Abstract
Join us for the 2025 edition of Climate Change Theatre Action, a global festival of short plays engaging with climate change and promoting transformative climate justice. Find community through an evening of performance, original music, and calls to action. Climate Change Theatre Action at the Somerville Community Growing Center aims to create and sustain a more fully inclusive and open Somerville (MA, USA), recognizing that community engagement is a strong predictor of resilience in our ongoing climate crisis. Invested in growing community, the festival will be preceded by a playwriting workshop and readings of new plays; presentations and panels by local advocates and scholars engaging with climate, environmental, racial, immigration, and food justice; a convening of local climate justice advocates; opportunities to reflect on the natural and built environments of Somerville and contribute to the Urban Pastorals project; a queer-focused somatic therapy workshop; a native plant container gardening demonstration; and other events at the Growing Center. “Now is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2025” is co-sponsored by the Artists' Theater of Boston (Anneke Reich, Artistic Director), the Racial Justice Collaborative (Diane Wong, founder and leader) and the Somerville Community Growing Center. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and by a Public Humanities/Community Engagement Grant from the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Climate Change Theatre Action (founding artistic director Chantal Bilodeau) is a biennial international festival produced in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts.