Joel Sackett will present a series of photographs from his forthcoming book on farming in the area, titled “Air, Water, and Soil: Local Farmers on a Changing Environment.” An opening reception will be held at Bainbridge Performing Arts on April 1, and the photographs will be available for viewing in the gallery all month long.
The Bainbridge Island Photo Club presents images by Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Selgado in the main hall of the BI Community Center during the month of April. Selgado documents the human condition around the world. His high contrast black and white images are rich in the powerful stories they tell, their textural qualities and their composition. The club will discuss how this photographer explores man’s impact on the environment, the raw beauty of our planet, and tells his personal journey in support of healing the planet through his art.
The Photo Club will be showing The Salt of the Earth: The Photo Work of Brazilian Sabastiao Selgado, an Academy Award nominated film about Selgado, on April 27.
A presentation by Dan Kowalski
Fostering a Sense of Place boils down to coming into relationship with where we live. The best qualities of being human come to play: a sense of curiosity, discovery, aesthetics, stewardship, deepening knowledge–love. Home can scale anywhere from a neighborhood all the way out to Planet Earth. My focus is our Cascadia bioregion. Together we’ll explore aspects of our bioregion with a particular emphasis on Alaskan glaciers.
Kathryn Keve will present her book, Under the Sun, a book about how beautiful and precious the Earth is and ends with the question: what can we do to stop the plunder?
The book will be available at Eagle Harbor Books from April 22-25. Kathryn will be at Eagle Harbor Books from 5-7 pm on Friday April 22.
By Olaf Ribeiro
Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District
When people talk about technologies that might offset climate change, they often evoke complex and expensive methods that are just too expensive for most cities, or individuals to implement. However, there is a comparatively low cost method with little risk that can effect climate change –one that all of us can easily participate in. It is called Trees! Planting trees remains one of the cheapest and most effective means of removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (Carbon sequestration).
One tree shading a home in the city will save fossil fuel and cut carbon dioxide reducing the “Greenhouse Effect”. A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide @ 48 lbs/year and release enough oxygen into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings. If every American family planted just one tree, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would be reduced by one billion lbs. annually.
These are just some of the effects of planting trees that will be discussed in this talk as well as what efforts are taking place globally to save trees – and to plant more trees to mitigate climate change.
20 poems honoring 20 endangered species representing 20 biomes of the world read aloud by 20 local scientists.
We believe that the merging of science and art creates a more powerful message about the impact humans are having on the world.
The Bainbridge Island Photo Club presents The Salt of the Earth: The Photo Work of Brazilian Sabastiao Selgado. An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary shows Selgado’s work in documenting the human condition around the world. His high contrast black and white images are rich in the powerful stories they tell, their textural qualities and their composition. This is “A Must See” film. This film will be shown in support of Earth Art Bainbridge, an April 2016 arts festival raising awareness about climate change through art.
The Photo Club will also be showing 16 photos of Selgado’s photography in the main hall of the BI Community Center during the month of April. The club will discuss how this photographer has helped get the ideas across, in his art, of man’s impact on the environment, the raw beauty of our planet, and his personal journey in support of healing the planet.
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This year, Arts & Humanities Bainbridge has partnered with Earth Art Bainbridge to explore themes of ecology and change through the power of verse.
The works of more than 40 island poets are now arrayed in local storefronts, bringing the beauty of verse to passersby — pause and enjoy these “Poetry Corners” as you visit local merchants and services around town.
See the complete list of winning poets and where to find their works at http://ahbainbridge.org/poetry-corners/.
POETRY CORNERS LIVE: Join us at 7 p.m. April 28 for Poetry Corners LIVE! at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Contributing poets will share their works from the auditorium stage.
Janet Norman Knox’s performance prose poem, Artifact Pattern, examines the Alaskan Way Viaduct as a way to observe humanity’s take on climate change. In collaboration with musician Tom McDonald, Knox uses the humor and heaviness of a viaduct and climate in flux to weigh in on what both tell us about ourselves. Built on giant carbon feet, the viaduct’s very cement is a massive carbon sink. The viaduct is our Roman aqueduct, sending carbon like water to quench the empire’s power thirst. The viaduct is lodged in geologic history like a receding glacier. It occupies the same footprint as the fingers of glaciers that retreated, dropping their erratics, sands, and gravels. There are many facts to connect and our very human brains want to recognize the patterns in poetry, in music, in the quandaries of a society speeding headlong into an uncertainty where we may find ourselves.
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