About
Award-winning journalist Alanna Mitchell is a master storyteller, and this power is center stage in her mesmerizing solo show, Sea Sick. Culled from her work with leading ocean scientists and infused with her innate ability to lure an audience in, Sea Sick tells Mitchell’s most important story: her journey to the bottom of the ocean, the demons she discovered there and, most importantly, her hope for the future.Learning Guide
Created by The Broad Stage in collaboration with Alanna Mitchell, this Learning Guide is for learners of all ages, providing artist insights, inviting the reader to delve further into their artistic process and the content areas relevant to the performance. Educators are invited to use these elements to create arts integrated lesson plans with the suggested California state standards, social justice standards and social emotional learning competencies.
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Environmental Panel
Doing it Right - Healing the Ocean and Building the Blue Economy
Experts, educators and advocates discuss our most important planetary resource, the ocean.
The Broad Stage partnered with Santa Monica College's Public Policy Institute to present a panel discussion about the ocean, carbon, the blue economy, conservation and more. Award winning science journalist, Alanna Mitchell joined Terry Tamminen, CEO of the AltaSea organization and former Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the State of California, and Heal the Bay water quality scientist, educator and advocate, Annelisa Moe, for this robust conversation moderated by Santa Monica College’s Shari Davis, Co Director of the Public Policy Institute and Patricia Ramos, Dean of Academic Affairs.
This event is made possible, in part, by support from The Kissick Family Foundation.
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Artists
Biography
Alanna Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author (New York Times, CBC’s Quirks & Quarks, Globe, Mail and more) who writes about science and social trends specializing in investigative reporting. Sea Sick is inspired by her international bestseller and award-winning book of the same name.