ON THE STEPS OF PARKS LIBRARY

Recyclables for Music (REFORM), EcoTheatre Lab, and MFA in Creative Writing and Environment students 

Featuring performances by three campus groups titled Conversations with the Earth in conjunction with the Office of Sustainability's annual Earth Day Celebration. 

Learn about student organization Recyclables for Music (REFORM) and see their latest instrument inventions. REFORM students turn everyday plastic waste into beautiful, functional musical instruments.   

The EcoTheatre Lab will perform two short climate comedies, written for the international Climate Change Theatre Action initiative: The Polar Bears by Nicolas Billon and The Climes They Are A' Changin' by MFA in Creative Writing & Environment playwrights, Summer Awad, Jessi Brock, and A'Ja Lyons.  

Four students from MFA in Creative Writing and Environment will read their Mother Earth-inspired original works  

• Kelli Fitzpatrick presents flash fiction about ocean pollution  

• Shalini Singh reads eco-poetry, poems about caves and underground narratives  

• Mariana Castro Azpíroz presents creative nonfiction about climate change narratives 

• Geneva Toland shares poems about climate change and relationship with land  

Bonus: To coincide with the Earth Day event, the ISU Repair Cafe will offer skateboard, scooter, e-bike, wheelchair, and roller skate repair on the south lawn.