we're doing here but it could also be a place from which projects could spring when the moment becomes right which I assume the moment would be right very quickly. This is quite related to Allison's idea with a slight twist. Creating a sustainable values in story, collective, virtual and or local like it could form locally from different people who are disperse. That includes a workshop experimenting with and studying various creative narrative strategies and developing projects out of that and includes project team building to develop and perform and produce those projects. This is kind of New York centric but it's necessary. It's like a reusable theater collective think of a startup like an app for designers to go and say these are the things I need and have this startup of magic people collect things from the trash and from all the waste that is in New York City to source them with eco-friendly or reusable materials so they can furnish their place with things that already exist. I feel compelled to just comment that if this were a group of physicists this board would look nothing like this. Organized. It would be aligned. Straight, right angles, everything. I like to work from a distributive model rather than centralized and this is very centralized and very effective but to create chapters of this group in every state, in every country, in every region and maybe stepping one step forward how do we do that when we leave here each of us can create a chapter where we've come from and where we've been. I actually have two but they'll be quick. One is a nationally subsidized dramaturge SWAT team that would be deployed and could go around to different places in the country where extraordinary theatrical productions are being created to assist with the shaping of it in various ways. The second thing would be a play development process that would go from an incubation lab and art science sustainability boot camp model with urban planners and others that could be in Boulder, Colorado for example and then would go to different universities for additional work on the plays maybe to Your Kingdom, maybe to Allison's Oregon Shakespeare Festival then of course to theaters all around the country Broadway, YouTube and Science on a Sphere which is a globe that is in 150 almost science centers around the world reaching an audience of 33 million people annually. Thank you. So somewhat based on that old time religion a performance art traveling tent revival that connects with local artists and include testimonies from people who have experienced environmental racism and injustice and that there would be even like an altar call to action sort of thing for people to commit their lives to this work. I'd like to help build on Cheryl's idea by developing some kind of curriculum by which universities that have departments that are devoted to science and to policy and the arts but the right arm is not talking to the left arm help them, support them to create innovative works that are transdisciplinary and just write out a plan that they can follow or you know not and be inspired by. I want to build off what Giles already said about redistributing resources and I was working on a project with a community a community created project in Lower East Side where one of the participants told me you know I want to come and do this work where we're envisioning the future together through creative practice but I don't have a stove right now my stove is broken and I'm dealing with that so part of our project budget went to her getting a new stove and I was wondering if we can try to all do that a budget for nourishing people as a necessary part of creating art when we write grants those of us who write grants and ask for money from the powers that be and the other thing is that so we have a solar light grid of LED lights that we take around to different venues in New York City and demand that we put them on their roofs when we do a show and I would love to share that or share that technology and I'm wondering if there's anything that other people have too in terms of in the world of design technology to share with each other that we can kind of pool you can create a new clamp if you don't see anything that's related so the first thing I want to do is do a Climacazi surf camp and trash dive and this is in the spirit of getting in the body and getting out into I would say wild spaces mother ocean and it can be artists can do it trees can do it cats can do it so yeah that's like joy, fun and then I would love to do a Climacazi network of the Americas which includes touring consortiums and also commissioning for new works that's transnational and multilingual so that's like facilitating north south and on the American continent I'm not sure where this will all go and then the last thing is this idea of mentor ship and leadership which is actually a term that comes from a national performance network program and Elena this is something that I think I felt like you were pointing to yesterday this idea of sharing being pure learning and that within this group we can learn a lot from one another in really specific pairings two this is very similar to I want to add this to Allison's a center, create a center for ecospheric consciousness and multi-species justice and I would love to locate that at NYU would somebody write something down for me just because I don't have the paper okay Julie's Bicycle this year in fall is doing a season for change we're the asking arts organization in the UK to do an event related to climate change and you want to make it a three year program right yeah so could we help Julie's Bicycle maybe in 2019 or 2020 make an international season for change where we all participate and we all ask 10 people in our network to participate too one other thing I had was invite you to join me in creating a performance to go with our current the dear climate installation currently at Storm King Art Center which takes the form of a United Nations style set of flags in which, called General Assembly in which instead of a seat for every nation there's a seat for every