Join us for the world premiere of The Extinction Variations on January 23. Filmed on the concert stage and in the Pacific Northwest’s landscapes of coastal tidepools, volcanic fields, and clear-cut mountainsides, The Extinction Variations is a moving call to action on climate disruption and mass extinction. In a unique creative collaboration, classical pianist Rachelle McCabe’s performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Variations on a Theme of Corelli” weaves through essayist Kathleen Dean Moore’s words, carrying them from despair to bewilderment to hope and moral resolve.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore, Rachelle McCabe, and filmmaker Nara Garber.

Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/2LF2Ig6

The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University is hosting this event. The film is the first event in the Music to Save Earth's Wild Songs series, which is inspired by Kathleen Dean Moore's forthcoming book Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World (Counterpoint Press, Feb. 2021). The series is co-sponsored by Center for Humans and Nature, Greenbelt Land Trust, McKenzie River Trust, and The Safina Center.