Join the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York, together with playwright Catherine Fillioux and Norwegian environmental NGO In the Same Boat, for an evening of storytelling and conversation about ocean advocacy!
PROGRAMME
Reading from MEDUSA by Stella Stenman Steinheim, Norwegian Actress
Directed by Zeshan Ugurlu
Followed by a panel discussion moderated by
Catherine Filloux, Award-winning Playwright and Activist
with
Anna McIntosh, Volunteer with In The Same Boat
Romany Webb, Deputy Director for Climate Change Law at Columbia University
James Browning, Founder and Executive Director at F-Minus
ABOUT CATHERINE FILLIOUX
CATHERINE FILLOUX (Playwright/Librettist) is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist who has been writing about human rights for many decades. Filloux’s 40 plays and libretti have been produced in the U.S., internationally, and are widely published, and anthologized. Catherine has traveled for her plays to conflict areas around the world. www.catherinefilloux.com
ABOUT IN THE SAME BOAT
In The Same Boat (ITSB) is a Norwegian non-profit environmental organization founded in 2017 by Rolf-Ørjan Høgset that removes marine plastic and trash from remote Arctic and Northern European coastlines. Combining volunteer effort with high tech methods, ITSB’s mobile teams are dedicated to cleaning 10% of the world’s coastlines and provide research, documentation and storytelling to protect marine environments and inspire systemic change.
