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Meet and Greet and Meet the Author Watch Party – Hot Mess
January 18 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join For our Kids Ottawa/Gatineau parents on Saturday January 18 for a casual meet and greet at 3 pm and stay to watch the online conversation and Q&A with author Sarah Marie Wiebe at 4 pm
We will gather in the Desjardins Room at St Paul’s University, at 95 Clegg St, starting at 3pm. We’ll spend some time mingling before joining the online event from 4pm-5:15pm. The room is wheelchair accessible and has bathrooms. We’ll provide snacks. 
As part of Veganuary, we also encourage you to bring your favourite vegan (or vegetarian) recipes to share (particularly ones that are kid-friendly)
Hot Mess is the story of mothering amidst a climate crisis to shape futures that will flourish under the politics of care. Blending vulnerability with analysis, Wiebe discusses how community and care are essential for us to address the climate crisis and to thrive in our changing world. Each chapter is its own vignette – feel free to join if you’ve read only part of the book, or if you’re interested in exploring these themes.
If you have capacity to help with running this event, please contact sara.parkes@gmail.com. We appreciate your support.
About the author:
Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe (she/her) grew up on unceded Coast Salish territory in British Columbia, BC, is the mother of a three-year old and an author of the recently published Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa as well as a Co-Founder of the FERN Collaborative. Her research focuses on community development and environmental sustainability. At the intersections of environmental justice and public engagement, her teaching and research interests emphasize political ecology, policy justice and deliberative dialogue. As a collaborative researcher and filmmaker, she worked with Indigenous communities on sustainability-themed films including To Fish as Formerly. She collaborated with artists from Attawapiskat on a project entitled Reimgining Attawapiskat which is a companion website to her recent book Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat. Dr. Wiebe is also the author of Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (2016). For more about Dr. Wiebe’s research see: https://www.sarahmariewiebe.com/.