This annual series of linked events, programs, workshops, and courses engages the impacts of the climate crisis on central New York and interconnected ecosystems around the world.
Storytellers
Recently Featured Artists
These storytellers embody the ESCNY mission of foregrounding humanistic interpretations
Mike Atkins (MLK Elementary garden) and Monu Chhetri (Asha Laaya Farm) were joined by Mariaelena Huambachano (author of Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways) in collaboration with Angie Ferguson (Onondaga Nation Farm & Braiding the Sacred) for a public conversation on the role of storytelling in building food sovereignty. Grounded in the experiences of their communities, panelists shared strategies and visions for re-rooting food systems in relationship, reciprocity, and care. In a separate workshop, participants joined Chhetri and Atkins in a visit their community gardens and farms, engaging directly with food justice organizers.
In this interactive fiction reading, National Book Award finalist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah reads from his debut novel, Chain Gang All-Stars. Chain-Gang All-Stars, a look at the American prison system’s alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.
In this interactive film screening, award-winning filmmaker and science communicator Dena Seidel and her students from Rutgers University will showcase a series of short films that focus largely on food systems and the collaborative work of scientists and communities to better understand and improve these systems.
Community gallery
Explore central New York’s vibrant gardens and past ESS events