species I'm putting my divest thing up here yay but I also just want to name the jubilee and someone from HowlRound can you tell I don't actually know what the new language is about it but the general idea Jamie can you explain it I think the general idea is that in it's season 2020 yeah it's season 2020-2021 the general idea is that it began with this radical provocation what if every theater in the U.S. produced only plays by people of color and women and other traditionally marginalized voices and originally it was very much like make a pledge 100% commit or nothing and now it's become a little bit more inclusive of asking institutions to identify where they're at with their current practice and identify how they want to move along a spectrum and state that intention publicly with the idea that we're having a lot of these conversations again and again and wanting to try to make a sort of national campaign to move the needle and that's in 2020-2021 there's a new website in development that will launch August 1st I believe where it will have all the latest but we can also circulate some links from HowlRound that has like the original manifesto and pledge that you believe was another one of the HowlRound Challenge convenings I name it because if the climate people are not talking about racial justice in that way like concrete actions in the American theater then we're not doing it right I have another invitation in a place to maybe house your curriculum development but please join us at Georgetown University digitally or in person to try to help work at the intersection of politics and performance and really empower the next generation of policy leaders in our School of Foreign Service to think in this prismatic sort of way that climate is in everything and everything is in climate so please come On the lines of resource sharing and distributing that out the Transgender Justice funding project is an extraordinary group that is run by trans people and they really look at the intersectionality of all these different issues that affect trans people particularly trans people of color housing, immigration, police brutality and all and maybe to talk to them about setting up a specific grant around performance arts for trans folks who are looking for monies for that and what's great about them is you don't have to be a non-profit to get money from them We have about five more minutes so if you have some burning ideas now is the time to bring them forward and you can line up behind the microphone if you want There are two ideas One is to collaborate across languages and theater traditions to create some kind of an archive of climate lens dramaturgy and design The second is to collaborate to create a non-verbal non-anthropic performance which essentially performs kinds of silence So I just put up under the Global South and the US South the Marshallese Educational Initiative and just opening a discussion about Pacific Islander representation and conversations that are going on about links between domestic violence and disposability of and erasures of Indigenous populations and how that maps on to different violent modalities and if there's any way to think vulnerability and theatricality because I've been hearing a lot about a kind of openness that's being generated here I don't really have the words but I think those conversations might be important in terms of the work that's being done about domestic violence issues So I want to organize or produce a series of residency projects that's featuring or practicing sustainable lifestyle including food, very important and collect stories and voices artists design public presentations and this I want it to be cross-cultural and equitable and made from scratch So like food we are talking about is for example miso so soybeans very inexpensive and it's actually a little bit labor intensive but everyone can make it it shouldn't be just a fancy food or spice for rich foodies it should be for everyone because it's healthy detox radiation too Thank you So I have two suggestions that are contradictory So the first one is I'm struck by people have talked a little bit about initiatives that might be anchored in universities and I have become increasingly conscious over the last couple of years of the ways that we let universities not be radical places and so just trying to think about how that's a place where I can actually exercise some influence I was thinking about convening people who teach at the university level to simultaneously teach classes that are in dialogue with each other and then convening those classes and using that as a way to bring more people into conversations to create interdisciplinary and cross university and cross regional collaborations and then those students kind of go out into the world and do what they're going to do The second thought that I had was I've been listening to people's suggestions including the one I just gave a lot of them are very institutional and they're very much about creating something that then exists and has a kind of permanence and so I've just been trying to and that's not a really well formed idea but I just want more I said what I wrote was develop instant performance modules but I just want this way to how do we actually just make this bigger and make this like writing the next grant or whatever but just like how do we actually start changing the stories that people tell on the streets My suggestion is to create an environmental action plan for yourself that would articulate your vision think about who that you need to work with how it integrates with your organize your activity plan and then if you're in a position thinking about what you're purchasing whether it's paper, energy then who you're communicating and how you're engaging who do you need to partner with what projects on sustainability do you want to integrate what understanding do you need to build with energy, water, waste and management and then how are you going to share your action plans so that you can be informed and learn year on year and then the second one is to become a creative