Well, thanks very much to all the speakers now over to you. I apologize that we haven't left more time for questions But I hope we sort of simulate something what I propose to us take around of questions and then we'll see after that We have any time remaining Thank you. Thank you very much. I enjoyed all three presentations very much I do indeed agree with a lot of the stylized facts that at today when I was give us and I share some of the Views about this above and the way it's shaping up What I find a bit of tension with in relation to Tony's presentation But basically the the challenges for African cities Have been identified for many many many years. Yeah, the African cities probably one of the most studied aspects of African development You'll find in almost every African University What I'm not sure of is how those studies filter through into what you are bringing out Indeed over the years the assumption has been that to try and do the kind of Functional change that you propose in your work here Will be too costly for the Africa every African government. And so the focus should be on Keeping away the migrants by developing smaller cities By developing what they call intermediate cities. So we don't have that large Evans pro That would be difficult to deal with I Don't see how that has been done in Africa. I don't see how it can be done in the future Like it was a cost issue There are many other variables to consider in terms of how you can transform the I break African city How do you do that in isolation from the bigger question about what you do with the African economy? How do you deal with urbanization? If you're not going to discuss industrialization So these are things that for me are interlinked and have to be dealt with in a much more Comprehensive manner. So yes, the African city problem is there But can you deal with it without discussing or dealing with the question of how do you industrialize Africa? Thanks, Chris. Just so we're so short of time if question can be very short and then we'll have more time for the panel So we get I'm sorry. Yeah In the migration Is that switched on in the migration aspect of your of your Program, and you you stressed the looking at the migrants coming in and how they handle that transition inwards another part of that Dynamic is who's leaving as well, isn't it that it probably the brightest best entrepreneurs young men May be leaving to go to other countries in Africa and and trying to get the connection between the coming in and out And the second is a quick question on when you were talking about the the impact of welfare and particularly grants It would be very interesting to look there and see if of the impact of that on enabling On enabling jobs job search, which is a pattern that I'm familiar with in South Africa Where it's not it's wrong. It's not right to put the welfare on just the consumption side, but actually the grants Not only getting kids to school, but but also enabling job search And then just finally to say that I think both Simon and your end and Tony venables Inputs there was the strong notion of you going people going to look for where jobs are and much less Emphasis on people creating their own jobs people making their own work Which is going to be the reality for the majority of people I would imagine. Thank you Thanks, could I ask people not only to be brief but also to identify themselves at the beginning? France land from the we go network and I'm Marty Chen from the we go network and Harvard University and I just want to say the context that we know the we go network We've done studies in 10 cities is urbanization without industrialization and Urbanization with a very large informal economy and our mantra is yes create jobs, but it isn't happening and Please preserve livelihoods and to preserve livelihoods We need to look at public space not just private land and the allocation of public space and for livelihoods as well as for leisure or for Formal commerce and we need to realize that slums those settlements that we want to move to the periphery of the cities Are not just places of residence. They're places of enterprise They are clusters of enterprises and when you move them to the periphery they begin to operate at a loss and we have to really think that whole plan of Densification and transport to encourage the livelihoods of people so I think there's a much Larger agenda than just creating jobs, but trying to preserve livelihoods and Realizing that center and periphery public land access are very critical to informal livelihoods Thanks, I think we'll just take one round of questions and give the panelists a chance to all close I'll take a couple more questions first From It's okay, so my question is about it's a comment actually about the upgrading or Reallocation of of slums of people living in slums So what I found missing the perspective of resilience in terms of The poorest people who are coming to who are migrating from rural to urban areas And they can't afford living somewhere else and in these slums. They're at high risk natural for natural hazard and in flood areas some some some of these cities and Also because of the unsanitary way they're living and the exposure They have so I think this is very important to take into account when deciding between Reallocation of people and or upgrading of the slums themselves and then the other thing following on the migration a question is we can see in for instance in the last years in Madagascar a lot of people following the political crisis and these Resilience people migrating back from urban to rural areas. So if you have any comments on that, thanks Okay, just two more but I should be very quick. Yes. I'm Sunil Bandu from University of Mauritius now I mean I've enjoyed the presentation But when you look at the the finance capital budgets what will involve they seem Astronomical huge and you wonder whether governments on their own will be able to to get the finance to do all this So my point is in your in your research I'm sure in your projects and so on so where these concepts of BOT bill operate and transfer and PPP come in because I think without these it will be almost impossible for governments on their own to provide all the finance to Get to the stage you need to get in the next 30 years So I think BOT and PPP will have to assume Extremely greater importance. What are your views on that? Thank you. Thank you. It's like just one final question Thanks for the presentation. I'm Adubo Lee from UNU wider Quick question to Tony Venerable's presentation You mentioned that there is low density in most African cities So I was just wondering about the causes and also some policy ideas about how to change that. Thank you Well, thank you very much for such a great range of questions So now we'll close by my asking each of the speakers and I guess I'll ask them to do it in order that they spoke To respond to the questions to the extent they can and and please excuse us if we don't do so fully Give them this constraints of time and then add any closing comments. They would like so Tony Yeah, let me try and just pick up on a few of them Yeah, I think I agree completely with the spirits of what what what what Ernest was saying Yeah, I mean cities do have to be seen as part of a comprehensive Development strategy and cities have to be seen as a whole in themselves But perhaps the the innovation would be to say I mean you have to see cities as drivers of the industrialization Strategy right cities aren't a sort of obstacle to it a problem. They are where where that economic change is going to happen So, yeah, they have certainly see it comprehensively, but with cities playing that key driving role I didn't talk much at all in the talk about sort of secondary cities and the hierarchy I mean, I think I think it is going to be very important for Africa to develop secondary cities I mean retrofitting existing ones will partly the scale of the problem and partly retrofitting existing ones is horribly expensive So the secondary city thing does need to come up the agenda The further comment on that is Again see that as part of the See these secondary cities as drivers of growth, which basically