On Time and Water: How to Talk When Language Collapses

Join internationally recognized storyteller and poet, Andri Snaer Magnason, for an exploration of language and communication in this age of Climate Change.

Climate change is a challenge that is larger than language. We are faced with an imbalance or realignment of all elements of water on our planet. The glaciers, the sea level, the seasons, the permafrost, the pH of the world oceans, the currents, the rain and snow, the absence of water in droughts. We are in a global paradigm shift, a collapse of language, where events are on a scale that can only be compared to mythological metaphors.

Magnason will explore what it means to be a writer seeking to express the true scale and scope of Climate Change. He will weave a story through family stories, myth, and science to navigate and understand the scale of our shared global challenge.