Celebration Barn, Paris, Maine
May 15-16, 2026
Celebration Barn Theater, Paris, Maine
Join us for our seventh annual 2030 Vision Climate Convergence: Resilient Roots, Joyful Shoots! We'll gather again at the Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris for two days of knowledge sharing, inspiration, and movement building. Each convergence brings together engaging workshops, roundtable discussions, and plenary presentations, as well as great food, music, and art to energize us for the work ahead. We design the convergence to be inclusive and interactive, celebrating and engaging the collective wisdom of all who attend.
Request for Programming - Due March 15
We want your voice at 2030 Vision: Resilient Roots, Joyful Shoots! Please fill out this proposal by March 15, and share with anyone who you'd like to see at the Climate Convergence.
Registration is Open!
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This year, we'll again be treated to a Friday evening performance at the crossroads of Celebration Barn's legacy of clowning and our mission of climate justice.
Saturday Keynote: Rhiannon Hampson
Room at the Table: Finding common ground and community across the divide
We are neighbors, and in a state the size of Maine, that means something. Gleaning from her own experience as a rural Mainer, a dairy and livestock farmer, and a policy maker working on heritage industry and environmental issues, Rhiannon will reflect on what is needed to rise to this moment of division on this literal common ground we share in the face of climate breakdown. As issues like drought, PFAS exposure, and extreme weather affect us all no matter what our ideology may be, how do we recognize the common grief we share and navigate changes together? Making space to do this work in the face of increasing cultural and political tensions is getting harder, and at the same time, even more necessary. Rhiannon will share her thoughts and experiences and then will be joined by Ania Wright for a fireside chat to continue the conversation as it relates to the broader climate movement in Maine and beyond.
Rhiannon Hampson is a dairy and livestock farmer, a lifelong rabble rouser and an occasional bureaucrat. She brings decades of advocacy and community engagement experience to her work in economic development. Having been raised in some of the most rural pockets of Maine, and graduating from the University of Maine at Machias, Rhiannon is committed to ensuring that ALL voices have a place in planning Maine’s future.
She is Vice President for Economic Development at Gulf of Maine Research Institute, where she supports heritage industries along Maine's coast in determining how they are meeting the future. While previously serving as the Biden-Harris appointed State Director of USDA Rural Development, Rhiannon worked on policy and programming to help mitigate the effects of climate change, while supporting small businesses and families. Believing that our heritage industries can be drivers of climate solutions, she co-owns and operates a regenerative livestock and organic dairy farm in Knox County, with her family.
Friday Evening Show: Alex Tatarsky's Dirt Trip
Credits
Created and Performed by Alex Tatarsky
Music and Sound Design by Shane Riley
Costumes by Andreea Mincic
Dramaturgy by Iris McCloughan
This show explores the fertile terrain between clowning and composting. Linking American pop-cultural angst over the evil clown to efforts to banish garbage and urban blight, Tatarsky examines our fears of figures and substances that suggest transitional, ambiguous, and disordered states. Contents include the ballad of an unemployed court jester who desires to be a rotting vegetable and a lecture that decays into a heap of dirt.
“Dirt Trip is a beautiful blend of tightly researched monologues and manic physical improvisation.” – Noa Weiss, The Brooklyn Rail
“Gross and essential” – Savannah Reich, Cannonball
What is a Climate Convergence anyway? Each year, our 2030 Vision Climate Convergence provides two days of community connection around climate justice. It is an honor for us to be able to hold this space to convene around a common cause, learn from each other, and celebrate the collective wisdom of a diverse and dispersed climate movement in Maine and beyond. If you've never been to one of our convergences before, check out the recordings from previous years.
Come along with us for two days of movement building in Norway, Maine. 2030 Vision: Connect Catalyze Create took place May 17-18, 2024. This was the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy's fifth annual climate convergence, our flagship event of the year, where we convene around shared work to address the climate crisis to learn from each other and strengthen our movement.
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