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URL:https://thelavacenter.org/events/climate-change-theatre-action-play-re
 adings-all-good-things-must-begin-2023-12-02/
SUMMARY:Climate Change Theatre Action play readings: "All Good Things Must 
 Begin"
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide festival of short 
 plays about the climate crisis\, presented biennially to coincide with the
  United Nations COP meetings.\n\nThe theme this year\, “All Good Things 
 Must Begin\,” is inspired by the journal entry of American science ficti
 on writer Octavia Butler. Butler was incredibly prescient\, writing about 
 extremism\, racial justice\, and climate change some 30 years ago. By sett
 ing intentions and visualizing a positive outcome\, she defied the odds an
 d became the author of many celebrated novels\, winning each of science fi
 ction’s highest honors. While the worlds of her novels depict the violen
 t challenges of today’s interlocking crises\, her protagonists remain de
 voted to thriving\, to achieving survival beyond the destructive and oppre
 ssive societies they come from.\n\nThe climate crisis demands the same kin
 d of imaginative leap: we will create a just and regenerative world only i
 f we dare to imagine it first\, and use that vision to guide us through th
 e difficulties. We all need to be solarpunks and envision radical pluralis
 tic futures where nature and community thrive\, and where we reject the ap
 ocalypse and embrace counterculture\, post-capitalism\, and decolonization
 .\n\n***\n\nThe LAVA Center will present two programs of short plays as st
 aged readings\, on Saturday\, Dec. 2\, 7 pm and Saturday\, Dec. 9\, 7 p.m.
  There is a $5–20 suggested donation for the plays — no one will be tu
 rned away for lack of funds.\n\nThe December 2 program will be directed by
  Kiersten Samalis and will be followed by a facilitated debrief activity l
 ed Liberation Playback Theatre.\n\nThe December 9 program will be directed
  by JuPong Lin and will be followed by a facilitated debrief discussion le
 d by Lin.\n\nThe programs will also be available online\, on demand for a 
 short time following the live performances\, details TBA.\n\n***\n\nClimat
 e Change Theatre Action launched in 2015\, and the LAVA team has been pres
 enting these plays\, in some form\, since 2017\, years before The LAVA Cen
 ter was born! Greening Greenfield has been a supporter of this programming
  since the beginning\, and this year the program is also funded in part by
  Mass Humanities.
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