Event Details
Please join us for a lunchtime talk with Monique Verdin (Houma), a transdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana. She will be talking about her recent land recovery, sovereignty, and cultural projects along the Mississippi River that seek to recognize and respect the interconnected and interdependent systems found in riparian and interface ecotones, from the coastal salt marshes where the bayous meet the Gulf of Mexico to the Northwoods of Minnesota.
Monday, January 29
Lunch at 11:30
Talk starts at 12pm
Markim Hall, Davis Court
Monique Verdin is a transdisciplinary artist and storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana. She is a citizen of the Houma Nation, director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and is supporting the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo (People of the Sacred Medicine Trail), a network of indigenous gardeners, as the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network Gulf South food and medicine sovereignty program manager. Monique is co-producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love and her work has been included in a variety of environmentally inspired projects, including the multi-platform performance Cry You One, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, and the collaborative book Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations.Cosponsored by Media and Cultural Studies, the Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange, and the Macalester Racial Justice Project Fund.
