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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, the incredible book of essays by Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, serves as a foundational source for our work. Without sugar-coating the bitter pill of the climate crisis, we are weaving moments of reflection and connection throughout the performance, drawing inspiration from Kimmerer’s, “remembering what we didn’t know we’d forgotten” as a recurring theme–that ultimately, we all need to deeply heal our fractured relationship with the earth and to reflect on how we are contributing to this crisis. We also draw from Kimmerer’s discussion of abundance within a gift economy, as a means of disrupting neoliberal capitalist logics. Kimmerer reminds us that we might rediscover how to live “in gratitude and amazement at the richness and generosity of the world. … If all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.” As Kimmerer makes clear, there is an ethics of abundance, if we choose to see it and to share it.
"Hold out your hands and let me lay upon them a sheaf of freshly picked sweet grass, loose and flowing, likely newly washed hari [...] the sweet smelling hair of Mother Earth. Breathe it in and you start to remember things you didn't know you'd forgotten."
"Hold out your hands and let me lay upon them a sheaf of freshly picked sweet grass, loose and flowing, likely newly washed hari [...] the sweet smelling hair of Mother Earth. Breathe it in and you start to remember things you didn't know you'd forgotten."
"If the wealthiest 10 percent of the population continued to use energy the way it currently does, and the entire rest of the world went to net zero tomorrow, we would still not be able to reach our climate goals. The vast majority of the world is already consuming energy just fine, particularly in Indigenous communities and in communities outside of the US."
"If the wealthiest 10 percent of the population continued to use energy the way it currently does, and the entire rest of the world went to net zero tomorrow, we would still not be able to reach our climate goals. The vast majority of the world is already consuming energy just fine, particularly in Indigenous communities and in communities outside of the US."
-Antonia Jubasz
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