Date & time
Friday, May 30, 2025
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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Welcome to the Plasticocene
A one-day interactive exploration of plastic pollution, art & law
Cost
This event is free.
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Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
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Please join Oonagh Fitzgerald and colleagues for a one-day interactive and creative exploration of our fraught relationship with plastic waste.
This is an immersive opportunity to consider questions such as: How am I contributing to plastic pollution and how can I reduce consumption of plastic? Can international law contribute to eliminating plastic pollution and can plastic waste be a material resource for artmaking and performance?
The exploration includes discussions of international law to end plastic pollution, artmaking with plastic waste, showing examples of plastic waste arts assemblages and videos about transformative projects! There will be new music by Philon Nguyen about the draft treaty on plastic pollution as well as opportunities to construct with plastic waste!
| Schedule | |
|---|---|
| 10:00am | Expo Opens |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | The role of policy, practice, and law in addressing plastic pollution Melissa DeYoung, PMP, Chief Executive Officer, Pollution Probe Melissa Gorrie, Law Reform Manager & Circular Economies Project lead, Ecojustice Canada; observer at the UN global plastics treaty negotiations; co-founder of Waste Free Edmonton Alexandra R. Harrington, Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University Law School, Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Agreement on Plastic Pollution Task Force Faisal Shennib, 24-'25 Concordia Public Scholar and Doctoral candidate in the INDI program |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Break |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm | The role of the arts in addressing plastic pollution Kelly Jazvac, Associate Professor, Studio Arts, Concordia University Eldad Tsabary, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Fine Arts, Concordia University Josh Jensen and Joé Côté-Rancourt, Sustainability Curators, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University Maria Fitzgerald, science teacher & cartoonist |
| 3:30pm - 6:00pm | Expo Open Visit |
| 6:00pm | Expo Closes |
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
About
Oonagh Fitzgerald
Oonagh is an international lawyer, artist and performer who recently successfully defended her INDI PhD dissertation in Fine Arts, under the supervision of Professor Eldad Tsabary. Her artworks, artivism and written reflections on plastic pollution are part of her continuing exploration of transdisciplinary international law-arts research-creation (TILARC) practice.