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NGI and Gulfport High School Theatre Develop "Hello Opportunity" Travelling Play about Climate Change

February 4, 2020

Theater group
The Northern Gulf Institute worked alongside Gulfport High Schools', award-winning, Theatre for Young Audiences playwright Tonya Hays, and her Advanced Theatre class, to create an original play, as a traveling, teachable outreach project, focusing on the subject of climate change and its potential impacts on the Gulf Coastal region.

Each viewing of the play was followed by a brief lecture and Q&A concerning the truths and concepts behind climate change and climate science in a manner intended for young audiences.

The play, submitted to the Mississippi Theatre Associations' Southern Regional Theatre Festival won "Best Original Work" and was moved ahead to the state-wide Mississippi Theatre Festival where it won "Best Original Work for Social Change"  as well as a number of other awards for student acting.

Student being lifted
Student practicing guitar
Since opening, the play has been seen by numerous schools and hundreds of students and citizens from across the Gulf region.