Climakaze Miami
The Psychoanalysis of Climate Change by Xavier Cortada
This world premiere performance experience conceived of by Miami’s own Xavier Cortada, current Artist-in-Residence at Florida International University’s School of Environment, Arts, Society & the College of Arts & Sciences, and College of Architecture + The Arts exposes and examines the unnamed crisis of the human psyche around climate change and environmental collapse realizations–both in our consciousness and subconscious.
April 22nd 8:00 p.m. @ Mid Stage at Miami Dade County Auditorium
Film Screening of This Changes Everything – The Movie
April 23rd 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. @ Miami Dade County Auditorium
Dialogues and Performances:
- The Psychoanalysis of Climate Change by Xavier Cortada;
- Loup Garou by Nick Slie;
- This World Made Itself by Miwa Mitreyek; and
- Luyanó Band in Concert
April 24th 10:00 a.m.
Nature excursion
ABOUT CLIMAKAZE
Climakaze Miami (cly-ma-kaw-zee) is celebrating its second annual convening and performance marathon of climate-change-concerned artists, scientists, change-makers and other stakeholders from across the South Florida and the international spectrum. FUNDarte, in collaboration with Miami-Dade County Auditorium, present Climakaze Miami are hosting a all-day transformative dialogue and performance platform to plumb the depths of what artistic practice means and looks like in an unprecedented climatic reality. We will be digging deep into how arts practice can ignite an awakening around looming complex environmental and social issues, and explore platforms for creative action to address the urgent needs of the local and global climate movement.
With opening night film screening, live performances and marine nature excursion interwoven with participative conversations designed to surface our collective intelligence, diverse participants will join to create a shared vision for change that benefits our local and global ecologies, reflects community needs, and places artistic practice on the front-lines of positive action in the face of urgent climate issues.
The dialogues will aim to generate year-round connectivity and action towards this shared purpose. So come expand your tribe and join us in our mission to explore the realities surrounding climate change in our own communities, jump start awareness and incite action!
ABOUT CLIMAKAZE PARTNERS, SUPPORT AND FUNDERS
FUNDarte is a multidisciplinary non-profit organization dedicated to producing, presenting, and promoting music, theater, dance, film and visual arts that speak to Miami’s diverse cultures, with a special emphasis on artists from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain.
Miami-Dade County Auditorium (MDCA) opened its doors in 1951. It has a splendid history as one of South Florida’s premier performing arts centers. This popular multipurpose theatre features Art Deco Revival décor. It offers two dynamic presentation styles: a 2,372-seat theater that can host major dance, theatre and music performances; and a 250-seat black box theatre in which both the audience and performers share the stage of the auditorium, adapted into an innovative studio theatre for more intimate – and often cutting-edge – shows. In January 2012, the operation of Miami-Dade County Auditorium was transferred to the Department of Cultural Affairs, which hasa track record and reputation of innovation and artistic excellence.
Earth Learning is growing a life-sustaining culture in our home, the Greater Everglades bioregion, as well as seeding life-sustaining strategies in bioregions throughout North America. Part of our mission is to be a catalyst in the transition toward a life-sustaining culture in the Greater Everglades Bioregion by: Creating Access to ecological movements as they unfold locally; Weaving Connection toward collective wisdom and a shared vision; Building Capacity via ecological learning experiences; and Growing Roots by inspiring and modeling local, eco-social ventures. We are part of a global movement that is transitioning us toward an ecologically sustainable world.
Support for Climakaze Miami comes in part from the Miami Dade County Auditorium, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council; Glassworks Multimedia, Romaldesign, The Miami Herald, and WDNA.
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PRESS RELEASE
EVENT INFO:
Elizabeth Doud
[email protected]
305.519.6877
MEDIA CONTACT:
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FUNDARTE PRESENTS CLIMAKAZE MIAMI, MIAMI’S ONLY PERFORMANCE AND
DIALOGUE PLATFORM DEDICATED TO CLIMATE ACTION!
