From our friends at Cultivate …
FREE Science + Art + Community Dinners
or LIVE-STREAM with us!
Don’t Box Me In- Building Community Resilience
Featuring Al George & Marielena Martinez
Monday, July 26 , 5:30pm-8pm
Pink House Neighborhood Resource Center
1551 Mulberry St., West Ashley
Eat, Learn Create & Take Home Original Art.
This is meant to be a fun, informal, community event for adults, youths & children.
FREE. All ages. No experience needed!
Advanced registration required.
Sponsored by SC Aquarium & Destiny Community Cafe
Albert George, the South Carolina Aquarium’s first Director of Conservation, has made it their priority to help all our communities participate in and reap the rewards from local conservation. An ecologist, conservationist and Harvard Kennedy Master of Public Policy, Mr. George will share how we envision and create more resilient communities in the wake of a dynamic changing world. And he will introduce us to R.I.C.E. (Resilience Initiative for Coastal Education), an exciting collaboration between the South Carolina Aquarium, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, local communities and world-renowned scientists, education, research and government institutes.
To help us explore the concepts of resilience and building from our resources at hand, Marielena Martinez, teaching artist and Cultivate SciArt art director, will introduce us to the work of Louise Nevelson. Nevelson was a Russian American immigrant who repurposed wooden pieces and other objects into elaborate shadow boxes she painted in monochromatic colors. Her work is found at museums throughout the world. Participants will get to build their own shadow boxes to take home.
We hope you can join us, in-person or virtually, for a lively discussion around empowering our communities to meet the growing challenges that rising sea-levels, changing climate and inequitable resources bring to our sea-islands.
We are also excited to announce
a FREE Cultivate SciArt Evening at the Fort Johnson Marine Labs
with our friends at the College of Charleston, Marine Biology Program
“Science, the Sea & Me, and Ways to Help My Community –
Lots of Salt, Sand, Mud and Art on the Side”
Save the Date: Tuesday, July 20th, 4:30-7:30pm
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