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SUMMARY:Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Riverkeeper and NATURE Lab along with our community science volunteers\, fellows\, family and friends to celebrate the sixth season of Water Justice Lab. Activities include researcher and youth fellow presentations and a community meal followed by a 7pm film screening of The Story of Plastic and panel. \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n\n4:30 pm: Water Justice Lab open house and mural tours\n\n\n\n5:00 pm: Welcome and youth fellow presentations\n\n\n\n5:30 pm: Research talks by professor Sarah Cadieux and artist Nicole Chrochrek\n\n\n\n6:00 pm: Community meal and volunteer appreciation\n\n\n\n7:00 pm: screening of The Story of Plastic in the main Sanctuary space followed by a panel including artists\, community organizers\, activists and researchers. Register for the screening here.\n\n\n\n\n7pm: “The Story of Plastic” Screening and Panel Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Water Justice Lab programming is made possible by funding from Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust\, The McCarthy Charities\, Water Resources Institute\, and The NY Department of Environmental Conservation. \n\n\n\nKey partners for this event include Riverkeeper and Beyond Plastics.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/2025-wjl-celebration/
LOCATION:NATURE Lab\, 3319 6th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:"The Story of Plastic" Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration\, join us for a screening of the documentary “The Story of Plastic.” This sweeping look at the human-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on planetary and human health will be followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion organized by Professor Sarah Cadieux including artist Nicole Chochrek\, scholar Heather Davis\, and Beyond Plastics National Organizing Director Alexis Goldsmith\, and moderated by Water Justice Lab Youth Mentor Ileya du Boulay. This event is co-sponsored by Riverkeeper\, Beyond Plastics. and iEar Presents. \n\n\n\n4:30-7pm Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicole Chochrek holds an MFA from the University at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Science from the University of North Texas. As an interdisciplinary artist\, she has exhibited nationally and internationally\, from Al Shaheed Park in Kuwait (2016) to El Museo Gallery in Buffalo\, New York (2022). She created Broken Plastics\, an arts and education initiative that has launched Microplastic Recycling Art Bins across New York state and beyond. Photo by Pat Cray. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Davis is associate professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College\, The New School. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in environmental humanities\, media studies\, and visual culture\, she is interested in how fossil fuels have shaped contemporary culture. Her most recent book\, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press\, 2022)\, explores the transformation of geology\, media\, and bodies in light of plastic’s saturation. Davis is an active member of the Synthetic Collective\, an interdisciplinary team of scientists\, humanities scholars\, and artists\, who investigate and make visible plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIleya Du Boulay served as the 2025 Water Justice Lab youth mentor. A 2025 graduate of RPI with a Bachelors of Science in Biology and Arts Minor in Video\, Performance\, and Social Practice\, Ileya is a passionate researcher\, ecologist\, artist\, and multidisciplinary creator. She centers her work in using healing as a modality within scientific discovery. They are a proponent in advancing scientific discovery while maintaining awareness of developing alternative methods that slow down or stop our planet’s degradation.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlexis Goldsmith is the National Organizing Director for Beyond Plastics\, a nonprofit focused on ending plastic pollution. An energetic grassroots organizer\, she previously worked at the Sanctuary\, coordinating the permaculture campus and the Hudson Mohawk Magazine radio program. She has produced hundreds of interviews\, largely on petrochemicals and environmental activism. She co-founded the Hudson Mohawk Environmental Action Network\, a grassroots consortium fighting for environmental justice and Indigenous rights along the Hudson River.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Sarah Cadieux is an Earth and Environmental Sciences professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding biogeochemical cycling within freshwater systems by combining limnology\, aquatic chemistry\, isotope biogeochemistry\, sedimentology and geomicrobiology. She is researching microplastics contamination in local surface water and drinking water\, including through her Microplastics Watch project at NATURE Lab.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-story-of-plastic-screening-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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