Solarpunk Future 2024

Highlights of the event include:

Green visioneers art show by BOOM Concepts with Featured Artists:

• Maggie Negrete –  Maggie Lynn Negrete is a storyteller & cheerleader of curiosity, available for commissioned illustration, lettering, divination and educational experiences. A proud Pittsburgh resident and Vassar college alumni,  Negrete’s visual art focuses on zinemaking, hand lettering, portraiture and technical illustrations including infographics for freelance clientele as well as occult & botanical designs for individual merchandise under the brand La Mama Magia. Negrete is affiliated with the #notwhite Collective, the Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka, and BOOM Concepts.https://www.mgglntcreates.com/
• Sara Tang – Sara Tang is a multidisciplinary artist who is currently exploring the intersections of chronic illness, embodied change, ecopsychology, and the sacred in her process and work. You can find them glitching out between being present and dissociating in many of Pittsburgh’s liminal spaces. https://www.draw-me-in.com/about
• Ivory Eddins – Ivory Eddins is a  local Pittsburgh artist and small business owner. Ivory explores different disciplines such as painting, printmaking, and crocheting. They take inspiration from nature and spirituality. https://ivoryeddins7.godaddysites.com/
• Jules Mallis –  Jules Mallis is an intermedia artist, DJ and community leader based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Over the past 15 years in Pittsburgh, Mallis has been organizing creative endeavors and community programs. They perform live as a VJ and DJ and use digital media, paint, installation, performance, sound and audience interaction to create unique creative and enriching experiences. https://jmal.space/ABOUT-JMAL

SolarPunk Speaker’s Forum includes eco experts who will speak on today’s and tomorrow’s sustainable practices. Speakers Include:

• Special Guest and Panel Moderator, Roh Bloom Wang.  At 17, Wang is a recent graduate of Winchester Thurston, Upper School and was the 2023-2024 Youth Poet Laureate for Allegheny County. They are both an Editor for Write Pittsburgh and a gold medal winner of the Alliance for Art and Writing. Wang’s poems and work have been widely published and have been featured in The Lumiere Review , a national literary magazine.
• Mathilda Turich is a high school junior at Pittsburgh CAPA and one of the Youth Climate Action Summit’s organizers. YCAS provides a collective space to uplift and center the voices and ideas of regional youth leaders and their fight for climate justice.
• Mike Gable is the founding Executive Director of Construction Junction, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit retailer promoting conservation by reusing building materials. Under Mike’s 20+ years of leadership, CJ has grown into a 2 million operation with 30 staff, including an award-winning job training program for Goodwill clients with disabilities and an innovative partnership with the Urban Design Build Studio to expose architecture students to working with reused materials.

Performances by:

• Timbeleza is an energetic Brazilian-style percussion band who performs with drums, many made from recycled materials.
• Krunk Movement is a year-round after-school production company that focuses on youth professional development by including elements of  positive hip-hop, songwriting. art, and technology.

Hands On Activities for all ages with: Assemble, Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Most Wanted Fine Art, Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, and Pittsburgh Glass Center.

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