Transformative Photography
Facilitator: Niga Salam, Lens on life

Conference Room C

This workshop on the International Day of Peace will be Transformative Education Through Photography. It will approach photography and its revolutionary route of providing a story through visuals. After providing a brief history of photography, participants will also discuss the relationship between photography and ethical journalism. The focus will then shift to an overview of technical photography skills, while emphasizing the importance of developing a personal approach to one’s work. The workshop ends with a discussion of photography’s relationship to society as a whole, including its ability to affect social change.

Singing for Change Workshop
Facilitators: Dianne Berkun Menaker, Artistic Director and Liz Geisewite, Director of Choral Education, Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Conference Room D

Singing is one of the most universal activities with different traditions bring people together all over the world. So, what better way to celebrate the International Day of Peace than by enjoying a singing workshop with your fellow delegates. The session will include:

• Vocalization and Warm up activities
• An introduction to Solfège (a method of communicating and understanding the relationship between notes in the Western musical scale)
• Learning a song, the whole group can sing together

Designing Games for Social Impact
Facilitator: Leah Hirsch, Senior Director, Games for Change

Conference Room 11

Designing games for social impact engages students in building future-ready skills, STEAM learning, and in developing a sense of voice and agency in helping to solve the complex problems of modern society. In this workshop, students will experience a systems-thinking approach to the game design process while practicing and identifying game designer mindsets which develop agency, voice, and resiliency. They will explore how games are systems, how games can inspire social change, and how games can be used to build peaceful societies. The workshop will culminate with students making and sharing rapid prototypes of analog games inspired by SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions.

Slam Poetry
Facilitator: Karimot Odebode, Founder & Project Lead, Black Girl’s Dream Initiative

Library

The Poetry workshop will give the participant a head-start on poetry writing and performance. The facilitator will teach them the rudiment of poetry writing while taking examples from her poetry collection - ‘A Woman has Many Names.’ At the end of the session, participants should be able to express their thoughts in writing through poetry.

Mobilizing for Environmental Justice
Facilitators: Saad Amer, Environmental Justice Advocate

Conference Room E

The climate crisis is more than an environmental issue; it is a social justice issue that touches every part of the economy, culture and government. This seminar will build skills in climate justice advocacy and focus on the intersectional and intersectoral nature of the climate crisis and analyze dimensions of race, gender, age and class in environmental justice. We will explore the disproportionate effects of the climate crisis on youth, gender and BIPOC communities and the role we play as advocates in shifting environmental narratives and outcomes. This seminar will equip students with a critical perspective and actionable tools they can use in the context of the modern climate justice movement. Students will be invited to create their own campaign to address environmental injustices. The goal of this seminar is for participants to understand the climate justice movement, its impacts, and their ability to move movements by becoming changemakers themselves.

Solving the SDGs in 90 Minutes
Facilitators: Bill Hunter, Lehigh University

Conference room 6

This highly interactive simulation explores the visualization of information as a tool to address complex problems and create collaborative solutions. It challenges participants to solve poverty and climate change on a global scale in 90 minutes. Structured via a strategic design thinking model proposed by technology pioneer Tom Wujec, participants will initially be faced with the daunting task of making toast. Once the perfect piece of toast has been made, professionally trained facilitators will lead a brief discussion on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, with a particular focus on Goal 1 “No Poverty,” or Goal 13 “Climate Action.” Participants will be divided into small groups and challenged to solve these issues using the same “toast” methodology - visualizing possible solutions and creating a comprehensive model of interconnected nodes. After a 20-minute brainstorming session, each group will present their model. Facilitators will debrief each group’s proposed solution, encouraging participants to explore the interconnectivity of SDGs, global implications of the proposed solutions, and possible ways to bring solutions to action. At the conclusion of the presentations, the short video “Don’t Choose Extinction” will be shown.