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Storytelling for Hopeful Climate Futures
Date
Tue February 4th 2025, 4:00 - 5:30pm
Event Sponsor
McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford Humanities Center
Location
Mitchell Earth Sciences
397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Hartley Conference Center
397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Hartley Conference Center
The Facing the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Approaches workshop presents:
"Storytelling for Hopeful Climate Futures"
Chantal Bilodeau (Arts & Climate Initiative)
February 4th, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (PST)
Hartley Conference Center (397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA)
Abstract: How can stories help us create hopeful climate futures? What storytelling strategies might open pathways to imagine what lies beyond the dystopian and post-apocalyptic narratives so prevalent in popular culture? If we are not only to survive but to thrive over the next century, we need to reframe the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we want to be in this altered world. We need to transform anxiety and despair into courage and resilience. While this is no small feat, theatre can help. As a live storytelling medium, theatre can provide clues on how we may collectively take this existential leap.
Bio: Chantal Bilodeau is a Montreal-born, New York-based playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of storytelling and the climate crisis. She is the founding artistic director of the Arts & Climate Initiative, where she has spearheaded initiatives for nearly two decades, getting theatre and educational communities, as well as audiences in the U.S. and abroad, to engage in climate conversation and climate action through programming that includes live events, talks, publications, workshops, artist convenings, and an award-winning distributed theatre festival. Playwriting awards include the Woodward International Playwriting Prize as well as First Prize in the Earth Matters on Stage Ecodrama Festival and First Prize in the Uprising National Playwriting Competition. Her plays have been shown in a dozen countries and translated into Greek, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese.
This Workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from an anonymous donor, former Fellows, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.
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