Climate Action Celebration

ART AS ACTIVISM
Konstantin Dimopoulos: The Blue Trees
Essex Street and Axelrod Walkway
Learn more at pem.org/bluetrees

Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos’ The Blue Trees is an outdoor art installation that uses the process of transformation to raise awareness about global deforestation and climate change. This week, on-site artist Wes Bruce and volunteers applied blue pigment to select trees on PEM’s campus using an environmentally safe colorant. This temporary, performative art piece in Salem marks the 27th installation of this internationally acclaimed project.

EXHIBITION BOOTHS
Shifting the Climate Culture
10 am–5 pm | Main Atrium
Included with admission

Join Rare — the international conservation organization helping people and nature thrive — for a hands-on exploration of climate-positive behaviors around food, energy, transportation and nature. Explore their booths to discover simple changes that can help the climate, and your health, budget, and community. See what you can do, and how your neighbors are already acting.

SPECIAL OPENING EVENT
Climate Action: Inspiring Change
3–4:30 pm | Morse Auditorium
Included with admission
Tickets available day of program

Take part in a special opening event for Climate Action: Inspiring Change and the launch of Rare’s Shifting the Climate Culture mobile exhibition, which aims to inspire climate action by individuals. Spoken word poet and student climate advocate Jordan Sanchez kicks off the event with a new original poem. Be the first to preview clips from PBS FRONTLINE’s three-part investigative climate series, The Power of Big Oil. Jordan Sanchez returns to join Clinical Psychologist Kelsey Hudson, Ph.D, in conversation with teen climate leader Natalia Jacobs and student climate activist Joey Wolongevicz. Together they’ll discuss the range of emotions brought on by threats to our climate and ways to find on-ramps to hope through, coping, self expression, civic action and positive change for the future. A Q&A follows their conversation.