Speaking Events
by Franke James
Artist and author Franke James was the keynote speaker at the 11th annual Friends of the Credit Stewardship Forum, at University of Toronto Mississauga.
Forests: Rooted in Our Community, October 15, 2011
Speaking & Workshop Events
- Minden, Blacklisted Artist Shares Her Story, November 4, 2011
- University of Ottawa, Reading: “Banned on the Hill”, November 1, 2011
- Sierra Club Canada, Green Conscience Workshop, November 1, 2011
- Keynote: Credit Valley Conservation, October 15, 2011
- STAO Convention, Science Teacher’s Association of Ontario
- Government of Ontario Staff Day
- Holy Trinity School, Richmond Hill, Ontario
- Green T, Caledon, Ontario
- Moira Secondary School, Belleville, Ontario
- St. Clement’s School, Toronto, Ontario
- The Mabin School, Toronto, Ontario
- Earth Week: Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario
- University of Colorado: 2010 Legacy Lecture and Green Conscience workshop
- Canadian Ecology Centre, Mattawa, Ontario
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Ottawa, Ontario
- Newtonbrook High School
- Treehugger: Design for the Greater Good
- Bates College Keynote to Incoming Class
- Ontario Teachers Federation, Climate Change Workshops
- Book Launch and Reading at Roots, Toronto
- Toronto Catholic District School Board
- University of Cincinnati
- Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati
- Park + Vine, Cincinnati
- Six Tools for Climate Change Art, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg
Artist, author and speaker Franke James is an entertaining and persuasive advocate for the environment. She merges science, art and storytelling to inspire people to take action and “do the hardest thing first” for the planet. Her lively presentations demonstrate her ‘rare skill of presenting important abstract concepts with immediacy and relevance through her art.’
Franke has delivered keynotes and workshops at a variety of educational events in Canada and the USA, including Upper Canada College, the University of Colorado, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Canadian Ecology Centre, the University of Cincinnati, Bates College, the Ontario Teachers Federation climate change camps and many others (see below for details). She frequently combines speaking events with her Green Conscience art workshops. Please see the topics and feedback below from recent events.
To book Franke for an event, please contact her by email: franke@frankejames.com, or by phone: 416-256-9166 to discuss the opportunity, your needs, and speaker fees.
About Franke
Franke is the author of the award-winning graphic book Bothered By My Green Conscience and the inventor of the award-winning business game-book, Dear Office-Politics
More speaking posts: https://www.frankejames.com/debate/?cat=568
10 Responses: 7 Comments and 3 Tweets
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- Franke James @frankejames
@flying_J @mojanj Thnx! It's shaping up to be a busy year! I post events here: http://bit.ly/cmCwvW
(about 5204 days ago) - Franke James @frankejames
@susanbirk Do the Hardest Thing First is my core message: http://www.frankejames.com/debate/?page_id=934
(about 4851 days ago) - Franke James @frankejames
@Bedfordbarry Thnx for asking! See my green conscience workshops: http://t.co/Py7YIGG And talks at schools etc: http://t.co/fpMyvDE
(about 4643 days ago)
Thank you so much for the wonderful weekend you spent with us at Bates Franke. The presentation was a wonderful melding of environmental activism, artistic expression and thought provoking questions/ideas with which to begin a college career. Our first year students enjoyed it greatly; over the next four years I am sure they will come to recognize anew how powerful a message it was with which to begin undergraduate education.
Your workshop on Six Tools to Make Climate Change Art was greatly appreciated by the students who attended and they are making use of it now in preparation for Oct. 24th events. Finally, it was such a delight to have your enthusiasm, commitment and humor permeating our campus — I’m just so glad that it lives on in some sense through your blog about the trip to Bates College.
Franke,
What can I say? Attending your talk really put things into perspective for me. I can honestly say that your visit to Bates really made all of the lofty possibilities a tangible reality. I am so impressed because you not only recognize that you must take up this social responsibility yourself, but you are actually compelling enough to get others to do the same. Students here came away from your talk both with a greener conscience AND ways in which they could create activist art themselves. It’s brilliant.
I find your combination of activism and art completely inspiring and it has sparked an energy in me that has only grown in the days since! My head is buzzing with the number of new ideas that I am determined to see come to fruition. Thanks for everything.
Ryan
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I recently learned of Franke and her work through a friend of mine. I am chagrined to admit that until lately, I have not paid much attention to my surroundings nor worked actively to preserve them. My family and I are in the process of making many much-overdue changes and to “do the hardest thing first.”