PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
All Good Things Must Begin: Short Plays Imagining the Future
Editor
Arts & Climate Initiative and the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, 2024
The climate crisis demands an imaginative leap: We will create a just and regenerative world only if we dare to conjure it and use our vision to guide us through the difficulties. So, let's all be solarpunks and dream up radical futures where nature and community thrive. Let's reject the apocalypse and embrace counterculture, post-capitalism, and decolonization.
Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage
Contributor
Routledge, 2023
Edited by Carolyn M. Dunn, Eric Micha Holmes, and Les Hunter. Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods.
Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2: From the Curious to the Quantum
Contributor
Methuen Drama, 2023
Edited by Meredith Conti and Vivian Appler, Volume 2 of Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance investigates performances that illuminate the hidden recesses and inscrutable mysteries of the natural and human-made worlds.
Artist Report: Aphra Shemza
editor
Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, 2023
This very first Artist Report from the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts focuses on the work of UK-based multimedia artist Aphra Shemza. A natural extension of the CSPA’s exploration of sustainability and the arts in their publication the Quarterly, Artist Reports focus on a single artist and provide an in-depth look at their practice and the way they engage with sustainability.
No More Harveys
Author
Talonbooks, 2023
The third play of the Arctic Cycle (U.S.)
Whether hurricanes or Hollywood producers, Harveys are fed and fattened by money and power, and prey on vulnerable people. Or so says the woman in No More Harveys, who has run away from her abusive husband – also named Harvey. Traveling from New York to Alaska, she looks to the evolutionary path of whales to see a way forward. But migration is never as straightforward as it looks, especially when the entire ecosystem around you is furiously clinging to homeostasis.
The Future Is Not Fixed: Short Plays Envisioning a Global Green New Deal
Editor
Applause Books, 2022
For all of the political, economic, and technological obstacles that stand in the way of addressing climate change, perhaps the greatest challenge is in the realm of imagination. Can we envision a better world? What might an equitable, sustainable, decarbonized, and just society look like? What if the concept of a Green New Deal could become reality?
CSPA Quarterly #32
GUEST CO-EDITOR
CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE IN THE ARTS, 2021
As part of its response to the escalating climate crisis, in June 2020 NAC English Theatre brought together participants for an extraordinary three-day/three-country digital experiment that reflected on the future of theatre. This issue highlights some of the artists and scholars who participated in the event.
Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis
CO-EDITOR
CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE IN THE ARTS & THE ARCTIC CYCLE, 2020
Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis includes 49 inspiring plays by writers from around the world commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2019. Responding to a prompt asking them to “give center stage to the unsung climate warriors and climate heroes who are lighting the way toward a just and sustainable future,” the writers offer a diversity of perspectives and artistic approaches to telling the stories of those who are making a positive impact.
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Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America
contributor
lever press, 2019
This inspirative and hopeful collection demonstrates that the arts and humanities are entering a renaissance that stands to change the direction of our communities. Community leaders, artists, educators, scholars, and professionals from many fields show how they are creating responsible transformations through partnership in the arts and humanities.
International Climate Protection
Contributor
springer, 2019
This book explains the current climate protection processes and technologies, and informs the readers of the limiting factors and opportunities for future development. It represents the highest level of knowledge from leading scientists all over the world. Original high quality figures maximize understanding of the text. The book also introduces a new concept (climatographic), which provides a well pronounced solution to climate protection that is easily understandable for all levels of readers.
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Where Is the Hope? An Anthology of Short Climate Change Plays
editor
the centre for sustainable practice in the arts, 2018
Where is the Hope? An Anthology of Short Climate Change Plays is a collection of 50 short plays by writers from all over the world, commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2017. A creative response to the question “How can we inspire people and turn the challenges of climate change into opportunities?” the plays offer a diversity of perspectives and artistic approaches in telling stories that may point to a just and sustainable future.
Forward
author
talonbooks, 2017
The second play of the arctic Cycle (Norway)
In 1893, Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen unwittingly opened up the Arctic for development. He set sail on his ship, Fram (which means “forward” in Norwegian), seeking the North Pole – and didn’t return for three years. Forward is a relay race through time, from 2013 to 1893, where each generation passes the baton to the next.
Sila
author
talonbooks, 2015
The first play of the arctic Cycle (Canada)
In Inuit mythology, “sila” means air, climate, or breath. Bilodeau’s play of the same name examines the competing interests shaping the future of the Canadian Arctic and local Inuit population. Equal parts Inuit myth and contemporary Arctic policy, the play Sila features puppetry, spoken word poetry, and three different languages (English, French, and Inuktitut).