Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: : Abbotsford Campus, D104
Kimberly Skye Richards: Expanding Capacity for Living on a Damaged Planet (lecture)
Date: Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Location: D104, Abbotsford Campus
The upsurge in wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, and floods, and the concomitant dispossession of people from land can make it feel like we are living in a perpetual state of crisis. Unsurprisingly, an awareness of the unsustainability of the existing order of things is resulting in climate anxiety and “doomism”: the sense of overwhelm, disempowerment, and immobilization. This talk will look at how theatre and performance artists are responding to this situation, and how performance practices might help us to adapt to living on a damaged planet. The conjoining workshop will experiment with art/life practices for hospicing modernity and cultivating response-ability to the land, waters, more-than-human kin, and each other.
About the Artist: Kimberly Skye Richards is a settler scholar and dramaturg who engages performance as a vehicle for resisting extractivism, inspiring just transitions, and moving through impasses. She obtained a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California-Berkeley in 2019, and she was a 2021 Public Energy Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Transition in Energy, Culture, and Society at University of Alberta. She currently teaching in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia. Her recent dramaturgical work focuses on climate grief and transition anxiety
Schedule:
10:00 am-11:00 am… Artist Lecture
11:00 am-12:50 pm… Workshop w/ Post Reflection
Please register for the Artist Chat through Eventbrite.
If you’d like to take part in the workshop, please email giuseppe.condello@ufv.ca to sign up.
Snacks will be provided.
For tickets, please visit the Eventbrite page
Event Location : Abbotsford Campus, D104
Kimberly Skye Richards: Expanding Capacity for Living on a Damaged Planet
Date(s): Thursday, February 15Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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