Saturday, October 10, 2020
3:00 – 4:15pm PT
Dispatches from the Great Burning: What My Mennonite Ancestors and the Gobi Bear Taught Me About Surviving the Climate Emergency
Written and Performed by Helen Stoltzfus
Directed by Albert Greenberg
Virginia, USA
About the Artist
Helen Stoltzfus is co-artistic director and co-founder of Black Swan Arts & Media, an Oakland-based theatre that creates and produces original performance and multimedia works that transcend barriers of race, religion, culture, and politics. Helen has been creating, performing, directing and teaching solo and ensemble theatre for over twenty-five years. Her most recent solo work about her awakening to the climate crisis is called “Dispatches from the Great Burning: What My Mennonite Ancestors and the Gobi Bear Taught Me About Surviving the Climate Emergency.”
Press
https://www.blackswanarts.org/dispatches
As recommended by the performer
Age recommendation: 12+
Run time: 57 minutes