Turning World

“The climate is changing. Are you?” Marda Kirn, the guiding light behind EcoArts, wants to know. Now in its third year, the Boulder-based arts-science collaboration — a month-long series comprising performances, talks, tours, workshops, panels and more — is all about suggesting ways that we can collectively take baby steps toward correcting the environmental mistakes made by mankind through history.

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• Marda Kirn
• Boulder (Colorado)
• Dairy Center for the Arts
• Theatrical Plays
• Theater

“This year, our focus is on sustainability,” Kirn says. “We need to figure a way to get out of this mess, and in order to do it, we need to shift, like an aikido move, not change overnight. This isn’t an end point, it’s a journey. We need to make small, incremental steps.”

Encouragement to do so comes in many forms during EcoArts, beginning with tonight’s free kickoff party at 6 p.m. at the Dairy Center for the Arts (2590 Walnut Street in Boulder), followed at 7:30 by Balancing Acts: Visions for a Sustainable Future, a thinking person’s show that Kirn calls a “wild range of collaborations between scientists and performing artists.” Included in the program is a partnership between dancer Michelle Ellsworth, University of Colorado at Boulder biogeochemist Jason Neff and others that involves solving situations determined by the spin of a roulette wheel, as well as performances by local actors of plays written by youth playwrights from the Curious Theatre New Voices program. Balancing Acts repeats tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. and at 4 p.m. on Sunday; admission is $16 to $23.

For a complete list of ongoing events, some free and some not, and eye-opening tours of various energy sources, both green and not-so-green, go to www.ecoartsonline.org or call 303-440-7826.
Sept. 12-Oct. 9, 2008