SRI2025 Special Screening:
The Way of the Rain – Hope for Earth – A Symphony for our Planet
Join us for a special evening of music, spoken word, dance, film, visual art, and environmental science as SRI2025 partners with “The Way of the Rain“ team to bring the multidisciplinary screening to Chicago.
The event is open to the public and there is no cost to attend.
More information:
The Way of the Rain – Hope for Earth – A Symphony for our Planet
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk
SRI2025 Main Stage, Ballroom Level 4
301 E. North Water Street, Chicago, Illinois
Watch the trailer:
Program:
7:30 pm Doors open
7:45 pm Movie introduction
8:00 pm Screening of “The Way of the Rain – Hope for Earth – A Symphony for our Planet”
9:00 pm Discussion and Audience Q&A moderated by Andrea Darlas
- Panelists: Gail Sturm, Chair & Gregory Leon Baird, Managing Director, The Way of the Rain; Don Wuebbles, Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist Emeritus, WGN
The Way of the Rain was inspired by the annual monsoon rains that sustain life on the fragile landscape of the high desert plateaus of the Southwest. Conceived by environmental-artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford to explore the issue of climate change resulting in rapidly changing weather patterns, Sibylle Redford collaborates with world renowned artists to create a piece that illustrates crucial environmental dilemmas through performance art. This live multidisciplinary performance, narrated by actor and environmental activist Robert Redford, invites the audience to remember their physical and spiritual connection to our planet’s beauty and plight through paintings, music, dance, film, light and spoken word.