The arts driving change.
Wrapping up Volume II, our mini-season centered on climate change. Douglas Detrick writes about what he’s learned about how artists can effectively address climate change in their work, and how it matters to all of us as we struggle with this global crisis.
Douglas Detrick talks with Craig Santos Perez about climate change from his perspective as a Pacific Islander and the stories that continue to inspire him to work for a more sustainable future for all of us.
EM Lewis and Douglas Detrick discuss Lewis’s play Magellanica, where a team of scientists studying the hole in the ozone layer at a research station in Antarctica confront environmental crisis, geopolitical conflict, and interpersonal struggle.
Stephanie McCollough and I talked about climate change through the lens of our own emotional experiences with this global crisis.
A brief epilogue to talk about what I learned through the process of producing Volume I, and also to talk about what’s coming up in Volume II and beyond.
Hear what Anna Fritz and Paul Susi learned after performing “An Iliad” in prisons across Oregon.
Kunu Bearchum, (Northern Cheyenne/Ho Chunk nation) talks about how he found a way to express his experience as an indigenous person in the United States by applying the ethic of the warrior to his artistic practice.
Joe Kye is a violinist-looper and vocalist whose music is motivated by a deep desire to be a steward of culture.
Introducing More Devotedly and the ideas behind it.