Lunch & Learn & Link: Artists Exchange
Inviting all artists and creatives, and people who want to bring more arts and creativity into their environmental/climate work! Come and share your projects and passions and lay the foundation for future partnerships. Bring your lunch to the Marsh and make surprising connections with other conference attendees in an informal setting. This will be lightly facilitated by Shilpa Jain with ample time for organic connections as well.
Note: Food will not be provided, but, maybe like the school cafeteria, your buddies will share some of their treats with you…
Location: Marsh Main Stage

Workshop: Mending & Stitching with Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD)
Stop by to learn “visible” mending techniques for your clothes and household fabrics. Discover how to darn socks, embroider, sew ashiko-style patches, and more. WEAD will provide samples and tutorials on stitching. Feel free to bring an item that you would like repaired. Instruction will focus on learned skills, rather than a final product. Needles, thread, buttons and patches will be available for use during the instructions. Or: bring your knitting and join the mending community!
Location: Marsh Cabaret

Participatory Art Installation: END-angered
END-angered is an interactive installation that encourages us to pause, notice, and contribute to a speculative form of species liberation that reverses the narrative of endangerment and extinction but also helps us explore the fragility of life on Earth. The installation consists of a (trash) bin filled/overflowing with crumpled pieces of hand-made paper made with different species of mushrooms that each contain the name of an endangered species. We will be invited to pick a piece of paper from the bin and uncrumple and rehydrate it (the speculative act of liberation of the species “contained” inside). Once flat, the paper will be hung on a wall piece that will simulate a map of entanglements between the species liberated. Crochet threads connecting them will represent the mycelial networks in the soil, highlighting the vital roles of fungal systems and reminding us that no life form can be untangled from its entire ecosystem.
Location: Marsh Main Stage