Green Kids Inc.
Theatre for the Planet
Encouraging Creative Activism and Positive Change
Using performing arts as our medium, we allow audiences to imagine, empathize, and laugh, all while gaining a better understanding of environmental issues and their root causes. Inspiring families, kids and adults alike to be gentler on our planet, encouraging creative activism and positive change.
THEATRE THAT INSPIRES
Workshops that Educate
Since 1991, Green Kids has produced professional theatre for families and young audiences, featuring a host of Winnipeg’s brightest performing artists and craftspeople.
ABOUT US
Green Kids Inc. is a live theatre company dedicated to environmental education through performance. We explore environmental science through theatre, allowing participants to imagine, empathize and laugh, all while understanding the serious issues we face. We inspire audiences and participants to be gentler on our planet, giving them both hope and accountability through meaningful yet simple changes in daily habits, with tangible goals. Our programming is informative, realistic, and optimistic. We emphasize community spirit and individual action, with the message being that every little bit of help is an invaluable contribution.
Green Kids was founded in 1991 to address the need for accessible environmental education that inspired action. We have grown to offer programming not only to kids, but also families and the general public.
We strive to inspire young people and their families to be gentler on our planet, giving them both hope and accountability through meaningful yet simple changes in daily habits, with tangible goals.
Our Mandate
Our mandate is to teach children, youth and families about climate change and other environmental issues and to empower them to make positive change, either through personal behaviours, community action or affecting systemic change through government and corporations.
Our Mission
To educate children and teachers on environmental issues and to inspire them to take positive action towards protecting our environment.
Our Method
We use love of theatre to elicit empathy and imagination.
Land Acknowledgment
We are on Treaty 1 land, the home of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, Long Plains First Nation, Peguis First Nation, Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation, Sagkeeng First Nation, Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation, Swan Lake First Nation and the birthplace of the Red River Métis.
We acknowledge that our drinking water in the City of Winnipeg is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, a community who from 1997 to 2021 lived under a boil water advisory, while Winnipeggers used this resource from their land with little thanks and no reciprocity.
Green Kids is working to educate and inspire future generations of environmentalists, while taking our cues from Indigenous water and land protectors, the original environmentalists on this land.
As we learn and grow, this Land Acknowledgement will too.
