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of children activists, and the potential national government commitments such as the Green New Deal offer inspiration and motivation for the rapid and massive systems-based change that’s needed as our time is quicklyrunningout.
This piece, What’s Your Vision for a Post-Carbon Arts Sector? by Vijay Mathew, cultural strategist and a co-founder of HowlRound Theatre Commons, was originally published on HowlRound Theatre Commons on April 17, 2019.
HowlRound’s longest-running journal series, Theatre in the Age of Climate Change, is vital to shaping the present and future of the field. In it, you’ll find dozens of examples of inspiring artists and cultural workers dedicated to making an impact in their communities.
On the political front, discourse and consciousness is rapidly changing. The 400 declarations of climate emergency from worldwide municipal governments, the converging movement work like the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion, the hundreds of thousands