Overview

The Livable Futures performance rituals, CLIMATE GATHERING, will begin an international tour in 2020 starting with a residency at Barnard’s Movement Lab in NYC and moving the Australia next.

Climate Gatherings integrate performance and creative community dialog to turn toward climate change and create space for feeling into action. Audiences enter into a charged and charismatic space of sound, light, motion and contemporary ritual.

Request an Invitation to Participate

Climate Gatherings will be held in NYC Jan 15 at 11am and Jan.16 at 3pm. Audiences are intentionally kept small so the experience can be as immersive as possible.

To attend, please request an invitation and complete the brief reflection that will help us prepare for your arrival.

Small Audiences Facilitate Immersive Experiences

Audiences are kept small and everyone is immersed in the work and given cards guiding them into multiples ways to engage with the work and make their own offerings with water, chalk, voice and movement. The piece sutures together practices of artistic improvisers with fragments from stories of ice, shifting, racial and gender injustice, landscapes, polar bears, and extreme events. Improvisation, because it demands adaptability as well as alert and flexible attention, serves as both material and metaphor for resilience: a strategy for survival in a world in flux.

In each site where the work is performed, we gather stories and data relevant to the specific location and carry them forward to the next gathering.

Studio photography by Seth Moses Miller