means put them in sensible places Where people want to go and where firms are going to want to go and clearly there are lots of examples of them People trying to put them in they're not very sensible places Yeah, on the sort of density livelihood point Yeah, I was talking about as if it was just density to attract footloose manufacturing But I think absolutely density cuts in at all all those sort of levels It's not just internationally traded goods or regionally traded goods. It's the locally traded good It's the market the vibrancy the service sectors and things so yeah really supporting density vibrancy on those levels I think is is really important Yeah capital funding, I mean obviously I argued that there there's a potential revenue stream from you know property taxation whatever Which is important, but there are timing issues on that so that the need to raise capital But also a lot of the capital we're talking about I think does naturally come from the private sector I mean residential housing. I mean clearly there's a role for public housing But Much more private capital could insured through capital markets and mortgages Go it go into residential housing. So there's a public need but also Private money can go you can go into the the residential housing stock And I think that leads into the last point. I want one dimension I mean the the causes of low density. I mean a lot of it if you look at the residential side Yeah, there are I mean I think on my last slide. I mentioned some of the failures Yeah, I mean people are not going to invest if property rights are uncertain If building regulations such that you can't actually afford a house within the regulation So you have to go outside the regulations and if capital markets are screwed up, right? So so there's a net that there are a whole load of fairly clear Perhaps difficult to achieve but fairly clear things that could be done to get more capital going into more Substantial construction in the private housing sector Okay, I'm denser therefore Yeah, the better quality to two three four five-story not single-story shacks Thanks, Tony and Simon Okay, let me try and respond as efficiently as I can to to everything I've on the issue of Livelihoods, I think everything that was said I agree with and that's I think what I was Trying to get it and maybe didn't do didn't do justice too I think I think that's exactly what welfare should be there for is for helping people to find to find jobs To to aid people's livelihoods to help them to start businesses in the informal sector to create jobs All of those sorts of things and and they should be aimed towards towards that And for for mitigating the risks of migration and helping Migrants who are in this vulnerable vulnerable phase? I mean at the moment in Addis Ababa rent subsidies go to long-term residents of the city you can rent a Rent a room in the center of Addis from the government for 50 cents a month 50 or cents a month And a huge number of people who've a long-term residents of the city get those subsidies It's not clear that they're the they're the people that should be getting those subsidies They're they're well established in in the city And so that's so that's maybe something to think about In terms of relocation, that's yeah, there are there are tensions there There are people who are able to live in the city the center of the city because of subsidies that that are allowing them to Do that and we do want to to make sure that that people have continued access to their livelihoods in the center rents are increasing for a lot of people and they're being forced out of those areas naturally and and And governments at the same time are relocating people forcefully to make way for new infrastructure projects So these things are happening and and we need to think about what what sort of housing responses do are appropriate for that so Yeah, I mean there's all all things that I agree with And I think will require more research Yeah, sorry, I'm not sure of them answering that perfectly I Think they just touch on a really kind of big issue and I acknowledge that this is still kind of hotly debated Amongst economists we had had this kind of notion of whether we should be discouraging migration or not There's a lot of talk about you know urbanization without industrialization or even the idea that an urbanization is too fast in the setting This is this is still an open topic of debate I tend to think that that that notion is wrong that Urbanization is happening because people find opportunities in cities and if you do manage to make them the move You you're likely to have a good livelihood with a with a high salary And we know from a lot of evidence that people are Constrained more people would like to move but it's risky And so I think we should be helping people to move and we should be increasing Migration I don't have an answer to the to how we Get industrialization going along with that in the meantime people are arriving in cities and finding jobs in the informal sector and the growing private sector That is happening And aiding that as much as possible is is is important So Yeah, last thing I think we if that urbanization is encouraged as We've been saying that needs to come with all this sort of this sort of investment Governments are spending this money the Ethiopian government is spending vast vast sums on housing projects and welfare and work fair programs They're finding the finance for it and it's about Deciding on the appropriate policies for using that money Good. Thanks. I mean you chose Just a couple of points one is that Of course on the scale at which things need to be delivered for the cities to function the the existing revenue base is not gonna be enough and For provincial governments at least in Pakistan they cannot Do the equivalent of the federal government's deficit financing? By law they have to live within the budgets that they have so the only way This current chief minister of Punjab can can do this massive investments in infrastructure in cities is through public-private partnerships That that green line that I that I showed you in Lahore. That's public-private partnership There's the orange line that's coming up has a huge Chinese investment in it And in fact these these kinds of arrangements have now been extended to sanitation services as well in the city So so I think it's it's only gonna be possible by bringing in the private sector in one form or the other And then creating the right environment for the private sector to come in. I Completely agree with you. I I really think that Whereas of course the government should do whatever it can to support people in their livelihood Pursuits when they move to the cities but but but rural urban migration is going to happen regardless of what we do to try to discourage it Even when agricultural productivity increases agriculture sheds labor and Therefore people will move the question is what kind of jobs will they move to? You they can they can always get jobs, which are a little bit higher paying than than what they had in the in the rural areas But but but that's not that's not the kind of urbanization that that we have in mind Therefore, I think Creating high productivity Especially manufacturing sector job has to be an integral part of the urbanization strategy Which is why embedding city level interventions in the larger growth strategy is so important Thanks, he does. Well, I apologize again for running over time Let me just finish very quickly with a what I think is is perhaps the Most relevant one sentence or two sentence summary of what we talked about today And I think the key message that comes out of the research we've heard today and certainly the research of the IGC as a whole in This area is that cities are drivers of growth and development not obstacles to growth and development So yes, there are many challenges and as as we've heard today There's a huge challenges But that we need to be thinking about enabling actions to help cities make the transition to become more functional to become more productive We know they're important not only in terms of the growth trajectory of countries But also the welfare of individuals and I think the point that Simon made which is so important Is that we know that people who move to cities are better off so we shouldn't be blocking that process We should be facilitating that but also addressing these huge issues that face cities anyway Thank you very much for your attention and particularly for your patience


