Past Events
ABOUT
David Hassler directs the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. In 2009, he co-founded Traveling Stanzas, a community arts project which creates illustrations in response to poems generated from community workshops in schools, healthcare facilities, libraries, senior centers, and veterans’ organizations. David Hassler will lead a writing workshop inspired by Ellen Bass’s poem, “Ode to the Fish.” As a poetic form, “odes” are praise poems that celebrate a person, place, or thing. Hassler will lead a discussion of Bass’s poem and generate writing exercises to help participants create their own praise poems to the ocean that can then be placed on the Here on Earth map.
NOVEMBER 13TH, 2021
9:30 am New York
2:30 pm London
10:30 pm Taiwan
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Nicola White is a British ‘Mudlark’ and artist whose work is inspired by found objects old and new picked up on her walks along the Thames foreshore. At low tide, many fragments of London’s rich and ancient history are revealed along the banks of the river. One of her other pastimes is hunting for messages in bottles and she now has quite a collection! Nicola will share the stories of some of her most interesting finds as well as some of her messages in bottles. Learn more at www.tidelineart.com.
OCTOBER 30TH, 2021
9:30 am New York
2:30 pm London
9:30 pm Taiwan
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Oceanographer, cetacean photographer and environmental education activist, Chin is Taiwan’s first professional underwater photographer specializing in dolphins and whales. He’s also the winner of the London Natural History Museum’s 2017 Wildlife Photography for his image of a humpback whale and her calf. For the past 10 years, he has traveled to different islands of Asia, Europe and South America to film and research underwater animals and their environment.
OCTOBER 16TH, 2021
9:30 am New York
2:30 pm London
10:30 pm Taiwan
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Hui-Chun Chang from Taiwan will talk about her journey from growing up in Nantou, the only county on the island that does not border the coast to spending the last 15 years working in marine conservation. Hui-Chun will talk about Kuroshio's ocean voyage; taking a simple boat to examine Taiwan's coastline by collecting and analyzing the data of dissolved oxygen, microplastics, and underwater sound and noise, as well as their mission to protect whales and dolphins. Learn more at the Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation.
MARCH 6TH, 2021
9:30-10:15 am New York
2:30-3:15 pm London
10:30-11:15 pm Taiwan
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Award-winning young filmmaker, Ainsley Cunningham from The Bow Seat Ocean Awareness program will present her film and talk. Also Alyssa Irizarry, Senior Vice President of this incredible program will speak. Learn more at bowseat.org
FEBRUARY 20TH, 2021
9:30-10:15 am New York
2:30-3:15 pm London
10:30-11:15 pm Taiwan
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Dutch environmental scientist and waterways expert Lieke Friedrichs will talk about healthy ways to be with the ocean. Please watch the recording!
FEBRUARY 6TH, 2021
9:30-10:15 am New York
2:30-3:15 pm London
10:30-11:15 pm Taiwan