Saturday, June 28, 2025
9AM-12PM
Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Roger Williams Park, 1000 Elmwood Avenue, Providence, RI
What does it mean to honor non-native species as sacred life?
What is our responsibility to migratory relatives, who were forced to resettle across turtle island? Through our work with youth, how can we better understand their stories within and beyond the context of coloniality, and through them, better understand our own? And, how might the youth we work with experience hurt and/or harm through the way we think about, talk about, and interact with “invasive” species? What baggage does the “invasive” framework carry?
This participatory workshop will include some hands-on creative work (zine making), some discussion, and some embodied experience.
The Rhode Island Environmental Education Association presents this event as part of the Youth Leadership for a Sustainable Future workshop series.
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ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Jeffrey Yoo Warren (he/him) is a Korean diasporic artist educator, woodworker, illustrator, community scientist and researcher in Providence, RI, whose work combines ancestral craft practices and creative work with diasporic memory through virtual collaborative worldbuilding. He has spent years creating collaborative community science projects which decenter dominant culture in environmental knowledge production. His current artistic practice investigates how people build identity and strength through their interactions with artifacts and histories, and the ways that objects can tell stories that people can be part of in the present.
lotus rodriguez (they/she) practices liberation through an embodied lens. Their North Star is integrating the knowings of spirit into this body, to help sustain a life actively shaped by a deep longing for justice in this relative, material realm. This work is connected with and nourished by the lineages of radical dharma, the new saints and the spirit underground. Her teachers are Buddhist, Taino, somatic practitioners and herbalists, as well as healers or other modalities, Most of them are very queer. lotus practices getting free so they can help everyone and everything get free. Which is the same as practicing to love everything.