Climate Artists is a five-part documentary series that explores how the climate crisis informs and inspires artistic expression. Through the lens of diverse artistic mediums, the series illuminates what can happen when art intersects with environmental advocacy, and how artists can use their work to engage awareness and foster compassion for our planet.

Climate Artists is a co-production of ALL ARTS and The Serica Initiative.

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Thomas Lauderdale never intended to become a professional musician.

This may be surprising, considering that Lauderdale is best-known as the charismatic band leader of Portland’s self-described “little orchestra,” Pink Martini. With twelve albums featuring songs in twenty-five languages, Pink Martini’s music deftly fuses classical, jazz, and old-fashioned pop to create an eclectic and timeless aesthetic that is entirely their own. Now entering its 30th year, Pink Martini has sold millions of albums, and tours their world-renowned repertoire 150 days out of the year, across the globe. “If the United Nations had a house band in 1962,” Lauderdale has said, “hopefully we’d be that band.”

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Long before Kenji Bunch established himself as one of America’s most influential and prolific composers, he came to classical music in a way familiar to many young Asian Americans. “For a long time, I’ve tried to come up with any other reason, something somehow more intelligent,” he said. “But what I’ve realized is that I saw classical music as my calling largely because it made my parents happy.”

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