Top (L-R): Allison Crimmins, Director of the Fifth National Climate Assessment and Allyza Lustig, Senior Staff Manager, National Climate Assessment; Dr.Jeremy S. Hoffman, NCA5 author and Dear Human at the Edge of Time co-editor; Aileen Cassinetto, anthology co-editor
From the San Francisco Examiner:
“In an innovative move, artists contributed to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a major U.S. government scientific report on climate change released in November. Some artists shared their poems, quilts, photos and ideas Thursday night before a standing-room-only audience of more than 200.
“We spot fingerprints/of humans loading the dice/for extreme weather,” Jeremy Hoffman recited along with three of his other haiku as he opened the proceedings. Hoffman was a lead co-author of the assessment and co-edited “Dear Human at the Edge of Time,” a poetry anthology released as a companion to the report.”
ART x CLIMATE
December 14th, Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Exploratorium After Dark
Pier 15, Embarcadero, San Francisco
Join the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the Exploratorium for conversation, performance, and artworks dedicated to exploring the power of art to communicate and inspire action on climate change.
Presenting visual artists, poets, & scientists:
Jenny Abramson, Coral Avery, Aileen Cassinetto, Xavier Cortada, Allison Crimmins, Linda Gass, Jane Hirshfield, Jeremy Hoffman, Allyza Lustig, Kris May, Kelsey Morales, Adrien Segal, Lorraine Woodruff-Long
Tickets: Exploratorium After Dark
We will be reading poems from our anthology, Dear Human at the Edge of Time, a companion to NCA5, and will also present our Dear Human interactive microsite developed in partnership with Poets for Science and the Wick Poetry Center.
The anthology, which grew out of the National Poets Laureate civic projects, was made possible with support from the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture and the Mellon Foundation‘s laureate initiative, with programmatic support from the Academy of American Poets, AGU23: American Geophysical Union’s Annual Meeting, Clarion Performing Arts Center, Elizabeth River Project, Elizabeth River Trail, the Exploratorium, the Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Research at Old Dominion University, Midwest Climate Resilience Conference, The Nurture Nature Center, Philippine American Writers and Artists, Poets for Science, Ryan Resilience Lab, San Francisco Public Library, Soul Bone Literary Festival, South San Francisco Public Library, the UC Berkeley Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, and Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University.