APRIL 22-24, 2016
CLIMAKAZE MIAMI is a radically fun event that mixes live performances, participatory conversations and a marine nature excursion in a thought provoking festival format focused on climate change. It brings together the climate-concerned arts community, educators, scientists, activists and climate champions in local government, plus a wide
range of climate-concerned citizens.
Climakaze Diologues has a goal of galvanizing the vast and often disparate network of artists educators, writers, performers, government workers and concerned citizens to host conversations between artists and citizens from outside the Arts Sector in order to expand the opportunities for cultural collaborations with the larger Climate Movement.
The facilitator of the Climakaze Dialogues, Scott Perret, affirms the process: “These conversations are structured to flow through progressive themes and areas of inquiry and are woven into several performances throughout the day. In this way, collective wisdom emerges from the group that is present, and in response to the performances.”
Climakaze Miami activities and performances throw all these different climate concerned people together to deliver visionary, risk taking performances, conversations and activities that are committed to positive change in the face of our shared climate crisis.
Produced by FUNDarte in collaboration with the Miami Dade County Auditorium, Climakaze Miami 2016 will host three diverse days of activities on April 22, 23 & 24 at the Miami Dade County Auditorium and on an a marine excursion in Biscayne Bay.
Experience the movie based on Naomi Klein’s best seller This Changes Everything, The Psychoanalysis of Climate Change by local climate arts pioneer Xavier Cortada, environmental performance by the indomitable theater activist Nick Slie of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, stunning media performance by Miwa Matreyek of Los Angeles, CA, and Miami’s own Luyanó Band, along with the participation of many diverse guests from all over the Climate Movement spectrum.
Elizabeth Doud, Climakaze’s Artistic Director urges Miamians to use culture as a portal into these complex conversations and as a way to take action, “A lot of artists want to do something about climate change…and why not? After all, the arts have the power to raise awareness, connect with people emotionally, provoke thought, and dialogue, and even change the way we live. The arts are really good at connecting with communities, too. Many experts working on the challenges of climate change often say they struggle with getting their message out. That’s where Climakaze Miami comes in—to helpconnect the arts as a positive force in facing Climate Change challenges.”
For Event Registration, go to: http://climakazemiami.org/event-registration/
Please note that we have a Pay What You Want policy to make our programs more accessible. Check out details on the Registration Page.
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE:
• Friday, April 22 / 8:00 p.m. – Movie Screening of “This Changes Everything – The Movie
• Saturday, April 23 / 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. – All Day Dialogue and Performance Marathon, go to www.climakazemiami.org for detailed schedule of day’s activities and performances.
• Sunday, April 24 / 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Marine Nature Excursion
TICKETS AND REGISTRATION:
Full Registration including Friday and Saturday, April 22 & 23 = $85
Full Day Pass for Saturday, April 23 ONLY – $75
Marine Nature Excursion on Sunday, April 24 = $50
Individual Performance and Movie Tickets = $10
For individual evening movie tickets for This Changes Everything – The Movie on Friday, April 22 at 8:00 p.m., go to: https://www.tugg.com/events/89999
For individual performance tickets for Saturday, April 23, please go to www.ticketmaster.com
If you would like to apply for event participation as a Climakaze volunteer, please contact Elizabeth Doud at [email protected].
ABOUT THE FILM AND PERFORMANCES:
For complete information on artists, contributors, film, performances and activities, go to: http://climakazemiami.org/event-schedule/
Friday, April 22, 2016 – 8:00 p.m.
Film Screening – This Changes Everything – The Movie
http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/about
What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better
world? Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four
years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of
climate change. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting
idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed
economic system into something radically better.
Saturday, April 23, 2016 – 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
The Climakaze Un-Conference of Arts and Climate Action
Participatory conversations facilitated by the Climakaze team will flow throughout the
day, and be punctuated by live art action that will further stimulate group dialogues.