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So I'm sure everybody's noticed the smoke in the air today. This is from the last fire, but it might as well be this one. White car through the latest apocalypse. Unmoored thoughts. Tree prayers wild in the tearing air over the valley. Ridge running evidence of the latest devastation. Barkless pines. Silver spasmed branches curling roads like contractions follow the creeks. These rocks are paws. Expectant tumble on the shoulder, hill language. Arched backs scaled with meta sequoia, coil and roll. Tucked deep in the net orchards down by the soft running river water. Cornfields dry as screaming. Sunflowers parched dark in the dance. Now I'm actually going to read a few of my missing and murdered poems. I don't know how long they're going to last, because I couldn't ever catch up if I did them forever. And it's pick your practice, because it affects you on a really cellular level. Day one, somewhere she's afraid right now. It hurts to be strangled. The body panics. She is silenced. Might die of stroke, pulmonary edema. The arteries may tear. Her head feels as if it might explode. And this can take up to five minutes. Day two, blamed for her own death, bled out in a motel bathtub. In court, the defendant's attorney made hers inhuman as possible, but brought excised body parts into the courtroom. Her lifestyle, her identity at fault, as if the murder were a logical conclusion, as if her attacker had no choice, as if we are all provocation and skin. Another acceptable sacrifice. Day three, shot, dead named, misgendered. Even the way they looked for you was a violence. Each detail a complex inaccuracy, targeted as acceptable loss. You are loved now in your own name. We see you. Day four, you are our leading cause of death, vanished. I can feel myself going transparent. The car her daughter was last seen in was found in the lake, her child's dead body inside. Who has jurisdiction? The local police, reservation police, the FBI. We don't know if there was a crime. We don't know if there was a white person involved. In the city, when she didn't come home, I called the police and it was three days before they came to the house. Her disappearance was a choice. Should not be hitchhiking. To afford a car, we need to work. There's no work in town. There's no public transit. She was last seen standing by Highway 16 in the rain. So fortunately that's it for that. There are whole communities of native women in which everyone has been raped. We are more than two and a half times likely to be killed or kidnapped. Just hold on to that one for a moment. And then this. Gently gather your strength. Sing to the new vests we are making. Linked scales of our former selves. Scraps of outgrown shells lined with perfectly imagined kisses from every hero we never met. Folded tightly. Wedged into the cracks. Wear all of the freely given gifts. Wear them openly. Scratch a mark for each day on the wall. Tie a knot for every success. Breakfast with ravens. Send each amulet with their parables. Join me at dawn. Wear comfortable shoes. This is going to take a while. Thank you so much for joining us.


Okay, we're gonna regroup in a large circle if everybody could find their seat. All right, we'd like everybody to share your mission statement, please. I know, I'm just kidding. I'm just joking with y'all. But this is an opportunity for a second wave of report backs and you can talk about any aspect of the conversation you just had for their planning, how things may have been more defined. Maybe there was a splintering and there's a new, there's a new group that's views, I don't know. So we're gonna give each group five minutes and I'm gonna hand the mic over to the first person that'd like to step up and share. I'm gonna stand amongst my group cause they'll help fill in some of the gaps. Okay, so continuing on our ideas about our framework, based off of our shared values, we identified a step as creating a database of existing works, models, people, organizations that are doing work at the intersection of art and climate change. I'm gonna take even a step before that and say that something that I'm interested in walking away with tomorrow, two things. One is, so we were talking about a toolkit for making, a toolkit of different processes or elements of ways of making work at these intersections. So that's one thing that we together, as these conveners, can draft a toolkit. And the second thing that I'm interested in and I shared with the group is individuals in this room their next steps or their ongoing projects that after tomorrow, we as a group and as individuals can continue to support and amplify and share resources and reconnect knowing what's happening in the coming months and years for this group of people. Okay, so those three elements in our immediate or close timeline. No, no, no, I'm looking at the residency, the translation training. Yes, okay, so part of these databases and toolkits, and I'm using these words synonymous, but also, yeah, okay, models, spaces for sharing processes. That something that was brought up is a process of translating science, the hard science of climate change, the social science, the politics, a training for artists, I think, and citizens, of how to translate these scientific modes into understandable vocabulary and language, Cheryl, if you have words. Oh, taking one possible part of a toolkit might be looking at developing, disseminating translation strategies from science to art, from science to story. There's usually some artists that can't just make the bridge on their own. And there's a lot of not yet discovered possible ways of doing that, yeah. Free from, yeah. Would be a big part of addressing climate change is our food system. And the food system needs to transform. So let's say you're setting a story, you're a playwright, you're setting a story in the future that has this food system that's been transformed. They need to know what it looks like. What does that look like and how might those changes reflect in other parts of society that we might not at first expect? Let's see, if you're dealing in a society that no longer has large-scale animal agriculture, what does that look like and how does that affect other pieces of our society, the healthcare system, for example, is, will be different. A lot of our health problems come from this heavily, our diet. And so, the notion of an artist saying, well, needing to talk to somebody who says, how do you translate, okay, we've moved to a mostly plant-based food system into what does that look like in a society where I'm setting my play so I can, so I can create some elements that are gonna reflect that. Sound like what you're talking about. We've got about one more minute. Perfect, okay, so I'm gonna make two more points and then if there are anything else in between there. Something that we discussed as important along whatever comes out of this individual group and the larger convening, whether it be residencies or workshops, festivals, those types of spaces is that there will be a process of evaluation and recording all along the way so that at the culmination of whatever that individual project might be, there's time and space for measuring and then also contributing to that database which was on the first step of our timeline. And then also Rob mentioned an idea of mentor, mentoring, which also came up earlier in the big brainstorm and that connecting into the database also brings with it connections to individuals, companies that can advise on a burgeoning project. Okay, thank you. Okay, so next group. We're just really struck, we're the center group and we're just really struck by the similarities between your proposals and ours. So that's really exciting. You can see everybody's shaking their heads in disbelief but we were still orbiting the idea of what our group might