Trans-Oceanic Webinar: part one Growing climate resilience and regeneration through intergenerational and transnational traditional ecological knowledge and skills exchange
Join St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities (StACCS) for this trans-oceanic webinar on Growing climate resilience and regeneration through intergenerational and transnational traditional ecological knowledge and skills exchange, supported by the the Centre for Critical Sustainabilities and the Shared Island Stories (UKRI reference EP/X023036/1) and Roots and Shoots projects.
StACCS is working with community museums and eco-museums in Scotland, the wider UK and internationally to facilitate the exchange and revitalisation of traditional plant knowledge across generations and borders, strengthen youth leadership, revitalise traditional knowledge, enhance biodiversity, and promote community-led nature-based solutions.
This is the first in a two-part series of events. The second part will take place on Monday 29 June from 4pm to 7pm.
This event is free of charge, but please ensure you book before Thursday 11 June at 5pm, after which a Microsoft Teams joining link will be sent to you by email.
List of presenters:
Galumalemana Steve Percival, Tiapapata Art Centre, Samoa – ‘Samoan Plant Knowledge – “Ia So'o le Fau ma le Fau.”‘
Robert Servine, Green Connect, Sydney, Australia – ‘Growing Belonging: Community Farming, Climate Resilience and the Knowledge We Carry'
Andrew Whitehead, Staffin Community Trust – ‘Roots & Shoots Project, Staffin, Scotland'
Lucy Neville, Museum and Galleries Scotland – ‘The minoritsation of language as breaking the chain in generational land knowledge, and how to bring it back.'
Holly Shaw and Jane Harvey, Roots & Shoots Project, Beeston, England – ‘Beeston Roots & Shoots Community Activities'
Alexandra Bounia, University of the Aegean, Greece – Climate Change and Intangible Cultural Heritage: a case study from the island of Lemnos (Greece)'