Missouri Coalition For The Environment

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<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(25, 25, 25);color:rgb(25, 25, 25);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">With growing concern for the climate crisis facing our local, national and international communities, Joan <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(25, 25, 25);color:rgb(25, 25, 25);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Lipkin and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThatUppityTheatreCompany/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:&quot;Public Sans&quot;, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4375;transition:color 0.3s linear 0s;color:rgb(0, 125, 153);outline:currentcolor !important;text-decoration-color:initial;-webkit-user-select:auto" target="_blank">That Uppity Theatre Company</a><span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(25, 25, 25);color:rgb(25, 25, 25);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit"> in collaboration with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and the Arts & Climate Initiative will present a free one hour program of staged readings of short plays addressing this pivotal issue April 17, 2025. <p style="font-family:var(--body-font-family);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-size:1.7rem;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4375;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);width:100%"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The noon performance will take place at the <a href="https://g.co/kgs/V6QhZBj" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:initial;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">High Low</a><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> with doors opening at 11:30am. <strong style="box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Coffee and other beverages may be purchased at the adjacent Blueprint Café.<p style="font-family:var(--body-font-family);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-size:1.7rem;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4375;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);width:100%"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The evening performance will be at <a href="https://g.co/kgs/GWFHKLW" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color:initial;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Metro Theatre</a><strong style="box-sizing:inherit;word-break:break-word;overflow-wrap:break-word;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:17px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> starting at 7:30pm with doors opening at 7pm.<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(25, 25, 25);color:rgb(25, 25, 25);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">This program will feature St. Louis based directors Sami Ginoplos, Bekah Harbison, and Joan Lipkin, and actors Tyson Cole, Kate Durbin, Steve Lewis, Tammy O’Donnell, Mitchell Manar, Don McClendon, Ann Truka, and Jodi Stockton. <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(25, 25, 25);color:rgb(25, 25, 25);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">All of the plays to be presented have either been published by the Arts & Climate Initiative or commissioned by other theatre companies. The playwrights include Nicholas Billon, Chantal Bilodeau, Mindi Dickstein, Marcia Johnson, Joan Lipkin, Stephen Sewell, and Kevin Matthew Wong. Some of the themes include the ethics of having children at this time, the impact of American fossil fuel use on other countries, the role of climate change protests in public settings, the question of climate reparations to other countries, the impact of plastic and waste, animal rights and habitat loss, and more.

With growing concern for the climate crisis facing our local, national and international communities, Joan Lipkin and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThatUppityTheatreCompany/" target="_blank">That Uppity Theatre Company</a> in collaboration with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and the Arts &amp; Climate Initiative will present a free one hour program of staged readings of short plays addressing this pivotal issue April 17, 2025. The noon performance will take place at the <a href="https://g.co/kgs/V6QhZBj" target="_blank">High Low</a> with doors opening at 11:30am. Coffee and other beverages may be purchased at the adjacent Blueprint Café.The evening performance will be at <a href="https://g.co/kgs/GWFHKLW" target="_blank">Metro Theatre</a> starting at 7:30pm with doors opening at 7pm.This program will feature St. Louis based directors Sami Ginoplos, Bekah Harbison, and Joan Lipkin, and actors Tyson Cole, Kate Durbin, Steve Lewis, Tammy O’Donnell, Mitchell Manar, Don McClendon, Ann Truka, and Jodi Stockton. All of the plays to be presented have either been published by the Arts &amp; Climate Initiative or commissioned by other theatre companies. The playwrights include Nicholas Billon, Chantal Bilodeau, Mindi Dickstein, Marcia Johnson, Joan Lipkin, Stephen Sewell, and Kevin Matthew Wong. Some of the themes include the ethics of having children at this time, the impact of American fossil fuel use on other countries, the role of climate change protests in public settings, the question of climate reparations to other countries, the impact of plastic and waste, animal rights and habitat loss, and more.

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