Responding to Climate: Expressing Ourselves Through Conversation, Story, and Art

Addressing climate change begins with talking about climate change topics openly, regularly, and in community. The team will create an educational and artistic forum where individuals, students, and community members are invited to explore their personal experience with climate change and the emotional impact these changes are having. There will be three avenues employed for such exploration: 1) provide spaces/facilitation to speak, ask questions, contemplate, and reflect on climate’s current local impacts, 2) integrate climate experiences into educational opportunities, and 3) create and present artistic works that embody participants’ climate experiences. This work will add to our community’s body of climate change education, awareness raising, and increase of human and natural capacity to address climate change impacts through mitigation, adaptation and resilience. The project directly supports outcomes for SDGs #3 and #13 while also addressing issues related to SDGs #10 and #11.