Save the Date: Screening of Leonardo DiCaprio's new film, Before the Flood

Monday, November 7th, 6 - 9 p.m.  DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus, McGowan South, Room 107.  Check out our Facebook page below. 

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• Presentations by artists immersed in their work and natural environments
• Amanda Speer, The Warp Zone
• Joshua Mason, Fieldworks Studios

DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, McGowan South (104)

• Staged Reading of the play GROUNDSWELL, by Karen Fort. Discussion follows.
•  Produced by Prop Theatre, De Paul Theatre School, 350.org, Citizens Climate Lobby

• "Theatre lovers, please note the reading of GROUNDSWELL, an original, full-length play by local playwright, Karen O. Fort.  According to Fort, this story of a farming family struggling through a heat wave, illustrates how climate-change 'pressures relationships and lifestyles.' The play also dramatizes how climate change can become a matter of life and death for current as well as future generations." 

DePaul University Theatre School, 2350 N. Racine, Room 442.

Reserve 773-750-7835, or Karen.o.fort(at)gmail.com

Select Activities

• Joey FineRhyme and his peddle-powered sound system
• Soham Dance Space performance
• Arts and crafts activities
• Marwen student art show
• Environmental Graphiti exhibit and posters
• Artist's Weather Project exhibit and weather coloring
• National Park Service interactive exhibit
• 350 Chicago meet and greet

AND MORE!

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

PLEASE NOTE: THE GUEST LIST NOW CLOSED DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE.
 

• Acoustic Kitchen Open Stage (environmental night)
• acoustic musicians and singers of the Columbia College community

The HAUS at the Quincy Wong Center for the Performing Arts
623 S Wabash Ave, Chicago IL 60605

• Columbia Nature and Environmentalism student presentations
• Visual art and spoken word event, curated by

Join us for an opening night reception featuring artistic work from Columbia College students in Michelle Yates’s Nature and Environmentalism in U.S. Culture class. A range of art mediums - dance, film, poetry, sculpture, painting, and collage - that consider the (ab)uses of nature and the most pressing environmental issues of the 21st century.

Columbia College Chicago, Library, 624 S. Michigan, 3rd floor (North)

Artists include:

Jesse Bartuzik
Carlee Belt
Spencer Blackmon
Gretchen Braulick
Hannah Braulick
Emmanuel Coche
Mackenzie Crosson
Gabriel de la Mora
Carla Davis
Amy Dickens
Kelly Egan
Sara Marie Helsel
Mark Hockleutner
Bre Kloski
Lukas Kowal
Maria Anna Meade
Abigail Reichmann
Nohemi Rosales
Ravel Weil

• William Jordan III presentation: “Therefore the Winds: Climate Change, Values, and Technologies of the Imagination”
  
  "Bill Jordan is widely recognized as an intellectual leader in the field of ecological restoration. In the course of a career spanning 39 years he has played a key role in the shaping of ideas about the value of restoration as a conservation strategy, a technique for basic research, and as a performing art and the basis for a 'new communion' with nature."

"In a rant that anticipates by 400 years our concerns about the prospects of global climate change, Titania, the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” (II,i: 81-117) attributes the disordering of the climate to her husband, who, she asserts, has interfered with the rituals by which the fairies maintain the order of the world.  If we allow that fairies may be taken in this context as “people,” what Shakespeare is depicting here is actually anthropogenic climate change. And the passage reminds us of an ancient wisdom we should perhaps hasten to recover and put into practice at this perilous moment [in the midst] of climate disaster."
--William Jordan on Environmental Critique

• See an example of Bill's creative vision: a climate change scene from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, McGowan South Room 104

• Children's classical Indian dance performance by Soham Dance Space
• Introduction to the tradition of classical Indian dance and to the next generation
• Original choreography inspired by One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
   
• Presentation of Photography by Randall Honold, India Study Abroad Instructor
• See Honold's Photography at Dylar Addict.

DePaul University, Lincoln Park, Arts & Letters Hall, 2315 N. Kenmore Avenue (Room 413)

• Featuring renowned Chicago artist and educator Judy Natal
• Keynote address and video premiere
• Videos: Breathed on the Waters and Storm Redux

DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, McGowan South (Room 108)

 Acclaimed Chicago photographer Judy Natal will talk about her recent work, Another Storm is Coming, and premiere two moving new videos.  Commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina she dramatizes the effects of extreme weather on residents living along the Gulf Coast. 

"One of the great, great documenters of our eco age
          --Tim Morton, Ecology Without Nature

See photos from this project, Another Storm is Coming, at her website www.judynatal.com.

During her meditative "Breathed on the Waters," a monk, a priest and a gospel singer offer up chants, prayers and songs — pleas to their various gods to provide safety from hurricanes. Their altar/stage appears to be the remnants of a home's concrete foundation in some not-fully-recovered coastal town."

Quote soure: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Three-little-pods-A-world-of-ideas-7240942.php

See beautiful article about Judy Natal by Alex Nates-Perez here.

Another Storm is Coming was commissioned by Rice University (CENHS).

• Melissa Brice/Chicago 350: Climate Change and Fossil Fuel Divestment Presentation
• Joey FineRhyme: Climate Rap Performance and Open Mic
  
  "350.org has chapters organized across the United States and in countries abroad, pressuring universities, colleges, church organizations and governments to withdraw their funds from companies extracting carbon based fuels from the earth, burning said fuels and polluting the planet "
   

"Driven by the belief that rhythm and rhyme are powerful tools to inspire action, the anchor for many of FineRhyme's lyrics returns to this ethos of Be the Change."
 

• Open Mic volunteers wanted.  Please RSVP to [email protected] (to ensure a spot)

DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, McGowan South (Room 105)