Climate Action Radio Plays

Students Take Part in Climate Change Theater Action project at John Jay College

The new Sustainability and Environmental Justice program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, is proud to participate in ArtCop21 (http://www.artcop21.com), a worldwide arts festival leading up to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP21) in December. There are almost 300 events planned in 34 countries that include musical performances, art installations, conferences, demonstrations, etc. The goal is to raise awareness about climate change to put pressure on the world leaders meeting in Paris to end global dependence on fossil fuelss. Theater Professor Karen Malpede and her classes at John Jay have selected four plays written for the Climate Change Theater Action project to perform on John Jay’s radio station, RADio568 (http://radio568.wordpress.com). The plays will be given as dramatic readings and discussed by students in the Sustainability and Environmental Justice and Theatre Arts classes.

The plays will be broadcast as podcasts, followed by a discussion of all the plays, during the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris. Tune in to John Jay’s RADio568 Nov. 30 – Dec. 5, 2015, 9 – 10 AM EST. The plays will be The Cow Is Dead by Deborah Zoe Laufer, an inter-generational argument about meat and climate change; Starving to Death in Midtown by Mindy Dickstein, about the fate of bees in central Manhattan; The Same Bullshit by Koffi Kwahule, translated by Chantal Bilodeau, about the proposed eviction of garbage dump dwellers to make way for a golf course; and Portuguese Tomato by Elaine Avila, about food, memory and resistance.

http://www.artcop21.com/events/climate-action-radio-plays