14th Annual Earth Summit at UCSC

2015 Earth Summit!

The 14th Annual Earth Summit celebration will take place on Friday, April 24th from 11:00 am to 4:30 pm in the College 9&10 Multipurpose Room! This year's event will feature a student art gallery, live music and spoken word entertainment, free local food, workshops, and more!

The Earth Summit is a space for the campus community to come together and celebrate past and current actions in campus sustainability, reflect on the 2014-2015 Earth Summit Forum events, plan for future sustainability projects, and strengthen overall involvement.

The theme of this year’s event is a fusion of activism and art, with a focus on increasing communication and community problem-solving through the avenue of art and personal expression.

Current Agenda:
10:30 AM = Check In Starts
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM = Welcome and Blueprint highlights by students and alumnus Matt Waxman
Informational Tabling outside
12:00 - 12:30 PM = Kinetic Poetics Project
12:30 - 1:15 PM = Keynote Speaker Favianna Rodriguez
1:15 = People of Color Caucus
2:00 - 4:00 PM = Workshops
Informational Tabling outside 2:30-3:30 PM
4:00 - 4:30 PM = Cookies and closing in Multipurpose Room

Speaker Information:
Our keynote speaker this year is Favianna Rodriguez!

"Favianna Rodriguez is a transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer. Her art and collaborative projects deal with migration, global politics, economic injustice, patriarchy, and interdependence . Rodriguez lectures globally on the power of art, cultural organizing and technology to inspire social change, and leads art workshops at schools around the country. Favianna’s mission is to create profound and lasting social change in the world. Through her bold and provocative art, she has already touched the hearts and minds of millions. In addition to her fine arts and community work, Rodriguez partners with social movement groups around the world to create art that’s visionary, inspirational, radical and, most importantly, transformational. When Favianna is not making art, she is directing CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights. In 2009, she co-founded Presente.org, a national online organizing network dedicated to the political empowerment of Latino communities."