L’Organisme is a Montreal-based collective that brings choreographers with different approaches and practices together to embody and enact the complexity of human experience through movement, sound, and collaboration. Their aim is to take dance beyond the traditional performance space to bring people closer together; to cultivate compassion and to foster discovery within and for oneself and the other - be they dancer or viewer.
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Frances F. Denny, Melissa Madara, Erica Feldmann
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gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag), Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot), Roger Paul (Passamaquoddy), Adam Mazo
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Poet: Kirun Kapur
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ABOUT THE MODERATOR AND PANELISTS Chrystian Dennis graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and received her Nutrition Health Coach Certification. She encourages a holistic approach to recognize, recall and reset lasting changes and healing through her brand, WOMBXN, a lifestyle and magazine welcoming individuals to wander in creativity, explore vulnerability and experience intimacy. Mike Massey (aka Yoga Mike) received his yoga certification in 2014 from South Boston Yoga. During his training, Massey studied the history, theory and origins of yoga and developed a personal approach to delivering yoga to the masses. He is a licensed massage therapist and started a registered yoga school under his brand: 33 Degree Yoga — a company he runs and operates with members of his community and his family. Bryan McAskill is a herbalist, naturopath and alternative health educator from Lynn who provides nutritional consultations, coordinates community gardening and teaches holistic health and wellness through Alkaline, plant-based modalities. He has remained passionate about being able to provide nutrition information and healthy food options to communities in need. Learn more on McAskill’s Instagram @herbal.healing781 JAZZMYN RED, the moderator, is a passionate artist from Massachusetts whose songwriting talents and musical message resonate through bold storytelling based on her own experiences about relationships, our communities and social justice issues. Her new EP, REDvolution, recently earned three Boston Music Awards 2020 nominations. Genie Santiago is a Boston-based musician, poet, visual artist, artivist and bruja. Her art draws from her experience growing up in poverty and overcoming trauma as a Queer Latina. She is unafraid to empower others to overcome trauma, decolonize the mind and promote sexual freedom. Listen to Santiago’s music at geniesantiagomusic.com. Venita Qualls is a licensed mental health and drug and alcohol counselor with a private practice in Taunton. Her areas of expertise are working with individuals, families and couples who are suffering from addiction, PTSD, depression, anxiety, personality issues and other disorders. She holds two masters’ degrees from Cambridge College. Please note: This panel discussion is meant to provide support, information and resources associated with wellness and healing, and may address sensitive topics. The conversation is not meant to replace professional mental health advice.
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Poet: Jack Giaour
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In this session, Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker provides insight into Indigenous knowledge systems which offer opportunities for building resilience to socioecological shocks, including climate effects and pandemics. Dina calls for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism. Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. Gilio-Whitaker is the author of two books; the most recent award-winning As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. Cheryl Savageau (Abenaki) is the author of three collections of poetry, Mother/Land, Dirt Road Home, which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Home Country. In 2020, she published Out of the Crazywoods, an autobiography. She graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied writing at the People’s Poets and Writers Workshop in Worcester. Currently, she is the editor of Dawnland Voices, a journal of indigenous voices from New England.
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Siddhartha V. Shah, PEM Director of Education and Civic Engagement, and Dr. Walter Harper, professor of anthropology at Bridgewater State University
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Eddie Bautista is an accomplished leader who, over decades, has made a major impact on climate and environmental justice policy and activism. Bautista has a B.A. from New York University, an M.S. in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute and was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. For more information on the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, visit www.nyc-eja.org. Dilshanie Perera is the Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality at The Climate Museum, and can be found at www.dilshanieperera.com. For more information on public programs at The Climate Museum, please sign up for their newsletter here.
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Dr. Heather Goldstone holds a Ph.D. in ocean science from M.I.T. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her reporting on science and the environment has appeared on NPR, PBS NewsHour, The Takeaway, and PRI’s The World.
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