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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 inte rest and flexibility\, building us a vision to work toward and reasons to w ork toward it—even in the context of the climate realities we know. Bring y our anxiety\, rage\, despair\, apathy\, or whatever other “climate emotions ” you have! We’ll do some small exercises to carry those feelings\, and col laborate on writing a future where they’re less necessary.
Reg istration is open to everyone.
I ntroduced by B ronwen Tate
We're excited to host several visiting writer events for our students\, alumni and facult y this term. To help celebrate\, the UBC Bookstore is offering a 20% discou nt on featured books in-store and online until September 30. Visit the bookstore for more information.
The School of Creative Writing is committed to making our events as access ible as possible. If you have questions or requests about access\, please c ontact Sarah Leavitt at least one week before the event at sarah.leavitt @ubc.ca.
Kate Schapira has been listening to peopl e about climate change for ten years\, at the Climate Anxiety Counseling bo oth and elsewhere. She lives in Providence\, Rhode Island\, where she teac hes nonfiction writing at Brown University and is involved with local effor ts toward environmental justice\, climate justice and peer mental health su pport.
The exercises in her first work of nonfiction\, Lessons from the Clima te Anxiety Counseling Booth\, offer actionable steps for connecting wit h others\, identifying and activating community abundance\, matching your s kills with organized climate activism\, and imagining a radically more liva ble future in order to bring it into being. She partners with community hea lth initiatives\, museums\, schools and universities\, career development o ffices and community organizations to implement and adapt these exercises t o further and deepen their missions and visions.
In addition to Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth\, Kate is also the author of six b ooks 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 Hu man. With Carolyn McGrath and the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America\, she co-edited the Educ ator’s Guide to Climate Emotions. She never met a tidepool she didn’t l ike.
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