Please join us for an evening of music and poetry in the garden, in celebration of Earth Day!

Performing to open Walton Ford’s new exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum

Please join Jesse Paris Smith in conversation with Julien Paganetti, Jesse R. Erickson, Cara Schlesinger, and Patti Smith - four unique voices connected with the NY Antiquarian Book Fair and the world of rare books and manuscripts. Together they will discuss the importance of the book fair, its relevance in today's culture, and ways that new generations and those unfamiliar with the fair can find their way in with ease. It will be a morning of stories, experiences, and connecting threads which highlight how enriching and special the fair can be for everyone.

Patti Smith and Her Band at Brooklyn Steel

Patti’s 77th Birthday

Patti Smith and Her Band at Brooklyn Steel

Patti Smith and Her Band perform at The Salt Shed in Chicago

Lenny’s 77th Birthday :)

Stories and Songs

Patti Smith, Tony Shanahan, Jackson Smith, Jesse Paris Smith

Celebrating Books of Days release in France

With Tony Shanahan, Jackson Smith, and Jesse Paris Smith

Join in celebration of sun and light on the longest day!

Today is the release day of Timothy Monger’s new album!

Background vocals by Jesse Paris Smith on ‘Shelters, Shanties, and Shacks’

Join us in celebration of renewal and the arrival of spring! Enjoy Vernal Equinox Tea provided by The Alchemist's Kitchen along with live music & poetry featuring Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith, and more!

Monday, March 20, 3:30 - 5:30 pm

The exact turning of the Equinox will be 5:24pm at which we will hang Tibetan prayer flags and do a simple ritual for a bountiful and joyous spring ahead

Celebrating the release of Book of Days

Hosted by The Strand

Welcome by Jesse Paris Smith, Rochelle L. Johnson, President of the Thoreau Society, Introduction and Presentation of the Thoreau Prize (Photo Credit: The Jane Goodall Institute / By Bill Wallauer. )

To register and watch live on Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gGHq02JeQSy7wBwCkH05Wg#/registration

Please join us this Friday July 8th, as we present an evening of music, songs, stories, and readings connected with Thoreau and Concord, Massachusetts.

Here is the link to register for the livestream on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../WN_OJ7qCWakQxawcyuy288OFg...

And if you are in Concord or close to there in Massachusetts, please join us in person at Umbrella Arts Center!! https://thoreausociety.org/events/jesse-paris-smith-in-concert-at-the-emerson-umbrella/

This event is part of the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering. For the full schedule of events Wednesday-Sunday follow this link:
https://thoreausociety.org/

Patti Smith will receive France’s highest honor, the Legion d’Honneur and perform for the New York edition of Night of Ideas—a free annual nocturnal marathon of philosophilca debates, performances, and readings. The event will be hosted by the French Embassy's Villa Albertine in partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library.

Tickets are on sale now for our March concert at City Winery Philadelphia!! This is very exciting as it will not only be a night of comedy and music with my friend Dave Hill, but it will be my first time performing a full set of my own songs!! Tickets are on sale here via City Winery. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Tickets are on sale here for this year's Tibet House US Benefit concert, happening again online via Mandolin and featuring performers such as Patti Smith, Keanu Reeves, Iggy Pop, Punch Brothers, Tenzin Choegyal, Cyndi Lauper, and more. This year marks the Tibet House 35th anniversary as well as the 85th birthday of Philip Glass. It will also be the Tibetan New Year, the year of the Water Tiger!

Tickets are still on sale here for Lenny's birthday show! Will be a great night of music and friends, celebration and laughter. We will also have these great super fun signed posters for sale done by Cesar St. Martin for this special occasion. Hope to see you there!

There are still some tickets left for the rescheduled shows from December! It will be so special to celebrate my mom's birthday and all be together again for these concerts. I love this poster Cesar St. Martin made to celebrate this night, and it will be available to purchase, as well as the t-shirt version in both white and yellow!! We will have buttons, too! :) Really looking forward so much! If you will be in NYC, check the sites for tickets!

Pathway to Paris concert event set Glasgow on the opening eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26

Patti Smith, Bill McKibben, Soundwalk Collective, Jesse Paris Smith, Rebecca Foon, Tenzin Choegyal and more 

Tickets available here:

https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/pathway-to-paris/theatre-royal-glasgow/calendar/

**the event will also be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube

4 October 2021: Today the climate action organization, Pathway to Paris, has announced a concert event taking place on October 31st, 2021 at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow. Helping to open the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop26), Oct 31st - Nov 12th, the concert will focus on the urgent need for nations to ramp up their efforts and take ambition to the next level in order to meet and go beyond the climate targets outlined in the Paris Agreement, and for cities to take responsibility and lead the way forward in achieving this goal. 