accomplish and we kind of settled on this idea of a body or a location that might share knowledge in the forms of case studies, workshops, environmental impact calculators, strategies for eco-play analysis. Well, and then databases of various kinds, workshops to address specific issues. We were all very happy when we found the word brokering as an activity that we would be involved with which is bringing together people who need each other and are looking for each other. So if there's somebody say from an animal welfare group who wants to create work, they could come to us and we could put them in touch with a theater company that has an interest in doing or a record of doing that kind of work. So it's connecting people, gathering, gathering, sharing, exchanging. I guess one thing we talked about, we started moving towards trying to name the center as a way to begin to define it more clearly and I shared with the group about our experience with Climate Lens. None of you from Climate Lens were in this group but I spoke for us and I was talking about how in some ways when we came together it was a similar intention to become this space for sharing information about making theater the intersection with climate. So Climate Lens has done a few things and then we wondered whether there would be a way for Climate Lens to develop itself into the center possibly by locating other conceptual entities. In other words, other groups that have formed not theater companies, not producing organizations but more conceptual resource, clearinghouse kinds of organizations. Alison mentioned one that she and Roberta, yeah and wondered whether some of these kind of embryonic entities might consider merging to become this new center. And then we could think about using one of their names, it could be the Climate Lens Center, it could be something else depending on which groups get together. But then we do have milestones. Oh sure, I hope others will chime in too but I think one thing that we began to develop an idea of with the goal of accessing the best practices knowledge that's in this room and sharing it more widely is curating a series where this group interviews itself. So individuals would sign on to interview another individual, I'm looking at Ramona maybe around 750 words, thinking about defining our work and articulating kind of our goals and challenges and victories and publishing that series maybe as text, maybe as audio, maybe as both but moving toward that as a first step, maybe one that might even be incubated within HowlRound until we get our grants. Somebody wanna talk about the other one? We got about one minute left for the report back. I think you guys did a great job. I think the one thing that I would add is that my favorite phrase from it is that one of our three desired impacts which we discussed some of last time is growing eco-artists and that's such a great, cool image. Well done, sir. Does anybody from the third group wanna speak up and share what happened in our discussion? We just let, we just, that's all right. What happened in your mind? What happened in your mind? It was, it felt difficult to, I'm gonna go ahead and share. It felt difficult to identify a specific action that we wanted to coalesce around. We came back around to this idea of divestment and what would that look like? What campaigns have been successful? Which ones haven't been successful? And so there was some kind of, there was a little case study exploration there. The question of whether or not Emerson was divested from fossil fuels came up and I think that we were really, or I was just saying, we were thinking about civil disobedience, spectacle, nonviolent direct action which curiously are really embodied, less talking about the ideas and the philosophy. There was a lot of philosophy or fundamental organizing principles but that led to what does that look like in action and what does that look like when we have a goal? I'm gonna say something that, I'm gonna follow up on something that you said that like at the very end, Peterson, which was if we create a project, let's say a divestment campaign, that one might not be successful but it in fact trains us. So when the next one comes along, it might in fact be successful. So that was an exciting idea that came up that even when a project gets identified that doesn't come to fruition or isn't a success or doesn't win or something like that, that it doesn't matter that it's all part of training. Specifically that's what came to me. Speak for myself. Anybody else? Sure. I would add that Joyisha shared a really interesting and exciting set of principles that came out of some work that she's been doing over the last year around non-extractive work around storytelling and community engagement. I think I just radically oversimplified that but really useful I think principles for thinking about how to be elevating the stories and empowering people to tell their own stories who are most affected by these kinds of issues. And so I think that was a really useful thing that came out of that was just the sharing of that and opportunity to continue dialoguing around that. And then I think I and maybe some other people in that group sort of felt like I would be really interested in the next session of this to move in the direction of really actually talking about like nonviolent direct actions, civil disobedience and like what does that look like as performance if there are other people that feel compelled to talk about that. As we move forward tomorrow maybe that's an invitation that's out there. Does anybody else from that group want to share? Just to lay a seed that we did not talk about is the world's largest conference of fossil fuel energy executives, lobbyists, decision makers in the world happens every year in March in Houston and every year we try to disrupt it and nobody like we do it but right now we're not, we don't get the support. So just in terms of a really direct place that we could do spectacle, I can tell you I've scouted that hotel out three different times like we got it all. And then using one of these toolkits for how to extend the impact of that direct theatrical action through social media, through documenting it, creating films out of it and onward to a television show which I will get developed at Disney. Well it's got a big impact. You know, don't diss the TV people. They all started out as playwrights. So you know, that actually just flashed into my mind when you said that this notion of flash mobs or flash mob performances, these things that you watched I've watched a hundred times these videos of all of a sudden materializing out of the crowd at Grand Central Station is this dance project or this, you know, the statues for a while that people were just would freeze and just how utterly compelling in the huge number of views those things get and I'm, you know, picturing like at a meeting like this out of a sort of a flash performance that I mean, these things can do so incredible. I don't know, that just flashed into my head and I felt like I had to share it. So we have a hard stop to get out of here. So we're gonna talk a little bit about, we're just gonna close it up, right? Jamie? Yeah, and I think, yes, but before we close it up I think Chantal and Roberta and Elizabeth and I wanted to offer just a little bit more concretely like the support that we want to offer at this point to continue this group. We think it's important to say what we know which might not be as much as we want to know now but we can speak to it. So I can speak to Hal around and say that we are committed to amplifying efforts around theater and climate performance and climate. Our platform is entirely open and it's based on who wants to participate. So I hope that as you all move forward whatever actions come either directly out of this convening or just in your own work that if you feel compelled to share what you're learning or what you're doing as a model with a broader community Hal around is like totally open to that and would love to do that. Many of you have already been able to share some things thanks to the fabulous work that Chantal has been doing curating the regular series on theater