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Climate Anxiety & Creativity: Workshop with Kate Schapira

September 23, 2024, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Online

Can we write our way out of the climate crisis? Not exactly—but imagining, discussing, recording and reimagining a livable present and future can expand our interest and flexibility, building us a vision to work toward and reasons to work toward it—even in the context of the climate realities we know. Bring your anxiety, rage, despair, apathy, or whatever other “climate emotions” you have! We’ll do some small exercises to carry those feelings, and collaborate on writing a future where they’re less necessary.

Registration is open to everyone.

Introduced by Bronwen Tate

About Kate Schapira

Kate Schapira has been listening to people about climate change for ten years, at the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth and elsewhere. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University and is involved with local efforts toward environmental justice, climate justice and peer mental health support.

The exercises in her first work of nonfiction, Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, offer actionable steps for connecting with others, identifying and activating community abundance, matching your skills with organized climate activism, and imagining a radically more livable future in order to bring it into being. She partners with community health initiatives, museums, schools and universities, career development offices and community organizations to implement and adapt these exercises to further and deepen their missions and visions.

In addition to Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth, Kate is also the author of six books of poetry, and her prose has appeared in Catapult, The Rumpus, The Toast, and as a chapbook from Essay Press called Time to Be Something Other Than Human. With Carolyn McGrath and the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, she co-edited the Educator’s Guide to Climate Emotions. She never met a tidepool she didn’t like.

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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