| Event Title | Date/Time | Location | Brief Description | Registration Link |
| Keynote Speaker: Foraging & Abundance with Alexis Nicole Nelson | Tuesday, May 2nd
12-1pm |
EMU Redwood Auditorium | Alexis Nikole Nelson (she/her) is a forager and an outdoor educator using her platform to yell, sing and celebrate all the edible plants hiding in plain sight! She invites all who will come on the foraging journey of collecting, identifying, and eating wild food.
While delivered in a light-hearted manner, Nelson’s content has empowered those living in food deserts with greater self-sufficiency – which is no laughing matter. |
Register here! (Registration closes Monday May 1st at 5 PM) |
| Foraging Walk with Alexis Nicole Nelson | May 2nd 1:30-3:30 PM | OP Barn | The foraging walk is an educational, group activity in which Alexis leads a group of students throughout campus identifying the different types of trees, plants, mushrooms, berries, and more, and provides information on their use and history. It’s meant to be equal parts entertaining as it is educational as she always adds a fun comedic twist to everything that she does. | FULL! |
| Reimagining our Built Environments with Aimée Okotie-Oyekan | May 3rd | 10-10:50 AM | Swindells (EMU 230) | This session will facilitate a reimagining of built environment design through a lens of environmental justice, land use planning policy, and play! | Register Here! |
| Embodied Facilitation with Presence O’Neal | May 3rd | 11-11:50 AM | Swindells (EMU 230) | Facilitators play a huge role in the trajectory of environmental justice projects. A common theme in many dominant systems that perpetuate environmental injustices is a tendency to uncritically rely on the binary assumption of the mind/body divide. This goal of this workshop is to support facilitators of all kinds in the work of challenging the mind/body binary through facilitation practices. It is not just the content of our facilitation but also the facilitation practices themselves that foster transformation towards justice. During this workshop, there will be two main activities: first, attendees will engage in a guided somatic activity called “Body as Place” and second, attendees will visit stations throughout the space to put together a toolkit of embodied facilitation strategies that they can apply in their own contexts. | Register Here! |
| Storytelling as a Tool for Action with CAER | May 3rd | 12-12:50 PM | Swindells (EMU 230) | Storytelling, individual or community, is relational. Stories offer the language of experience and connect community members to each other from that experience. Through story, we invite listeners into our memories of joy, meaning, and belonging. Through these memories, we can expand our understanding and create innovative and healing ways to work together in community. | Register Here! |
| Reimagining our Relationship with Fire feat. SFA, NASU, FireGen, and the Wagon Burners | May 3rd | 1-1:50 PM | LCL (EMU 023) | Modern wildfire management casts fire as a hazard and an enemy, but fire is an essential component for many Pacific Northwest communities, implemented by Indigenous stewards of the land since time immemorial. In this workshop, we will complicate and reimagine mainstream narratives surrounding fire through interactive and creative activities with Indigenous fire practitioners and fire researchers. We will work together to reframe our understanding of fire and envision a more just world. | Register Here! |
| Awakening our Ancestral Ecological Wisdom and Abundance: A Workshop by the Healers Project with Dr. AlaÍ Reyes-Santos & Dr. Ana Maurine Lara | May 3rd | 2-2:50 PM | LCL (EMU 023) | In this interactive workshop, join us as we spend some time awakening our ancestral memories, and the ecological wisdom and sense of abundance each one of us can embody and transmit across the generations. Drawing on our experiences side by side Afro-Indigenous elders and ceremonial practices as documented in the Healers Project, we seek to leave participants inspired to imagine together a world full of possibilities for healing and justice for all beings. | Register Here! |
| Critical Sustainability with Filippo Ferriera | May 3rd | 4-5:50 PM | LCL (EMU 023) | ‘Critical sustainability studies’ is an effort to politicize sustainability and sustainability education. In addition to reviewing its conceptual framework, in this workshop we will explore the different ways that mainstream ecology and sustainability currents sustain problematic dynamics and ideals through a series of participatory and experiential activities. We will also use ecological principles and critical imagination to conceive of new, more just and sustainable worlds. | Register Here! |
| Mount Pisgah Outing | May 4th | 2-5 PM | Meet at SSC (EMU 005) | Enjoy the vibrant spring life at the Arboretum with a local ecologist’s guide. We will identify and engage with flowers, trees, birds, bees, and anything else around us in the Arboretum. Afterwards, we will plant native species to grow the biodiversity of the surrounding area! | Register Here! |
| Plants as Teachers: Reciprocal, Resilient, Relational Lifeways | May 4th | 11 AM -12:30 PM | Meet at SSC (EMU 005) |
This walk will be a chance to learn from the green members of our U of O community. Come meet some of the many wonderful plants on campus and learn their stories. Explore pollinator/native biodiversity plantings at U of O and discuss local native pollinator diversity as we explore Kalapuya land and contemplate Indigenous world views of life and interaction with our more-than-human relatives. In this short exploration of a daily-life space we will learn lessons from plants about decolonization, ecocultural complexity, storytelling, resilient sustainable lifeways, and relational understandings of the symbiotic/mutualistic, interwoven, interdependent, reciprocal nature of life on earth. |
Register Here! |