and climate change but it does not have to fit into that regular series. We accept pitches all the time like 98% of the content that we put out into the world from the community both in the US and outside of the US. Also we live stream events all the time and most of them we are not actually operating the cameras at. We stream about over a hundred events a year and what we do is provide training in how to live stream marketing support through putting blog posts out there and social media and again if you're hosting other events or producing other events or there are things that you think man it would be great if we could have an audience outside of this local reality that could tune into this. Again we can be a resource for that. We also have a burgeoning, not burgeoning it's got like thousands of videos but video archive that you know that is also really great in the way of like documentation right so those are just some really clear ways that we can be of service and want to be of service moving forward if it's helpful or you know wanted by you all. Yes Grisha. Can you use a mic or is a mic? Thank you Elizabeth. Do you document events? Do you have people pitched you to document events and then does it happen that way or the opposite way? What do you mean by document? Like SLI, like you'll do a live stream. Yes so yeah like the same process for if you wanted to write and we have a it's all on we'll follow up with links but it's basically like a Google form and you just say hey I'm doing this event here's what it looks like and we lay out our values and you know it's kind of a self curation process and it's a first come first serve thing on the calendar. We are able to live stream two things at once not more than two things so that's like really the factor and then we'll work with you to figure out what kind of you know on tech stuff and supporting in that way. Yep I'm gonna pass it over to Chantel now to speak. Sure and there's the world map right? Cause yeah cause people were talking about databases do you want to say a little bit more? Yeah sure sorry this is turning into like a hell round promo which is not what I intended but so another resource that could be of interest is the world theater map which is our latest tool it is a user generated database of like theater events theater makers and organizations all over the world it's currently in English, Spanish and French and it works like Wikipedia anyone can add information to it and actually one of the idea behind this was to try and create something that could be an open tool to help when people have conferences like this and say if only we had a database of X if only we had a list of people who did Y if only I could know who you know outside of my local region or even within my local region is interested in X kind of work or X topic you know wouldn't that be great so yeah so climate change is an interest on the map so you can search and find for people who have identified that they are interested either in work you know as individuals as organizations and shows also that have been tagged as like you know having climate change as a thing oh there's Annalisa, hey Annalisa and yeah and because it's like Wikipedia you can right you can enter data about yourself you can also enter data for other projects or people that you may know right so it's entirely open and it might be you know it might also be a tool for you it also links to HowlRound content so if you've ever like written for HowlRound and you make a profile on the world theater map it'll show up right or like if you've done a live stream it'll show up yes and we've also published an API of this so in the spirit of like openness if there's ever also like we keep hoping that somebody will take the code and repurpose it for something more specific right it's trying to do a lot of things right now but like there's a universe where you know I don't know I could imagine like 20 different ways that a map might be useful in these in like the conversations that we're having but one that's maybe a little bit more specific to what we're talking about Okay I also want to offer I have this platform called Artist in Climate Change which you can find artistinclimatechange.com We do essays, interviews a lot of essays by artists themselves so one thing is after this convening I would welcome from every one of you you know if you want to write about your project or your practice we like to feature artists we engage with climate change, the environment and we try to serve as a little bit of a database for featuring work and being a place where people can find us there's also a group on Facebook called Artist in Climate Change so there's about I think close to 1500 members right now that are from all over the world and that's a place where we can exchange conversation we can have conversation and exchange tips and you know whatever we may want to talk about and then I want to say you know I'm not unfortunately not I don't have a big institution behind me like the Arctic cycle is very small but I am deeply invested in this intersection and then trying to I don't want to go at it alone so that's why that was you know one of the ideas for convening this so I am really invested in what comes out of this and in helping move it forward even though I can't you know I wish I could say oh I have the next grant for us to get together again I don't but I you know I would be interested in working with everybody to see how we can keep moving things forward so I don't know if you have looked at the theater without borders web page but I know that Vijay is now looking it up and we're a group of volunteers it's a network of volunteers like you're all volunteering and Shantaz volunteering and it's a mechanism to connect artists globally we've been operating for about 15 years and we do have people all around the world who are I guess I mean there is no membership where there's no money, there's no membership there's no desk, there's no telephone it's just us and so under if you scroll up a little but you can see artist safety funding information opportunities and under initiatives Vijay if you see the little initiative thing there's the climate lens and when climate lens met we offered to have a web page so it's a WordPress site we can easily add pages the thing I would say that I've kept thinking about is theater without borders is basically a virtual information portal but because we're all volunteers we come and we go and one of the things we tend to do and have done especially for theater and peace building and conflict zones is we have hosted gatherings and it's a needs motivated response because we're volunteers so if we feel like there's a need then we feel we should show up and that's why Theater Without Borders is committed to Chantal and Elizabeth and we did do in 2010 at La Mama a huge conference on theater and peace building and conflict zones 400 people attended from over 40 countries we have no money so we did a $500,000 conference for zero we passed the hat I've been thinking and we're talking to Chantal and to talking to Elizabeth we just have to do one again and it has to be about this topic so it's in my mind if that's important to people that would be important to me slash us so there are resources if you tell us we will come I wanna second a lot of what was said and I also wanna stand in my commitment to organizing subsequent convenings and we're gonna take the temperature I think again tomorrow and find out how many people in this room feel like that would be important or desired and just to kind of figure out how that might gel I also am located in Miami and in Brazil and Miami is on the Florida peninsula and it's a place that a lot of people don't get to and it's an independent republic on its own and it really sits in a space of the Caribbean so I think it's, I just am representing that area of this, of our, it's a bio, a very interesting and important bio region and it's connected, it's also a shore like Brazil is one shore of that same Caribbean as our other cities around the Gulf Coast so I just, I think it's an interesting nexus and I'm just there and you can come visit me anytime you want. Thank you. Okay.


