BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.3205.events_uoft_date.0@www.environment.utoronto.ca CREATED:20260219T182324Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, March 04, 2026 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm \n OISE Library \n 252 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 \n\nDescripti on: \nThe School of the Environment, the OISE Library, and OISE's Sustai nability & Climate Action Network (SCAN) invite you to join us for Navigat ing the Planetary Crisis through the Arts: The University and the Polycris is, a panel discussion hosted as part of the 2026 Sustainability Thinking Exhibition. The panel discussion will be held on Wednesday, March 4th, 2026, from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in the OISE Library (252 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6).The Sustainability Thinking Exhibition features work from Uni versity of Toronto students across the tri-campus. The exhibition is an ex ploration of sustainability topics and environmental issues through the ar ts, including visual and installation art, digital media, music, and o ther forms of creative communication. This year's theme for the exhibition is 'Navigating the Planetary Crisis through the Arts: The University and the Polycrisis.' To attend the panel discussion, and see what other event s are happening as part of the 2026 exhibition, please RSVP below.Registe r Now!Note: If you have any questions, or require any accommodations, pl ease contact the Exhibition Coordinator, Michela McMurrich, at events.en vironment@utoronto.ca.  Meet the PanelPanelistsSusan Blight (she/her)Dr. S usan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplina ry artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, wearable art and social practice. Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan is co-founder of Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective working to reclaim the roads and landmarks of Anishinaabeg territory with Anishinaabemowin and h as recently co-founded AKI|ACKEE with Yuseph Jackman, a collective focuse d on the convergence of art, fashion and social justice. She earned a PhD in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Edu cation at the University of Toronto. Susan is the former Chair in Indigeno us Visual Culture at OCAD University. She was an Associate Editor at The C apilano Review for the publication's Indigenous Places and Names series. S usan is currently Assistant Professor in Indigenous Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design at York University. Most recen tly, Susan is the recipient of a Governor General’s Meritorious Service A ward (Civil Division), one of the highest distinctions a civilian can rec eive, for her work with Ogimaa Mikana. Christine Shaw (she/her)Christine Shaw is Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and Associate Professor of Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her work c onvenes, enables, and amplifies the transdisciplinary thinking necessary for understanding our current multi-scalar historical moment and co-creat ing the literacies, skills, and sensibilities required to adapt to the v arious socio-technical transformations of our contemporary society. She ha s applied her compositional strategies and epistemic disobedience to multi -year curatorial projects including 'Take Care' (2016–2019), an exhibitio n series with over 250 contributors critically engaging the crisis of care , and 'The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea' (2015–2023), a variegated ser ies of curatorial and editorial instantiations of the Beaufort Scale of Wi nd Force to foster a more intimate awareness of the relentless legacies of colonialism and capital excess that undergird contemporary politics of su stainability and climate justice. Currently, she is developing 'GROUP PRO BLEMS: Learning to Live Together at Scale' (2021–2031), a major research project exploring the composition of a heterogeneous series of groups and their respective formation and resolution of problems. Syrus Marcus Ware ( he/him)Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is Assistant Professor at the School of the A rts, McMaster University, exploring social justice frameworks and Black activist culture. He is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, cura tor, and educator, with works presented across Canada and internationall y. Ware is part of the Black August Arts Residency Collective, a co-found er of Black Lives Matter–Canada, curator of the That’s So Gay show, and author of numerous papers, articles, and books. He is co-editor of the b est-selling “Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canad a” (URP, 2020). ModeratorKate J. Neville (she/her)Kate J. Neville is an a ssociate professor in Political Science and the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto, where she studies global resource politics\ , energy transitions and technologies, and community resistance. She is t he author of Fueling Resistance: The Contentious Political Economy of Biof uels and Fracking (2021) and Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work (2024).  \n\nContact Information: \n Michela McMurric h events.environment@utoronto.ca \n\nSponsors \nThe School of the Environm ent, OISE Library, OISE's Sustainability & Climate Action Network (SCAN) \n252 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 \n\nCategories \n Panel Discussio n \n\nAudiences \n Open to All DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260304T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260304T173000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T141955Z LOCATION:252 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6 SUMMARY:Navigating the Planetary Crisis through the Arts: The University an d the Polycrisis URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/events/navigating-planetar y-crisis-through-arts-panel END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR