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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>A
matter of degrees: a Climate Change Dionysia<BR><BR>Bath Spa University
Department of Drama seeks your support for its Climate <BR>Change
Dionysia.<BR><BR>As we increasingly have come to know, climate change is
underway. Very <BR>importantly, as scientist and explorer Tim Flannery writes in
The <BR>Weather-Makers , climate change is a matter of degrees:<BR><BR>When we
consider the fate of the planet as a whole, we must be under no <BR>illusions
about what is at stake. Earth's average temperature is around 15 <BR>degrees and
whether we allow it to rise by a single degree or 3 degrees will <BR>decide the
fate of hundreds of thousands of species and most probably <BR>billions of
people<BR><BR>'Degrees' thus becomes a charged word impelling us towards more
action <BR>sooner rather than less action later.<BR><BR>How can we in the arts
and in higher education help reduce climate change?<BR><BR>Climate changes calls
for innovation on many fronts! For its part, to <BR>coincide with the opening of
the new University Theatre, Bath Spa University <BR>Department of Drama proposes
to host a ' Climate Change Dionysia' in Summer <BR>2007.<BR><BR>Climate Change +
'Dionysia'? Dionysia implies ritual, tragedy and comedy <BR>confronting the most
universal aspects of life in a unitary and cathartic <BR>communal event. What is
more universal at the moment than Climate Change?<BR><BR>The festival
aims<BR><BR>* To ensure live performance forms a key part of the response to
climate <BR>change<BR>* To enable artists to recognize, explore, reckon with
climate change and <BR>its impacts<BR>* To embody-mourn-celebrate cultures and
species dead and dying as a result <BR>of climate change<BR>* To draw further -
and more deep - attention to climate change and to what <BR>we can do about
it<BR>* To catalyse 'making degress of difference' in the extent to which
climate <BR>change occurs<BR><BR>How can you help? At this stage we seek
'expressions of interest' from <BR>artists and others.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>Ian McNish<BR>Interim Subject Leader (joint), Drama
Studies<BR>Department of Drama<BR>School of Music and Performing Arts<BR>Bath
Spa University<BR>Newton St.Loe<BR>Bath BA2 9BN<BR>Tel 01225 876332<BR>Email
</FONT><A href=""><FONT
face="Times New Roman">i.mcnish@bathspa.ac.uk</FONT></A><BR></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>_________________________________________________________________<BR>"
. . . we have to accept that our tragedy lies always in our past, that we have
to live with our ancestors' folly and suffer for it, just as they, in their
turn, suffered, and as we, through our vanity and ignorance, ensure the pain and
suffering of our own children. How to correct history, that's the
thing."--Robert Fisk<BR>____________________________________<BR>"In 2005, the
world . . . pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the expenditure, annually, on
arms. We're fighting for $50 billion annually for foreign aid for Africa: the
military total outstrips human need by 20 to 1. Can someone please explain to me
our contemporary balance of values?" --Stephen
Lewis.<BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St.
West<BR>Montréal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514) 398 6592 <BR>Regular Fax (514) 398
8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>