Stand by for crime Hi Chuck Morgan CLP newscaster speaking You know for the most part people associate deeds of crime with the male of the species Unfortunately, that isn't always the case The story you're about to hear concerns a woman One of the most ruthless and cunning of any of the hardened gangsters I've ever run afoul of during all my years as a reporter here in LA The opening incident of the story took place in a deserted warehouse some weeks ago a Man and a woman were target practicing with a revolver Okay, Nick. Wait a minute. Take a look at the target How am I doing you're doing all right, Nicky boy Eight bulls-eyes out of ten shots. Yeah, not bad a tree. See not bad at all I figured you'd get better with a little practice Guess we can handle that bank job anytime now bank job. Yeah first national trust remember. Yeah. Yeah, I remember Look, Trixie, let's forget the bank job, huh? I got an in on the numbers racket with Bugs flamble Bugs flamble that's small-time punk. Okay, then we'll get into something else Banks is out of my line Trixie on they're gonna be in your line from now on chum Get that and get it straight.  Okay, you tied up with me. So I'll get you out of the small time. Okay So I went to work and began teaching you the angles. All right So now we're ready to move and you ain't welsh and see you didn't say nothing about a bank job. Didn't I well? I'm saying it now. It's the first national trust tomorrow at noon What do you still want to go back to the numbers racket? Trixie you wouldn't wouldn't I Nicky boy? I guess you don't know Trixie Talbot Say what I mean Yeah, I see four of them right in the bullseye. You're good. All right, Trixie. You're doing right. I'm good I got a reputation and I'm keeping it Nobody ain't gonna say they walked out on Trixie Talbot She can't afford to have that kind of talk going round. I get it Trixie.  I figured we could go places together. That's why I'll let you come in with me Sure, Trixie. You give me a chance. All right. I ain't forgetting it. Come here, Nicky boy.  Yeah Yeah, all right Trixie I'm crazy about you. That's better We'll get along sure Trixie We get along all right tomorrow at noon. We begin moving it on the big time. We start going places You and me tomorrow at noon This is it Nicky boy. Yeah, I'll set sure sure I'm all set. Let's get going. Take it easy. Don't get nervous Remember what you're supposed to do. Yeah. Yeah. We've been through it enough times. What are we waiting for? All right, Nicky boy relax now Hold the bank book in your left hand like he was gonna make a deposit keep the other hand on the heater in your pocket.  Yeah Okay, pal. This is a stick up. Don't move. We are getting it. Yes, sir Well, what do you want? What do you think we want chump shove that folding green stuff this way? Yes, ma'am Okay Now go into the vault and bring out everything you can carry forget that Trixie. We gotta go on you Yes, ma'am, and don't forget. There's a gun pointing at your back Trixie. Look that car forget the car I said he is on us. It is.  Drop those guns. Why you dumb flat-foot Trixie Grab that door and let's get out of here The tenant bill mags of police headquarters dropped into my office to tell me about the robbery and the murders a Cal Curtis my secretary and I have known Bill a long time We both suspected the purpose of his visit was more than to just give me a good news story Well, that's the story in a hole up Chuck.  Check the files and records in every daylight bank robber in the country. This pair didn't follow the customary pattern at all More than a week my boys have been bringing in and questioning every known daylight hole of man in the city So far they they haven't even made first base Now the way I see it. They've been looking in the wrong places for the wrong kind of guy That makes sense. Yes today young trooper Sydney Richards in an upstate town You notice some smoke and some signs of life coming from what he supposed wasn't abandoned house Went up to investigate and hasn't been heard from since wait a minute If he hasn't been heard from since how do you know he saw signs of life? And how do you know he went up to investigate stands to reason we found the tire marks of his motorcycle in the lane It leads to the house But none returning. Yeah, so you figured that whoever was living in the house prevented him from returning.  You wouldn't ask such a nutty question. It's like this Carol suppose The people who are occupying the house are our bank robbers and that they've taken trooper Richards prisoner and holding him as hostage Well, suppose they are they can't hold him forever What are you going to do just sit around and wait for the life of one state trooper Carol is worth the lives of a dozen criminals We have a plan whereby we can keep young Richards alive here. It comes. Let's have it Bill two days ago The San Francisco police captured one of the most ruthless killers this country's ever known. Yeah Now you've probably heard of me. It's called a professor. The professor. Yeah, I did a story on him a while ago Huh another professor is being held in Communicado by the San Francisco police Chuck We we want you to go up there and look him over What's the gimmick? I'll bet you wish you'd never asked Assuming that the people in the abandoned house are our bank robbers and that the holding trooper Richards There's only one person who could get to them without arousing their suspicions I get it. You want me to assume the identity of the professor and make a call on the fugitive? No, that's it Chuck You will you look a little bit like the professor and I think you could get away with no I said you stop getting in a sweat glamour post. There won't be any danger. No danger Are you out of your mind? The first thing those two are going to ask is how did you know they were hiding in the house? We've taken care of that Carol two days from now. There'll be a daylight hold up in the neighboring town of Bolton Crime will be laid to the professor the professor But you said I'm will only be attributed to the professor Newspaper radio broadcasts will attest to that fan. It's a good idea. I could use the story myself You see glamour person will be only natural for the professor to take refuge in the abandoned house That's it. Now these two fugitives didn't why not the professor? I still say it's crazy What if they've met the professor before what it isn't likely that any small-time Operators would know a big shot like the professor by sight.  You're out for a GP. Suppose you pipe down, okay? Go ahead. Get yourself murdered. See if I care if I don't go trooper Richards will be murdered.  Don't you man? I haven't touched you. Come on bill. Let's catch a plane for San Francisco, right? Chuck no come back here.  Come on in I was trooper Richards this morning. Okay, I guess Look Trixie. Do we have to keep that guy tied up all the time? Oh, we have to keep him tied up Nikki boy. Sometimes I think you've got softening of the brain. Okay. Maybe I have Maybe having a stay here cooked up in this lousy dumps driving me nuts.  