Dec 21, 2021What Will Santa Do Without the North Pole?Our destruction of our planet has come to the point that we have to wonder where Santa will live? Where will he go with his army of elves, reindeer and the need for real estate enough to put him deep into a 150-year mortgage? As we sit less than a…Christmas3 min readChristmas3 min read
Dec 21, 2021Where Will We Be in 2071?When Ripple Effect Artists produced the play 2071: The World We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren we quite literally thought about the world we are leaving for our future generations. We examined our personal climate impact and decided that sadly there was no neutral position any more. …Ripple Effect4 min readRipple Effect4 min read
Dec 21, 2021What We Get Wrong About Climate ChangeAmongst all the major themes of the day, possibly one of the most prominent is Climate Change. It is also one of the most misunderstood concept of them all! A number of people argue that climate change isn’t real because winter is still a season. People cannot connect to the…Climate Change3 min readClimate Change3 min read
Dec 21, 2021The Ongoing Mask DebateJust as we were all relaxing about Covid and international travel was beginning to open up, along comes Omicron and it sorts of feels like we are all back where we started. Through the course of the year, we have navigated two major variants, Delta and the current one that…Masks3 min readMasks3 min read
Dec 21, 2021Mental Health and Musicals“How are you?” is possibly the hardest question for people to answer right now. Since the Coronavirus pandemic began in 2020, our world has changed in unrecognizable ways. Mercifully, one of these changes includes a normalizing of discussions about mental health. Anxiety disorders have been identified as the most common…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Dec 19, 2021The Systemic Racism We Battle EverydayWhen we created Guarding the Bridge in 2018, we had no idea how big the conversation around Systemic Racism would become. What is Systemic Racism Systemic Racism is when the laws and regulations are built in a manner that discriminates against a certain section of society. Systemic Racism makes itself…Racism3 min readRacism3 min read
Dec 19, 2021Ripple Effect Artists Honors the African-American ExperienceThe murder of George Floyd will go down in history as a tipping point. This was when America said, we have had enough. This sort of a crime, does not define us as a society and we refuse to be a part of this. …Ripple Effect2 min readRipple Effect2 min read
Dec 19, 2021American Apathy, Theatre & Our BiasesActivism fatigue is real and sadly, we think American apathy is just as real. If we think about this past year, we began our journey through a global pandemic in the aftermath of anti-Semitic hate crimes, straight into the Black Lives Matter movement, barrelled into the American elections and somehow…Apathy4 min readApathy4 min read
Nov 2, 2021Spotlight on Tim DowdGuarding the Bridge was a production that not only made people think but our unconscious bias but also reminded us how uncomfortably familiar racism can be. This production features a conversation between a father and son where the father educates his son about how to he must “protect” his family…Ripple Effect3 min readRipple Effect3 min read
Nov 2, 2021Spotlight on Scott ZimmermanGuarding the Bridge was a production that not only made people think but our unconscious bias but also reminded us how uncomfortably familiar racism can be. This production features a conversation between a father and son where the father educates his son about how to he must “protect” his family…Movies2 min readMovies2 min read
