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EARTH DAY Cabaret has become a truly beautiful community tradition. Conceived and directed by Greg Bell, every year it synthesizes poetry, performance, and passionate environmentalism into a powerful and lovely work of poetic advocacy for the care of our planet. 

• Quentin Ring

Executive Director of Beyond Baroque, 2019–2025

 

Elena Secota, at the age of 20, left Romania for London, where she trained at The Webber Douglas Academy. She soon co-starred with Anthony Andrews in Lost in Siberia, and with Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh in Fortunes of War. She’s published in anthologies and featured throughout Los Angeles, NY, & Washington DC. Hosting the Third Friday Salon at the historical Rapp Saloon, in Santa Monica, Elena believes that poetry, creative education, and love of nature can create a harmonious world. She is an advocate for Oceana.org, protecting the world’s oceans. https://www.elenasecota.com/ 

 

 r.s.greene is a poet, singer-songwriter, climate emergency activist. His art seeks to bring us into connection with ourselves and with one another, so that we find the courage to awaken from our climate slumber and shift boldly into action in the name of all we hold sacred. https://rsgreene.com/

 

Gregory Bell—actor, director, playwright, poet, chief cook & bottle washer—just had to read the Y2K IPCC report, all 1,200 pages (well, mostly—there was a lot of repetition) and since then, sanity has been a high maintenance affair. What are we to do? It’s his contention we need to fall in love with Nature all over again, face the problems of neo-fascism, war & Climate Crisis head-on. And. Take. Action. Oh—he has a poem on the moon, but it’s about how we’re failing Planet Earth. All aboard! Good planets are hard to find!  

 

In the daily quicksand deluge of hatred, greed. misuse of power and lies, EARTH DAY Cabaret tells the truth. It is more an experience than a show, each poet connecting us to our own humanity and all living things. In this fraught time, we need community, belonging, purpose, motivation and inspiration. Cabaret gives us that and the knowledge that we can and must live differently, we do have the power to make a difference, and we have a community that walks with us. This is what we need right now!

-Janet Gollery McKeithen

Minister, The Church in Ocean Park