ENST Digest 4/18/22: The Earth Week One
1. Finding Housing Sucks Listening Event and Survey
Our very own ENST major Cassidy Hollenbeck is one of the NEC's interns this semester, and she has helped organize the following event that is critical for college students in Humboldt-- I hope you'll do the survey and/or attend the event where people can share their thoughts about finding housing. (and also, this doubles as a major congratulations to Cassidy for this awesome work!)
2. Cal Poly Humboldt’s Food Summit 2022
Here are many opportunities to volunteer and learn about food systems and sustainability-- some of these are past, but I also want to congratulate the ENST student/alumni involvement in these events. Congratulations! View the full list of Food Summit events here.
A virtual keynote speech by Naima Penniman from Soul Fire Farm will take place Tuesday, April 12 at 2 p.m. Penniman serves as the farm’s program director, where she equips a returning generation of Black, Brown, and Indigenous farmers with the skills needed to reclaim leadership in the food system and chart dignified futures in relationship to land. Register for the keynote here.
Join Oh SNAP!, the Umoja Center for Pan African Student Excellence, and the Office of Sustainability at the Bayside Park Farm (930 Old Arcata Road, Arcata) for volunteer drop-in hours, Friday, April 15 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Volunteers will likely work on a combination of planting, prepping beds, and turning compost piles, and will hear about Umoja’s Black to the Land program and connect with other students interested in learning about farming, gardening, and food production. Bring good shoes and gloves as desired.
The Food Sovereignty Lab & Cultural Workspace will host an Indigenous Foods Festival on Saturday, April 16 at its Behavioral & Social Sciences building site. The festival begins at 11 a.m. and features Indigenous organizations, food producers, food vendors, hands-on activities, music, speakers, discussion panels, and more.
Participants in the Medicinal Properties of Plants workshop will be introduced to herbalism in an Indigenous-facing modality on Tuesday, April 19, 12-1:30 p.m. in BSS 408. Evie Ferriera (ENST ALUMNUS!) and Karley Rojas will discuss the history of herbalism, touch upon herbal energetics and actions, and discuss food as medicine. They will focus on specific plant species that are accessible with which participants can start forming a relationship, and have a hands-on activity preparing elixirs. Participants will receive their own elixir sample to take home, and a recipe card.
A prerequisite for this workshop is the 'Gathering for Indigenous Empowerment' Workshop. If you did not participate in the prerequisite workshop, please complete the activity and assessment (email kr228@humboldt.edu, Karley Rojas, for a link). If you attended the prerequisite, register here.
Faculty, staff, students, and guests who are accessing campus facilities at any university location must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including a booster shot if eligible. Any unvaccinated student, staff, or faculty member with an approved exemption must be tested weekly for COVID-19. Guests must follow the campus visitor policy, which can be viewed here. Wearing face masks on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus is optional but encouraged.
https://pmc.humboldt.edu/
3. Congratulations to Princess Colegrove, ENST major! + invitation to Hidden Heroes for the Environment event:
Princess had the opportunity to spend some time with Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resource Secretary recently, and he invited her to be a part of his speakers series. Wow, Princess, this is so awesome!!!! Come out and support Princess by attending this event. It looks amazing, and is made all the more so by Princess's feature.
4. El Leñador is recruiting student staff for fall 2022
Please help spread the word that El Leñador is recruiting student staff for fall 2022. Would you please share this information with your students? I can waive the prereq of beginning reporting as well. This is an excellent hands-on class and opportunity for students to get published and learn new skills. Attached are some flyers.
Muchísimas gracias,
Andrea
Join El Leñador - The Bilingual Student Newspaper
El Leñador needs writers, translators, photographers, videographers, copy editors, artists, graphic designers and a website manager/tech for Fall 2022.
El Leñador is an award-winning, monthly newspaper providing news to Latinx and diverse communities on and off campus.
Class will be Mondays & Wednesdays 3 to 4:50 p.m. in person
Open to all majors! No experience necessary.
Student-run.
Volunteer or take for credit (2 units - general electives)
Get published! It's a fun class too!
You do not need to know Spanish to participate. Staff write articles in English and they are translated into Spanish. Stories can also be originally produced in Spanish and translated into English.
In print and online ElLenadornews.com
For questions: contact student staff at el-lenador@humboldt.edu or journalism professor/adviser Andrea Juarez (andrea.juarez@humboldt.edu); contact Andrea if you need a permission number.
Join El Leñador - The Bilingual Student Newspaper
El Leñador needs writers, translators, photographers, videographers, copy editors, artists, graphic designers and a website manager/tech for Fall 2022.
El Leñador is an award-winning, monthly newspaper providing news to Latinx and diverse communities on and off campus.
Class will be Mondays & Wednesdays 3 to 4:50 p.m. in person
Open to all majors! No experience necessary.
Student-run.
Volunteer or take for credit (2 units - general electives)
Get published! It's a fun class too!
You do not need to know Spanish to participate. Staff write articles in English and they are translated into Spanish. Stories can also be originally produced in Spanish and translated into English.
In print and online ElLenadornews.com
For questions: contact student staff at el-lenador@humboldt.edu or journalism professor/adviser Andrea Juarez (andrea.juarez@humboldt.edu); contact Andrea if you need a permission number.
5. Celebrate the launch of CouRaGeouS Cuentos Volume 5! April 27 4-5:30
We cordially invite you to our CouRaGeouS Cuentos Volume 5 Celebration on Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 from 4-5:30pm (on Zoom) and an in-person celebration from 6-7pm at the Cal Poly Humboldt Library Fishbowl (LIB 209). There will be live readings, music, raffles, appetizers, and more! We will be concluding the night at the Chicano Batman concert at the Arcata Theatre Lounge (7pm; G Street, Arcata, CA 95521). To attend the concert you must purchase tickets at: https://www.arcatatheatre.com/
Register for the event here: https://bit.ly/crgscuentos2022
Attached please find our promotional materials (press release and flyer for our event). Feel free to share with students, staff and community! Hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
The CouRaGeouS Cuentos Student Production Team
Instagram: @courageouscuentos
[To get involved with CouRaGeouS Cuentos next year, students can take ES 107: Chican@/Latinx Lives, where we read and write our stories, and ES 280: CouRaGeouS Cuentos Production in the spring, where students lead the production of the yearly volume! For more info, contact Prof. Nancy Perez: nancy.perez@humboldt.edu ]
And a poem for the stalwart ______________________________
Ode to Friendship
by Noor Hindi
The night so warm I could fall in love
with anything
including myself. My loves. You are the only people
I’d surrender my softness to.
The moon so blue. And yes, what’s gold
is gold. What’s real
is us despite
a country so grieved, so woke, so death.
Our gloom as loud as shells.
Listen. Even the ocean begs.
Put your hands in the sand, my friend.
It’s best we bury ourselves.
What’s heavy. What’s heavy?
Becomes light.
Sarah Jaquette Ray (she/her)
Professor & Chair, Environmental Studies
Cal Poly Humboldt
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