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Jun 15, 2015, 3:05:44 PM6/15/15
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I hope you're all doing great!

I've got lots going on - things I want to tell you about.

This is the first time I'm sending something out like this, so if you don't want to hear from me, that's alright, just let me know.


INVITATIONS

Pedagogy Summit at Pioneer Works
This Sunday June 21, I'll be running a workshop at the first Pedagogy Summit hosted by Pioneer Works. The title of my workshop is "Facing the Anthropocene: Environmental Education and the Thousand-Year Curriculum." We'll be thinking about pedagogy of place and ecology of mind, and working together to start planning a curriculum that unfolds over 1000 years.
You can read more and register for the summit here: http://www.pedagogysummit.org/

The Yes Men Are Revolting playing in NYC
June 18 is your last chance to catch The Yes Men Are Revolting playing at IFC. I'm an associate producer on this film, and I'm really proud of it. Here's the opener from the NY Times article: "It’s one thing for political pranksters to play dirty tricks on corporations whose agendas they oppose, but it’s quite another for their shenanigans to be carried out with the ingenuity and humor of comic performance art. Take the Yes Men, Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum (not their real names), subversive political satirists who dream up elaborate stunts to embarrass climate-change deniers." Go see it!

Meet Your Meat
Meet Your Meat (July 11, 2015) is a lamb slaughter, butchery workshop, and dinner event for passionate eaters and curious Earthlings who want to connect with dinner in the deepest way, to know thyself and region in the process. It's a chance to eat delicious meat and produce grown within minutes of the dinner table and with the highest ethical and environmental standards. Check it out here: http://www.ecopracticum.com/

Everything But The Kitchen: A Comprehensive Engagement with the Regional Food System
This practicum (happening in September 2015) offers professionals and jobseekers in the Good Food Jobs community knowledge, connections, and skills to more effectively participate in the good food revival - extending far beyond working in the kitchen. We'll explore the less-obvious, but equally important food work - pertaining to renewable energy, water quality, seed saving, waste water, and composting. Check it out here: http://www.ecopracticum.com/

Visit us at Eco Practicum
We're up here in the beautiful Catskill Mountains running an wonderfully intense environmental education and action program called Eco Practicum. This is our fourth year doing this, and feedback from the participants couldn't be better. What's happening here is really special and I'd be happy to share it with any of you who want to come visit. We're on site until Saturday June 27. Email me if you'd like to stop by.


NEWS AND THINGS

Going back to school!
I'm going back to school to get my MFA at SUNY Purchase School of Art+Design, starting late August. I'm really looking forward to it.

R.I.C.E on Hydra
Eugenia and I will be among the first participants in the inaugural Ricean School of Dance on the island of Hydra in Greece. It's organized by some amazing friends, choreographer Michael Klien among them. More here: http://riceonhydra.org/

The 1st PARSE Biennial Research Conference on TIME
We'll be going to Sweden this November to present on Winter Holiday Camp at the University of Gothenburg.  http://www.parsejournal.com/conference/

Presenting at ART / MONEY / CRISIS
Occupy Museums was invited to present at the University of Cambridge in April 2016. Here's what the organizers say about it: ART / MONEY / CRISIS will bring together leading academics from across the humanities, and it will address artistic responses to financial crisis from the beginning of the twentieth century to today, with a particular focus upon the 2008 crash. http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26186


SOME RECENT THINGS THAT HAPPENED

Secrets of Death Avenue (Jane's Walk and the Municipal Art Society) 
Jane’s Walk is a movement of free, citizen-led walking tours inspired by Jane Jacobs. The walks get people to tell stories about their communities, explore their cities, and connect with neighbors. I was proud to play a role in this amazing unconventional theatrical walk organized by Owen Crowley, Monica Hunken, and others from Occupy the Pipeline, Sane Energy Project, and Occupy Museums. 

Met Action
On April 26 we did an unsanctioned day-long creative action at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the course of our 8 hour playful occupation of the Roman Sculpture Court, we traced the ideological roots of Western Empire and remodeled the story of Culture and Democracy. We explored, moved, sketched, and played together. 
More on my website: www.talbeery.com

Action at the #NewWhitney: Inauguration of the Fracked Gas Line Museum
Occupy the Pipeline have been fighting the Spectra pipeline bringing fracked gas into NYC since 2011. When they heard that the Whitney Museum was to be placed on the site of the pipeline’s main vault,  they initiated a collaboration with Occupy Museums (friends from Liberty Park and frequent collaborators).  Occupy Museums reached out to London-based  Liberate Tate who has staged spectacular actions at the Tate since 2010 calling on the museum to divest from fossil fuels. Other groups are now joining the call for transparency in the Whitney’s siting over the controversial pipeline.

Orev Exodus
This April, Kvutzat Orev (a group of 6 people who built a communal Jewish life, rooted in Hashomer Hatzair, together in Israel and Brooklyn over 5 years) got together to experiment with the form in which we celebrate Passover. During a group seminar last Spring we decided to start building a new, Jewish, and public Passover ritual. We spent the year researching our history and tradition, and developing a common language around goals and values. As we looked for answers through collective culture we felt that the themes of Passover - freedom, justice, exile, and oppression - are too important today, our challenges so dire, that Passover should no longer be an invitation to dinner - it should be a call to action. We wanted to bring form and content together through physical engagement. Our aim was to be embodied in the learning and action. We wanted to be in it, not just thinking about it. In it, we wanted to recognize our own ongoing oppression as we connected ourselves to the world and oppressions around us.
I've posted photos on my website: www.talbeery.com


PHOTOS AND SUCH

www.pedagogysummit.org


THANKS!

Tal


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