Using stunning photography and community-created video and audio recordings, this exhibition—the first of its kind to highlight indigenous science—examines the ways these communities are disproportionately affected by climate change through the voices and experiences of the Earth's traditional stewards. The communities represented in the exhibition include the Kichwa of Ecuador, the Aymara and Quechua of Peru, the Yaaqui and Comcaac of Mexico, the Guarani of Brazil, the Gwich'in of Alaska, the Inuit of Canada and the Kuna of Panama.
The opening of the exhibition, presented in tandem with the museum's Living Earth Festival July 22-24, will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday, July 23, at 4:30 p.m., as well as screenings of the multimedia interviews conducted in Alaska and Peru in the museum's Rasmuson Theater from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 23. Each screening will be followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with exhibition videographer and artist Irma Luz Poma Canchumani (Quechua) and exhibition advisor and participant Sarah James (Gwich'in).
The exhibition, which continues through Jan. 2, 2012, also offers examples of traditional knowledge and art and their value in developing a sustainable response to an increasingly endangered world. Read the full report here.
Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire, Washington.
