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May 2020
Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting – Conversations with the UHOA
UHOA Home | About | Meetings | Participate | Elevation Drive | Markers | Press | Organize an Underwater HOA | Resources | Archive On Wednesday, May 6th at 7pm, the Underwater HOA will be having its very first online meeting. Cortada Projects is excited to be bringing the UHOA to an online platform where it will provide a space for the community to come together, reflect on our collective situation, and work together for a brighter future. Indeed,…
Find out more »DACA Panel for UM “Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation” Symposium
Click here to read article covering the panel. Featuring authors of articles in the special issue of ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES dedicated to this topic. Register via Zoom Here: bit.ly/2YwMKc7 List of participants in order of appearance in the Program Dr. Felicia M. Knaul. Director, University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, Professor, Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Alejandro Portes. School of Law and…
Find out more »Judging Panel for the Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards
Xavier Cortada served as a judge for the Art category in this year's Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards. RSVP to join virtually on Thursday, May 28 at 7 PM EDT. -- Back to all 2020 Events
Find out more »June 2020
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19: Artist-in-Residence at Waterkeeper Alliance Conference 2020
Collaborative Art & The Global Climate Crisis "The Waterkeeper Alliance conference is the most influential gathering of clean water advocates around the world. Every two years, we bring together hundreds of dedicated, passionate individuals to learn, share, network, and celebrate. At this inspirational four-day event, we will emphasize the power of citizen action, empower leaders to reclaim their polluted waterways, and focus on the challenges of climate change, specifically sea-level rise. Waterkeeper experts and other professionals are developing more than…
Find out more »Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting – June 3rd
Emerging Climate Trends and Predictions, with Featured speaker: Dr. Ben Kirtman, Professor, Atmospheric Sciences
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19: Underwater HOA Exhibition at Climateurope Festival 2020
3rd Festival of Climateurope Riga, Latvia June,16 to June,18 2020 The Festival is organized in cooperation with the International Baltic Earth Secretariat (IBES), the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre and the Con-Ex Latvia Tours Group. The Festival is open for researchers, suppliers, users and funders all over Europe. Participation in the Festival is by invitation only. For general information about the Festival please contact us: festival@climateurope.eu -- Cortada Projects will be exhibiting the Underwater HOA participatory eco-art project during…
Find out more »“Lawyer as Change Agents” presentation at UM’s Summer Legal Academy for High School Students
On June 17, 2020, Xavier Cortada presented "Lawyer as Change Agents" to the high school students who attended UM's online Summer Legal Academy. To conclude his presentation, Cortada discussed the climate crisis and engaged the students in his "Letters to the Future" participatory art project. To read some of the students' submissions, visit https://cortada.com/projects/letterstothefuture/letters Summer Legal Academy for High School Students Have you ever thought about the law or how one becomes a lawyer? Through exposure to various…
Find out more »Longitudinal Installation: Summer Solstice 2020
Home | About | South Pole | North Pole | 24 Voices | 25th Quotes | Participate Saturday, June 20th was the summer solstice - the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To bring in this first day of summer, as Cortada does at the beginning of every season, he ritualistically performed the Longitudinal Installation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Although that day provided the most daylight all year, we find ourselves and our countries in the midst…
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Democracy (is an action verb): VOTE
Through my socially engaged practice, I attempt to develop work that helps audiences see themselves as protagonists, problem-solvers. Here, I challenge them to be the change they want to see, to work together to build a more perfect Union. To animate democracy. By asking individuals to conjugate democracy as if it were a verb, I ask them to take action to make democracy happen. And by conjugating the other pronouns, I ask them to engage and also hold all others accountable. I…
Find out more »Moderating “Cane Conversations – Sustainability: How Isolation Protocols Have Changed our Environment”
On June 30th at 5:00 pm, Xavier Cortada moderated an online 'Cane Conversation - "Sustainability: How Isolation Protocols Have Changed our Environment" Cortada was joined by RSMAS professor Dr. Jerald S. Ault, Ph.D. '88 and Kayla Besong, 3rd year PhD student in atmospheric sciences at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
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