BRATTLEBORO — In collaboration with the Arts Council of Windham County, Post Oil Solutions Climate Change Café hosts a community conversation with the area's art community: “Climate Change! Art Can Make a Difference.”
This event, which is free and open to the public, is set for Tuesday, June 24, at 6:30 p.m. in Brooks Memorial Library's Community Room. Light refreshments will be available.
As a program announcement reads, “We seem to be in a time when human activity is responsible for changes that affect not only our communities and economic lives, but the lives of all living things on Earth. Change is always hard, and this appears to be change at a level unprecedented in human history. We are dealing with fear, guilt, sadness, anger, and powerlessness.
“Art is the way communities, with the help of their artists, see themselves, explore inner realities, and reflect on the relationships we live with. Art is the way we express and communicate with each other the emotional, mental, and spiritual realities inside our material and economic lives.”
Organizers ask, “How can the artists of Windham County help us as individuals and as a community come to emotional grips with our responsibilities and our opportunities as human beings in this situation, time and place?”
This session of Climate Change Café aims to explore, “in a mutually inspiring forum, how artists are and can fulfill their social role. The forum also seeks to share perspectives and techniques across disciplines - poetry, music, sculpture, drama, performance art, visual art - and inspire new works of art. The goal is to build supportive relationships between artists working in this area and to develop ways to better connect their art works with the community.”
Artists are welcome to bring any work of art that does these things for display or a brief performance.