Description
If you had a simple message to send to people across the world about climate, what would it be? In this workshop, participants will connect and share how climate impacts them emotionally, physically, and creatively. These conversations will become our springboard toward creating an individual and a collaborative Human Climate Song through written word, visual art, movement, or music.
About Human Climate Song
“When a whale sings on one side of the Atlantic, whales on the other side can hear her.” This line from eco poet Leslie LaChance sparked a collaborative short film and creative engagement project with choreographer and Narrative 4 Artist Amanda Cantrell Roche. Their invitation to viewers: consider your own human climate “song”—a simple message to people across the globe. It is an expression of how we experience and respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, and seek solutions and solidarity.
Presenter Bios:
Amanda Cantrell Roche
Amanda Cantrell Roche is a lead teaching artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, facilitating arts residencies in schools and community settings, with a passion for engaging participants in the creative process. She is a life-long dancer, and her choreography often blends her background in journalism and poetry, telling stories through dance and recorded words. She is an intuitive arts workshop facilitator at Art & Soul Studio, an adjunct faculty in somatic healing at Onsite Workshops, and a lead trainer for Narrative 4. Amanda’s choreography was featured at the Americans for the Arts National Convention, and she is the recipient of the 2023 Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship for Arts Education. Her alchemy is most powerful when she combines a trilogy of her deepest passions: dance, writing, and social justice. You can learn more about her at amandacroche.com.
Leslie LaChance
Leslie LaChance is writer and teaching artist whose work appears in magazines and journals such as The Nashvillian, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Still: The Journal, and Birmingham Poetry Review. She is a Program Director with the Nashville non-profit Carnegie Writers and a writing mentor for teens with Southern Word. Leslie has taught collegiate writing and literature classes, and she works as an academic portfolio consultant for students in the University Scholars Program at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Leslie serves on the board of the expressive arts teaching studio Art & Soul Nashville, and volunteers for the ROS1ders, a patient and research advocacy organization for people affected by the rare ROS1+ cancer. She blogs about art, health, illness, and well-being at Sojourn & Stardust. Leslie lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Some excerpts of her work can be found on her website at leslielachance.com.
