Environmental anthropologist and filmmaker Alizé Carrère will appear at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center on April 20. (photo by Sally Gee)

Featured as part of the National Geographic Live touring speaker series across North America, which brings to life the awe-inspiring stories of National Geographic experts, is “Adaptation” with environmental anthropologist and filmmaker Alizé Carrère. This event is presented by BroadStage on Thursday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center.

Explore the remarkable ways people around the world are adapting to a changing climate with Carrère. Dive into the South Pacific waters of Vanuatu, where islanders are using innovative techniques to combat the effects of climate change and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish that threaten the surrounding reefs. In Bangladesh, discover how farmers in low-lying areas facing sea level rise and flooding are reviving an old agricultural technique – floating gardens – that has inspired floating schools, libraries, hospitals and playgrounds. Travel to the mountainous desert of Ladakh in northern India to glimpse giant ice pyramids, or “ice stupas,” invented by a Ladakhi teacher and engineer to help the community adapt to global warming. Through her work documenting these stories, Carrère offers a hopeful look at the resilience, perseverance and innovation of humankind under even the most difficult of conditions.

Tickets starting at $50 are available at broadstage.org by calling (310)434-3200 or by visiting the box office at The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage at 1310 11th St., Santa Monica, beginning two hours prior to performance.