Announcing the Braid & Flow Series
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This week, the Water Leaders Institute, The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, the Gulf South Anthropocene Working Group are excited to kick off the Braid & Flow series. We will convene twice each month to explore themes that stretch across scales and disciplines, such as food and food systems, racial violence, and technology and intimacy. Our goal is to strengthen the theories and the practices that guide our work as artists, activists, researchers, policy makers, writers, scientists, designers, teachers, students, and leaders, all working to navigate the Anthropocene and the challenges of climate change and pandemic.
The series begins at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 18, with a brief introduction to Braid & Flow and this month's topic of FOOD before we break into three separate guided conversations exploring these aspects of food and food systems: 1) Access & Distribution, 2) Health & Nutrition, and 3) Ecology & Gardening.
We will meet again at 9 a.m. on Friday, May 22, to build on the previous conversations, and attempt to bring those strands back together through creative practices.
The organizers for this month are Jelagat Cheruiyot, Shana griffin, Aron Chang, Grace Treffinger, Rebecca Snedeker, Denise Frazier, and Carina Vance Mafla.
All are welcome to join for either or both gatherings. Afterwards, the leaders for the month will share out readings, resources, inspirations, and ideas and choose the next month's theme and discussion leaders.