Local artist and educator Sharon Abreu will preview her new one-woman musical about climate change, “The Climate Monologues,” at the Orcas Grange on Sunday, May 16 at 7 p.m.

Orcas Island Prevention Partnership is sponsoring this free show, which will also offer a community question, answer and comment session afterwards.

Abreu’s Climate Monologues brings to the stage the voices of real people across the U.S. and beyond, with monologues taken from interviews with people impacted by, or working to solve, climate change. A short original song follows each monologue.

The show includes a woman from the Yupik tribe in Alaska and a Jesuit priest in India. It highlights the horrors of mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.

Geared for adults and young adults, from high school on up, the show, while entertaining, is meant to educate, inspire compassion and spur action to curb human impacts on the environment, empowering individual citizens and helping them put themselves in the picture as part of the solution to this monumental challenge.

For this premier showing, Abreu is asking for input on this “work in progress” – so the viewing community will have time for questions and comments after the show.

The Climate Monologues is a project of Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education and more information is available at www.ClimateMonologues.com. More information about the Irthlingz organization can be found at www.irthlingz.org.