Climate Stories Project –
making a large issue personal
Jason Davis is bringing the overwhelmingly large issue of climate change down to a personal level with Climate Stories Music, a presentation and performance of original music featuring the voices of people from around the world sharing their climate stories — their personal observations of and responses to climate change in their home regions.
Climate Stories Music will be performed at Frost Library, Amherst College, 61 Quadrangle Drive, Amherst, on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public, with a wine and cheese reception following.
Bassist, composer and educator Jason Davis will discuss his work collecting and sharing climate stories via his initiative, Climate Stories Project, an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about the changing climate. Come find out how sharing your climate story contributes to a powerful societal response to the climate crisis.
Please visit www.climatestoriesproject.org to learn more.
In an event titled “Making End of Life Choices That Reflect the Life You Have Lived,” journalist Laurie Loisel will read from her book “On Their Own Terms: How One Woman’s Choice to Die Helped me Understand my Father’s Suicide” at Forbes Library, 20 West St., Northampton, on Monday at 5:30 p.m.
Loisel wrote the book after authoring a series on the end of life of her friend, Lee Hawkins, in the Daily Hampshire Gazette in 2014, and experiencing the suicide death of her father, Paul Loisel, which took place less than two years earlier on Dec. 3, 2012, when he was 83.
Dr. Jeffrey Zesiger, hospice/ palliative care specialist, and Loisel, will lead a discussion on navigating end-of-life decisions as individuals, family members, and community members. Topics will include: how can we expand our views of choices available to people as they age? Is VSED, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, suicide? Is there a difference between physician assisted dying and physician assisted suicide? What other choices are there? How can families engage in these difficult discussions?
This event is free; those interested in more information may contact Lisa Downing at Forbes Library at ldowning@forbeslibrary.org.
– Brenda Nelson