Upcoming events.

Geopoet in Residence, Queen's U
Jan
13
to Jan 26

Geopoet in Residence, Queen's U

I’ll be spending a couple of weeks at in Kingston, hosted by the Geography Department at Queen’s University. While there I’ll be co-facilitating a 2-day workshop, Learning to Listen to Rivers, which I’ve been co-designing with Dr. Laura Cameron. I’ll also meet with students, provide talks and engagements for students in Laura’s Geographical Imaginations classes, AND along with the amazing Helen Humphreys (whom I’ve long admired!) give a reading at Novel Idea Bookshop. For more deets, see the events below.

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Learning to Listen to Rivers, Workshop
Jan
16
to Jan 17

Learning to Listen to Rivers, Workshop

Learning to Listen to Rivers, Kingston

January 16 and 17th

9:30-4

The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

https://www.queensu.ca/theisabel/

Hosted by the Department of Geography, Queen’s U and the Office of Vice-Principal Research

Water has no static boundaries or firm edges. Water moves between solid, liquid and gas. River becomes Lake, a lake feeds a river. Water seeps into land, memory, body and returns to River. Water invites us to understand listening as multi-directional, fluid, multi-vocal, with reciprocal movements and moments.

Indigenous cultures have long known that Rivers and other ecosystems are animate, alive, agential. Science has recently been able to glimpse into these complex communications systems, by using a range of instruments to listen to trees, mycelial networks, ice and other agents.

How do we learn to listen to River? How do we recognize what we observe? How do we enact reciprocity with a river ecosystem? What do various tools, methods, forms, instruments and disciplinary practices help us to hear? What do these not allow us to hear? Together we will dip our toes into these questions through a lively, collaborative, interdisciplinary gathering of writers, scientists, artists, geographers and historians. Join us for conversation, creative prompts along the River, and sharing.

The workshop is free, but space is limited to 36. 

Registration will open soon!

Please note that in signing up you are committing to participating for the entirety of the two-day workshop.

Guest contributors include: 


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Manitoulin Book Launch
Nov
30

Manitoulin Book Launch

Head over to Split Rail Brewing in Gore Bay for the Island launch of Conversations with the Kagawong River. Enjoy the super locally-brewed, award-winning beer, music by Natalie Edwards, a reading, Q +A, book signing and food!

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Early Learning Cafe Online Workshop
Nov
30

Early Learning Cafe Online Workshop

An online workshop! In this participatory and hands-on virtual workshop, we’ll dig into ecological engagements with children. Together we’ll explore the voices of natural materials and share our thoughts in small groups. You’ll leave feeling connected and reinvigorated and prepared to engage your children with the natural environment. To learn more or to join, visit the Early Learning Cafe.

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Keynote + Workshop
Nov
15
to Nov 16

Keynote + Workshop

I’ll be joining early childhood educators at the annual conference hosted by the District of Muskoka. Along with a keynote talk to the participants, I’ll be facilitating an interactive, hands-on workshop to engage educators to reflect on creative ecological engagements with children.

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