Day at the rare Charitable Reserve: Air pollution: human causes, human effects – how the vegetal world can help. The day will begin with a panel between artists and scientists investigating the social, economic, and natural complexities affecting both human and plant life. The afternoon events will include a 30-minute walk through the wetlands at rare (wetlands as carbon sinks), a workshop led by Dr.Alice Jarry, and a rare-led walk following the ecological lichen monitoring program.

 

Sunday, May 7 – 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
The bus will leave for rare at 9 am and will return to Toronto at 5:30 pm.
Meeting place: Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond Street West, Toronto, ON.

Registration is mandatory and will open on April 1, 2023.

 

Program:

11:00 am-12:30 pm

Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Roberta Buiani, New College, University of Toronto, ON.

 

Panelists:
Sumia Ali, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.
Dr. Marissa Davis, from Wetland Soils & Greenhouse Gas Exchange Lab at the University of Waterloo, ON.
Grace Grothaus, PhD student, York University, Toronto, ON.
Dr. Alice Jarry, Speculative Life BioLab at Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC.

 

12:30-1:30: lunch – catered

 

1:30-2:15
Wetlands walk, led by Dr. Marissa Davis.

2:30-4:15
Workshop by Dr. Alice Jarry, design of plant-based air filters and sonification of air particulates.

4:30-5:15
The lichen monitoring walk. This program at rare is one of several long-term ecological monitoring programs yielding valuable baseline data and can help to identify critical changes in ecosystem dynamics.

 

5:30: return to Toronto

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