Encountering Climate Change through Storytelling and Music (Greenpoint Library)

Join bassist, composer, and Director of Climate Stories Project Jason Davis who will give a presentation and performance of his climate stories music.  This presentation features the recorded voices of people from around the world speaking about their personal responses to climate change.

Jason will talk about artistic responses to the changing climate and demonstrate his work integrating climate storytelling and music, with the goal of engaging audiences and inspiring creative responses to the climate crisis.

Jason Davis leads climate storytelling workshops for participants who learn to craft and share their climate stories and to record interviews about other people’s responses to the changing climate. He also writes and performs original music that features recorded climate stories, with the goal of engaging audiences through the power of storytelling and art. Jason is a professor of Environmental Justice and Sustainability at Oregon State University, and was a 2024 Fulbright scholar in Brazil where he collected oral histories about the conservation of the endangered Atlantic Rain Forest.