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Photo Exhibition: Nnimmo Bassey, 2024 Wallenberg Medalist, Architect, Poet, and African Environmental Activist; and Omolade Adunbi, African Studies Center Director", "event_subtitle":"Nnimmo Bassey, 2024 Wallenberg Medalist, Architect, Poet, and African Environmental Activist; and Omolade Adunbi, African Studies Center Director", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"Sponsored and presented by the Wallenberg Medal and Lecture, the African Studies Center, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.\r\n----\r\nLet the Earth Breathe: Photo Exhibition\r\nby Nnimmo Bassey, 2024 Wallenberg Medalist, Architect, Poet, and African Environmental Activist; and Omolade Adunbi, African Studies Center Director\r\n\r\nPhoto Exhibition: People Crossings and the Dangers of Oil Pollution -\r\nOpening Reception: 3:30 PM (Light refreshments served)\r\nGalleryDAAS, Haven Hall, Ground Floor, Room G648, 505 S State St.\r\nExhibition Dates: September 9 - October 11\r\n\r\nPhoto Exhibition: Living, Community, and Polluted Environment\r\nInternational Institute Gallery, Weiser Hall, 5th Floor, Room 547, 500 Church St.\r\nExhibition Dates: September 9 - 27\r\n\r\n- - -\r\nAbout the Photo Exhibition:\r\n\r\nThe Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been described as one of the most polluted spaces in the entire world. For over 60 years, the region has been host to the activities of multinational oil corporations who partner with the Nigerian state in exploiting oil for profit. Oil was first discovered in the region in 1956, and the first shipment of the commodity to the international market occurred in 1958 with a consignment of about 5,000 barrels per day (bpd). Production peaked at about 2.5 million bpd, but today, because of community protests, insurgency, and general disruption to the activities of corporations, the number hovers between 1.2 million to 1.4 million bpd. While the state has benefited immensely from oil production, the same cannot be said of the communities that are hosts to pipelines, flow stations, and all of the oil infrastructure that has come to define the entire region. Loss of livelihood, heavily polluted environment, death, and displacement have characterized the region\u2019s interaction with multinational oil corporations such as Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Eni, Total Energies, etc.\r\n\r\nThis exhibition is a bold attempt to shed light on what it means to live in an oil extractive enclave like the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The images showcase the lives lived, the loss, perseverance, and determination to survive.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is divided into two parts. The first part of the exhibition is displayed in the DAAS gallery with the sub-theme \u201cPeople Crossings and the Dangers of Oil Pollution\u201d and is a demonstration of the everyday lived experiences of the inhabitants of many of the enclaves of the Niger Delta. As depicted in the photos, people cross polluted rivers to go to school and in search of a means of survival.\r\n\r\nGallery visitors are invited to cross from the DAAS Gallery to the International Institute Gallery on the 5th floor of Weiser Hall to see the second part of the exhibition, \u201cLiving, Community, and Polluted Environment.\u201d This portion of the exhibition demonstrates community resilience in the face of environmental persecution. It shows everyday life amid oil infrastructure that litters the entire landscape of many of the communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.\r\n\r\n\u2014 - - -\r\nNnimmo Bassey is an architect, environmental justice activist, writer, and poet. His latest poetry collection is titled I See the Invisible (2023). Other collections include I Will Not Dance to Your Beat(2011) and We Thought It Was Oil But It Was Blood (2002). He is director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF).\r\n\r\nOmolade Adunbi is a professor of Anthropology, Afroamerican and African Studies and Law at the University of Michigan. His research examines the dynamics of power, natural resource extractive practices, governance, human and environmental rights, culture, transnational institutions, multinational corporations, and the postcolonial state. 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Viewer discretion is advised.]\r\n\r\nWhile all of the action in Virginia Woolf\u2019s modernist masterpiece takes place on a single day, as preparations are made for Clarissa Dalloway\u2019s evening party, Woolf\u2019s stream of consciousness writing takes us in the characters\u2019 minds all the way from English drawing rooms to colonial India to the trenches of World War I.\r\n\r\nCheck today's Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room hours: https:\/\/myumi.ch\/PkQ2x", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"123760-21851778@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/123760", "building_id":"1000181", "building_name":"Hatcher Graduate Library", "campus_maps_id":"65", "room":"Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor", "location_name":"Hatcher Graduate Library", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Writing","Literature","Library","Free"], "website":"", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"University Library", "group_id":"1186", "website":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UMichLibrary\/" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2024\/08\/event_123760_original-1.jpeg" }, "occurrence_count":100, "first_occurrence":21851757 } , "123255-21850611": { "datetime_modified":"20240829T141316", "datetime_start":"20240924T090000", "datetime_end":"20240924T170000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2024-09-24", "date_end":"2024-09-24", "time_start":"09:00:00", "time_end":"17:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"The Butch Closet", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"The Butch Closet: An installation by Phranc", "event_subtitle":"An installation by Phranc", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"In the multi-media installation *The Butch Closet*, artist Phranc illustrates her life stories as a queer artist, Jewish lesbian folk singer, and \"cardboard cobbler.\" By meticulously re-creating personal objects and pieces of clothing out of paper, cardboard, thread, and paint, she revisits her own history, contextualizing her experiences as an iconic performer, and maker, constructing, reconstructing, and re-imagining her image against a larger historical context of second-wave feminism and queer activism. 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