ecopoetics workshop is a collaborative nomadic residency and workshop gathering artists, poets, scholars, and scientists run by two current students and one alumnus of the UB English PhD program. We gather diverse groups to think and make together, understanding that collaboration is inherently ecological, and that individualist thinking is part of the cause of the climate crisis. This year’s theme is labor. With that in mind, the organizers will run their third two-week residency at a coffee farm in Manizales, Colombia. During our stay, residents will engage with questions of geopolitics, colonialism, capitalism, and cosmology while developing their own projects. 

Transfeminist Provocations Against Fascism is an exhibition that explores the work of transfeminist and queer artistsfighting through artistic interventions the growing fascist affects, policies and discourses that reactionary forcesworldwide are imposing with regards to gender and sexuality. The featured artists use creative activism to contest fascistdiscourses and practices in our daily lives and in the political arena. The exhibition will feature new and past work fromartists from Colombia, Poland and the US, and public debates about the role of art and humanities in the resistance againstfascism and the creation of transfeminist futures.