Welcome. Buckle up!
04/20/23 • 3 min
This weekend on Earth Day, April 22nd - we’re dropping the first-ever episode of Climate Change & Other Small Talk! Sunny talks about the 9 stories created by our fantastic international teams. Expect serious themes wrapped in enjoyable stories to ease us into them. In fact, the series is way more fun than dying in the apocalypse. Promise.
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--- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---
Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
This weekend on Earth Day, April 22nd - we’re dropping the first-ever episode of Climate Change & Other Small Talk! Sunny talks about the 9 stories created by our fantastic international teams. Expect serious themes wrapped in enjoyable stories to ease us into them. In fact, the series is way more fun than dying in the apocalypse. Promise.
--- FOLLOW US---
Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus content including discussion guides and a listening party hosting guide: https://www.sunnydrake.com/climatechangeandothersmalltalk
Follow Sunny, the series creator, on Instagram: instagram.com/sunny_drake
Follow Sunny Drake Productions on Facebook: facebook.com/sunnydrake.creations
Twitter: twitter.com/sunny_drake
--- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---
Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
Previous Episode
Sneak Peek
Climate Change. Wait, don't curl up into a ball of stress! Sunny Drake's Climate Change and Other Small Talk is a theatrical podcast that is here to hold your hand through the scary stuff and entertain you at the same time.
Made by 9 creative teams around the world, these podcast episodes have got it all: from the witty to the wacky, and the serious to the silly. It’s guaranteed to be fun and ignite your inner climate warrior all while offering global perspectives on the climate crisis.
There will be weird sound effects. An angry panda running a submarine. And a 500-year-old tree that... well we can’t give it all away, but listen to this sneak peek to get an idea!
Subscribe now to get the first episode when we launch on Earth Day, April 22nd!
Sign up for the Sunny Drake Productions newsletter to get tips for hosting your very own listening party, insights from behind the scenes, a discussion guide and ideas to support climate equity in your community.
Learning about how to survive the apocalypse has never been so fun.
--- FOLLOW US---
Follow Sunny, the series creator, on Instagram: instagram.com/sunny_drake
Follow Sunny Drake Productions on Facebook: facebook.com/sunnydrake.creations
Twitter: twitter.com/sunny_drake
--- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---
Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
Next Episode
Absolutely Nothing Of Any Meaning
A couple leave outraged reviews about products delivered by Amazon, while climate chaos swishes into their home. Their responses to their escalating crisis become increasingly absurd, topped only by the absurdity of Amazon’s tactics to thwart them.
Absolutely Nothing Of Any Meaning was written by Sunny Drake. Find the transcript here.
Climate Change and Other Small Talk is a worldwide tour for your ears - minus the carbon footprint and lost luggage. Audio dramas from 9 creative teams around the globe will entertain as well as explore our climate crisis. And maybe even what could get us out.
--- FOLLOW US---
Sign up for our newsletter to get bonus content including discussion guides and a listening party hosting guide: https://www.sunnydrake.com/climatechangeandothersmalltalk
Follow Sunny, the series creator, on Instagram: instagram.com/sunny_drake
Follow Sunny Drake Productions on Facebook: facebook.com/sunnydrake.creations
Twitter: twitter.com/sunny_drake
--- CREDITS ---
Absolutely Nothing of Any Meaning
Written by SUNNY DRAKE
Directed by WEYNI MENGESHA
Starring:
ANAND RAJARAM
LIISA REPO-MARTELL
and BAHAREH YARAGHI as Amazon
Sound design and music by RICHARD FEREN and OLIVIA SHORTT
Dramaturgy by KATHLEEN FLAHERTY, WEYNI MENGESHA and DONNA-MICHELLE ST. BERNARD
Episode produced by WHY NOT THEATRE and SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS with the generous support of SOULPEPPER THEATRE
Episode Producer: MICHELLE YAGI
Episode Production Manager: CRYSTAL LEE
Audio mixing by HEATHER BROWN
Recording engineer MATT RIDEOUT
Special thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council, The Arctic Circle Residency Program and fellow residents, Climate Change Theatre Action, ACTRA Toronto, Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, Volcano Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Chantal Bilodeau, Chanelle Gallant, Alex Kelly and Isaac Lev Szmonko.
This episode was recorded in Tkaronto, Toronto, which is Dish With One Spoon territory, the territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.
--- SERIES CREDITS for CLIMATE CHANGE AND OTHER SMALL TALK ---
Created by SUNNY DRAKE
Produced by SUNNY DRAKE PRODUCTIONS in association with WHY NOT THEATRE
Lead Producers: FANNY MARTIN and NAJLA NUBYANLUV
Concept Dramaturg: KEVIN MATTHEW WONG
Impact Producer & Climate Dramaturg: CHAPRECE HENRY
Communications Producer: DANIELA GERSTMANN
Central Audio Producers: HEATHER BROWN and RICHARD FEREN
Series funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
See our website for full credits - it truly does take a village to raise a podcast.
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