Storying Climate Change
About this Event
Canadian writers Kyo Maclear (Birds Art Life, Orillia’s Big Read 2017 selection) and Catriona Sandilands (Queer Ecologies) will be joined by local writers and storytellers to read, tell stories, and discuss a new collection of climate change stories, titled Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times. Although climate change is global and dramatic, its effects are also experienced locally by people who are struggling to understand the impacts of climate change on their daily lives. Including more than forty works of short fiction, memoir, and poetry, Rising Tides emphasizes the need for intimate stories and thoughtful attention, and also for a view of climate justice that is grounded in ongoing histories of colonialism and other forms of environmental and social devastation. Bringing stories about climate change—both catastrophic and subtle—closer to home, this event will inspire reflection, understanding, conversation and action.
Storying Climate Change seeks to provide a bridge between the everyday and the oft-apocalyptic sentiments surrounding climate change discussion. As part of a series of readings and discussions taking place across Canada, Storying Climate Change invites communities to discuss and reflect on what climate change means for them now.
The event is free. If possible, please register in advance.
Sponsored by "Storying Climate Change," a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (https://storyingclimatechange.com/about/), the Lakehead University Research Chair in Environmental Humanities, Caitlin Press, and Manticore Books.