WTF? I #WannabeToxicFree! Campaign Fair 2024: Awareness, Agency & Collective Action

Address

Seely Hall, Trinity College - 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto

Dates

Event start date : 01/26/2024

Event end date : 01/26/2024

Event start time : 02:00 PM

Event end time : 07:30 PM

Event Description

WTF? I #WannabeToxicFree! Campaign Fair 2024: Awareness, Agency & Collective Action hosted by Trinity College Integrated Sustainability Initiative, School of Environment, and the Women's Healthy Environments Network.

Join us on January 26 at Seely Hall, Trinity College to explore UT student art, music, embodied practices, information networking booths, and prizes (yoga passes, natural personal care products). Panelists will discuss embodied and scientific awareness of toxic harm, their social inequalities, and necessary political change. The first panel is a powerful group of academics and activists including Miriam Diamond. The evening panel includes Sat Dharam from the Compassionate Inquiry program with Gabor Mate and our own Dr. Elli Weisbaum of the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health Program at New College.

Afternoon Session:

> 2 p.m. Educational Fair, Live Music and Art 

> 3 p.m. Guided Mindfulness 

> 3:30 p.m. Panel: Systemic Injustice of Toxics: Environmental toxics, gender, radicalization & sex with Anna-Liza Badaloo, Dr. Dayna Nadine Scott, Kanisha Acharya-Patel, and Dr. Miriam Diamond

> 4:30 p.m. Panel Q&A 

Evening Session:

> 5 p.m. Educational Fair, Live Music and Art

> 6 p.m. Panel: Exposure Prevention in Practice: Holistic care, corporeal citizenship & conscious connection to self & planet with Dr. Sat Dharam Kaur, Dr. Kate Hunter, and Dr. Elli Weisbaum

> 7 p.m. Panel Q&A

> 7:30 p.m. Closing Ceremonies

You may register for one or both sessions - register today!

 

Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) is a non-profit organization educating the public and policy makers about the environment as a key determinant of public health. Our WTF Campaign has partnered with Trinity’s Integrated Sustainability Initiative to i) inspire embodied awareness of our health as an integral part of our environment through art and science, ii) reveal the social injustices of environmental degradation and iii) promote systemic changes necessary for a better future.