climate leader which is a training program that Julie's Bicycle runs internationally for creative professionals to develop deeper and be part of a network of fellows to support their journey on sustainability. Thank you so we're going to hear from you three briefly and then we have to move on to the next section Okay to building kinesthetic awareness through practices of embodiment towards understanding individual habits and patterns of thinking and perspective that's what we could share Thank you Miasa I have two points one is we can develop collaborative play in which all our voices are included we can have one big story we can write a play on climate change virtually and it can be accessible for the wide world the other is collaboration action needed we have to think outside of our region and continent because the issue is big and global Xavier my first one was to develop a platform to convene different artistic disciplines my goal here is how do we get each other to work together my second one could go in Alison's center and that is it's to develop a best practices model on a way of engaging traditional theater audiences after each performance so just create a model that each of us implements our best practices and then share that so one requires for us to come together the other one we don't necessarily have to be one of the institute collective center Thank you these are all amazing ideas do we have markers Jamie can I get two people to help me maybe Elizabeth and where's Roberto I'm going to repeat some of the things that I heard as big headings and then we can see if all of the ideas fit under those so I heard and if you just want to Elizabeth and Roberto like write the heading on a one piece of paper and put it on the other board so I heard definitely a center I heard university initiatives curriculum like several things that fell under university I heard sustainability as in sustainable practices Lidia's Kill-A-Wat Catherine and the Anirises I guess they would fall under sustainability the divesting I heard stuff around performance so performance creation performance best practices dramaturgy performance that move from one place to another performance sustainability sustainability I meant really the practical you know counting kill-a-wat stuff that has no I'm putting that in the different category than the performance itself we can make that a performance I also heard maybe that's another kind of sustainability but money for nourishing people moving money towards front line communities like embracing the people that are usually left out of power structures also under sustainability I would put maybe sharing that was you sharing technology with the solar another one was convening which was convening in another country creating chapters of convening so how many do we have now 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 right now we have the center university divesting and sustainability can do together convening performances we're missing the moving money towards yeah yeah focus on social justice did anyone put up an idea that doesn't seem to fall under any of these categories yet raise your hand and we'll hand you a mic Grisha is back here first and then Marta just the building kinesthetic awareness that practice embodiment practice that should be separate from performance yeah it's not performed it's an activity can we add that to building kinesthetic awareness is that am I right okay embodiment practices yes thank you I forgot about that okay someone said something about evaluation too I think and I don't know that there's okay hold on just a second I think if people had an idea and you feel like it's not in the right place or it needs a new place can I just ask folks to articulate which one you're talking about specifically and then name what you want the category to be so we can sorry can you she said it twice it still hasn't been written up about resourcing the front lines they're just catching up with us I wonder if it would benefit and tell me if I'm wrong for performance to have performance process and practice so that there's two different ones you mean no performance slash process slash practice so that it captures just something that is being lived in okay Elizabeth can you add with performance slash practice performance slash practice I think slash process and then we wanted the global north south as a separate category one convening yes in a separate category the global north south does anybody else feel like their idea is not represented under these headings yes okay getting rid of the initiatives and putting it under redistribution yes and under sustainability I would like it's very important to push also social justice yes so Annalisa you wanted to straight to basically put this under redistribution yes was that what you were asking for yeah under Elizabeth under sustainability do you want to add social justice yeah because for me the redistribution of resources is about social justice give it it's like I don't feel super comfortable with at least if those are my like that's the social justice thing it's like flipping things on their head resources is part of it but so is power so is access so is privilege so is space so so divestment I do think is part of that so I would just the word I don't know includes a whole bunch of things about transformative kind of just transition within the space of resources people place and so the global south to the US Gulf south or the US south actually is also in there not about global south for me because I was the one who wrote the connecting the US for that one for the US south to the global south specifically so okay let's just hold on just a second about putting things under other categories first I just want to make sure that everybody's ideas is represented okay murder oh okay which was different than university was that different than university okay so can we have one that's evaluation slash impact Jayisha did you feel there was something missing I mean I just I'm just saying the Gulf south I just one specific post it I would like that one to go there so the