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Get a behind-the-scenes look at the future of environmental storytelling. Join Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and Lewis Center for the Arts (LCA) and the Civilians Theatre company for an evening featuring presentations by Next Forever playwrights Kate Douglas and Kate Tarker. Douglas’s play, If I Forget Thee, O Earth, puts the cosmic and the terrestrial in the context of mass extinction events (present and past) through the lens of astrobiology. Topia by Tarker is an irreverent, multigenerational play about climate change and authoritarianism in Providence, Rhode Island.

Followed by a conversation with Anu Ramaswami, Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute & Steve Cosson, Visiting Lecturer in Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts and Artistic Director of the Civilians.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

The Next Forever is a novel partnership among The Civilians theater company, the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. The initiative seeks to create new stories for a changing planet, exploring how dynamic storytelling can engage vital environmental subjects and provide the vision and inspiration society needs to navigate the challenges of our planet’s future—the “next forever.”

Two artists are selected each year to spend time on the Princeton campus as guests, engage with faculty and students, and participate in an ongoing series of public events and performances over the course of a year-long residency and two-year commissioning agreement.