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Ecosystems of Climate Justice + Arts in the Parks
Saturday April 5, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Ecotone South, 2nd Floor
For this session the facilitators ask that all attendees wear a mask for the duration of the workshop. 

Join Young Cultural Stewards to learn about our youth arts and nature based programs within the Chicago Park District. Participants will learn about how we co-create ecosystems that feed us as educators, and sustain quality and relational youth work by being introduced to our community partnerships, program models, and curriculum. We will share how we foster young people's connection to nature through our climate justice and arts youth programming: ArtSeed (in-person) and *small is all* (hybrid) and the ways in which we partner with community farms and neighborhood gardens as well as environmental justice organizers to enrich our programming. We believe that it is important to work with teaching artists and community partners that are hyper-local and deeply embedded in the communities in which our youth reside. Finally, we will demonstrate a lesson plan and facilitate a participatory activity connected to our curriculum. Participants will have access to all of our digital curricula after the workshop.
Speakers
avatar for Irina Zadov

Irina Zadov

Senior Program Specialist, Young Cultural Stewards
Irina Zadov (they/she) is a mama, artist, educator, and cultural organizer. They are a queer post-Soviet Jewish immigrant and settler on the unceeded territories of the Three Fires Confederacy: Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi. Their practice explores themes of diaspora, state violence... Read More →
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Gaby Garay

Program Steward, Young Cultural Stewards
Gaby (they/them) is a queer Salvadoran-Mexican born and raised in Illinois – they’re blessed to call these prairies, wetlands, savannas and forests home, but are always yearning for the mountains and volcanoes of elsewhere. They are an educator, crafter/maker and land steward... Read More →
avatar for Sarai Bernice

Sarai Bernice

Program Steward, Young Cultural Stewards
Sarai Bernice (they/them) is a Black queer Chicago born Englewood based multidisciplinary artist, educator, land steward and avid learner of practices of freedom.  Sarai’s current visual work explores themes of identity in relation to Land and geology.  Sarai uses their artistic... Read More →
Saturday April 5, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
Ecotone South, 2nd Floor Academy for Global Citizenship, 4942 W 44th St, Chicago, IL 60638
  Science Tech Engineering Arts Math (STEAM), All levels: for everyone

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