Chantal Bilodeau is a playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of arts, science, policy, and climate change. Awards include the Woodward International Playwriting Prize as well as First Prize in the Earth Matters on Stage Ecodrama Festival and the Uprising National Playwriting Competition. Author of the eight plays (two finished, four upcoming) of The Arctic Cycle, she has written about the intersection of arts and climate change for publications in the US and abroad,
and has been a guest speaker at several universities. She curates the HowlRound series Theatre in the Age of Climate Change and is an artistic collaborator in the Science & Arts Project at IIASA in Vienna. An initiative of The Arctic Cycle, Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA) is a series of worldwide performances of short climate change plays help biennially to coincide with the United nations Conference of the Parties – the international meetings that bring world leaders together to discuss strategies to reduce global carbon emissions. The Arctic Cycle will host a launch event on September 15, 2019 in NYC, It brings together local playwrights, performing artists, scientists, climate activists, and concerned citizens to explore climate change and climate justice and collectively imagine ways to move forward. SILA a play by Ms. Bilodeau
was originally commissioned by Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, Sila – the Inuktitut word for air, climate or breath – examines the competing interests shaping the future of the Canadian Arctic and local Inuit population. Set on Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut, it follows seven characters including a climate scientist, an Inuit activist, two Coast Guard officers and a polar bear, as they see their values challenged and their lives become intricately intertwined. Equal parts Inuit myth and contemporary Arctic policy, Sila uses puppetry, spoken word poetry and three different languages (English, French and Inuktitut). The play was inspired by a three-week trip to Baffin Island.
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