Join local youth, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Inside the Greenhouse and city organizers on Friday, Oct. 2 for a lively evening of art, performance and music in support of youth-led community engagement in city planning for resilience.
The event, “Performance, Art and Music for a Resilient Boulder” is free and open to all ages. It will take place at 7 p.m. in CU-Boulder’s new Sustainability, Environment and Energy Complex (SEEC), located on the corner of Foothills Parkway and Colorado Blvd. Parking is available on the northeast side of the building.
Performance
“Sol-Her Energ-He” is an original musical performed by Boulder youth. It weaves together a lively story of energy, humans and climate and jumpstarts our community in authoring ideas for city planning for resilience.
This professionally produced performance serves as an envelope for new narratives based on local issues towards a resilient future, and its goal is to include Boulder youth in the authorship of a new story for resilience. It was created by Beth Osnes, CU-Boulder assistant professor of theatre, with music by Grammy-winning Tom Wasinger and choreography by Arthur Fredrick.
Art
“Young Women’s Resilient Voices” is an art exhibit by Boulder youth expressing what resilience means to them through kites, capes and mixed media.
The goal of the exhibit, newly on display at SEEC, is to ensure that the perspectives, needs and contributions of young women are included in Boulder County's plan for resilience in response to climate change and other social factors impacting our community. It also aims to support the presence of young women’s expression of resilience in positive places of social power. The exhibit is led by Juliana Forbes with video installation by Beck Anderson.
Music
Dance the night away to Bateria Alegria, a live Samba band on the outdoor deck bedazzled with Solar-powered lights, refreshments, conversation and much fun for all ages.
“Performance, Art and Music for a Resilient Boulder” is brought to you as an expression of creative climate communication by CU-Boulder’s Inside the Greenhouse, the Albert A. Bartlett Center for Climate Communication, the Environmental Center, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, the student group Performers Without Borders, Muse Studio, Casey Middle School and the School for the Environment and Sustainability and in cooperation with the City of Boulder, BoCoStrong, Climate Culture Collaborative (aka C3Boulder) and the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Initiative, which includes the City of Boulder.
For more information, visit http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/itg/events/resilient_boulder.html or contact Beth.osnes@colorado.edu or karen.cozzetto@Colorado.EDU.