one that I wrote that said the connecting the US south to the global south that one for me is actually about redistribution quote unquote resources or social justice it's not yeah that one yeah thank you who's talking to me I am yeah I guess I have a question about and I'm not trying to dismantle the exercise or anything because I know how mad thing that can be but I but there must be what I what I think what I'm missing from this conversation is that if any of those things operates without social justice then we're not doing it right right and so I guess I'm interested in activities but I'm also interested in values that we collectively commit to that underlie all of our efforts and so to see social justice as a separate thing as opposed to the whole thing makes my heart hurt so yeah let's me explain what I'm trying to do is ultimately we are going to divide into a maximum of six groups so I am trying to group some of these ideas per theme so groups can congregate about around a topic and then decide what they want to move forward so social justice can can actually be part of every group of course but I guess we're identifying the dominant theme to see what we can congregate around so you can congregate around you know creating a center of an institute that has very much social justice as it's underlying principle but that will that will be the I guess the dominating idea does that make sense it does I do I would love us to at some moment have a conversation about values we will in the small groups and then we will bring that to the big group so every idea has been represented Cheryl has got lost somewhere are people feeling like that's not being represented or yeah convenings was lost okay now what we need to do next is identify some of them can be combined or we need to identify six or less that we would be excited in working on and the reason for six is to have you know a significant number of people in one group but also because we have six note takers who can help us keep track of what's going on in the six different groups I'm trying to think how to do that we could yes you know what I think maybe I think one way to do this is we could put these pieces of paper down on the floor at different places and you can congregate towards the one you feel most compelled to work on and then we can see if there are things that we could combine does that make sense yes yes yes definitely so let's take two minutes you can see where the ideas are you can move them to different heading if you want to and then we'll come back and decide which group is going to work on what and could I also offer that if you in your gallery walk I don't know if I was a loyal scribe so please feel free to grab a marker and edit as needed yeah yeah yeah yeah that's the kind of thing so there's an impulse at least to be able to centralize communicate in America over here exactly I really love to cross this like a folder on this which one do you think why do you think you'll be able to I I I I I had a chance to look I'm such an organized I actually that one I just moved okay guys so all the ideas are on the floor we're asking you you're committing to one hour right now so what's the idea you would like to work on for the next hour just congregate towards the one you're interested in and then let's see what happens and let's see if we need to combine anything I think we can say let's see like how many and we'll make it work if there's more than six we'll make it work we can be creative right we can we'll post it yes and then which one that's what we're going to do so what does it look like can we can you guys congregate in a way where we can see a little bit the distinction between the groups just don't yeah okay guys can I have your attention for a second so I know it's hard I know some of you are interested in more than one idea but we have to choose just for the purpose of gathering into smaller groups and then as I said you're committing to an hour right because at every step of the way you'll be able to change group re put two groups together separate like this is not a final form but it's just a starting point so as a starting point which one of these ideas would you like to work on so no no I'm just asking so right now I'm trying to figure we have one two three is that right we have three main groups okay in the group that you're in hold on Roberta so look at the other ideas that were left out do you feel like some of them are part of your group somehow do you feel like you would like to integrate them you can move it in yeah there's okay are we in some kind of final formation is everybody good so we have three little post-its left collaborative action needed on the side of region does that fit into okay solar light grid that travels or share that technology does that fit into any group you're already in winners the last one is collaborating across languages and traditions to create a something that has to do with dramaturgy and design there you go okay we have three groups look at who you're with we are going to are we about to break for lunch yes so the idea is that right now we're going to ask you to actually make a small group circles with the folks in this group that you've just formed for lunch we don't have any assignment for lunch except to like get to know your fellow group members more and hang out we're a little bit behind schedule but that's fine we aren't going to steal back all the time from lunch though we're going to basically let's say it's twelve forty right now so we're going to do lunch until one thirty and then we'll be back together for the first like official group work activity but we do ask that right now if you can reconstitute the room into circles for each of the groups so we know kind of who's where moving forward that'd be great yes and we'll give you the assignment after lunch okay yes with chairs like in two circles yeah you can be out in the lobby we'll just have to like the report backs will happen in here but there's no reason you can't work in the lobby no we aren't recording the small group work no great so we are at lunch