The sponsor of ‘significantus’, Lola Perrin, is playing specially composed piano suite
‘Significantus’, a new combination of specially composed piano suite and climate change speeches, was launched at 10th November in Cardiff.
To raise public awareness of climate change, Lola Perrin,an American composer-pianist, launched a new activity called ‘Significantus’ that uses special piano performance to encourage people to talk more about climate change in the public on 10th November in Cardiff.
“I lauched this campaign because I want to make people talk more about climate change. Audience of this event will tell more people about it. I’ve performed for hundreds of audience of significantus and have trigger more people to talk about climate change in the public, ” said Lola Perrin.
Lola Perrin, an American composer-pianist who are interested in Climate change
Started in near darkness, Lola Perrin performed the meaningful piano suite composed by herself, with some solar lamps surrounded her.
After piano performance,Dr. Stuart Capstick who is an environmental expert from Cardiff University delivered a speech about what is the best social attitude towards climate change.
“It’s necessary for the public to know climate change is not only politicians’ duty but also individuals’ responsibility,” said Dr. Capstick. “We can do many things. It’s better for us to talk about climate change it the public and raise awareness of the public.”
“When people were asked when they last had a conversation about climate change, two thirds of them responded that they’d never had a conversation on climate change,” said Lola Perrin.“The single most powerful thing that an individual can do about climate change is to talk about it.”
Then the conversation in which audience shared ideas followed,and compared with tense atmosphere in a formal public lecture before, Cardiff audiences were less stressful and more active to share contents, thoughts and responses.
Problems with food shortage, extreme weather and pollution are all shared by audiences.
“I am concerned about the rise of sea level because my hometown is a small coastal city,” said one of the audiences Chiara Gahbi.
Audience are sharing ideas about climate change in the ‘significantus’ activity
To encourage more conversations about climate change is why Lola bring music into the conversation on climate change.
Dr Capstick said, “I think music is powerful and emotional. In the past, we always said how terrible climate change was when we were talking about it, then audience became a little bit stressful. When you listen to music it puts you in a different way of responding about the problem. Music can change how audience respond to climate change and the keyboard conversation enables us to embed climate change in the music.”
members of this activity: guest speaker, Dr Stuart Capstick(left); sponsor and pianist, Lola Perrin( centre)
After this event in Cardiff, Lola and her partners will keep touring to other places in the UK to encourage more people to talk about climate change.
