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Created and Performed by Farm Arts Collective

Directed by Tannis Kowalchuk     

Thursday, August 8 to Sunday, August 18 at 6:30 PM

A group of international people are summoned by their mutual friend Benjamin, a world-class ornithologist who has organized a retreat to discuss climate change. His guests include artists, scientists, and activists—a mixed lot from around the world. When the ornithologist does not show up at his own conference, the event is disrupted, and a mystery ensues as to his whereabouts.  As the attendees try to navigate the conference in the absence of their friend, the anxiety for Benjamin’s suspicious disappearance parallels their own anxiety about climate change and disappearing life on earth.  The conference becomes something nobody quite expected. This is play #5 of Farm Arts Collective’s decade-long climate change series called DREAM ON THE FARM.  Conference for Those Still Living is an immersive and site-specific play. The audience will be invited to immerse in the conference experience.  Like all DREAM ON THE FARM shows, the performance concludes with a shared meal to offer space (and nourishment) to continue the conversation inspired by the performance. Thursday, August 15 to Sunday, August 18 at