Environmental Racism is Garbage, is a virtual research-creation and art symposium. This international event includes contributions and collaborations from visual and performance-based artists, curators, theorists and activists, who have created submissions that engage with the interconnections between environmental health, socio-economic conditions, racialized discrimination, social justice – with transdisciplinary work driven by creative inquiry and lived experience forefronted.

This virtual (web-based) symposium will be synchronous and asynchronous and feature:

• A keynote address by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, a Greenlandic mask dancer, contemporary performance artist, and activist based in Iqaluit, May 27th @5:00 PM EST
• A keynote address by Winona LaDuke, economist, environmental activist, and Executive Director of Honor the Earth, May 28th @12:00 PM EST
• Artwork from 14 groups of artists working in a wide variety of media, displayed in the browser.
• Four discussion panels

SYMPOSIUM SUPPORT

Funding for Environmental Racism is Garbage is generously provided by a Seed Box grant from Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Raven Trust, Environmental Studies Queen's University, Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre,  Pannaguq, and Canada’s Waste Flow.