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- Noon to 1:00 p.m.\u2014Check-in and Community Climate Fair<\/li>\n
- 1:00 to 7:30 p.m.\u2014Symposium and reception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Where:<\/strong>\u00a0LaSells Stewart Center in Corvallis, Oregon (875 SW 26th St)<\/p>\n
The symposium will be free and open to the public.\u00a0Registration is required, and donations will be welcome at the event.\u00a0Because space is limited, if you register, please plan to attend\u00a0the whole symposium.<\/p>\n
REGISTER NOW FOR THE SYMPOSIUM<\/a><\/h1>\n
REGISTER NOW FOR A TABLE AT THE COMMUNITY FAIR<\/a><\/h1>\n
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<\/p>\nSymposium Schedule<\/h3>\n
12:00 \u2013 1:00<\/strong>
\nCheck-in, Community Climate Fair<\/p>\n1:00 \u2013 2:45<\/strong>
\nWelcome and lectures by:<\/p>\n- \n
- Jamie Margolin, executive\u00a0director of Zero Hour<\/li>\n
- Luhui Whitebear,\u00a0assistant director of OSU Native American\u00a0Longhouse Eena Haws<\/li>\n
- Angus Maguire,\u00a0senior manager of strategic communications\u00a0at Center for Story-based Strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
3:00 \u2013 4:00<\/strong>
\nWorkshop Session I<\/p>\n4:00 \u2013 4:15<\/strong>
\nBreak with refreshments and live music in the lobby<\/p>\n4:15 \u2013 5:15<\/strong>
\nWorkshop\u00a0Session II<\/p>\n5:15 \u2013 6:15<\/strong>
\nLectures by:<\/p>\n- \n
- Mary DeMocker, author of\u00a0The\u00a0Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution<\/em><\/li>\n
- Emily Johnston, writer and communications\u00a0coordinator at 350.org Seattle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
6:15<\/strong>
\nReception with food, drinks, and community discussions<\/p>\n7:30<\/strong>
\nTake Flight<\/p>\nFeatured Climate Lectures<\/h3>\n
Zero Hour: Youth Marching to the Frontlines of Climate Change<\/strong>
\nby Jamie Margolin<\/em>
\nWhen Jamie was 15, she founded the international youth climate action organization Zero Hour, which led the first ever Youth Climate March in Washington DC and 25 cities around the world. Zero Hour has turned that march into a movement. As youth around the world rise up, how are their voices changing the climate movement? How are they holding their adults and elected officials accountable for their climate legacy?<\/p>\nIntergenerational Indigenous Activism\u00a0<\/strong>
\nby Luhui Whitebear<\/em>
\nWhen Luhui Whitebear arrived at Standing Rock to join the Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement, she realized she had been fighting the fossil fuel industry since she was in her mother\u2019s womb. How is the climate movement made stronger by linking arms with our grandmothers, mothers, and daughters?<\/p>\nMeans & Ends: The Battle of the Story for Climate Justice<\/strong>
\nby Angus Maguire<\/em>
\nStorytelling to confront the climate crisis isn\u2019t just a tactical question of messaging and clever slogans. What we do is as much of our story as what we say. Let’s step back and examine not just the opposition\u2019s stories, but our own, become conversant in some of the underlying assumptions operating across the debate, and begin to tell the stories that make the just and sustainable future we crave not just possible, but inevitable.<\/p>\nWhy We Can Still Build a Thriving Future (& Easy Ways Anyone Can Help)\u00a0<\/strong>
\nby Mary DeMocker\u00a0<\/em>
\nGet inspired about how to feel empowered in the fight for a healthy, just, and fun future. Leave with several easy ways you\u2014or anyone you talk with\u2014can help change our system, not just our light bulbs.<\/p>\nHow to Keep Going<\/strong>
\nby\u00a0Emily Johnston\u00a0<\/em>
\nWhen we begin to understand the scope of climate change, it can seem so devastating as to negate the possibility of action. How can we move towards a new understanding, one that will allow us to live with purpose and joy even as much begins to fall apart around us? How can love turn imagination into our closest ally?<\/p>\nWorkshop Sessions<\/h3>\n
We are excited to offer two distinct hour-long workshop sessions. Each session will have four workshops you’ll get to choose from when you register.<\/p>\n
WORKSHOP SESSION I<\/h4>\n
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- Step Up, Step Back: How to Amplify Youth Voices in the Fight for a Livable Planet\u00a0<\/strong>
\nwith Mary DeMocker<\/em>
\nCalling all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, educators, coaches, neighbors\u2014and anyone who cares about present and future generations: Young people in the Sunrise Movement, Youth School Strikes, and Juliana V. US lawsuit are electrifying the global climate conversation. This workshop outlines family-tested ways to empower, mentor, and truly support young people fighting to shape the 2020 election, win a Green New Deal, and build the future they want to live in.<\/li>\n- Combating Violence towards Indigenous Bodies on the Frontlines of Extraction<\/strong>
\nwith Luhui Whitebear\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>
