Join SPACE Gallery, Sierra Club Maine, Print, and a coalition of environmental organizations at Hannaford Hall for a special appearance by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. Johnson will be joined by special guest performers and discussing her provocative and joyous new book that asks the important question, “What If We Get It Right?”
This special evening is a homecoming celebration for the book, as Dr. Johnson currently serves as the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College, and culminates her 28 stop book tour across the country, including signature “climate variety show” events.
Through clear-eyed essays and 20 vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Sugarcoating nothing, while imagining the myriad of opportunities we have to still get the future “right,” Johnson’s book invites musings from friends and contributors across the fields of culture and science. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.
In October and November, SPACE Gallery is thrilled to present the work of Olalekan Jeyifous in the SPACE Window Gallery, a visual artist featured in the book and part of Dr. Johnson’s curatorial project “Climate Futurism” which began at Pioneer Works in 2023. Jeyifous’s newly commissioned works are an extension of his project Frozen Neighborhoods, which reimagines Brooklyn from the 1990s on an alternate timeline—set within an alternate world in which the government combats climate change through a market-based system of so-called “mobility credits” that curtails movement of the poor and working classes.
Books will be available for purchase through Print: A Bookstore, and local environmental orgs will table in support of their work in the Hannaford Hall lobby.
$5 sugg. donation
Presented by SPACE Gallery at Hannaford Hall with support from:
Made possible with support from Becky Bartovics, Roger Berle and Lesley MacVane.