What if naturalist David Attenborough collaborated with artist Meredith Monk, satirist Tom Lehrer and storyteller Spaulding Gray to describe climate change and the human species in it?

Bainbridge Island artist Janet Norman seeks to imagine just such a response in her performance prose poem “ArtiFact Pattern,” set to enchant Bainbridge Island Museum of Art guests at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30.

The work combines the humor and heaviness of climate change and the Alaskan Way Viaduct in flux — weighing in on what both tell us about our culture and ourselves.

Built on giant carbon feet, the viaduct is a monument to climate change — our Roman aqueduct, sending carbon-like water to quench the empire’s thirst. The subject of climate change itself has many facts to connect, and our human brains want to decipher those patterns through poetry, music, humor and dance, while in the quandaries of a society speeding headlong into an uncertainty where we may collide with ourselves.

The show is directed by Pamela Dharamsey Lee and musical director Tom McDonald, with musicians Georgia Browne and Chele Shepard. The cast includes Knox, Kayla Black, Sholpan Yerezheyeva, Zoe West and Matilda West.

The cost is $10 per person; students get in free.

Janet Norman Knox is a seven-time Pushcart nominee whose poems have appeared in the Tupelo Quarterly, Los Angeles Review and many other publications.

For tickets, visit www.artifactpattern.bpt.me.