Email, Zachary Kurz, Republican staff press secretary, U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, March 28, 2014
1:23 p.m.
Below is related info on the grant copy + pasted directly from the NSF website. Chairman Smith referenced the grant during his questioning of Dr. Holdren at Wednesday’s full committee hearing on the President’s budget request for science agencies.
Time stamp 19:20 on the archived webcast: http://science.house.gov/hearing/full-committee-hearing-review-president-s-fiscal-year-2015-budget-request-science-agencies
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Zac
Award Abstract #1010974
The Great Immensity
NSF Org: | Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) |
Initial Amendment Date: | August 25, 2010 |
Latest Amendment Date: | September 8, 2012 |
Award Number: | 1010974 |
Award Instrument: | Continuing grant |
Program Manager: | Alphonse T. DeSena DRL Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) EHR Directorate for Education & Human Resources |
Start Date: | August 1, 2010 |
Expires: | July 31, 2014 (Estimated) |
Awarded Amount to Date: | $697,177.00 |
Investigator(s): | Marion Young (Former Principal Investigator) |
Sponsor: | The Civilians, Inc. 138 S. Oxford St. 3C Brooklyn, NY 11217-1695 (718)230-3330 |
NSF Program(s): | AISL, CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION |
Program Reference Code(s): | 7259, 9177, SMET |
Program Element Code(s): | 7259, 6891 |
ABSTRACT
The Civilians, Inc., a theatre company in Brooklyn, NY, is producing The Great Immensity, a touring play with songs and video that explores our relationship to the environment, with a focus on critical issues of climate change and biodiversity conservation. The play has been created with a network of partners including the Princeton Environmental Institute and Princeton Atelier Program/Lewis Arts Center, which will maintain an ongoing relationship with the project. The play uses real places and stories drawn from interviews conducted by the artists to create an experience that is part investigative journalism and part inventive theater. Attendance at the performances is projected to be about 75,000.
A major goal of the project is to help the public better appreciate how science studies the Earth's biosphere and to promote an inquisitive curiosity about our place in the natural world. The initiative also intends to create and evaluate a new model for how theater can increase public awareness, knowledge, and engagement with important science-related societal issues.
Project deliverables include the development and testing of online content, podcasts, and videos as well as special community education and outreach efforts in each community where the play is staged. Performances will be accompanied by post-performance panel discussions with the artists, local scientists and policy makers. After the completion of the initial tour, the play will be published, licensed, and made available to other theaters to produce independently.
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1010974&HistoricalAwards=false