\nProblem solve and create action plans to address the prevalence of violence towards Indigenous bodies along resource extraction sites. This workshop will cover violences that include sex trafficking, murdered and missing Indigenous women, and limitations of the law. Learn how you can stand in solidarity with these women, their families, and their communities.<\/li>\n- What’s Grief Got to Do with It?<\/strong>
\nwith Tim Jensen<\/em>
\nFrom sea ice to salmon, insects to old-growth, we’re living in an age increasingly defined by loss. As our climate continues to destabilize, both the range and rate of ecological loss will increase. How we grapple emotionally with such unjust destruction factors into how effective we are in fighting against it. This workshop frames grief and mourning as vital resources for those working on climate issues. Together, we’ll engage a variety of strategies for transforming anguish into action.<\/li>\n- Environmental Art: Reflection, Provocation, and Action<\/strong>
\nwith David Buckley Borden<\/em>
\nWhat is the role of environmental art as a lens for reflection, source of provocation, and inspiration for action? Using the lens of\u00a0two of David’s recent art-science collaborations\u2014Hemlock Hospice<\/em>\u00a0at the Harvard Forest and\u00a0Warming Warning<\/em>\u00a0at Harvard’s Science Center Plaza\u2014we’ll\u00a0discuss how art about environmental change has the power to provoke\u00a0responses in\u00a0visitors, viewers, and ourselves. How might these responses be an impetus for direct climate action?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nWORKSHOP SESSION II<\/h4>\n
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- Ethics on the Edge of Apocalypse<\/strong>
\nwith Emily Johnston and Alec Connon<\/em>
\nThe Greek “apokalupsis” means to uncover or reveal\u2014what will be revealed in the human spirit as we face the catastrophes that are coming with climate change? What meaning can we find, and what are our responsibilities?<\/li>\n- Imagination Builds Power\u00a0<\/strong>
\nwith Angus Maguire<\/em>
\nTo win, we must exercise political imagination and stretch the terms of what is deemed “politically realistic”\u00a0in the present moment. Imagination builds power because it opens the space for crafting stories that make ecologically just futures possible. Let’s take the time to play\u2014with story and with each other\u2014because we can only go somewhere that we’ve already been in our minds.<\/li>\n- Youth Uprising: We Are the Leaders We Have Been Waiting For<\/strong>
\nwith Jamie Margolin<\/em>
\nYouth around the world are rising up and speaking up in conversations around climate and environmental justice. Zero Hour is a youth-led movement creating entry points, training, and resources for new young activists and organizers (and adults who support our vision) wanting to take concrete action around climate change. Learn how youth movements are forming, and how people\u2014young and old\u2014can get involved to create a livable future where we not just survive, but flourish.<\/li>\n- Transforming Despair and\u00a0Anger into Compassion and Creativity through Contemplative Practice<\/strong>
\nwith Kate\u00a0Gallagher<\/em>
\nCrisis and tragedy naturally evoke a range of difficult emotions.\u00a0Left undigested, despair and anger have the capacity to drain personal vitality and to diminish, if not obstruct, even the most benefic efforts for change.\u00a0They could be considered two hallmark, personal-professional pitfalls of this work.\u00a0In the workshop, we will investigate the overwhelm of despair and the consequences of righteous anger and explore experiential, contemplative tools to meet these difficult emotions anew with the hope of accessing the compassion and creativity that fuels skillful, effectual action and personal well-being.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nMore About Our Speakers and Workshop Leaders<\/h3>\n
David Buckley Borden<\/strong>\u00a0is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. Using an accessible combination of art and design, David promotes a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology. David was a 2016\/2017 Charles Bullard Fellow (Artist-in-Residence) at the Harvard Forest where he answered the question, “How can art and design foster cultural cohesion around environmental issues and help inform ecology-minded decision making?”\u00a0As a Harvard Forest Associate Fellow, David continues to collaborate with Harvard researchers and\u00a0to champion a cultural ecology supported by interdisciplinary science-communication.<\/p>\n
Alec Connon<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer and organizer with 350 Seattle. He has helped run campaigns to push large pension funds and Wall Street banks to divest from fossil fuels. His first novel,\u00a0The Activist<\/em>, was published in 2016. It was named Book of the Month by Coast Magazine and featured in\u00a0BBC Wildlife<\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n
