Become a Bird Nerd with Autumn & Audubon Everglades

Do you like lookin’ at birds? Then you’re a birder!

Help interdisciplinary artist, poet, performer, Florida Master Naturalist and Education/Outreach Coordinator for Audubon Everglades Autumn Kioti Horne spread the bird nerd word: NATURE IS FOR EVERYBODY AND EVERY BODY.

This fun presentation is the first step toward becoming a real bird nerd. If you’ve never birded before but are birding-curious, this is your moment! If you are a more advanced birder and you’d like to discover bird-minded friends, join us. We’ll learn about birds, when and how to see ’em, and discover Audubon Everglades’ awesome free programs and fieldtrips for individuals of all shapes, sizes, abilities and identities. You are welcome here!
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About the Presenter:

Autumn Kioti (they/them/ her) is our Education and Outreach Coordinator at Audubon Everglades!

Autumn is an interdisciplinary artist, Certified Master Naturalist, environmental educator, poet, and performer who passionately uses art to address climate change, eco-feminism, and the intersection of access to nature and mental health. Their work spans from South Florida to New York to international exhibitions, engaging diverse audiences through diverse mediums like narration, movement, installation and poetry.

They write:

“Arts and nature are humanity’s common language, and my primary instrument as an interdisciplinary artist. I use this common language to tell stories, whether through narrative, movement, installation, poetry…. Within my current practice, I confront issues such as climate change, the confluence of the Anthropocene urge to conquer the environment and eco-feminism, food justice, and the intersection of access to wild space and mental health, finding the correlation of each to the other impossible to ignore.

In confronting these issues over the last decades in South Florida, New York, and New Mexico, my chosen media has been fluid and responsive to the environmental conditions in which I work. My diverse materials include garbage scavenged from trainyards, footage from nature documentaries, poetry, weaving, works on hand-made paper and Mylar, even cooking and food, as well as more traditional media for two- and three-dimensional work. I select my medium based on how the public can be best engaged in a site-specific piece: whether through installation, or performance, or workshops.

Tackling the environmental impacts of our society necessitates an acknowledgement that we are truly interdependent, participating in the story of our natural and built environments together, as a community and as a society. I frequently collaborate with organizations, individual scientists, other artists and activists: NYC Audubon, Audubon Everglades, Rohi’s Readery, EcoAmerica, the American Littoral Society, the Wild Bird Fund, firefly expert Dr. Sara Lewis, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson, and more. I have offered presentations on art-based approaches to environmental justice and climate change as an ecoAmerica Climate for Health ambassador, and conduct workshops at Rohi’s Readery, a social justice-driven children’s bookstore. Much of this work is offered on a volunteer basis at established institutional spaces, and the majority is entirely grassroots, self-funded, and engages a broad and diverse public of all ages and backgrounds.”