Future Ecologies

Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.

The second and final episode, “Eulogies,” is based on fictional writing from the class. Students imagine and eulogize something that could be harmed by the climate emergency, and then imagine a speculative future in which action was taken to mitigate that harm.

Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.

“The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel

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Part 2: Eulogies

02:15 – Clione by Annika Ord

12:49 –The Abundance Will Be Forever by Judith Burr

24:03 – A Eulogy for Wolves by Niki

33:33 – Return of the Hidden Worlds by Sadie Rittman

44:59 — Eulogy for the Bees by Rhonda Thygesen

Our 2-part epic on biodiversity and music is returning to Lobe Spatial Sound Studio for an encore.

Join us at Lobe (713 E. Hastings St., Vancouver BC) next Thursday September 14th: showtimes are 6:30pm and 8:30pm, both including a Q+A with Mendel.

Tickets are available at eventbrite.ca/e/lobe-artist-residency-series-spiders-song-by-future-ecologies-tickets-695016291437

With grids of omni-directional speakers both on the ceiling and under the floor, a large subwoofer, and vibro-acoustic panels built directly into the floor itself, Lobe provides an unbelievably immersive listening environment. It's currently the only 4DSOUND spatial audio system in North America.

(If you're not near Vancouver, you can always hear Spiders Song in stereo, but please wear headphones)

Future Ecologies presents "The Right to Feel," a two episode mini-series on the emotional realities of the climate crisis.

This first episode, “Climate Feelings,” is a collection of students’ non-fiction essays and reflections on their personal realities of living with and researching the climate crisis. The first episode opens with an introductory conversation between Naomi Klein and series producer Judee Burr that contextualizes how this class was structured and the writings it evoked.

Over a two-year period, associate professor of climate justice and co-director of the UBC Centre for Climate Justice Naomi Klein taught a small graduate seminar designed to help young scholars put the emotions of the climate and extinction crises into words. The students came from a range of disciplines, ranging from zoology to political science, and they wrote eulogies for predators and pollinators, alongside love letters to paddling and destroyed docks. Across these diverse methods of scholarship, the students uncovered layers of emotion far too often left out of scholarly approaches to the climate emergency. They put these emotions into words, both personal reflections and fictional stories.

“The Right to Feel” was produced on the unceded and asserted territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Find a transcript, citations, credits, and more at www.futureecologies.net/listen/the-right-to-feel

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Part 1: Climate Feelings

2:38 — Introduction by Judee Burr and Naomi Klein

19:05 — Connection to Jericho Willows by Ali Tafreshi

22:27 — Connection to the Water by Foster Salpeter

27:06 — Connection to Family and Land by Sara Savino

31:01 — Scientists and Feelings by Annika Ord

36:00 — Biking away from the Smoke by Ruth Moore

39:32 — Climate Sensitivity on the Bus by Nina Robertson

43:13 — Grief and Climate Change Economics by Felix Giroux

46:36 — The Age of Sanctuary by Melissa Plisic

52:04 — Age of Tehom by Maggie O’Donnell

On July 7th and 8th, weâ€TMre celebrating the start of Season 5 with a live premiere, hosted by Lobe Spatial Sound Studio in Vancouver, BC. Weâ€TMve mixed a special version of the upcoming episode in 4DSOUND.

Lobe Studio is truly a unique listening environment. Not only is there a completely immersive speaker array (the only one of its kind in North America) there are also vibrotransducers built directly into the floor. In short, it sounds amazing.

Weâ€TMll be presenting a 90 minute episode, plus a Q+A, because we expect you might have a few questions.

Show times will be 7:30pm on Friday July 7th, and 3:30pm on Saturday July 8th.

Space is limited, tickets are by donation. Get yours here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lobe-artist-residency-series-spiders-song-by-future-ecologies-tickets-649188910507

More about Lobe: https://lobestudio.ca/

EDIT: BOTH SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT —Thank you all so much for your support! Stay tuned for another date later this summer.

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