FEMeeting Plenary Event
June 23rd, 4:30 pm—6:30 pm EST
Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave W, Windsor, ON
On Sunday, June 23rd, the Capitol Theatre hosted a FEMeeting Plenary Event as part of FEMeeting: Women in Art Science and Technology 2024. The Plenary will feature three outstanding speakers: Nina Czegledy, an independent artist and curator; Dr. Catherine Febria, a Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor and Director of the Healthy Head Waters Lab at the University of Windsor; and Dr Zainub Verjee, C.M., the Executive Director of Galeries Ontario-Ontario Galleries.
Host Partners: Dr. Jennifer Willet, INCUBATOR Art Lab, SoCA, UWindsor Mireille Bourgeois, IOTA Institute, Halifax, NS Marta de Menezes, Ectopia Experimental Art Laboratory, and Cultivamos Cultura Portugal Dr. Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
Special Thanks to our Funders and Supporters University of Windsor, School of Creative Arts, SMArt Communications, Humanities Research Group, and the Capitol Theatre.
Speakers
Nina Czegledy
Nina Czegledy, artist, independent curator, researcher, educator, works internationally on collaborative art, science and technology projects. Paradigm shifts in the arts, science, educational issues and contemporary technologies inform her projects.
She has exhibited and published widely, won awards for her artwork and has initiated, lead and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide.
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Nina Czegledy, https://www.fronda.mx/simbiosis, 2016.
Catherine M. Febria, PhD
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Dr. Febria is a Pinay/Filipina immigrant settler to Turtle Island who conceptualized and launched the Healthy Headwaters Lab at the University of Windsor in 2019. Driven by the mission to restore freshwater ecosystems to full health for the benefit of future generations, she has brought together individuals with diverse gifts to work together in pursuit of research excellence, benefits to local to global communities, all in a holistic, women-led and partnership-focused way. The work of her team focuses on relationships with freshwater through biodiversity and water quality science-based approaches, with the inclusion of storytellers and artists to help communicate and mobilize a message that it is the responsibility of all people to care for and heal freshwater ecosystems. Her research has generated more than $7.5M in research-based funding in support of place-based local to global research on freshwater restoration and the training and empowerment of future generations.
www.healthyheadwaterslab.ca/catherine-febria
Image Credit
Image credit: Shayenna Nolan, www.healthyheadwaterslab.ca
Dr. Zainub Verjee, C.M.
Dr. Zainub Verjee is an artist, scholar, writer, arts administrator and cultural diplomat. Informed by Third World decolonization, the international contestations on the political economy of art and evolving technological driven global order, Zainub’s work is integral to the understanding of relationship between Art, technology, gender and culture. Currently, she is Executive Director of Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries in Toronto.
More on Zainub Verjee: https://galeries-ontario-galleries.ca/about/who-we-are//
Image Credit
Zainub Verjee, https://www.zainubverjee.com/, 2022.
Special Thanks to our Funders and Supporters University of Windsor, School of Creative Arts, SMArt Communications, Humanities Research Group, and the Capitol Theatre.
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1-6) FEMeeting 2024, FEMS and GEMS, 2024. Image Credit: Justin Elliot