I was a sucker to listen you in the first place You got anything else to say Nikki boy. Oh, Trixie put that gun away. Yeah, I'll put it away One more crack out of you chum and the next time I won't miss. Okay, Trixie Okay, you don't need to worry about me.  I know it could see you're right Forget I said anything will it if we could only get out of here get out when the heat's off not until but suppose they find Don't be a dope I've had this hideaway case for weeks.  I already admitted it was my fault, didn't I? That's a big help admitting it.  I won't fix it So help me you wouldn't want to How long do we have to stay here anyway? Oh, maybe tomorrow maybe the next day depends on how things look two more days Look Trixie that cops gonna be missed. I'll come looking for it. Let him Where in the driver's seat no matter which way you figure it Anybody comes here looking for that cop. We make a deal with him his life for hours now quit worrying will you we're doing okay? I guess you're right Besides if they was looking for the cup we'd have heard it on the portable radio. Sure. We would Turn it on. Let's have some music. Okay, Trixie Now become definitely established that the lone bandit will shot and killed the pay master at the Roberts oil fields With the gangster known as the professor State police are making an intensive search of the countryside near Bolton Well, how do you like that? The professor's operating again and then Bolton to the professor I thought he was laying lower after the Chicago job.  I'd like to meet him and me could go places together Yes, sir. There's a guy who's got what it takes. You ain't never met him Trixie. Of course.  Maybe you'd get some place. All right, Trixie, and I do an all-right That professor. Yes, sir. Him and me could really go places together Hey Trixie listen, it's an automobile Look it's coming up the lane. It's the cops. I knew they got up. Don't get us. We're into the chance I knew that up.  What do you mean? It ain't the cops cause there's only one of them You think a cop would come driving up here in broad daylight like that a trooper did nuts This is some punk who's lost his way or maybe want to drink a water or something What are we gonna do this? He's a trooper.  What's the idea of the gun? Never mind go on and do as I say You ain't gonna ain't I Nikki boy, you got a lot to learn in this business and you might just as well start now open the door No, I'll talk to him.   Oh? For a moment you rather startled me. I thought there was no one at home. What do you want? I was wondering if I could use your telephone. You see Come on in of course Thank you. Oh I beg you pardon. I didn't know there was a lady here. You guessed right. They're right Okay, who sent you Sent me I I don't believe I understand you see I was on my way. Come on. Come on.  My dear young lady. Are you referring to me as a police officer Buster? You sure put on a smooth act Hey, Nick, yeah, Trixie see what he's got in that bag. Okay Give me the bag, but no just a moment give him a bag, but Very well, here you are my man. Thanks What's in it Nick? Cheapers well, what is it? What is it take a look? Well, I'm Greenbacks bundles of them.  I know that radio broadcast the professor wait a minute wait a minute Let me look this lug over did the radio broadcast give a detailed description of the professor Trixie How do you know my name my dear girl? You're a Associate here has called you Trixie at least three times since I entered the house. Oh, he did and you referred to him as Nick Trixie and Nick Could it be? No, no Trixie Talbot would never allow herself to become involved with Forgive me. I I've said too much. You ain't said nothing. What's the matter with Trixie Talbot? There's nothing the matter with Trixie Talbot. Oh I get it Hey, Nick. Yeah, Trixie go on outside and take a look around.  Okay, Trixie. You don't have to get sore That's better Now shall I finish what I was about to say Trixie? You don't need to I know So you're the professor, huh at your service my dear I like that at your Service he says Yes, sir. Professor. You're just like they said a real gentleman. Thank you my dear Sit down professor over here. Thank you We got a lot to talk about Yes, sir, we got to get acquainted Can't you drive a little faster bill Chuck may be dead by now if he's dead then there's no need of driving faster Very funny you cops are all alike cold-blooded. Take it easy Carol your boyfriend can take care of himself I'm worried one of those hold-up artists was a woman. Don't forget. Ah So that's what you're worried about all that and other things What other things well suppose Chuck doesn't get away with his elect Suppose they know he isn't the professor in that case as you yourself pointed out. He's dead Oh Sorry, but there's no need getting into a sweat until we know there's something to worry about bill makes your heartless Either that or you've never been in love Well, there it is there what is oh the house You sure sure. I'm sure I've checked it enough times during the past few days What are we stopping for? Aren't we going up there and save Chuck oh sure sure we'll drive right up the lane blowing the horn so they know we're coming You don't have to be sarcastic Bill I'm scared so am I Okay, how'd you get what we're going to do don't know yet Let's let's take a look around Professor I got a handle to you you're done all right for yourself You flatter me Trixie and Now about the proposition you mentioned a few minutes ago. Yeah the proposition Professor how much dough is in the small change purse of yours? Possibly ten thousand dollars Just like that ten G's and you don't bat an eye Brother you killed me Now look see that bag sticking out from under the couch Mmm, not unlike my own it's just like it and what's in it is just like what's in yours, too Only there's more Yeah, there's more than 15 grand in that satchel professor. You don't say yeah, I'm saying You add that 15 to the 10 you got and it makes a pretty good steak done it Deed it does Yes, a very good steak Trixie. You get it then we start out with 25 grand see you and me together But my dear girl, I have only ten sure so I chip in five more than you okay You got brains. You got fancy tool.  I Need a guy like you we could go places together. Is it a deal? It seems fair enough, but there's one tiny item. I'm afraid you forgot yeah Nick Nick Oh, don't be a dope professor. You and me know how to handle guys like Nick Why when someone gets in our way, we just a guy in a base peeking up through the woods what they're coming here cops Let me see Hey, professor, come here. You see something Trixie. I'll say I do Look out there. I'll do it Good heavens it's something wrong professor. Yeah I mean put the gun away Trixie. You can't friends are yours. Maybe yeah, they're a couple pals of mine. I mean that What was that it sounds like it came from the next room it did it's a state trooper Maybe he's getting loose. Shall I go look Trixie young Sydney Richards a so he's still alive How'd you know about him? I read about it in the newspapers heard it on the radio You never it wasn't in no newspapers, and it wasn't on no radio. Trixie.  