CHIMACUM — The Mandala Center for Change will present “Our Suffering Earth,” an interactive performance and community dialogue on climate change featuring the Poetic Justice Theater Ensemble at 4 p.m. today.
The performance will be at the Finnriver Farm and Cidery, 124 Center Road, Chimacum. Admission is free but donations will be welcomed.
Today, a youth-led Global Strike for Future will take place with actions, community dialogue and arts events around the world, according to Marc Weinblatt of the Mandala Center for Change, based at Fort Worden.
Along with the event in Chimacum, a climate change rally is planned at Port Townsend High School, 1500 Van Ness St., initiated by Zinnia Hansen and Hannah Bahls, both members of the Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble.
Students will gather at 11:35 a.m. at the flagpole and chant as they walk to a fenced field on Benton Street.
The event will finish at 12:05 p.m.
Community members are encouraged to stand with students during the rally along the sidewalk on Benton Street just outside the fence.
The Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble will offer in Chimacum “a way to connect to the land, to each other, and to the greater call to action,” Weinblatt said.
The community event will welcome personal stories and visions for the future, he said.
As interpreted by the Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble, audience stories, struggles, and ideas will be brought to life through physical imagery and improvisation.
A program of the Mandala Center for Change, the Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble is now in its 18th season.
It is a multi-ethnic, multi-generational — teens to elders — troupe of local actor/activists who use interactive theatre as a tool for awareness and social change.
For more details, call 360-344-3435, email info@mandalaforchange.com or see www.mandalafor change.com.
