by Beth Osnes in collaboration with Sarah Fahmy
The Butterfly Affect is a guided experience to travel through a butterfly’s metamorphosis from egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, to butterfly. It is an invitation for homo sapiens to go inside and contemplate change within themselves—to emerge transformed and ready to co-create an equitable, survivable, and thrive-able world for life and the eco-systems upon which life depends. This will be a hybrid presentation in which participants can experience parts of The Butterfly Affect, learn about the project and its background, and explore the context of performance-based methods for hopeful climate communication and activism.
The Butterfly Affect is a production by Beth Osnes (Professor of Theatre and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado) in collaboration with Sarah Fahmy (Assistant Professor of Theatre at Florida State University) that is a participatory form of creative climate communication. It moves beyond passive reception of climate information to affective engagement focused on what each person holds within that yearns to emerge as their hopeful offering towards climate action.
Please visit the project website for more information, access to the Co-Becoming Gallery, and open source downloadable Butterfly Affect Care Deck. Coming soon, the open source Butterfly Affect Paper Doll Metamorphosis.
Article and Audio story on Colorado Public Radio, Colorado Matters Feature: “Overwhelmed by climate anxiety? Try becoming a butterfly (or pretending to)”