Mary\u00a0<\/strong>DeMocker’<\/strong>s book\u00a0The Parents’\u00a0Guide to Climate Revolution: 100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night’s Sleep<\/em>\u00a0(foreword by Bill McKibben) is a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Award and has been featured on Yale Climate Connections and recommended in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>. DeMocker is the co-founder of 350 Eugene, with which\u00a0she designed and co-led youth-centered protests featured on PBS NewsHour, ArtCOP21, and in an Avaaz video shown to world leaders entering Paris climate talks. DeMocker has written for\u00a0The Sun<\/em>,\u00a0Spirituality & Health<\/em>, and\u00a0Common Dreams<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Kate Gallagher<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a yogin, a philosopher, a scholar, a meditator, an educator and forever student. She earned her M.A. in Applied Religious Ethics from Oregon State University, focusing on the intersection of contemplative practice and domestic life. After 15 years of rigorous spiritual study in the Tibetan Buddhist and Indian Yoga traditions, she had the great privilege and opportunity to reflect on the subtle workings of the mind in a year-long, solitary\u00a0study and meditation retreat. Kate is now the coordinator for Oregon State University’s Contemplative Studies Initiative and she continues to study and practice with her personal mentors and teachers.<\/p>\n
Tim Jensen<\/strong>\u00a0directs the Writing Program at Oregon State University and teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, and pedagogy.\u00a0His teaching aims at generating what the Greeks called phronesis\u2014practical wisdom for everyday living\u2014by challenging students to apply personal interests and real exigencies to their work. Dr. Jensen is also co-creator and currently serves on the editorial board of\u00a0Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion<\/em>, a peer-review digital journal dedicated to advancing rhetorical literacy in and outside of the academy.\u00a0He hopes to one day grow up on a farm.<\/p>\n
Emily Johnston<\/strong>\u00a0is a poet, a founder and core member of 350 Seattle, and a valve turner. Her book\u00a0Her Animals<\/em>\u00a0was a finalist for the 2016 Washington State Book Award. She lives and runs in Seattle with her dog, Mosey.<\/p>\n
Angus Maguire<\/strong>\u00a0is communications manager at Center for Story-based Strategy. Parent, designer, organizer, facilitator, communications strategist\u2014but master of none\u2014Angus believes deeply in our collective capacity to self-govern. He is also a true believer in story-based strategy, using it for everything from eldercare and parenting, to direct action planning and organizing for futures beyond whiteness. Angus was previously a Communications Organizer with SEIU. He’s spent the last 19 years creating visual communications with movements for collective liberation across the country. When he’s not on the road with Center for Story-based Strategy, you can find Angus at home with his family in Eugene, Oregon, organizing to build power with homeless and precariously housed communities.<\/p>\n
Jamie Margolin<\/strong>\u00a0is a 17-year-old climate justice activist. When she was 15, she founded the international youth climate action organization Zero Hour, which led the first ever Youth Climate March in Washington DC and 25 cities around the world. Jamie’s debut book,\u00a0Youth to Power: The Ultimate Guide to Being a Youth Activist<\/em>, will be published in 2020.<\/p>\n
Luhui Whitebear<\/strong>\u00a0is a mother, poet, Indigenous activist, and enrolled member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation. Luhui the assistant director of the OSU Native American Longhouse Eena Haws and is a Ph.D. student in the Women, Gender, & Sexuality. Her research focuses on Indigenous rhetorics, Indigeneity and reclaiming of Indigenous identity\/gender roles, missing and murdered Indigenous women, Indigenous resistance movements, and natural resource protection. Her most recent projects include the incorporation of heteropatriarchy in Native traditions as well as intergenerational Indigenous activism with the Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement.<\/p>\n
Transportation and Accessibility<\/h3>\n
The Chrysalis Symposium will take place on OSU’s campus and overlap\u00a0with some other popular events, including Family Weekend. Because parking space may be limited on campus that weekend, we encourage attendees to carpool, use a ride-share service, or bike to the event.<\/p>\n
Accommodations for disabilities may be\u00a0made by contacting 541-737-4098.<\/p>\n
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- Imagination Builds Power\u00a0<\/strong>
- Combating Violence towards Indigenous Bodies on the Frontlines of Extraction<\/strong>
- Emily Johnston, writer and communications\u00a0coordinator at 350.org Seattle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Mary DeMocker, author of\u00a0The\u00a0Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution<\/em><\/li>\n