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.
Email-a-tree is a program by Elisabeth Robson and Olaf Ribeiro, in conjunction with the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District.
Along with Olaf’s presentation about trees (April 23), you will be able to email special trees around the island during April. Each tree has been assigned an email address and will be receiving emails all month long. You might even get a reply!
To see which trees will be receiving emails and where they are located, check out the Email-a-tree page.
To get the email address of a tree, you must visit the tree in person. Please don’t forget to say hello to the tree while you are there.
We will be gathering emails sent to the trees and featuring them on the web site during and after April. If you would like to organize a walking tour of the trees, please contact Olaf Ribeiro.
April is National Poetry Month! In 2016 Arts & Humanities Bainbridge is partnering with Earth Art Bainbridge to explore the theme
Art + Climate = Change. Amateur, student, and professional poets are encouraged to submit their poems for the annual Poetry Corners displays.
The month-long festival is inspiring artists from all genres contribute and encourages residents to participate in and attend events across the island throughout the month of April.
The final selections from the juried poetry competition will be displayed in public windows throughout Bainbridge Island during the month of April and shared aloud at a celebration reading, Poetry Corners LIVE!
A Call for Poets
2016 Poetry Corners Displays
Submission Deadline: 5p.m. Friday, February 19, 2016
For complete eligibility and submission guidelines visit AHbainbridge.org
For more information on Earth Art Bainbridge visit artforclimatechange.org
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.
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.
Images and Words of Love for the Planet in her Cosmos
Willow Tree Market, 169 Winslow Way East
The show opens on Friday April 22nd, Earth Day, at 10 a.m., with an Artists’ Opening Reception that evening from 5 pm to 8 pm. Come early and stay late because many of the artists will speak about their process and perspectives.
Willow Tree hours: Mon – Friday 10 a.m. to 6 pm, Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30, Sunday noon to 4 pm. Show ends April 30th.
Come and see great stories of reuse at the Zero Waste sponsored movie, April 22 at 7pm at the Bainbridge Public Library.
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.
This is a terrific film documenting a couple’s efforts to eat only food that’s been thrown away. It turns out to be surprisingly easy, which is a sad statement about how much food we throw away.
I highly recommend this movie.
This is a Zero Waste sponsored film at the Bainbridge Public Library, April 24 at 1:30pm.
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