An open dialogue with the curator and artists to discuss what we learned as a community from this show and what comes next.

An Owning Earth performance event lead by artists Michael Asbill and Derek Stroup of Owning Earth, is a session of deep listening and sensing at Unison Arts as night gives way to day.

A free outdoor public performance by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak preparing the ground for his work in Owning Earth, an outdoor exhibition opening at Unison Arts in Spring 2021. he artist encourages individuals to participate in this performance by bringing objects they own—personal or public symbols of White Supremacy—to include in the burial.

A workshop to envision new ways of teaching and learning to confront environmental crisis. Workshop participants will work together to distill a set of educational principles from their own personal experiences and use them to develop plans for new programs on campus that can mobilize the student body. We will also explore the many roles artists can play in instigating profound learning experiences for a wide variety of audiences.

We will mine our personal experiences to co-generate a list of elements of impactful learning, review best practices in community-based education, and use the Eco Practicum curriculum building tool to begin designing action-oriented educational programs to address North Country food system challenges.

Occupying the Museum begins with a 45 minute lecture to define and illustrate each of these tactics through the work of the Illuminator, Natural History Museum, Fossil Free Culture NL, Gulf Labor, Liberate Tate, MTL+, and Occupy Museums. We then divide into smaller groups to develop actions aimed at addressing a particular target, namely, the Van Gogh Museum.