Telling Multimedia Stories for and about the Environment

The stories we tell about the environment are the reservoirs of our environmental values. Come experience 9 multimedia, environmental stories from the students in Environmental Communication (COM 436/536). Students will share North Carolina stories about Hurricane Helene, the red wolf, fast fashion, environmental justice, and more. Come curious and leave inspired to tell, write, and live new stories of environmentalism in North Carolina.

Program:

Theme: Displacement (3:30-4:45 pm)

1. Hurricane Helene: Disaster, Art, and Place
2. Forced Migration of War and Nature
3. Storms and Strays

Theme: Not in My Backyard?! (4:45-5:30 pm)

1. Environmental Justice in North Carolina
2. This Could Be NC
3. Hurricane Helene vs Hazel through the Media

Theme: Living in/with a More-than-Human World (5:30-6:15 pm)

1. The Spirit of the Wolf
2. Rejoices Over Her Horses
3. Fast Fashion: Stitching Destruction, While Ainu Textiles Weave Tradition

Students/Storytellers:

536: Oluwasola Abimbola, Ernestine Emefa Akorli, Chloe Buckner, Alexa Clymer, Sweta Dixit, Josephine Geraghty, Iris Howell, Mustapha Bakuna Salifu, nicole vincent, Kurtis Woods, Tory Worth

436: Joel Beebe, Oliver Boldt, Tyler Brooks, Caroline Byrne, Sierra Collins, Jordan Collins, Jaycee Cooper, Olivia Cross, Will Fiesel, Lily Fuller, Aidan Gant, Anna Hansen, Rachelle Hernandez, Katherine Johnson, Madelyn Kenney, Ben Lance, Maddie Leary, Arabella Manka, Aidan Myers, Sydney Oravsky, Emily Palmer, Alexandra Perkinson, Henley Perry, Fiona Rives, Aidan Schweizer, Caleb Tate, Cooper Thomas, Ivy Tran, Eva Vittorini

This course is taught by Dr. Cindy Rosenfeld in partnership with ​​the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, the NC State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, The Craft Center, and Dr. Emma Frances Bloomfield, author of Science v. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators.