The Environmental Alliance of Santa Barbara County Museums presents Impact: Climate Change and the Urgency of Now, a series of events and programming offered at 14 different locations between April and September. The collaborative program is described in press materials as “a multidisciplinary project aimed at building a greater collective responsibility for limiting the effects of the planet’s rising temperature.”
Steve Windhager, executive director of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (one of the organizations in the alliance), said he believes the program “will inform and engage the public, while being a force multiplier for positive change.”
“We are 14 institutions with one shared vision,” Windhager said in a statement.
The Alliance is made up of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the Santa Barbara Zoo, and 12 local museums, including the Elverhoj Museum of History and Art and the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature.
“Each of the Alliance members’ unique exhibits and program offerings offer a range of disciplinary approaches to the chosen theme, enabling visitors to deepen their understanding through art, history, science, interactions with animals, and in botanic garden settings,” Stacey Otte-Demangate, executive director of the Wildling Museum, said in the statement.
While hosting individual programming throughout the multi-month series, each of the 14 organizations in the Alliance will also jointly participate in the 2022 Santa Barbara Earth Day Celebration, which will be held at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara on Saturday, April 23.
For the full list of events and programs that will be hosted in conjunction with Impact: Climate Change and the Urgency of Now, visit sbmuseumsalliance.org.
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 7, 2022.
