Photos: Astrid Stawiarz & Valerie Terranova / Getty Images for V-Day

Thank you to everyone who came out for Dear Everything: A Musical Uprising for the Earth on Earth Day (April 22) featuring Crystal Monee Hall, YDE, Paravi, Luke Ferrari, Michael Williams, Brittany Campbell, Javier Muñoz, Terence Archie, Pearl Sun, and Benny Elledge – with the astounding Jane Fonda in the role of narrator – and the Earth choir composed of members of the Broadway for Arts Education Choir and the Brooklyn Music School Choir. With deep gratitude to Amy Cassello and the extraordinary team at BAM for your invitation—and for opening your creative home to us with such generosity and vision.

The night was beyond our wildest dreams with incredible performances and an amazing audience whose energy permeated the Howard Gilman Opera House! Youth were center stage and youth activists’ voices were amplified and present throughout the experience from the moment folks walked in the door.

Filmmaker, entrepreneur, V-Day board member, and climate activist Maya Penn contributed to the development of the piece and designed the production’s artwork, extending the project’s collaboration with emerging leaders working at the intersection of culture and climate justice.

At the end of the night, five local youth-led climate groups including Climate Families NYC, Fridays For Future NYC, Jna Tsjo Collective, Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy, Sane Energy Project were awarded grants in support of their work.

Produced by V-Day, in association with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University.

Dear Everything is particularly grateful for the generous lead support from Regina K. Scully and the Artemis Rising Foundation. Written by Tony Award winner V (formerly Eve Ensler), directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus, lyrics by Justin Tranter, Caroline Pennell and V, and music by Justin Tranter, Caroline Pennell and Eren Cannata – the urgent new folk-pop musical connected audience members across generational divides while putting art at the center of the climate conversation.

Created as an artistic response to our climate emergency, Dear Everything centers youth leadership, intergenerational responsibility, and collective action. The work extends V’s decades-long commitment to harnessing storytelling as a force for cultural and political transformation and marks the first artistic piece centering around climate from V-Day, long known for its vast survivor-led, grassroots, anti-violence work on college campuses and in communities.

In the face of a full-blown climate emergency, can we band together and intervene before it’s too late? This is the question at the core of Dear Everything.

READ the full press release and the just out Vogue article – Jane Fonda, V, and Maya Penn on Making Noise and Taking Action With ‘Dear Everything’.

Visit the photo gallery of the evening and our website at deareverythingonstage.org.

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