Climate Café is a time to get together, talk about climate, and participate in community action.

Note that we are in a new venue.

This Climate Café is presented by Ashlyn Hall of the UNC Greensboro Association of Graduate Students in Dance. During the event we will watch a short film (4 min), respond via writing and drawing, create short movement phrases and reflect on our creations. Our explorations will center around the following questions:

• What or who motivates our activism?
• What strategies exist for protecting our mental health amid rampant policy rollbacks?
• How does caring for ourselves and each other enable us to ACT?

Ashlyn Hall (she/her) is a dance educator and performer currently pursuing an MFA in Dance at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Ashlyn has cultivated her teaching practice in diverse settings, adapting ballets for family audiences at a non-profit dance school, teaching cross-disciplinary lessons within public and private school dance programs, and choreographing musicals (at UNCG: Side Show and Sweeney Todd, both directed by Tug Watson). She has performed at festivals like Nashville Fringe, Chattanooga Fringe, Kindling Arts, and Nashville Ballet’s Emergence. Ashlyn was previously an adjunct faculty member at her alma mater, Belmont University, where she choreographed for the dance company (Dir. Debbie Belue) and worked closely with incoming musical theatre students to develop their ballet technique. She is now a Graduate Assistant teaching Pilates and Ballet for Musical Theatre at UNCG. Ashlyn's current research interest centers dance-making methodologies that encourage participants and audiences to respond to the emotional and physical realities of climate change.