Making “Sustainability” fun!!!??

To find the answer to the question, check this video produced by Greendocs of a recent performance of  Playback for Change

Enjoy the fun:

How do you convey what SUSTAINABILITY is all about in a way that is not boring and accessible to a large number of people?
How does a group of like minded citizens living in the same neighborhood, or from the same township or city go about bringing more people into recognizing the profound paradigm shift that confronting Global Warming is calling for?

This is a subject that draws considerable passion among Green activists. Depending who in the “Green Movement” you talk with, you will hear different answers to that question:

• Some swear by taking people through the Natural Steps presentation outlined by Thorn Bjorn.
• Some prefer “Guerilla Marketing” type of events that will focus the public’s attention on a specific  subject.
• Some others want to organize talks to members of churches and of religious congregations.
• Some organize monthly “Public Forums” were a panel of invited “experts” condescend to reveal their enlightened truth to an ignorant and adoring public. Any resemblances to the Monthly Public Forums organized at the Academy of Natural Sciences is of course, purely accidental.
• And the list goes on and on… You will find all the above modalities in our beautiful city and a few more.

What about collecting the stories that regular people have in themselves about what makes their Community unique and more sustainable and playing those stories back to the audience? That would be a form of Community based Theater, would it not?
That form of theater exist. It is called Playback Theater.

On October 12, Sustainable Mount Airy and Playback For Change, the Playback Theater Company based in Philadelphia organized such an event.

Thanks to the efforts of the Greendocs film crew composed of Heather Craig, Bunker Seyfert, Julia Hoff, Katheleen Monahan and Tim Ahern here is an eight minutes video of the highlights of the performance.

The actors use Playback Theater forms to bring out and improvise in the moment Sustainability stories told my members of the audience. Stories touch on key themes of the sustainability movement. Actors chose to show the humor in each of the stories told while addressing key Sustainability issues.