Grasping at Straws: Reflections on an Activist Trajectory

Mercury Theater

3333 Petaluma Boulevard North, Petaluma, CA 94952

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Thursday February 6, 2025

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Written and Performed by Lucy London

Lucy London’s solo performance Grasping at Straws: Reflections on an Activist Trajectory brings audiences along on her evolving theory of changemaking, from championing individual sustainability in high school as “the straw girl,” to focusing on systems change and living in Indigenous-led resistance camps while protesting the Line 3 tar-sands pipeline.

Through sharing these experiences, Lucy hopes to prompt personal and community reflection and collective healing. Grasping at Straws considers the question: how do we recognize our agency among waves of other people’s theories of change, navigate the inherent and ever-present contradictions of changework, and do so while acknowledging our interconnectedness with all things?