by Alyssa Formosa I have a confession to make: I almost didn't register for Dreaming Climate Consciousness. I thought it wasn't for me. Sure, I recycle and compost, but I also fall into the consumer traps of online shopping and overconsumption. Furthermore, the climate crisis overwhelms...
It’s morbidly easy to imagine the end of the world. However, we can’t blame ourselves too harshly. We’ve been exploring depictions of our own demise forever. From sci-fi films to dystopian novels to post-apocalyptic video games, that tank of ideas is full of fuel. What’s...
In early 2022, I participated in the third cohort of the Dreaming Climate Consciousness workshop. The opportunity to tackle climate issues and science fiction was more excitement than I could contain. This was, after all, my sweet spot… Climate Fiction, a new genre borne -...
At the outset, in the thick of the Covid 19 pandemic, it seemed we all had a sense of life as precarious. The Dreaming Climate Consciousness workshop allowed participants to talk in a disparate but respectful group of people about present and anticipated change. New...
FUTURES/forward Mentee, Evan Medd — cohort #3 duo, October 2020 to March 2021 — mentored by David Diamond Note original post found here: https://icasc.ca/futures-forward-mentorship-evan-medd/ EVAN MEDD is a Canadian theatre artist based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) and in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),...