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SUMMARY:Talk - Creative Ecologies and the Aesthetics of Climate Justice
DESCRIPTION:The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall\, UMaine. \n\nVirtual attendance: Complete the registration form to receive Zoom connection information.\nIn-person attendance: Attendees must follow UMaine’s COVID-19 guidelines.\n\nSpeaker: T.J. Demos\, Professor and Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History and Visual Culture\, Director\, Center for Creative Ecologies\, UC Santa Cruz \nThe Center for Creative Ecologies (CCE) provides a place to consider the intersection of culture and environment. The aim is to develop useful interdisciplinary research tools to examine how cultural practitioners—filmmakers\, new media strategists\, photojournalists\, architects\, writers\, activists\, and interdisciplinary theorists—critically address and creatively negotiate environmental concerns in the local\, regional\, and global field. \nCreative ecologies expand terms like “environment” and “climate” to generative excess\, avoiding disciplinary silos and technocratic solutions. They connect ecology-as-relationality—between an organism and its environment—to ecology-as-intersectionality—as a matrix of power\, oppression\, and liberation operating through such social forces as gender\, race\, and class. Creative ecologies envision multispecies\, social\, and climate justice as its horizon. As a methodology formative to the Center for Creative Ecologies\, which I founded in 2015 at UC Santa Cruz\, creative ecologies (of interdisciplinary research\, university-community partnerships\, and multigenerational engagements) join with intersectionalist aesthetics and politics\, advancing an art of climate justice. This presentation will discuss select projects of the CCE\, along with specific art practices\, which foreground art’s relation to environmental and climate justice in the age of climate emergency. \nT. J. Demos‘ research focuses on the intersections of contemporary art\, radical politics\, and ecology—particularly where art\, activism\, and visual culture oppose racial\, colonial\, and extractive capitalism\, and where they work towards social\, economic\, and environmental justice. He is the author of numerous books\, including: Beyond the World’s End: Arts of Living at the Crossing (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and Political Ecology (Sternberg Press\, 2016)\, and Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today\, (Sternberg Press\, 2017). In Spring 2020\, he was a Getty Research Institute Fellow working on a new book project on radical futurisms\, and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World during 2019-21. Prof. Demos has also curated a number of exhibitions and film screening series\, including Beyond the World’s End at Santa Cruz’ Museum of Art and History (2020-21); Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas\, at Nottingham Contemporary (2015); Specters: A Ciné-Politics of Haunting\, at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum (2014); and Beyond the World’s End at the Museum of Art and History\, Santa Cruz (2019). \n 
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-creative-ecologies-and-the-aesthetics-of-climate-justice/
LOCATION:107 Norman Smith Hall\, Mitchell Center - UMaine\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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SUMMARY:Food Scrap Diversion Workshop - York
DESCRIPTION:York Dept. of Public Works will host presenters from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)\, the Maine Department of Agriculture\, Conservation\, and Forestry\, and the University of Maine Mitchell Center for Sustainable Solutions to share the most up-to-date information on local Maine food recycling initiatives. \nTo help educate the public and spread the word about these programs\, there will be a Food Scrap Diversion Workshop held on Tuesday\, September 13\, 2022\, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the York Library. \nThe primary goal of this workshop is to facilitate discussion around potential regional and local food recycling/composting solutions for residents\, communities\, and businesses. This half-day workshop will introduce the concept of local consolidated food scrap collection and management as an alternative to disposal in our landfills in order to: \n\nReduce solid waste disposal costs\nSupport local farms and farming\nProtect regional water quality\nMitigate climate impact\n\nDiscussions will focus on developing tools to help communities and businesses promote “higher and better uses” for collected organics along with providing a pathway for successful initiation of food scrap recovery programs. Strategies learned will allow York and surrounding communities to reduce overall waste disposal costs\, decrease reliance on disposal in landfills\, improve community health and enhance local soil health and vitality. \nThis workshop is free\, open to the public with light refreshments available\, but seating is limited. We’re excited to be working with Bagel Basket\, who will be helping us make this a zero-waste event. For more information\, visit yorkpublicworks.org/workshop.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/food-scrap-diversion-workshop-york/
LOCATION:York Library\, 15 Long Sands Road\, York\, Maine\, 03909
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