Bringing together musicians, artists, thinkers, and policymakers, this concert will serve as an international call to action. It will be open to attend in person via Glasgow and also be live streamed to a global audience. 

“In the world of music, the best way to improve is through collaboration. This is the same with the critical issue of climate change. We must join together to make this the most ambitious collaboration of our century. We will not be able to implement crucial and challenging solutions to climate change, and all urgent environmental problems as long as we stand divided. Inseparable from the issue of climate change is the need for world peace, global communication, and an international collaboration unmatched by any event in human history.”– Co-Founder of Pathway to Paris, Jesse Paris Smith

The concert will feature Patti Smith, Tenzin Choegyal, Soundwalk Collective in collaboration with Patti Smith and Jesse Paris Smith to perform CRISIS OF THE LOST, a sound piece composed of underwater recordings deriving from the TBA21–Academy sound archive that documents the voice of ocean life in contrast with the destructive impact of manmade acoustic pollution over all species of marine life. The live performance is accompanied by visualizations by Territorial Agency to provide visceral insights into the scale and mechanics of the ecological threat that is sound pollution in the ocean. The piece features additional recordings carried out by sound artist Jana Winderen during field trips in Belize, Panama, Dominican Republic, Norway and Iceland; as well as recorded detonations of the seismic airgun blasting acquired from Simone Baumann Pickering’s lab at Scripps Institute for Oceanography, and cello written and performed by Lucy Railton.

CRISIS OF THE LOST is part of a collaborative body of work and series of album projects between Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective, entitled CORRESPONDENCES, due for publication and release in Spring 2022.

Pathway to Paris Founders Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon will also be performing throughout the evening. Speakers include 350.org’s Bill McKibben and other special guests to be announced soon.

All proceeds from this evening will be donated to the 1000 Cities Initiative for Carbon Freedom by Pathway to Paris  

PATHWAY TO PARIS

October 31st  2021

Theatre Royal, Glasgow

PATTI SMITH   •   BILL MCKIBBEN   •  SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE  •  LITTLE SUN

 TENZIN CHOEGYAL   •   REBECCA FOON   •   JESSE PARIS SMITH 

+ SPECIAL GUESTS

Doors: 18:30   Show: 19:30

Pathway to Paris brings together musicians, artists, activists, academics, mayors, and innovators to help raise consciousness surrounding the urgency of climate action and offers solutions to turning the Paris Agreement into action. Founded in September 2014 by Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon, with an intimate evening of music and speakers at Le Poisson Rouge immediately following the People’s Climate March in New York City. A series of similar events unfolded in North America over the ensuing years. The events were initially intended to build awareness to help establish a global climate agreement, leading up to the UN Climate Change Conference (Cop21) that took place in December 2015, and culminated with two major concerts in Paris at Le Trianon, the first weekend of the conference. In November 2017, Pathway to Paris launched the 1000 Cities Initiative at Carnegie Hall in the lead up to COP 23.

www.vimeo.com/pathwaytopari

Performing solo and with Dave Hill during a night of music, stories, and comedy at The Loft at City Winery NYC.

Dave Hill as the host

Along with Jim Tews and Caitlin Cook

Part of Dave Hill’s Global Beatdown Tour 2022

Presented by ThisMyShow Industries

Join us for a virtual event you don’t want to miss. We have over ten songwriters that will in conversation and performing including: Roopa Mahadevan, Ashley Eriksson, Jesse Paris Smith, Catherine Harris-White (SassyBlack), Hollis Wong-Wear, Stas THE Boss, McKain Lakey, Jenn Champion, Sera Cahoone, G.R. Gritt & more!

On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 3pm EST, Pathway to Paris, 350.org, and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) North America Region will join together in celebration of our planet. This year’s theme is the protection of our ecosystems and repairing our relationship with nature as we move forward into a new era of global recovery.

Stream here on the day: Facebook.com/Pathway2Paris

In honor of World Environment Day, the concert event will feature a diverse array of international music performances from Dave Matthews, Rocky Dawuni, Patti Smith, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Michael Stipe, Yury Revich, Priya Darshini, Tomas Doncker, Jordan Sanchez, Rima Fujita, Tenzin Choegyal, Patrick Watson, Jackson Smith, and music and words from Pathway to Paris founders Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon. The day will also feature presentations from world renowned thinkers and activists, including 350.org founder, Bill McKibben, Pennie Opal Plant, and United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.

The concert event will stream live on June 4th at 3PM EST on these Facebook pages:

www.facebook.com/pathway2Paris, www.facebook.com/350.org,
www.facebook.com/unep, and www.facebook.com/UNEnvironmentNA.

