Educational comedy at library

If the weather cooperates, The Otesha Project event will be hosted outside the library. If not, it will be moved inside, says Library Assistant Cate Bird.

She adds the library hasn’t hosted an event of this kind before. The stop is one of many of the Eastern part of the national tour.

Morning Choices, The Otesha Project’s award-winning play, is a six-scene, high-energy, humorous tale about two people getting ready for school, and the way their morning routine affects the planet and its people.

A South Shore Library press release states, “It’s filled with lots of good humour, stories to inspire and loads of simple actions to get you started on your path to being a ‘Hopeful Hooligan’ in your everyday life. The Otesha Project will make you and the planet smile.”

The presentation is sponsored in part by the Council of Canadians and is best suited for teenagers in Grades 8-12, although everyone is welcome.

The event is free although donations are encouraged to help offset expenses. Lawn chairs are recommended.

Otesha means "reason to dream" in Swahili. The organization started as a dream in Kenya and has now become a “charitable organization of hopeful young people uniting as the Otesha Project.”

Otesha literature states, “We believe there are alternatives to our culture of overconsumption, and that each one of us has opportunities to have positive impacts every single day.

“The Otesha Project's education programs and bicycle tours use theatre, multi-media, and storytelling to engage a wide range of audiences, and have reached over 60,000 people to date. Otesha's presentations focus on re-evaluating our daily choices to reflect the kind of future we'd like to see - rethinking what we really need, conserving resources, and voting with our dollars. We aim to demonstrate the positive effects our everyday choices can have, by living sustainably, changing the world, and having loads of fun-all at the same time.”