Take a walk with environmentalist and educator Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips as she navigates the dangers posed by toxic neon frogs, snakes that lick the air you exist in, and Homo sapiens - the species that should really know better. As she recounts her personal experiences and hilarious misadventures in the environmental sector, Cheyenne asks if we are truly wise enough to survive the world we have shaped.

Developed and produced by Checkpoint Theatre, A Grand Design is commissioned by NUS Centre For the Arts with the support of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum. Intimate, lyrical, and insightful, this one-woman performance transforms the museum into a site of exploration and artistry. In an era propelled by fears and concerns for the environment, A Grand Design is an evocative examination of how we love, or fail to love, the natural world around us.

A Grand Design (A work-in-progress) is part of the NUS Arts Festival 2020: Ways of Seeing.

Audience members will be invited to share their detailed written feedback after the dramatised reading of this work-in-progress.

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Cheyenne Aleaxandria Phillips

Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips is an Environmental Educator by day, a Performance Poet by night. Her interest in writing has allowed her to use her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies creatively. She has co-written and performed in two plays focusing on Eurasian narratives and personal history: For The Record (2017) and In The Twine (commissioned for Singapore Writer's Festival 2018), as well hosted eco-literary walks around MacRitchie Reservoir as part of Singapore Water Month 2018 in collaboration with PUB. Her published works can be found in Who are you my country? (2018) and Contour: A Lyrical Cartography of Singapore (2019).