Climate and Performance Eco-lab with Superhero Clubhouse!

342 Laudholm Farm Road,Wells ME 04090

07 August, 2021

Description

Superhero Clubhouse creates theater to enact climate and environmental justice, cultivate hope, and inspire a thriving future. Ages 12 + Superhero Clubhouse creates theater to enact climate and environmental justice, cultivate hope, and inspire a thriving future. Workshop will be held inside and outside of the Barn at the beautiful Wells Reserve at Laudholm  This will be a fun, creative workshop for people of all backgrounds and levels of experience to collaboratively respond to ecologic issues through guided performance-making. The workshop is suited for all ages of 12 and older. Beginning with a presentation of research and culminating in short performances made by participants, the Lab is an introduction to Superhero Clubhouse's approach to theater-making, offering tools to explore questions about who we are and how we can impact change with our voices. The Lab was developed by a committee of environmental professionals from Columbia University, Rockefeller University, Rocky Mountain Institute, Environmental Defense Fund, and USAID. Our guest presenters have included Gavin Schmidt (director of NASA GISS) and Michael Gerrard (director of Sabine Center for Climate Change Law), among many others. Led by climate theater activist Jeremy Pickard. Jeremy Pickard (he/they) founded Superhero Clubhouse in 2007 as a homebase for experimenting with the intersection of theater and environmental crises. His first play, URANUS (a play about waste), launched what would become the Planet Plays, a series of nine interconnected stories about the Anthropocene. In 2009 Jeremy became the program and production director of Big Green Theater, the eco-playwriting program for public elementary students that Superhero Clubhouse ran annually in partnership with The Bushwick Starr. Jeremy is the co-creator of dozens of works of eco-theater including Hike-Play, Flying Ace and the Storm of the Century! and Salty Folk: An Oyster Musical. The mission of WellsReserve is to understand, protect, and restore coastal ecosystems of the Gulf of Maine through integrated research, stewardship, environmental learning, and community partnerships.