Noon at Night presents a day of participatory climate emergency adaptation workshops, culminating in a speculative fiction radio theatre performance in Winter 2025.

Please join us at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor's campus Friday, October 11, 2024 to map the unique climate disaster vulnerability among our communities and collectively design creative responses towards adaptation.

SPOTS ARE LIMITED; JOIN FOR ONE WORKSHOP OR ALL DAY!

Throughout the day, workshop participants will build an acoustic archive of our material and relational discards that will be placed in a time capsule, refusing a condition of panic and precarity and recognizing those things and people that we typically dispose of as integral to our interdependent sustenance. The time capsule will then travel to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus in November 2024, augmented by UW workshop participants, and reemerge as a speculative fiction radio theater performance on both the UM and UW campus radio stations Winter 2025. Prompted by "what-if" scenarios, this experimental participatory performance will dramatize current and impending climate catastrophes - and our ability to adapt together.

Noon at Night, situated within University of Michigan Student Life Sustainability, is in collaboration with participants from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and non-campus communities.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
9:30-10:30am: Intention setting (the Arb - Huron River Landing)
11am-12:30pm: Knowledge Mapping & Instructions for the Future with guest artist Jen Rae (Design Lab 1 at the Duderstadt Center)
1-2:30pm: Relaying breath & seeds with Shiloh Maples (Strawbale House, Campus Farm)
3-4:30pm: Familial re-membering with dawn weleski (Windows Lounge, Palmer Commons)
5-6:30pm: Dinner, time capsule transmission, and film screening of Antarctica 3 by collaborating artist Syrus Marcus Ware

This event is sponsored by LSA Year of Sustainability & the Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund