S1: It's time for Midday Edition on Kpbs. Today we're featuring a film festival , Art as activism , and an Octavia Butler exhibit. I'm Jade Hindman. Here's to conversations that keep you informed , inspired , and make you think. A new initiative gives artists a platform to advocate and raise public awareness.
S1: Yeah , well , congratulations on embarking on this. Um , you're collaborating on a campaign about climate mitigation and the environment. S1: Yeah , absolutely. I've been speaking with Christine Jones , chief of civic art strategies for San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture , along with Johnny Baer Contreras , an artist , sculptor and member of the San Pascal Reservation. Christine and Johnny , thank you so much for joining us and sharing this program.S1: Coming up , the Bluewater Film Festival returns for its fifth year with a film that profiles a scientist seeking Earth's history in glaciers.
S6: Well , we got the ice. Melting was already underway. The next few years. Those icefields are going to be gone. These glaciers are our canary in the coal mine. Our early warning system for the planet. They're telling us. There's serious danger here. S7: Typical people , you know , look at a glacier and just see a big piece of white on top of a mountain or a big sheet of of white. And it's hard to even imagine that it has any texture or nuance or kind of information contained in it.
S7: Yeah , that is the sweet spot of , you know , you want to have something that's entertaining , but you also want to , you know , there's a lot of climate films that exist out there , and most of them are just kind of , uh , for lack of a better term , kind of disaster porn. Right ? Where it's it's like , look at all these bad things that are happening. And that is important too.
S1: That was Beth Accomando speaking with filmmaker Alex Rivest. His film Canary will screen at the Blue Water Film Festival that kicks off March 21st at multiple venues. Still ahead , the work of Octavia Butler is in a new exhibit at the Children's Museum. S11: I think throughout Butler's lifetime as a writer , she continued to draw from her childhood experiences and inspirations. And so it really calls to the child in each of us , uh , to think about who we are before we start to see what the expectations outside of who we are might be.