AfterWater Fiction: Show Me The Well
Chicago poet, playwright and educator Kristiana Colon is an ensemble member of Teatro Luna, the all-Latina theater company in Chicago. Show Me the Wel...
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science+art+journalism... Time is running out to rescue and repair the planet, climate scientists keep telling us. They say that soon fresh water will be more precious than gold. They warn that no one will be untouched. But is anyone really listening? In After Water, scientists, writers and journalists to peer into the future—100 years or more—and imagine when water scarcity is a dominant social issue. It’s a cosmic blend of art and science. Front and Center is funded by The Joyce Foundation: Improving the quality of life in the Great Lakes region and across the country.
After Water Fiction: The Way of the River
Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest. She is the author of “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” and “Bad Feminist,” a New York Times bestseller. “The Wa...
After Water: An interview with author Tim Akimoff
"Water Men" by Tim Akimoff is the story of a political struggle over water in the Great Lakes region. A father tells his child about how the Great Lak...
After Water Fiction: Water Men
What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more preci...
After Water: An interview with author Rebecca Adams Wright
In "Straws," the Great Lakes are being siphoned away by greedy private interests. A group of eco-terrorists hatch a plan to return the water to the pl...
After Water Fiction: Straws
What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more preci...
After Water: An interview with author Peter Orner
In his story "The Last Cribkeeper," Peter Orner introduces us to Harry Osgood--the last man to work on Chicago's water cribs. Harry spends his days wa...
After Water Fiction: The Last Cribkeeper
What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more preci...
After Water: An interview with author Tricia Bobeda
In "The Floating City of New Chicago," we see a Chicago divided by class...and water. The wealthy have fled the city for a secret island on Lake Michi...
After Water Fiction: The Floating City of New Chicago
What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more preci...