Climate Grief Karaoke
In Climate Grief Karaoke you are invited to express Ecological Grief through song. Whether it’s Reef Grief, Glacial Depression, Heatwave Angst or North Pole Numbness, join Katy and friends for a pop fuelled event in which your favourite power ballads or heartbreak anthems can help us release grief enormous enough to shake tectonic plates..
Project developed with funding from Arts Council England, supported by Harlow Playhouse, Cambridge Junction and Take Me Somewhere Studio, following guidance on Sustainability from The Theatre Green Book.
Performances
Cambridge Junction, DISRUPT Festival, 27th May 2023
The MAC Birmingham, Big Green Weekender Festival, 16th September 2023
Creative Team
Lead Artist/Concept - Katy Dye
Performer/Collaborator - Aby Watson
Performer/Collaborator - Craig Manson
Video/Captions Designer - Daniel Hughes
Sound Designer - Mark Readhead
Access Advisor - Jamie Rea
Outside Eyes - Tamara Micner
Production Manager - Livvy Lynch
Performance BSL Interpreter - Rachael Dance
Project BSL Interpreters - Chloe Elder and Kitty-Taylor Brown
From 2020 - 2021 work in progress performances took place/were supported by Extinction Underground, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, The Yard Theatre Climate Works, SPILL Festival, The Sustainable Landing Hub, Tramway, Totally Thames Festival Tide Changer Commission, Drunken Chorus A Bit Of A Do Festival, Climate Week North East ‘Performers For The Planet’ The Lemon Tree Aberdeen.
Photography by Claire Haig from DISRUPT Festival, Cambridge Junction 2023
Press
‘Climate Grief Karaoke, contrary to its name, is a fun send-off to the earth and the evening… She asks if song, when used as a cathartic outlet for the enormous ecological emergency, can resensitise us to the issue and inspire action. The effects of this were bizarrely joyous…’ - Marion Weaver, The Hackney Citizen
‘It's time to harness our collective imagination to tackle the climate crisis on our stages’ Anthony Simpson-Pike, The Stage
‘The Art of Trying to Save the Planet’ - Sarah Urwin Jones, The Herald
Photography - Lewis Hayward