Performance #1 (2:00 p.m.) – This World Made Itself by Miwa Matreyek
This World Made Itself is a multimedia live performance work combining
projected animation and the artist’s own shadow silhouette as she interacts with
the fantastical world of the video, merging film and theater to create something
that is its own kind of spectacle. Created and performed by Los Angeles based
artist Miwa Matreyek, This World Made Itself is a visually and musically-rich
journey through the history of the earth, from the universe’s epic beginnings to
the complex world of humans. The piece is at once semi-scientific, emotional and
dream-like, rich in surrealism and metaphor, palpable and fantastic.
Performance #2 (3:30 p.m.)– The Psychoanalysis of Climate Change by Xavier
Cortada
This world premiere performance experience conceived of by Miami’s own Xavier
Cortada, current Artist-in-Residence at Florida International University’s School
of Environment, Arts, Society & the College of Arts & Sciences, and College of
Architecture + The Arts exposes and examines the unnamed crisis of the human
psyche around climate change and environmental collapse realizations–both in
our consciousness and subconscious.
Performance #3 (6:00 p.m.) – Loup Garou by Nick Slie
Loup Garou is an environmental performance that uses the Cajun werewolf myth
to explore the deep interconnectedness between land and culture in Louisiana.
Conceived and performed by native Louisianan Nick Slie, it is part performance,
part ritual, part howl to the world about southeast Louisiana’s plight. Driven by
climate-crisis related occurrences, every half hour, Louisiana loses nearly a
football field’s worth of coastal marshes to the Gulf of Mexico. Land loss is
ubiquitous, and six major hurricanes in the last four years have exacerbated an
already dire situation. In Louisiana, so many cultural traditions and industries
derive directly from relationship with the surrounding rich environment. What will
become of those traditions as the land that nurtures them disappears?
Performance #4 (8:00 p.m.) – Luyanó Band
Luyanó Band presents an evening of original music that blends projected images
and their unique brand of World music. Through their music, Luyanó Band is
looking for a way of unifying not only music styles and genders and instruments,
but world ancestral wisdom legacy with contemporary life. By reaching a
harmonious result on stage, it might be possible to create that same harmony as
a community. The audiovisual experience they present is an exciting assault to
the senses: from the roots to contemporary, from East to West.
Sunday, April 24, 2016 – 9 a.m. -2 p.m.
Marine Nature Excursion to Biscayne Bay
Climakaze Miami closes with dialogues in and on the water in an eco-immersion guided
by Earth Learning. This intimate journey will expand on the weekend’s dialogues and
explore the immediate coastal area of Miami with stops for snorkeling and discovery of
the local marine ecology! Tour leaves from Sea Isles Marina near the Venetian
Causeway in Downtown Miami.
Limited capacity. Lunch and snorkeling equipment provided. Please go to
http://www.climakazemiami.org for details on excursion registration and itinerary.
Capacity is limited.
FUNDarte believes culture’s role in progressive climate action is inevitable and can be networked more deeply to expand partnerships and engage citizenry in meaningful ways. Conversely, cultural organizers need partners in the non-arts sector who are working on the front lines of education, conservation, environmental justice and mitigation. To address this issue, we founded Climakaze Miami in 2015, a platform for performance and dialogue at this cross section of cultural collaboration and climate action.
FUNDarte is a multidisciplinary non-profit organization dedicated to producing, presenting, and promoting music, theater, dance, film and visual arts that speak to Miami’s diverse cultures, with a special emphasis on artists from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain.
Support for Climakaze Miami comes in part from the Miami Dade County Auditorium, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, State of Florida, Department of State, Division of CulturalAffairs, the Florida Arts Council; Glassworks Multimedia, Romaldesign, The Miami Herald, and WDNA.
For additional organizational information, visit www.fundarte.us or contact Ever Chavez at 305.316.6165.
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