The Environmental Arts & Humanities Initiative

The Book of Light Poetry Series is proud to present Rachel Richardson reading and signing copies of her new book, Smother: Poems

In this searching, defiant collection, award-winning poet Rachel Richardson takes up the existential losses of climate change...Read more about August 28, 2025: "Smother" Poetry Reading with Rachel Richardson (Books Inc., Alameda)

Livermore Valley Arts presents an exhibition called FRAGILE EARTH: A Call to Action at the UNCLE Credit Union Art Gallery at the Bankhead Theater July 31 through September 28, 2025.

A Quest Science Center Collaboration

Fragile Earth: A Call to Action is an art...Read more about July 31 - September 28, 2025 : Fragile Earth: A Call to Action (Livermore Valley Arts)

The Jingwei Bird explores the complexity of climate change and our relationship to the planet through multi-disciplinary performances with...Read more about July 31, 2025: The Jingwei Bird: Music & Poetry (San Francisco Public Library)

An evening designed to spark reflection on consumer waste, environmental pollution, and climate change through dance performance, interactive installations, and hands-on workshops. The event aims to create accessible and engaging entry points into difficult conversations about...Read more about July 26. 2025: Consume (Jettison Arts Foundation)

What’s better than diving into a great book about advancing climate progress through collective action?

This summer, join us at the KQED Climate Book Club. We’ll be reading Adina Merenlender and Brendan Buhler’s...Read more about July 17, 2025- Climate Book Club- "Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California" (KQED)

The chaos produced by our changing climate is steadily increasing. Poetry can be both solace and activism. Poets Molly Fisk...Read more about July 17, 2025: California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology Reading (San Francisco Public Library)

Rising Seas shares the joys and concerns of living on an island amid a climate crisis through a series of free public art performances of live music, dance and theater.

Live Performance Event Dates:
Saturdays, 1:00-4:00pm:...Read more about July 12: Rising Seas (Rhythmix Cultural Works / Rising Tides Climate Arts Initiative)

Young bay mud—a scientific term for ecologically rich and water-saturated deposits that are less than ten thousand years old—underlies much of the San Francisco Bay Area. A ground that uniquely encourages biodiversity but resists human development, young bay mud shapes human experience...Read more about July 11, 2025 - February 22, 2026 : Young Bay Mud (San Jose Museum of Art)