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Earth-Herself: how does the quality of the soil impact urban gardening and health?


Date & time
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Contact

Alex Megelas
514-848-2424 ext. 4893

Where

St-Henri Art Hive
4525 Saint-Jacques st.

Our University of the Streets Café public conversations are much like any you’d have with friends or family around a dinner table, except with more people, more points of view, and slightly more structure. Conversations are hosted by a volunteer moderator who is there to welcome everyone and keep things on track. To get things started, there’s a guest, or sometimes two, who get the ball rolling by sharing their ideas, experiences and questions. After that, it's all up to the participants.

Soil contains both the potential for incredible fertility and toxicity. How can we test it? In case of contamination, what can we do?

Art Hives’ Science Shop presents UrbanBodies : an exploration of what matters in our everyday lives and neighborhoods. This series of public art making conversational labs, held in collaboration with the University of the Streets Café program at Concordia University, will explore the theme of the body as it lives and dies, grows and ages, struggles and thrives in the urban environment.

Guests:
Jailson Lima holds a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry exploring the photochemistry of coordination compounds containing iron and chromium. Aside from having worked in industry researching the use of surfactants to enhance the properties of pigments in plastics ad having recently conducted research to use biomass as fillers in thermoplastics, he teaches chemistry at Vanier College. He is interested in physical and chemical properties of water and the impact that its quality has on human health.

Cameron Stiff is passionate about the transformation of cities from engines of consumption and waste into harmonious and productive living spaces with healthy, closed loop urban-rural metabolisms. Since 2012, he has been a managing partner responsible for finance and development at Compost Montreal and is also a 2016-2017 Ambassador for CHNGR, a project of the McConnell Foundation's Recode Initiative in partnership with Concordia University, promoting the social economy and collective entrepreneurship.

Moderator:                
Kay Noele is a textile artist interested in (among many other things) resilient communities, social geographies, and social and environmental justice. She has worked with closely community initiatives in Saskatchewan, Cuba and in Montreal, including Coop Le Milieu and the Art Hives Movement and will be starting her masters in Arts Education at Concordia in September.

Accessibility info: La Ruche d’Art St Henri is on the ground floor. A removable ramp is set up so that the space can be entered. Washrooms are in the basement, down a flight of stairs and are not wheelchair accessible.

Note: Please make sure to arrive early in order to secure a seat.


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