{"id":36872,"date":"2021-01-22T10:32:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=36872"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:37:24","slug":"event-toshi-reagon-performs-excerpts-from-octavia-e-butlers-parable-of-the-sower-climate-justice-and-resilience-speaker-series-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/event-toshi-reagon-performs-excerpts-from-octavia-e-butlers-parable-of-the-sower-climate-justice-and-resilience-speaker-series-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Toshi Reagon Performs Excerpts From Octavia E. Butler&#8217;s Parable of the Sower, Climate Justice and Resilience Speaker Series (Virtual)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Saturday, February 20th <\/b>(1-3)<b>:\u00a0<\/b><a title=\"https:\/\/toshireagon.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/toshireagon.com\/\">Toshi Reagon<\/a> is a talented and versatile singer, composer, and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana\u2014from folk to funk, from blues to rock. She has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall and the Paris Opera House to music festivals and local clubs, and collaborated with many well-known artists.\u00a0Toshi Reagon will be performing excerpts from the opera\u00a0<i>Octavia E. Butler\u2019s Parable of the Sower<\/i>, which she created with her mother\u00a0<span class=\"mark2ep6le0rj\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Bernice<\/span>\u00a0Johnson Reagon. She will also discuss the role of the artist in times of crisis, including the pandemic, the climate crisis, and the ongoing struggle for racial and social justice. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Marcia Tate Arunga, Dean of Evergreen-Tacoma.\u00a0This program is a collaboration between Evergreen\u2019s Climate Justice &amp; Resilience Series, Evergreen Tacoma, and Inclusive Excellence &amp; Student Success, with thanks to the Unsoeld family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><b>About the series:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal\">The Climate Justice and Resilience events constitute a year-long series that runs approximately biweekly throughout the 2020-21 academic year. Each event is hosted by a different Evergreen program, and guests are welcome to attend either synchronously (at a time fixed by the host program) or asynchronously (webinar recordings will be available as soon as possible after the event).\u00a0 This work builds on several climate-related summer institutes, last year\u2019s \u201cbig bets\u201d climate proposal, and the visioning for potential incorporation of climate-related curricular areas into New Academic Directions. In addition, the 2-credit class \u201cClimate Academy: Justice and Resilience\u201d (currently sponsored by Rachel Hastings) is offered each quarter based on this event series and associated readings.<\/p>\n<p>Register here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/climatechange\/speaker-and-event-series\/\">https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/climatechange\/speaker-and-event-series\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8699,"featured_media":34103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36881,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36872\/revisions\/36881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}