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If scientific evidence clearly supports <\/b>the assertion that human activity affects <\/b>our climate, irreparably altering our planet, why has our global community failed to take action against impending disaster? This is the question that guides climate justice activists like Isra Hirsi, Jerome Foster II, and Greta Thunberg, and guides the Humanities Workshop for the 2020\u20132021 academic year. The fact that scientists alone have not been able to convince us to take action proves that our climate crisis is not just a science issue. For our society to understand its own inertia and disrupt it, we need to know the history of how we got here, the narratives that have immobilized us, and the social contract we must create to move forward. The Workshop chooses Climate Crisis\/Climate Justice because no more important issue than climate change faces our youth today.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t protect our planet, issues of race and gender equity, economic inequality, migration, and nationalism only worsen under the pressure of disaster. Educating for climate justice is urgent, a fight for our own humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″]<\/p>\n On May 21st, 2021, our second exhibition, Climate Change\/Climate Justice: A Humanities Workshop Summit, opened as a virtual conference hosted by\u00a0Envoys<\/a>, a program dedicated to supporting students in their physical and virtual explorations of our world and its most significant issues. The conference featured a gallery walk of student work<\/a>, a keynote speech by\u00a0Salvador G\u00f3mez-Col\u00f3n<\/a>, the work of environmental artist Anne Neely<\/a>\u00a0and an afternoon of lobbying state senators and representatives on key bills addressing the environment, hosted by\u00a0Our Climate<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″]<\/p>\n If<\/span> Bees Are Few<\/span><\/i>, a choral piece composed and performed\u00a0for the Workshop by Milton Academy Senior Carolina Bragg. The work is set to two poems by A. R. Ammons, both about a single bee. In the first poem, \u201cRelease,\u201d the bee travels homeward. In the second poem, \u201cOblivion\u2019s Bloom,\u201d the bee meets its death upon the arrival of winter. Carolina found these texts particularly resonant today as the climate change crisis causes the unprecedented collapse of honeybee colonies. Carolina reordered the poems so that the dismal one comes first, and second comes the bee finding his way home. Melodically and thematically, this piece explores the idea of home: the bee\u2019s home, and the home that he shares with us.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/if-bees-are-few.mp3″ title=”If Bees Are Few” artist_name=”Carolina Bragg (Milton Academy)” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/If-Bees-are-Few.png” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″]<\/p>\n Students shared their final takeaways from the day on a Jamboard.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Humanities-Workshop-Takeaways-1-1.png” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Main Image” _builder_version=”4.1″ background_image=”https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hurricane.jpg” parallax=”on” min_height=”511px” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Spacer Row” _builder_version=”4.1″ min_height=”250px”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.1″ custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||30px||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Main image text” _builder_version=”4.1″ text_font=”|800|||||||” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”50px” header_font=”|800|||||||” header_text_align=”center” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”60px” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||30px||false|false” header_font_size_tablet=”” header_font_size_phone=”50px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_text_shadow_style=”preset3″ header_text_shadow_style=”preset3″] Climate Change \/ Climate Justice [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Climate Justice” _builder_version=”4.1″] Why Climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miltonacademy.info\/humanitiesworkshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Exhibition Highlights<\/h2>\n
Opening Music: If Bees Are Few<\/h3>\n
Summit Takeaways<\/h3>\n