Reading: Dr. LJ Punch
Date and Time
Location
International Institute of St. Louis
3401 Arsenal St
About the Event
Coyote Time Convening: Climate Futures and Infrastructural Imaginaries
Dr. LJ Punch of 314 Oasis reads from his essay “The Only Sirens We Heard” in the Coyote Time publication and reflects on the ongoing recovery from the May 2025 tornado in St. Louis and the networks of care that emerged in its aftermath.
LJ Punch is a transmasculine neuro-expansive human, parent, partner, trauma surgeon and founder of several community health initiatives, most recently co-founding 314Oasis, a collective effort in community care in response to climate trauma. His work bridges medical, faith-based, and grassroots efforts to un-break broken trust, promote the conditions of healing, and liberate systems of care, recognizing trauma as a primary determinant of health in St. Louis and beyond.
This event is part of Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time and our three-day Climate Convening, which brings together artists, writers, organizers, designers, scientists, cultural leaders, and community practitioners to explore climate as a lived reality and exhibitions as opportunities for worldbuilding.
For questions, reach out to Kristin Fleischmann Brewer at kfbrewer@counterpublic.org.
Register
Coyote Time Convening Registration
Space is limited and registration is required. We hope you’ll join us for this focused conversation and opportunity to learn alongside peers working to build more sustainable, responsive, and resilient cultural institutions.
Convening Support
The Coyote Time Convening is supported by the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, established by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
The Climate Forward Institutions Workshop directly supports Counterpublic’s Climate Impact Plan. Learn more here.
This year, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation awarded The Luminary, G-CADD: Granite City Art + Design District, The Griot Museum of Black History, and the National Building Arts Center funds to lower their carbon impacts across their campuses. In addition, the Foundation awarded Counterpublic a grant to support our work with Laura Lupton of LHL Consulting to implement our climate action plan with a long-term vision toward mitigation, adaptation, and resilience and creating a model for biennials, triennials and other large-scale exhibitions to account for their climate impacts.
The Frankenthaler Climate Initiative is the first nationwide program to support energy efficiency and clean energy use for the visual arts and the largest private national grantmaking program to address climate action through cultural institutions. The ongoing initiative provides critical support to visual arts organizations in the United States seeking to assess their impact on the environment and to lower ongoing energy costs. The Foundation has conferred more than $21.8 million since its launch in 2021, with 401 unique grants given for energy efficiency and clean energy projects at 295 institutions across 42 states and Puerto Rico.