Skip to main content Skip to local navigation

Environmental Arts and Food Sovereignty in Costa Rica (ENVS 4810B)

Environmental Arts and Food Sovereignty in Costa Rica (ENVS 4810B)

Environmental Arts and Food Sovereignty in Costa Rica

Course Code: ENVS 4810B
Course Date: May 12, 2023 to May 21, 2023
Course Instructor: Laura Levin & Brandon Vickerd
 

Course Description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDr7I4S2cSk
This community-engaged workshop offers students the opportunity to experience environmental arts that are integral to struggles for food sovereignty in Costa Rica. It will move through three phases in three sites: exploring environmental arts principles and practices at the Las Nubes Eco Campus, collaborating with renowned singer/artist/healer Guadalupe Urbina on a youth arts project in a permaculture garden in Longo Mai community and producing mobile murals proclaiming small farmers’ rights with environmental artist Raquel Bolaños in San Isidro El General. The workshop will culminate with participation in the annual festival and celebration of Alexander Skutch's birthday, ExpoCobas.

Summer 2022

The course ran from May 13-22, 2022. The instructor was Professor Dr. Felipe Montoya from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Summer 2019

The course ran from May 10-19, 2019. The instructor was Emeritus Professor, Dr. Deborah Barndt from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Summer 2018

The course ran from May 11-20, 2018. The instructor was Emeritus Professor, Dr. Deborah Barndt from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Summer 2017

The course ran from May 10-21, 2017. The instructor was Emeritus Professor, Dr. Deborah Barndt from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.
Categories: Uncategorized