UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies

Join our collaborators, Marina Zurkow and Hank & Bean, for this UCLA public happening on Tuesday, June 4 from 11-2 pm #makingthebestofit @mtboi_nimblefoods

If you're in Madrid between June 13 and October 6, check out this exhibition at Matadero Madrid art and cultural center, "Ecovisionaries: Art for a Planet in a ...State of Emergency." Their new Instituto Mutante para Narrativas Ambientales [Mutant Institute for Environmental Narratives] was inspired by our UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) and we'll be collaborating with them on projects. Ursula K. Heise will be representing LENS at the opening on June 13. For more info, see mataderomadrid.org. See more

Experience UCLA as a wonderland of birds! Join LENS, the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden, and the Bird Genoscape Project tomorrow (Saturday, May 4) for a unique program connected to the annual Bird LA Day. See details below!

Congratulations to LENS-affiliated graduate student Claire Stanford, who's been awarded the first place prize in "The Nature of Cities 2099" flash fiction contest! Claire's story "Neither Above Nor Below" was awarded first place out of 1,200 submissions from 116 countries. It will appear, along with 57 other submissions, in a forthcoming anthology due out January 2019. LENS co-founder Ursula K. Heise will write the introduction to the anthology. https://www.storiesofthenatureofcities.org/

Our partnership with KCET continues with this package of stories exploring Hollister Ranch, one of the longest stretches of Southern California coast without public access. The essays here explore the ecological and human history of Hollister Ranch and the questions it raises about the pubic's right to the coast. https://www.kcet.org//hollister-ranch-the-last-beach-in-so

Our entire team of faculty and students is happy to announce today's launch of the third series in our yearlong storytelling and public media collaboration with KCET & UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.