ECKERD COLLEGE NEWS February Events: Environmental Film Fest, Cinema & Theater
Season 2 Episode 1667 · Jan 29, 09:03 PM
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In this episode of Eckerd College news & updates, Nanette Wiser shares some of incredible public events on campus including an Environmental Film Festival, lectures, International Cinema Series and London's National Theater Live at Eckerd College! Here are three of the many events in February.
👉Eckerd College will host a special event with Robin Greenfield (environmental activist and author) as he continues his mission to forage 100% of his food this year to highlight underutilized wild resources. Greenfield will offer his insights at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday Feb. 11, 2026 in a public lecture at Eckerd College’s Fox Hall, 4200 54th Avenue S. St. Petersburg, FL 33711. Greenfield believes the Earth can provide us with everything we need. For one year he is foraging every bite of his food and medicine. “Nature” is his garden, his pantry and his pharmacy. To bring this message to the people, he is traveling to communities throughout the United States. He will embody a relationship of reciprocity with Earth during his community visits, bringing a spotlight to the food and medicine that is growing freely and abundantly all around us. As well as enthusiastically inviting communities to join him in a grassroots effort to plant 1 Million Community Fruit Trees over the next decade. Upcoming events. More on Robin.
"A Thoreau-esque character for our digital age, he pushes the boundaries of essentialism to their outer limits in what amounts to performance art with purpose: shedding modern artifice to connect more deeply with himself and the planet. After walking 1,600 miles down the Pacific Coast with just 44 possessions, Robin arrived in Los Angeles, sat naked in Griffith Park, and relinquished everything — no ID, bank account, phone, or clothing — to live in nature, subsisting on strangers’ kindness."
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👉The Eckerd College Community Farm will join Greenfield’s initiative by planting new trees on Feb. 11 and donating banana trees to neighboring community gardens. The EC Community Farm is a 1-acre sustainable farm and food forest situated between the soccer and baseball fields in the heart of Eckerd’s campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. It provides produce to the campus, while creating opportunities for hands-on education, service, and recreation.
👉The Last Slave Ship: The Clotilda, Her Descendants and an Extraordinary Reckoning Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 7 p.m.
Location: Fox Hall, Eckerd College campus
In this public lecture, author and filmmaker Ben Raines will share his startling discovery of a piece of hidden American history. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade had been outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival, so the wealthy perpetrators could hide from prosecution. Despite people’s numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the Alabama swamps to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts.
Sponsored by the Eckerd College Gulf Scholars Program
👉Cultivating Climate Citizens: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Location: Environmental Studies 100, Eckerd College campus
This lecture from a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar will describe the ways in which institutions of higher education can ensure that students are equipped with the tools and sense of purpose to become resilient and adaptable citizens, as well as climate leaders in their communities. Dr. Laura A. Ogden is an environmental anthropologist at Dartmouth College and serves as the Special Advisor to the Provost on Climate and Sustainability. Professor Ogden has conducted long-term fieldwork in the Florida Everglades and in the Fuegian Archipelago of South America. Her books include Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades and Loss and Wonder at the World’s End. In 2024, she was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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👉Eckerd College will host a special event with Robin Greenfield (environmental activist and author) as he continues his mission to forage 100% of his food this year to highlight underutilized wild resources. Greenfield will offer his insights at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday Feb. 11, 2026 in a public lecture at Eckerd College’s Fox Hall, 4200 54th Avenue S. St. Petersburg, FL 33711. Greenfield believes the Earth can provide us with everything we need. For one year he is foraging every bite of his food and medicine. “Nature” is his garden, his pantry and his pharmacy. To bring this message to the people, he is traveling to communities throughout the United States. He will embody a relationship of reciprocity with Earth during his community visits, bringing a spotlight to the food and medicine that is growing freely and abundantly all around us. As well as enthusiastically inviting communities to join him in a grassroots effort to plant 1 Million Community Fruit Trees over the next decade. Upcoming events. More on Robin.
"A Thoreau-esque character for our digital age, he pushes the boundaries of essentialism to their outer limits in what amounts to performance art with purpose: shedding modern artifice to connect more deeply with himself and the planet. After walking 1,600 miles down the Pacific Coast with just 44 possessions, Robin arrived in Los Angeles, sat naked in Griffith Park, and relinquished everything — no ID, bank account, phone, or clothing — to live in nature, subsisting on strangers’ kindness."
MORE
👉The Eckerd College Community Farm will join Greenfield’s initiative by planting new trees on Feb. 11 and donating banana trees to neighboring community gardens. The EC Community Farm is a 1-acre sustainable farm and food forest situated between the soccer and baseball fields in the heart of Eckerd’s campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. It provides produce to the campus, while creating opportunities for hands-on education, service, and recreation.
👉The Last Slave Ship: The Clotilda, Her Descendants and an Extraordinary Reckoning Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 7 p.m.
Location: Fox Hall, Eckerd College campus
In this public lecture, author and filmmaker Ben Raines will share his startling discovery of a piece of hidden American history. Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade had been outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival, so the wealthy perpetrators could hide from prosecution. Despite people’s numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the Alabama swamps to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts.
Sponsored by the Eckerd College Gulf Scholars Program
👉Cultivating Climate Citizens: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
Location: Environmental Studies 100, Eckerd College campus
This lecture from a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar will describe the ways in which institutions of higher education can ensure that students are equipped with the tools and sense of purpose to become resilient and adaptable citizens, as well as climate leaders in their communities. Dr. Laura A. Ogden is an environmental anthropologist at Dartmouth College and serves as the Special Advisor to the Provost on Climate and Sustainability. Professor Ogden has conducted long-term fieldwork in the Florida Everglades and in the Fuegian Archipelago of South America. Her books include Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades and Loss and Wonder at the World’s End. In 2024, she was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
#eckerdcollege #films #nationaltheaterlive #environmentalfilmfestival #lectures #artgallery #nanettewiser #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete
#universitynews