Earth Day Expo: Enhancing Climate Conversations

This Earth Day, 2811 and TEACH invite you to join us for a FREE virtual workshop exploring a critical aspect in the fight to combat global climate change - how to communicate about climate change.

Communicating about climate change is for everyone! This event is FREE and open to anyone regardless of their age or background knowledge on climate issues.

This event will be presented in English.

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Participants choose one guest speaker workshop they would like to attend:

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Workshop #1: Using Storytelling and Art for Climate Change

Guest speaker: Tiedra Marshall is a teaching artist who aims to expose children to art early and often. Through her community art efforts, she encourages creative engaging experiences for families. She uses everyday materials to show families that art is everywhere and can be created with anything. She has worked with families in various capacities for more than 10 years.

Presentation:

Join Tiedra as she displays to you the power of art to convey effective and compelling climate change stories, and also how to use it as a release to the compounding stressors that impact us as we combat the climate crisis.

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Workshop #2: Exploring Eco-Anxiety & Eco-Emotions

Guest speaker: Keerat Dhami is the founder of Our Climate Café.

Our Climate Café is cyberspace at the intersection of climate change and community well-being that convenes once a month for communities to congregate and chat about navigating the current climate crisis.

Presentation:

Attendees can anticipate a 40-minute conversation on the adverse effects of the climate crisis on one's psyche, as well as hope and how to live well while navigating the current climate crisis. A typical session comprises a free form conversation where attendees tell a tale or two, profess postulations, communicate concerns, crack jokes, and advise one another—similar to a circle of friends at a café or coffee shop.

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Workshop #3: Climate Conversations & Responsibility

Guest speaker: Jim Thompson, Founder of THIS! Is What We Did.

Jim is relentlessly focused on answering The Ultimate Question: “What did you do to fight the climate crisis?” He developed the concept of Climate Change Literacy and started the nonprofit, THIS! Is What We Did, to combat the most dangerous threat in the history of humanity.

Presentation:

Jim has created a customized guide to effective climate conversations which walks you through: how to begin a conversation about climate change, how to tell your climate story, how to handle curveballs, and comments you disagree with.

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Workshop #4: Teaching Climate Change

Guest speakers: 2811 Climate Action Academy Alumni

Presentation:

Join 2811 Educators Noah Canton, Greg Petty, and Erin Foster as they guide you through lesson plans they prepared while participating in the 2811 Climate Action Academy. Learn how you can harness climate education inside and outside the classroom, on the intersectional impacts of climate change in both a compelling and creative way.

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2811 Earth Day Expo Schedule:

Opening Remarks + Introduction to Speakers

(6:00pm-6:30pm)

Speaker Series: Choose Your Option

(6:30pm-7:10pm)

- Workshop #1: Storytelling & Art for Climate Change

- Workshop #2: Exploring Eco-anxiety & Eco-Emotions

- Workshop #3: Critical Climate Conversations

- Workshop #4: Teaching Climate Change

Closing Remarks + Reflection

(7:10pm-7:30pm)

Visit www.climateactionacademy.org to learn more about our organization and the Climate Action Academy.