World Environment Day is the United Nation’s flagship day for the environment. This day is the UN’s principle vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment. This year’s observance of World Environment Day will also mark the formal launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which is being led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The overarching theme is ‘ecosystem restoration’ and emphasizing the need to reset our relationship with nature. There has never been a more urgent time to restore the planet, and the Decade aims to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. The concert event also serves as a moment for us all to come together and reimagine the world in which we live and wish to live in. World Environment Day is a time to revisit how we can move forward to restore our communities, our ecosystems, and our climate. We all have the power to inspire action, and we hope that through this virtual festival people around the world will find new ways that they can contribute to a positive change, a just recovery and a sustainable world.

24,499 PARTICIPANTS

200+ COUNTRIES & TERRITORIES

300+ SPEAKERS

The SDG GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF ACTION BROUGHT THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY TOGETHER TO DRIVE ACTION TOWARDS THE SDGS

Watch here: https://globalfestivalofaction.org/

We are so excited to announce our next event in collaboration with 350.org for World Environment Day on June 5th at 3PM EST. Please join us on our website and Facebook live for a beautiful day of music, film, and innovative conversations around solutions for a renewable world. https://pathwaytoparis.com/blog/world-environment-day/

WATCH HERE

Pathway to Paris celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with EARTH DAY 50: A VIRTUAL FESTIVAL FOR OUR PLANET on Sunday April 26th at 4pm EST. The event will be taking place on Instagram Live the organization’s profile: @Pathway2Paris

https://www.instagram.com/pathway2paris/

The line up features the organization’s founders Jesse Paris Smith & Rebecca Foon, global contributors from their live events over the last five years, including Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Flea, Cat Power, Bill McKibben, Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal (Australia), Raju Lama (Nepal), artist Olafur Eliasson (Berlin), Patrick Watson (Canada), and also some newer additions including Ben Harper, Johnny Depp, Micah Nelson (Particle Kid), Gigi Datome (Forward and Captain of Italian National Basketball Team), Giovanni Caccamo (Milan), Rain Phoenix, Nikolai Fraiture (The Strokes), and Mayor of Auronzo di Cadore, Tatiana Pais Becher.

As humanity faces an unknown future, we must recognize the fact that we simply cannot go back to our behavior from before. Both as individuals and as a globe, we are in a time of reflection, and now, more than ever, we have the opportunity to make great change.

We believe this is truly the moment to seize the opportunity to transition our world fully to 100% renewable energy, and out of the era of fossil fuels.

Examples of planetary healing taking place right now due to the decrease in human consumption like the canals of Venice becoming clear and repopulated with fish, cleaner air and major drops in air pollution levels, significant decrease in nitrogen dioxide, stalled emissions from airlines, transit, and other industrial giants has been so transformative for our world.

Seeing these changes makes us truly realize the impact of humanity on our planet. Just as we have the power to cause problems, we have the same power to heal them. We can reimagine our world, and we are asking you to join us.

Pathway to Paris Earth Day 50: A Virtual Festival for our Planet, will be taking place on Sunday, April 26, 2020, the weekend after Earth Day. This date is more significant than ever before, as not only are we in a unique moment of our history in our relationship to each other and the natural world, but this year will mark the 50th Anniversary of the first Earth Day to ever take place, in 1970, when 20 million Americans around the country demonstrated together, connected by a shared vision of environmental reform.

Now, 50 years later, the entire world is connected today not only by this global issue which concerns us all, but in a very extreme sense, as our minds are connected by the fears, anxiety, and facts of the coronavirus. In addition to what is on our minds, we are also connected as never before because of the internet and social media, which right now is our main source of communication and collaboration.

In light of this all, we invite you to join us for a Virtual Concert Festival, as we use our voices and platforms to raise awareness and funds, and realize how truly interconnected we all are, not only with each other, but with this planet, who has made it very clear to us our impact, and what is needed moving forward.

This event will be donation based, with all proceeds benefiting Pathway to Paris.

We believe more than ever that what this planet and humanity requires our collaboration and compassion, and we are ready to work together with cities and citizens across the globe to reimagine the world we live in. Climate change is a global concern, and we have seen with Covid-19 what can happen when the world truly works together to come up with solutions in a time of crisis. Let’s treat the climate situation with that same urgency and passion. Let’s not go back to the world as it was. Instead, let’s move into the future with a renewed vision of how we want to live. Let’s do this not only for our children and future generations, but for each other, here today. For our neighbors, friends, and family, for the animals and trees, for every living being and species on this Earth