LCC Presents Climate Change Theatre Action: All Good Things Must Begin
LCC is participating in the global Climate Change Theatre Action festival with two nights of short plays from different countries, poetry, art and information presented by a multidisciplinary group of students, staff and faculty on Dec. 1 and 2 in LCC’s Black Box Theatre.
Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA) uses theatre to bring together community for art and actions about the climate crisis. The biennial festival features events worldwide from Sept. 17-Dec. 23 to coincide with the U.N. Conference of the Parties climate meetings. Founded in 2015, every other year the festival invites 50 playwrights to contribute five-minute plays on a theme, this year’s inspired by science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s journal entry: “all good things must begin.”
LCC’s production features five CCTA plays: Thunderbird by Jo MacDonald, an Anishinaabe playwright from Manitoba, Canada, A Hummingbird’s Ululation by Aleya Kassam, Kenya, That’s the Late Night Show by Vitor Jatobá, Brazil, Magical Fungi in Times Square by Chantal Bilodeau, Quebec, Canada/New York, The Polar Bears by Nicholas Billon, Canada, and a sixth play, Snails by Janet Colson, Detroit, Michigan.
The plays are directed by LCC Theatre alumni Anna Szabo, Doak Bloss and Nick Lemmer, and performed by a cast of 16 LCC Theatre students and one Theatre alum.
Climate-themed poetry created by students through LCC’s Community-Generated Poetry Project and event posters by LCC Art and Design students will be displayed. Local environmental organizations and the Michigan Coalition of Science on the Ballot will have information tables.
LCC’s Climate Change Theatre Action is organized by producer Melissa Kaplan who produced the Lansing area’s first Climate Change Theatre Action in Nov. 2017 at The Robin Theatre. LCC poetry creation is led by English prof. Barbara Clauer and community outreach by Biology prof. John Doudna.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. both Dec. 1 and 2. There is no charge for admission. Donations will be accepted for LCC’s Theatre Scholarship Funds.
WHO: Lansing Community College
WHAT: Climate Change Theatre Action: All Good Things Must Begin
WHEN: December 1-2 @ 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: LCC Black Box Theatre – 411 N. Grand Avenue, Gannon Building, Room 1422
FREE parking in Gannon Ramp
FREE Admission
Donations accepted for LCC Theatre’s Scholarship Funds
LCC’s Performing Arts Theatre and Music Programs are offering several free concerts and performances at the end of this fall semester. A celebration of student achievement, these performances serve as capstone events for students enrolled in theatre and music classes.
IMPROV SHOWCASE – Instructor Blake Bowen
December 5 @ 6 p.m.
LCC Black Box Theatre
Gannon Building, Room 1422
MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCES – Instructor Kelly Stuible-Clark
December 7 & 8 @ 8 p.m.
LCC Black Box Theatre
Gannon Building, Room 1422
LCC CONCERT CHOIR – Instructor Dr. Jon Ten Brink
VOCAL JAZZ & POP ENSEMBLE – Instructor Nada Radakovich
December 10 @ 3 p.m.
Okemos Community Church
4734 Okemos Rd.
LCC ROCK BAND – Instructor Christopher Rollins
December 10 @ 6 p.m.
The Avenue Café
2021 Michigan Ave.
The STEAM Plays: Using the Arts to Talk about STEM - at MSU FRIB
Throughout this fall semester MSU Theatre students have been working on, rehearsing, designing, and creating a new show called: The STEAM Plays: Using the Arts to Talk about STEM. The show looks at the necessity for the arts to be integrated into a STEM education. (science, technology, engineering, and math). The show has toured to numerous elementary schools throughout the local area over the past few weeks.
We are offering two free public performances at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Theatre (FRIB) at MSU on Saturday December 2nd. The free public performances are at 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM at the FRIB. Preshow activities from MSU Science Theater, Post show activities from the FRIB Outreach team. Appropriate for first grade students and above. Entrance under the canopy by Lot 116 of the FRIB Building on 640 Shaw Lane. Free parking at the Law Parking Garage across the street.
Designed by Thalia Lara and embracing the future of design by using AI to create the media throughout the show. Songs and sound by MSU graduate Seth Burk. Kaite Clemons tour manager, musical director, and choreographer, Assistant director Reese Verlinde, Assistant choreographer Ava Ballagh.
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