Artists and Scientists Confront Climate Change

In conjunction with the world premiere of Cynthia Folio's "Winds for Change: Concerto for Two Flutes, Strings, and Percussion," to be performed with the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra on November 15, a panel of artists and scientists will discuss the critical challenge that anthropogenic climate change presents to humankind and other life on Earth.

Folio's concerto is a musical meditation on the effects of global warming. It will be performed by the flute duo ZAWA! (music faculty Claudia Anderson and Jill Felber) and conducted by Eric Mcintyre.

The panelists include:

• Cynthia Folio, professor of music at Temple University;
• Sarita Zaleha, candidate for Master of Fine Arts in printmaking at the University of Iowa who recently had two solo exhibitions in Iowa and has led numerous community-based events in Iowa City and Minneapolis on her work "Mourning Global Warming," and
• Andrew Graham is assistant professor of chemistry at Grinnell College, and teaches courses in analytical and inorganic chemistry, environmental chemistry, geochemistry, and the earth sciences.  His research focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace elements in natural systems, with a special emphasis on the global pollutant mercury.

The panel will be moderated by Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts, a Grinnell-based consultant to nonprofit organizations with a particular interest in policy and climate change.

The panel discussion will take place at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Room 152.

Refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Center for Prairie Studies.