Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP; just show up and bring your friends!

4 - 5:30pm @ The Nexus, 14S-130 in Hayden Library  

Please join SECASP Director Prof. Chris Walley and other participants as they discuss the project and screen segments of the site’s newly launched and final multimedia documentary. Wetlands to Waste explores the environmental history of the multiracial Calumet region and the rise of environmental activism led by Latina, white and black residents against industrial pollution and landfills. 

5:30 - 6:30pm, Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain)

Presentation will be followed by a reception on Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain).

A documentary screening of Southeast: A City within a City intercut with live music performances by filmmaker Steve Walsh and his grandfather Roger “Coco” Gomez, a former steelworker, musician, and “gangster philosopher” (accompanied on guitar by Matt Goetz). 

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP; just show up and bring your friends!

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP; just show up and bring your friends!