Now | CCTA
What are we doing?
As a part of Get Rowdy Over Wildlife (G.R.O.W.), a week of student-run Climate Justice Theater, we are facilitating a group reading of Now, a new play by Canadian playwright Wren Brian. This reading will take place in North Woods on the Skidmore College campus (meeting at the Wilson Chapel by the purple trail entrance) on Tuesday, November 14th at 1:00 p.m. and will be coupled with a guided nature walk and meditative experience of the area's indigenous plant species. All of this is part of a larger class event for the TH340 course, otherwise known as Climate Justice and Theatre Action, in collaboration with the 2023 Climate Change Theatre Action festival.
TH340 is an interdisciplinary bridge experience course offered by Skidmore College with the goal of exploring issues of power, justice, and identity as they pertain to the climate in both practical and reflective ways. We discuss and reflect upon the idea of climate justice in this class along with conducting research, preparing, planning, creating, and implementing performances in conjunction with CCTA, an organization that runs an annual theater festival and provides access to 50 original plays to be produced for events that promote climate justice.
This website serves as a digital dramaturgy resource, providing access to a video recording and script of the guided walk as well as resources for relevant topics (including meditation, the play/playwright, and native plants of Saratoga's North Woods).
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What is Climate Justice?
Climate justice works to acknowledge the ways in which climate change impacts different communities at varying levels and in different ways, and that the people least affected by climate change are often the people responsible for causing it. Climate justice focuses on the disproportionate level at which marginalized communities are impacted by climate change and calls for a shift in language from simply an environmental issue to a civil rights movement. It adjusts the lens through which we discuss the environment in order to focus on creating a better future for everyone.
Adapted from the United Nations' definition of Climate Justice (linked)
For more information on climate justice:
Our Associated Organizations
We take this space to acknowledge that the Skidmore Campus and surrounding Saratoga Springs area are located on the sacred land cared for by the Algonkian peoples known as the Mohican and Abenakis, and the Kanienkehaka (Mohawks). This land has been inhabited by native peoples for over ten thousand years and is referred to in the Abenaki language as Ndakinna, meaning "our land." We recognize that we are guests on this land, and we thank these people for allowing us to share in the
rich nature of this area.
Adapted from the Ndakinna Education Center's
Land Acknowledgement (see link)