You are warmly invited to the second season of the Climate Imaginaries seminar series co-curated by ATD artist-in-residence Agat Sharma together with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca.
The series is informed by and runs alongside the theatre-based research project Staging Extreme Weather which Agat is leading at the Academy of Theatre & Dance (ATD) from October-January 2026 in which several both ATD and UvA students are involved. The seminars are an ongoing initiative of Laura’s special professorship at UvA which aims to strengthen connections and exchange between AHK and UvA particularly on the topic of arts and climate justice. Participants in the seminars are also invited to join a public sharing of the practical research in January (see details below).
Climate Imaginaries seminar II
White Studio 2.09, ATD Grootlab, Overhoeksplein 2 (2nd floor)
With Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on storytelling, land and song
(registration required - link to come)
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and academic, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the boundaries between story and song—bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity.
Working for two decades as an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices, Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is a member of Alderville First Nation.
Leanne is the author of eight books, including A Short History of the Blockade and the novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and the Dublin Literary Prize. Her collaboration with Robyn Maynard, Rehearsals for Living is a National Best Seller and was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction. Leanne is also a musician. Her latest release Theory of Ice was named to the Polaris Prize short list, and she is the 2021 winner of the Prism Prize’s Willie Dunn Award. Leanne’s new work, Theory of Water was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for non-fiction.
Image: Agat Sharma
