Climate Workshop: Cyanotype Blues
Climate Workshop: Cyanotype Blues
Date & Time
Tuesday, November 10
1:30PM – 3:30PM PT
Location
Embark Studio (SUB 1310)
Featured Image: Naomi Maya Leung 梁珮恩 | Cyanotype print from previous workshop led by Leung.
About the event
Join us for an art-based teach-in exploring climate emotions, wellbeing, and messy hope!
How can art help us navigate the emotions that come with living through the climate crisis? Through the creative process of cyanotype printing, this climate workshop invites participants to explore art as a way to process feelings of grief, anxiety, hopelessness, and more, while making space for connection, collective resistance, and hope.
Get ready to:
- Learn the basics of cyanotype printing
- Create personal and collaborative cyanotype prints using local plants, image negatives, and coffee and tea toning
- Explore how art can connect us to place, personal and cultural histories, climate emotions, and movements of resistance
No previous art experience or knowledge of cyanotype printing is needed. Come create, connect, and explore what hope can look like in the face of the climate crisis—and leave with your own climate-inspired prints!
AGENDA
- Welcome & Grounding
- Teach In: Visualizing climate justice & our connection to land
- Workshop: Cyanotype 101 and print-making
- Circle Discussions
- Closing & Clean Up
Land ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event takes place on the unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and kʷikʷəƛw̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Naomi Maya Leung 梁珮恩 (they/she)
Meet Naomi
Naomi Maya Leung 梁珮恩 is a Han Cantonese settler, climate justice facilitator, photographer, and mixed-media artist with familial connections to Hong Kong and Malaysia. Their artistic practice is informed by movements for queer ecology, ecofeminism, international solidarities, and community archival practices.
Naomi appreciates how photography, art, and archival practices drive them to critically (re)imagine how livable and liberated histories, realities, and futures can feel, look, and sound like. Naomi is a senior researcher in the psychology of climate justice lab at UBC and a MSc candidate for Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences. They have a background in climate justice education programming and policy change with UBC Sustainability, The Climate Justice Organizing HUB, Sustainabiliteens, Climate Education Reform BC, Asha Collective, and Be the Change Earth Alliance.
As a queer and genderqueer racialized artist and organizer, they intimately know the gap in funding and mobilization of mental health support for their own communities’ well-being. Naomi desires to create anti-colonial spaces centering trans and queer communities to process intergenerational trauma, grief, and to co-create possibilities and programming for hope and healing.
Event Accessibility
Embark Sustainability events are free and open to Embark members which includes Simon Fraser University undergraduate and graduate students, as well as Embark Associate Members.
This event will be held indoors at the Embark Studio, room #1310 of the SUB Student Union Building (SUB), SFU Burnaby. Please review the following accessibility details:
- Activities involve working with plants, natural materials, and mild chemicals. Participants are encouraged to take care of their personal needs (e.g., wearing gloves, taking breaks, or opting out), and to note any allergies in the registration form.
- Attendees are free to opt in and opt out of activities as suits their needs throughout the event, including exiting and re-entering the event space.
- The event space is wheelchair accessible.
- All-gender and wheelchair-accessible restrooms are located on the same floor.
- We welcome all gender identities and expressions.
- We provide access to a quiet space for personal meditation, reflection, or prayers.
- The event space is a tree nut and peanut-free zone
- The event space is a scent-free zone.
- Unfortunately, we are unable to provide ASL interpretation at this time.
We strive to make our events accessible to as many of our community members as possible. If you have accessibility needs you’d like to share, please contact our Director of Engagement at engagement@embarksustainability.org.
Health & Safety
Participants who register are agreeing to release Embark Sustainability Society from any liability related to COVID-19. Masks are optional but encouraged.
Community Agreement
By registering to attend this event, you are agreeing to be respectful when listening to and communicating with others, and be mindful of the space you are taking up amongst your peers.
Embark Sustainability does not tolerate violence or aggression against others on the basis of race, ethnicity, place of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious affiliation, or ability. Please also refer to people using the introductions they provide and do not assume pronouns/gender/knowledge based on someone’s name or appearance.
If these agreements are broken by someone, we will have to ensure the safety of our community members by removing them from the event.
Questions
If you have any questions about this event, please contact our Climate Equity Programs Coordinator at climate@embarksustainability.org.