*What’s Pester Power?
“Pester Power” is a 30 minute multimedia performance piece. It’s a live show performed by kids to empower adults to help them make a change in the world. Hear the “Oh Phooey Oh Fudge” song. Watch the Historical Timeline of Obsolete Emotions. And find out where that Midwestern State of Denial can be found!
“Pester Power” is performed by 5 young people from Urbana, ages 10 through 14, who are also a part of the youth-led initiative to address environmental and racial climate. The piece is written and directed by Susan Parenti, teacher/composer at the School for Designing a Society. It’s based on texts and ideas created by participants in Fall 2013 SDaS collaboration: Performance Facing Hybrid Social Problems.
The collaboration “Performance Facing Hybrid Social Problems” was a project to create a touring program on the intersection of 3 catastrophic sentences:
“There is no climate change”;
“Experimental Composition is not relevant”;
“Racism? C’mon–no longer a problem”.
Urbana Pester Power Climate Action Teams
We invite you to join us in something brand new and fun— Urbana Pester Power Climate Action Teams!
What’s this?
It’s youth-led community organizing to enable you and your neighbors to change environmental climate and racial climate—-one ‘pester’ at a time!
Pester Power Climate Action Teams start with a live performance of “Pester Power”* in your home for you and your neighbors, and end two months later with a festive get-together at the IMC, Saturday, December 13th. In between your neighborhood group will meet a few times to address your action plan around environmental and racial climate with a member of the Urbana Sustainability Advisory Board.
We invite you to participate in Urbana Pester Power Climate Action Teams!!!