On October 2nd 2025, 6-8pm ESAC will be hosting our second annual Fall Social and Talk at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Join us for an in-person talk and workshop led by Chris Cavanagh.
Chris Cavanagh is a storyteller, visual artist, poet, lover of comic books and TTRPGs, science-fiction, fantasy, and poetry. He has been practicing popular education and community organizing for over 40 years and is currently completing a PhD that is focused on popular education and a reinvention/re-tooling of conjunctural analysis.
You can follow Chris’s latest writings at: https://populareducation.substack.com/ or read his daily poetry posts on https://www.instagram.com/dagdainrags/
Chris also has additional popular education resources at: https://persuasionsanddesigns.com/index.php/resources/
The Promise and Peril of Popular Education: A Case for Refugias and Archives - A Dialogi-Zine Workshop, led by Chris Cavanagh
The scientific data is in and the news is dire. The unimaginable becomes more imaginable daily. We approach cataclysm and catastrophe with an inexorability before which we struggle to respond or even to know how to respond. Popular education - playful, radical, pedagogical, and pragmatic - has been a front-line response to colonial and imperial violence from its beginnings. How can popular education prepare us for the uncertain future rushes towards us?
If you arrive early, we encourage you to please also enjoy the Queerburbia installation located in front of the event space (HNES140 at York University)!