Professor You thought you could put one over on Trixie Talbot, huh Trixie my girl I think the time has come for us to be frank with each other. Yeah Nick yeah, Trixie go out the back way and take care of them two outside stay here Nick If you do as Trixie says you'll regret it.  Who are you anyway? The name is Morgan Chuck Morgan the newscaster Chuck Morgan well, what do you know? I thought that voice sounded familiar, but Well, that takes care of your friends mr. Morgan You got any prayers you want to say before you join them. I've got a lot of things up that you Nick Come on in.  No, don't try to kid me pal All right, Nick speak up. The name is a Nick lady drop the gun. Why you too bad You'll have the situation well in hand Trixie was considerably messed up in the friccest of follows Nick was no problem at all We found Trooper Richards uncomfortable, but unharmed Karen I got back to the office with only an hour to go before my late broadcast So I started dictating the facts at once Wait a minute Chuckie boy. Well, you don't expect your listeners to believe that stuff. Do you what stuff that it was a woman who Influenced Nick to turn bank robber. I certainly do if it hadn't been for Trixie's influence Nick never would have nuts How was that?  Hey, that's a good idea Hmm Pucker up influenced I'm influenced We go dancing


So there's an interesting story that I've been circulating around the internet of a supposed 256-year-old Chinese man named Li Qingyun who had been going through all the provinces of China and worked as an herbalist for a while and as a drugist and sold these herbs he was harvesting in the mountains and through certain practices achieved an unusually long life. Now whether or not you believe that to be true his pieces of advice for a long life I think are really worth studying and I want to share those in today's video here. Hey it's Alex Hein, author of the health book Master the Day. Now I've included a free download right there below the video and it's for a free pdf five daily rituals that can potentially help you add 10 years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine so you can check it out right there the first link in the description. So this guy Li Qingyun was interviewed by a Taiwanese general named Yang Sen and there's actually a 1933 time.com time magazine interview with him he was that renowned all over the world and he gave these four pieces of advice that we're going to be talking about here. Now the first piece of advice he gave for a long life is keep a quiet heart. You know the other day I was sitting in traffic and I was actually not really in a rush for the first time in a while and there was a lot of traffic going on the highway and I was listening to great music it was in no rush having a good time and all of these people around me were cutting in and cutting out and people were honking their horns because it was rush hour and everyone was trying to get somewhere and people were like flinging their hands out the window because they were pissed at people and I think this is obviously the opposite of a quiet heart. This analogy is used a lot in Buddhism and Taoism for kind of having a non-reactive spirit so to speak. Just kind of being like happy go lucky kind of content wherever you go and not getting stirred up too much.   Now one of the stories about Li Qingyun was that he would wake up in the morning and if he had time he would sit for a few hours where he woke up completely still meditating. Now obviously this is a very cliche archetype for like the sage who lives to be 256 years old but nonetheless modern world the modern society is so marked by a profound lack of stillness. It's marked by a profound amount of restlessness and I know it better than anyone else as someone who's always going here going there trying to find that kind of stillness and not getting just his nervous system so on all the time. But sitting still like a tortoise is one of those things where you look at the modern person if you've ever waited in line in a market or in the doctor's office how many people can just sit there and just look around even for a five minute wait just sit in the chair look around without their phone without a book without a magazine really challenging for a lot of people and yet that by itself is what the modern person needs more than anything this lack of stimulation. The third piece of advice he gave for longevity was to walk sprightly like a pigeon. Now having been born in Brooklyn New York trust me I know what pigeons walk like and they've got this a very quick kind of peppy walk. Now my grandma in her 80s has one of the most sprightly walks of anyone that I've seen. Anywhere she's going it's kind of like a quick power walk and she's just has a lot of energy for an 80 year old. Now even though she doesn't have perfect health and even though she isn't looking like a fitness model or something she is very vital and I think that's the thing that's the difference because you meet 50 year olds 60 70 80 year old certainly that are not that vital they move slow they bend down slow they react slow but this idea of walking sprightly like a pigeon is just you know it's like a quick energetic walk something that kind of builds energy and gets the circulation going and it's almost like an indicator of vitality where you look at a child being the most vital the beginning of their life all their energy is there they're running around they have all this energy they can scream all day and they don't they know as the Tao Djing says they they never grow a horse their voice and then the opposite side of the spectrum is the elderly person on their deathbed reacting like this speaking so slowly the eyes take a minute to make eye contact and so you can see how that flexibility that sprightliness is a measure of health and vitality.  Now I asked one of my friends what he thought he meant by that because it kind of confused me and here's what he said and I thought it was very very wise does sleep like a dog means that you can sleep anywhere anytime your mind is calm clear and there aren't any thoughts in your mind messing up your sleep a dog will casually plop down pretty much anywhere let loose a sigh of relief and quickly effortlessly fall asleep and I would add to that that dogs can wake up easily too so if they have to be vigilant and do something they can get up their nervous system is not overstimulated because they can go lay down and five minutes be back asleep. Now these four pieces of advice are great advice no matter who you are and what you're trying to do but I hope they help you in some small way cultivate some of those daily rituals that can help you feel better live better and attain a long and healthy life however long you want it to be. Alright guys so I hope that helps I hope Li Qingyun's legendary four pieces of advice help you and of course the first link below is for a free pdf which is five daily rituals that can potentially help you add 10 years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine you can check it out down there below and then check out my last related video right there and right there