Resiliency in the Smallest Places: Arts+ at the Marine Lab

The “Ready, Set, Resilience” initiative, built to help students in the aftermath of Hurricanes Dorian and Florence, is based at the Marine Lab. It creates a space for multidisciplinary Duke programs (Arts+, DukeEngage, etc.) and community members to discuss and learn about what resiliency, the ability to recover and adapt to an environmental disturbance, looks like in coastal communities. One of the Arts+ project teams called “Resiliency Through Puppetry” centers their work around the collection of nature fables titled “Bend in the Wind,” which offers a way for climate-centered stories to integrate into middle school curriculums without being purely didactic. Read the full story from Duke Arts.