Climate Crisis

Visual Arts Review: “Nurture: Empathy for the Earth” — Imagining Healing the Planet

October 24, 2024
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This show brings together works that emphasize an optimistic view of where we are by dramatizing ways in which we can develop a more empathetic connection with the struggling environment.

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Book Review: Paolo Giordano’s “Tasmania” — A Brilliant Novel about Being Blinded by Personal Catastrophes

October 1, 2024
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An absorbing novel that builds steadily, not to a shattering or violent conclusion (all the violence is in the past or offstage) but to a quiet release that is humane and persuasive.

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Book Review: “The Sixth Extinction, Tenth Anniversary Edition” — Still Essential

June 12, 2024
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Today, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book remains an important reminder of what is at stake — nothing less than the future of life on earth.

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Arts Commentary: Creative Cross-Pollination — HarborArts Expands the Power of Public Art

June 4, 2024
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Over the last 15 years, HarborArts has effectively used public art to raise public awareness, stimulating dialogue about environmental concerns — the climate crisis and degradation of the sea.

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Theater Interview: GSC’s Rebecca Bradshaw on “Water’s Rising: Festival of New Climate Action Plays”

April 22, 2024
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“We need hope in the possibility of change in order to survive what’s coming.”

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Book Review: “Waiting for Al Gore” — Birds of a Feather

February 20, 2024
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For a light-hearted take on some serious issues, “Waiting for Al Gore” delivers.

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Film Review: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” — Act Now!

April 9, 2023
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For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.

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Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

March 20, 2023
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How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

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Arts Commentary/Interview: The Climate Crisis and Theater — A Playwright’s Perspective

November 28, 2022
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Do we feel the environment breakdown in our gut? Will people looking back see art that conveyed the existential threat of the emergency?

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Arts Commentary: Arts Criticism — Stuck in the Bunker

August 21, 2022
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Arts critics are not expected to take the cultural temperature; they are there to reinforce the assumption that the business of the arts in America is … business.

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