Singing and Dancing in the Rain: Climate Change as Youth Musical Theatre

这是埃克塞特大学戏剧系和家门口艺术学院之间的合作，托贝让年轻人参与到以艺术为基础的方法来应对气候变化。它与他们在熟悉的戏剧制作环境中相遇，并激励他们从事艺术和人文领域的气候变化研究。他们还将参与关于气候变化和气候传播的科学研究，作为与缔约方会议第26届会议同时开展的创造性进程的一部分。该项目的目的是：1.激励参加“家门口艺术”戏剧制作活动的年轻人把他们的作品放在一套与气候变化及其表现形式密不可分的文化习俗中；2.使年轻人能够在自己的创作实践中通过应对气候变化来影响气候变化；3.使年轻人能够根据他们的戏剧创作对气候变化科学进行自己的研究；4.将他们的实践与“公约”缔约方会议第26届会议的艺术品结合起来。该项目将利用PI O‘Malley在剧院和气候变化方面的研究专长，以及CI Walcon在应用剧院实践方面的研究专长。重点扩展了O‘Malley现有的研究(AHRC Out the Box；AHRC大气剧院；NERC气候故事)，并得到了她之前在音乐剧方面的音乐学院培训的进一步支持。在气候科学方面，CI彼得·斯托特拥有世界知名的气候科学专业知识和丰富的经验，其中包括与艺术家合作的独特研究兴趣(NERC气候故事)。Felicity Liggins(也是NERC气候故事)带来了她在气象局教育和外展团队的气候交流方面的经验。因此，这项提议通过新的突出艺术和人文方法来扩展先前的合作。在每周四次的课程中，DAS的年轻人将参加由弗格森和奥马利主持的以实践为基础的音乐剧讲习班，重点是天气和气候的表现。这些活动将作为表演活动的一部分，介绍应对气候变化及其与文化和社会的关系的艺术和人文方法。从年轻人已经熟悉的片段(其中一些是他们自己选择的)开始，参与者将上演音乐数字来强调这项研究。作为一项桥牌活动，这些年轻人将参加由本科生在埃克塞特的DRA3092剧院举办的关于气候变化模块的研讨会，为他们提供一个机会，让他们接触到在大学学习的戏剧实践。这项活动还将使本科生能够在社区环境中探索他们的实践。在学期的第二部分，年轻人将设计并表演他们自己的气候变化音乐剧，包括剧本写作、编舞和作曲。作为进程的一部分，他们将与斯托特和利金斯协商，跟踪缔约方会议第26届会议的进展情况。12月，将在佩恩顿的宫殿剧院为受邀观众举行一场演出。作品的元素也将在佩恩顿彩灯游行中与更广泛的公众观众分享。与《斯特兰德一号》同时上映的还有一群来自家门口青年剧院的年轻人，他们将在《斯特兰德二号》中制作两个播客。第一个播客将以他们对响应COP 26的艺术品的研究为特色。第二期将采访Strand One的参与者。

This collaboration between the University of Exeter's Drama department and Doorstep Arts, Torbay engages young people with arts-based approaches to addressing climate change. It meets them in their familiar theatre-making environment and inspires them to engage with arts and humanities climate change research. They will also engage with scientific research into climate change and climate communications as part of the creative process running concurrently with COP 26. The project aims to:1. inspire the young people who participate in theatre-making activities at Doorstep Arts to locate their work within a set of cultural practices that are inextricable from climate change and its representations; 2. empower the young people to effect change by addressing climate change in their own creative practice;3. enable the young people to carry out their own research into climate change science, as pertinent to their theatre-making;4. contextualise their practice alongside the artworks accompanying COP 26. The project will draw on the research expertise of the PI O'Malley in theatre and climate change and the CI Walcon in applied theatre practice. The focus extends O'Malley's existing research (AHRC Outside the Box; AHRC Atmospheric Theatres; NERC Climate Stories) and is further supported by her prior conservatoire training in musical theatre. In climate science, the CI Peter Stott's world renowned climate science expertise and extensive experience includes a unique research interest in collaborating with artists (NERC Climate Stories). Felicity Liggins (also NERC Climate Stories), brings her experience of climate communications from the Met Office's education and outreach team. This proposal therefore extends prior collaborations by newly foregrounding arts and humanities approaches. During four weekly sessions the DAS young people will participate in practice-based musical theatre workshops focussed on representations of weather and climate, facilitated by Ferguson and O'Malley. These will use introduce arts and humanities approaches to climate change and its relation to culture and society as part of performance exercises. Beginning with extracts already familiar to the young people (some of which they will self-select), participants will stage musical numbers to emphasise this research. As a bridge activity, the young people will participate in a workshop led by undergraduates on Exeter's DRA3092 Theatre for a Changing Climate module, offering them an opportunity to encounter theatre practice as studied at University. This activity will also enable the undergraduates to explore their practice in a community setting. For the second part of the term the young people will devise and perform their own climate change musical, including script-writing, choreography and composition. They will consult with Stott and Liggins as part of the process, tracking the progress of COP 26. A performance will take place for an invited audience at the Palace Theatre, Paignton in December. Elements of the work will also be shared with a wider public audience at the Paignton Lantern Procession. Parallel to Strand One, a separate group of young people from the Doorstep Youth Theatre will work to create two podcasts in Strand Two. The first podcast will feature their research into artworks responding to COP 26. The second will feature interviews with the Strand One participants.