Alaska Theater Festival

Climate Fair for a Cool Planet

Saturday, July 26 @ 2pm
Overstreet Park (The Whale)

Tickets: Free - Donations welcome

Join Theater Alaska for Climate Fair for a Cool Planet, a free, family-friendly event at Overstreet Park that celebrates our environment and features live music, puppetry, and theater performances.

Featuring work by Roblin Davis, Darius Mannino, Spencer Edgers, Dave Hunsaker, Jake Waid, Bryan Crowder, Noa Carlson, Lisa Puananimōhala'ikalani Denny, Conor Lendrum, and students from the Theater Alaska Stay Cool! Summer Camp.

The Alaska Theater Festival is supported in part by the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council and the City and Borough of Juneau.

Additional support provided by Alaska Conservation Foundation.

ALASKA THEATER FESTIVAL MEDIA SPONSOR

SEATING
Climate Fair for a Cool Planet is held outside at Overstreet Park. Please bring your own seating.

CREATIVE TEAM
Flordelino Lagundino Producer
Jake Waid Director (Fair, Unfair)
Bryan Crowder Production Manager
Megan Riordan Stage Manager

PROGRAM
6TH MASS EXTINCTION
by Spencer Edgers
Commissioned for Climate Fair for a Cool Planet, this 15-minute electroacoustic work invites listeners to reflect on Earth’s vast natural history and the devastating imprint of human activity over a comparatively brief span of time. Through evolving sonic textures and recorded poetry by Tripp J Crouse, the piece confronts the reality that we are living through the planet’s sixth mass extinction—driven largely by human-induced climate change, habitat destruction, and exploitation of natural resources. It urges listeners to recognize this crisis and to support Indigenous-led land stewardship as a crucial step toward ecological repair and accountability.

Lisa Puananimōhala'ikalani Denny

FAIR, UNFAIR
by Jake Waid and Dave Hunsaker
Hosts Frank Henry Kaash Katasse, Allison Holtkamp Waid
Megaphone Man Bryan Crowder

THIS ISN’T NEW: COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF A CHANGING WORLD
by Noa Carlson
***This event includes storytelling, an art installation, and community participation***

Trees pass on wisdom like humans - through transcripts. For humans, it can be through spoken, physical, or written stories. For trees, their transcript of “how to survive in the current climate” exists within their DNA when certain genes are modified (turned on or off) in order to promote survival, also known as epigenetics. They pass down new transcripts every year through annual seed production, passing down vital knowledge to their successors. Old-growth trees in the Tongass National Forest are at least 150 years old (Audubon Alaska) and are able to adapt because of their up-to-date epigenetic transcripts. We humans however, as we age, tend to forget to integrate the lessons from our ancestors on how to best prepare for our survival. 

Trees remember their past and pass it down to their future generations, so they can adapt and be better prepared for our rapidly changing planet. Let us do the same!

Bring a tree to life by encouraging the seeds of wisdom to grow within our community. Listen to a story from Juneau’s past and ask a question for Juneau’s future, and watch the tree flourish! ‘

THE NUGGET ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: ALL THE FISH ARE GONE! 
by Theater Alaska Stay Cool! Summer Camp students - Bennett Burke, Jinx Fortier, Natalie Fortier, Ariana Harper Hoke, Ayla Henry, Daryl Lagundino, Olive Torgerson

DON’T FEAR THE FUTURE
written and performed by Conor Lendrum

RECIPROCAL SEAS - THE TIDES THAT BIND
by Roblin Gray Davis and Darius Mannino
Artists Roblin Gray Davis, Darius Mannino, Matthew Rogers, Elizabeth Davis, Val Kissel, Travis Clark Morris, Isla Wren Mannino, Anton Doiron, Grady Wright, Arlo Davis, Lea Skaggs