Title: Y3K: Awakening 

4:30– Waking Up: A Jazz Performance by Eric Hofbauer / The Five Agents, based on the young climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech at the UN Summit for Climate Action, in which she declared, “How dare you!” This will be accompanied by a dance performance by UMass Amherst Jazz Dance class taught by Lauren Cox. 

5:30– Ripple Effects: Reflections on Water in Story and Sound. Part of the multi-year arts and humanities project  Elements with Evan MacCarthy and Marjorie Rubright from The Renaissance of the Earth 

6:00– Landscape of Fear. Saxophonists Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and Pantelis Lykoudis perform Marcos Balter’s evocative and provocative work for two high instruments. 

6:30– Ghost Ensemble,   (contact: Ben Richter). Performing Miya Masaoka's Plant Life Recounted Here and Pauline Oliveros's In Consideration of the Earth. 

Acknowledgements: 

SES, RoE, Music and Dance, Architecture