Arts & Theatre · Ongoing

Earth Tones: Etienne Charles

The creation of Earth Tones as a multimedia project began in 2021, shaped by the stories [that Charles] grew up hearing in Trinidad from [his] mother, a retired urban planner. She spoke of meetings on global warming in the 1980s, which led [him] to ask, 'how could I use music to tell stories, but from the perspective of people?' Charles notes that, "climate is often discussed in terms of economic impact; I wanted to understand its human impact. I traveled to communities across the world, listening to people describe how environmental shifts unfold slowly over generations or arrive suddenly in