Welcome spring with a number of occasions this month that focus on Earth Day, a celebration first held on April 22, 1970, in assist for environmental safety.

The Museum of Natural and Cultural History will host a day of walks and talks. Be certain to additionally take a look at their exhibition “Climate change, Dynamic Landscapes and Evolution.” Join your friends and make a constructive change for the atmosphere on the annual UO Earth Day of Service. And expertise the devastating toll wildfires took on Oregon forests in 2020 by means of “Ghost Forest,” an artwork exhibition accompanied by UO sound artist Jon Bellona’s haunting sound set up “Wildfire.”

Exhibitions

Ukrainian filmmaker, illustrator and multimedia artist Sashko Danylenko will current his illustrated sequence, “The Superheroes Among Us: Art and Ukrainian Resistance,” April 23 on the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Danylenko’s work options unbelievable acts of resistance by extraordinary Ukrainians in opposition to Russian aggression. His manifesto reads: “Destroy the enemy with fire, words, pixels, letters, musical notes, laughter and magic.”

To be taught extra about Ukrainian tradition, go to “Amplifying Ukrainian Voices,” a Tiny Galleries exhibition on the Knight Library curated by Iryna Stavynska.

Starting April 24, “Ghost Forest,” an exhibition by Sarah Grew, shall be on show within the LaVerne Krause Gallery at Lawrence Hall. Following the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, Grew collected black coals from the fires to create carbon prints of recorded photos of the forest. Accompanying the exhibition would be the highly effective environmental sound set up “Wildfire,” which performs again a wave of fireplace sounds on the speeds of precise wildfires, created by Jon Belona, a UO sound artist and teacher of audio manufacturing within the School of Music and Dance.

Celebrations

On April 22, the Museum of Natural and Cultural History will honor the achievements of the environmental motion and the significance of ongoing stewardship at a day of particular Walk & Talks for the Earth Day celebration on the museum. You also can be part of your friends and make a constructive change for the atmosphere April 22 on the Earth Day of Service: Grow Resilience occasion.

UO Hui ‘O Hawai’i presents their forty eighth annual Lūau: Kū Kakou, We Stand Together as One on April 29 at McArthur Court. The occasion will characteristic genuine Hawaiian meals, conventional Hawaiian and Polynesian dances, and different enjoyable actions centered on Hawaiian tradition.

Lectures

Inspired to take up weaving by her grandmother, Tetyana Bondarchuk-Horner mastered the artwork kind to reconnect together with her Ukrainian heritage. Join her on the Museum of Natural and Cultural History Galleria on April 8 and find out about conventional and trendy woven and embroidered ornamental cloths and check out your hand on the loom.

On April 15 on the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ukrainian artist Marina Malyarenko will talk about the artwork of Petrykyivka, a conventional artwork kind used to brighten homes and family items. Malyarenko creates work utilizing symbols that mirror unity, group and custom as acts of resistance to forces that suppress Ukrainian tradition.

Join Annelise Heinz and storytellers Kate Conley, Jane Gibbons, Connie Newman and Kate Thompson April 13 within the Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s Galleria for “Printed with Purpose: Women’s Presses and Print Shops.” Learn how Eugene’s lesbian group defied invisibility by offering retailers for ladies’s and lesbian actions.

Join artist Naama Tsabar April 13 at Lawrence Hall for a Visiting Artist Lecture Series Artist Talk. Tsabar fuses components from sculpture, music, efficiency and structure into her interactive works. She will talk about interactivity inside the exhibition realm, the conception and the usage of numerous performative components in her work, and a feminist strategy to efficiency and group. On April 20, the artist sequence presents Jim Drain’s speak on “Making Time: Craft-Based Sculpture.” Drain provides knitting to his sculpture as a stand-in for the physique. Lectures are livestreamed and archived on YouTube.

Music & dance

A reprise of “Next Movement,” a collaboration between Orchestra Next and DancePotential that premiered final summer season, shall be offered April 7 at Dougherty Dance Theater within the Gerlinger Annex. Orchestra Next is a coaching orchestra and resident orchestra for the Eugene Ballet Company. DancePotential makes use of improvisational dance to advertise creative expression and exploration between individuals with and with out disabilities.

At Beall Concert Hall:

Each yr college students within the School of Music and Dance showcase their work as musical soloists within the UO Student Concerto and Aria competition. Come out April 7 for this extremely aggressive program. On April 14, the Northwest Percussion Festival will open with Gene Koshinski, Casey Cangelosi, Eriko Daimo and Piue Cheung premiering “Dai Dai” by Dai Fujikura for solo marimba and three percussionists. ChamberMusic@Beall presents Trio Medieval. Following sold-out reveals in Portland, the Scandinavian people vocal trio will carry out April 23. The Oregon Composers Forum with Delgani String Quartet will carry out new music April 18. The Oregon Wind Ensemble, comprising wind, brass and percussion college students, will carry out April 26.

An Opera Highlight Performance of the University Opera Ensemble will carry out on the Frohnmayer Music Building on April 27.

On April 18, the Erb Memorial Union ballroom will host BE Self with Joe Kye, a musician, storyteller and group organizer for immigrant communities.

Cinema

Coinciding with Earth Day, be part of the Net Impact Graduate Chapter on April 18 at Lillis Business Complex for “Film Night: “Before the Flood,” a National Geographic-sponsored documentary movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who traveled to 5 continents to realize a deeper understanding of local weather change and its impression.

—By Sharleen Nelson, University Communications