Friday, September 20, 2019 Plastic Exposure / Plastic Injustice Timelines: 3b: Past Workshops (Unseen Archive), 4: Travis Sharp Workshops & Events
Instructor:Travis Sharp
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street
Buffalo, NY 14203
Dates: November 5 & 7, 2019
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
no registration required
Plastic Exposure / Plastic Injustice
11/05/2019: If you think sand gets everywhere, just wait until you hear about plastic. Hint: you eat a lot of it! – in fact, it’s in our bodies, our food, our water, our neighborhoods. This plastic pollution impacts some communities more than others, making plastic a social justice issue as much as an environmental one.
11/07/2019: Meet with Brian Smith, associate executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, to discuss the movement to drastically reduce single-use plastics and plastic recycling issues in Buffalo and New York State. Brian will discuss environmental activism in your community and advocacy at the state legislature in Albany.
This workshop is FREE, aimed at young students aged 12–18, and limited to 12 participants.
Travis Sharp is a teacher, writer, and book artist living in Buffalo and is the executive editor and director of Essay Press. He co-edited Radio: 11.8.16 (Essay Press, 2017) with Aimee Harrison and Maria Anderson, and is the author of the chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press, 2018), the artist’s book one plus one is two ones (Recreational Resources, 2018), and the forthcoming poetry book Yes, I am a corpse flower (knife fork book, 2021). He’s a PhD candidate in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo..