Environmental Expressions

beach

Global Café is seeking creative writing pieces for an Earth Day celebration: Students are encouraged to explore and creatively document their responses to climate change.  Selected submissions will be displayed on the AVS Gallery website and showcased as part of EARTH/ART 2021, UConn Avery Point's first annual evening celebration of environment and the arts. 

In this year’s UConn Reads book choice, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, author Amitav Ghosh argues that climate change is so unthinkable to us that we have not welcomed it into our imaginations; it therefore doesn’t show up nearly as prevalently as we’d expect in fiction. 

Let’s change that now! 

Global Café encourages students to create and share their own creations (poems, songs, short stories, works of art, etc.) featuring the devastating effects of climate change—anything that can be showcased via the web.  This includes recorded performances, short readings, poetry slams, etc.

And, because science is so essential to understanding of climate change, we include a call for nonfiction pieces, like research papers and presentations, as well. 

Are you creating a haiku for Reading the Wrack Lines?  Are you writing a piece for the Creative Writing Club?  Have you been hiking with the EcoHusky Club and felt inspired to record your observations?  Have you performed research for a biology course?  Share your ideas with the campus community on Earth Week. 

InstructionsWalk in the woods or along the shoreline. Observe, collect, record, and reflect on what you see.  Then create a poem, song, one-sentence story, film, work of art, short story, play, or research paper—any creative piece focused on the environment!

DEADLINE: APRIL 9, 2021

Contribute using the form below!

This project is sponsored by Global Café and the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery.

Contact Laurie Wolfley or Charlotte Gray for more information.

global cafe logo

 Environmental Expressions logo designed by Isabelle Calcagni.

Contribute to Environmental Expressions Here

  • Max. file size: 100 MB.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.