Music by Guillermo Silveira to highlight endangered species Oct. 21

An art music video presentation by Guillermo Silveira will be held at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Lewes Public Library, 111 Adams Ave., Lewes. Admission is free.

“Imperiled: Musical Portraits of Vanishing Wildlife” is a suite of original music depicting the plight of endangered animal species worldwide.

It seeks to convey in the language of art the grim urgency of the fact that up to 0.1% of all animal species on Earth disappear every year, and about 40,000 species are threatened presently.

However, in keeping with the way people experience and appreciate life, Silveira’s art is positive and motivating, rather than merely defeatist. He presents bright, highly expressive, avant-garde music and colorful images to inspire audience compassion, joyful connection and even playfulness. The work is a call to action in sound and images.

Like much of Silveira’s life work as a composer and concert pianist, “Imperiled: Musical Portraits of Vanishing Wildlife" aims to help cultivate a new generation of aware, informed and inspired environmentalists – those who, unfortunately, are the inheritors of an ailing planet. Through optimism, not despair, Sliveira hopes to motivate audience members of all ages to become agents of environmental change.

Sponsored in part by The Puffin Foundation, Silveira’s compositions will be presented in video performance format with audience participation.