In this interactive workshop, Dena Seidel and her team of undergraduate scientist filmmakers will lead a series of activities that show how science is a story that can be told in ways that reach broader audiences and encourage greater scientific and civic participation. Through this workshop, attendees will sketch out science stories and explore the close relationship between a narrative story arc and the scientific method. Rutgers students will share their video storytelling insights and discuss the trust and relationship building needed to co-create communal stories.

In this interactive film screening, award-winning filmmaker and science communicator Dena Seidel and her students from Rutgers University will showcase a series of short films that focus largely on food systems and the collaborative work of scientists and communities to better understand and improve these systems. Between short films, Seidel and her team will ask the audience to reflect on what they’ve seen and to begin to craft their own food and science stories. 

In connection with the annual Point of Contact (POC) Cruel April Reading Series, Juan Felipe Herrera will read newly commissioned work featured in POC’s Corresponding Voices publication.

United States Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera leads a creative writing workshop for students of all ages. Herrera will discuss how his own poetic work connects with environmental concerns while pointing us toward methods of communal storytelling and repair. 

2023 Guggenheim Fellows Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) invite attendees to engage with their artwork and others in the current Assembly exhibition at the SU Art Museum to forge deeper ecological understandings of the places we share.

In this workshop, Badr and Miller invite participants to explore the ways in which narrative sovereignty takes different forms and expressions across communities and offer examples of the work of communities to build structures that emphasize and reinforce individual and community agency in storytelling for climate action.

In this interactive public event, Ahmed Badr and Ruth Łchavaya K’isen Miller use poetry, music, and dialogue to demonstrate and advocate for narrative sovereignty in the pursuit of environmental justice. They explore the ways in which narrative sovereignty takes different forms and expressions across their respective communities.

Civil rights leader and author George Lakey works with community leaders and university students, faculty, and staff to think carefully about how they can craft nonviolent social change campaigns to be inclusive, powerful, and successful.

Activist and author George Lakey discusses his work with the Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT), a mostly youth-led coalition, which he co-founded to pursue ecojustice at the intersections of race, class, queerness, and the climate crisis.

Using the social technology of a healing circle, SeQuoia Kemp will facilitate a unique opportunity for mothers and birth workers of all ages and stages to address intergenerational trauma in service of gaining greater reproductive justice for all. Food and childcare provided.

While this workshop is open to all mothers and birth workers, space is limited. Please register here by 2/13/23 and include any food and accessibility accommodation requests.

Community educator, health activist and poet SeQuoia Kemp traces out the relationship between environmental racism, reproductive justice, and the production of maternal toxic zones.

In this public reading with Q&A, Poet Vievee Francis interrogates interior and exterior landscapes formed by legacies of slavery, oppression, and violence against Black people and, especially, Black women. This event is a feature of the Raymond Carver Reading Series.

Poet and scholar Vievee Francis reads and unpacks work related to environmental inheritance, haunting & poetic world-making. Facilitators from Write Out, a community-based creative writing collective in Syracuse, collaborate with Francis to help workshop participants engage their own writing inspired by Francis’s work.

This workshop invites aspiring digital storytellers and media producers into a discussion of the importance of aesthetics and craft in storytelling across media. Dr. Corwin leads an interactive exploration of the elements of stories that move people to action, with focus on filmmaking in pursuit of environmental justice.

The Environmental Storytelling Series kicks off with a screening of Dr. Jason Corwin's feature length documentary, Denying Access. It chronicles the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Seneca Territory as they opposed the Dakota Access and Northern Access Pipelines by convening people from around the world in an unprecedented call for the recognition of Indigenous rights and an end to a destructive fossil fuel industry.