Here One Turns to Go Upriver

Thinking together about future Energy

Pomerene Center for the Arts and researchers from The Ohio State University are working on a new theater project about Coshocton’s transition from a megawatt coal power producing community to a megawatt data center hub.  The project HERE ONE TURNS TO GO UPRIVER addresses the urgent local and national issue of energy use and generation. The purpose is to explore and share who we are (as a community) NOW particular to energy generation/extraction/infrastructure knowhow.

central questions 

• Who in Coshocton County knows what about energy generation/extraction/infrastructure? 
• Can innovative, civic live theater galvanize bonds and bridges between people in our local energy ecosystem and in turn, create links to venture capital to the benefit of local energy development, entrepreneurship and community building?

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project background

Pomerene  Center civic arts work around energy began in 2021 with the Coal Transitions project CALLING HOURS —  a series of eulogies commemorating AEP Conesville coal-fired power plant. CALLING HOURS  has opened many opportunities, the most recent being participation in a visiting artist residency at The Ohio State University with the cofounders of the Canadian documentary theater company Porte Parole.  As part of the residency, Porte Parole came to Coshocton for a tour and working luncheon with a team of  six OSU students and faculty members. Twelve Coshocton community leaders were at the table. Starting with the  acknowledgment that communities across the world are faced with new and critical  choices in energy transition,  we gathered to brainstorm a list of energy questions facing Coshocton.  

If CALLING HOURS is Chapter One, a testament to who we were, we’re thinking of HERE ONE TURNS TO GO UPRIVER as Chapter 2 in our energy journey — who are we now and what can we do?