Daily Archives: April 12, 2023

Thursday, April 20, 2:00 pm Eastern – A Conversation About Inspiring Black Flower Farmers and Florists, Online

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Teresa J. Speight is an author, podcaster, garden writer, and proud native of Washington, DC. With ancestral sharecropping roots originating in North and South Carolina, she feels deeply connected with the earth.  Teresa also works to reconnect people with the soil through one-on-one garden coaching and by offering curated “garden experiences” for small groups.

Teresa is the author of Black Flora: Profiles of Inspiring Black Flower Farmers + Florists and co-author of The Urban Garden: 101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty in the City. On her podcast Cottage in the Court (available on Anchor or Apple Podcasts), Teresa introduces interesting people, discovers unique places, and adds a little poetry to remind everyone to embrace the garden, as it is here for us.

Black flower farmers and florists are often overlooked in an industry that is essential as we embrace the beauty that surrounds us. In many instances, the people in this book have pivoted from different careers and have found peace in working with flowers. In other instances, the choice to grow flowers and create with them is a way of life versus traditional employment. This work is not easy, however, each person in this book is dedicated to working with flowers. Boldly stepping out from behind the scenes, these floral professionals have been brought to life and hopefully will inspire the next generation of floral professionals.

Register for this Garden Conservancy April 20 online talk at www.gardenconservancy.org. $5 for Conservancy members, $15 for nonmembers. A recording of this webinar will be sent to all registrants a few days after the event. We encourage you to register, even if you cannot attend the live webinar.

copyright Elyse Fujioka

Friday, April 21, 6:30 pm Eastern – Choose Your Own Disaster: Adventuring through Hollywood’s Attempts to Tackle Climate Change, Live and Online

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Earth Week with WBUR is a week long series of events on the environment and climate change leading up to Earth Day (April 22, 2023). Join them for conversations, performances and more, focused on celebrating and protecting our planet. On Friday, April 21, at WBUR CitySpace, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, and online, join Ben Brock Johnson and panelists including Samantha Montano — author of Disasterology: Dispatches from The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis and assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Hollywood is full of big screen metaphors and on-the-nose cliches about climate change. And it turns out audiences love a disaster flick, from world-ending meteor strikes to the next ice age or even the mysterious switching of the planet’s polarity.

But IN A WORLD… where we actually need to talk about the real issues we’re facing, can disaster movies help? Join Endless Thread podcast co-host Ben Brock Johnson and the WBUR Podcasts team for a night of absurdity, fun and some real discussion of what our blockbuster movie industry has gotten wrong—and right—about the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced.

You will have the power to choose which decisions we make to stop a world-ending climate threat inspired by scenes from our favorite disaster films. Along the way, we’ll check in with a panel of experts who will help us understand if any of these events could ever happen and, if so, how we can navigate the real future. Tickets are $5 – $25. Buy tickets at www.wbur.org