Climate Change Across Disciplines will focus on current research exploration by world renowned scientists joined by artists, and emerging scholars. Key researchers will present on related topics: climate change’s implications for forest ecosystems (Damon Matthews, Concordia); Indigenous expressions and connection with land (Leigh Joseph/Styawat, PhD, UVic; Alain Cuerrier, U of Montreal/MBG); duo Sonya Stoeva and Dimo Ivanov (Concordia MFA alumni) coming with the results of their artistic research on motion, nature, and light, and McGill’s 1st Redpath Museum Climate Change resident Milton Riaño presenting his research project. (U of Montréal alumni).  

This panel and discussion co-hosted by Elastic Spaces and the Thinking Allowed Project, will include activists from the Fairy Creek Blockades, with special guest Pacheedaht First Nation Elder Bill Jones, as well as activists and scientists who were involved in rainforest activism and negotiations (e.g. the Carmanah Valley and Walbran Valley Blockades, Clayoquot Sound blockades, and Clayoquot Scientific Panel). This will be a hybrid event, at the LSRC Conference, in 4th Space, moderated by Sarah Turner, with questions from the Thinking Allowed Think Tank.

Remembering Practice & Policy in Production and Distribution  (30 to 40 years ago), in the Media Arts in the UK and Canada, looks back three to four decades in Canadian and British media art history, within production workshops and festival presentations with Indigenous Peoples and People of Color. For example, looking back at Canadian cultural […]

The film Shadow Girl (75mins) will be screened through the CFMDC.TV website and projected at 4th Space, following with a discussion with the filmmaker at 4:30pm. Maria Teresa Larraín, is a Chilean born filmmaker, who studied Law and Drama in her native land. In 1976, Larraín immigrated to Canada where she worked as a legal […]

Climate Change and the Forest  (Real, Imaginary and Virtual) will focus on current research exploration by researchers, artists, and emerging scholars. Key researchers will present on related topics: Art-making with research combining the environmental sciences is the focus for Kathleen Vaughan’s (Concordia) St Lawrence River project; Gisèle Trudel (UQAM) will present on the effect of climate change on soils […]

Decolonizing Spaces, Public Art, Curatorial, Museum and Publication Models will focus on curatorial, critical and artistic projects. Curator Haema Sivanesan (Glenbow Museum) will present notes from her essay, “Unsettling” the Forest as a Canadian Nationalist Imaginary: Consent, Consultation, and (Re)conciliation in Leila Sujir’s “forest! documents”; Sunny Kerr (Queen’s) will offer methodologies of decolonial curatorial practices […]