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 — register soon! Registration is now open!
Please note that in signing up you are committing to participating for the entirety of the two-day workshop.
Guest contributors include:
sophie anne edwards, geopoet: https://talonbooks.com/books/?conversations-with-the-kagawong-river, www.sophieanneedwards.ca
Sebastian De Line, Associate Curator, Care and Relations (Agnes Etherington): https://agnes.queensu.ca/connect/news-and-stories/meet-sebastian-de-line-research-associate-indigenous-art/
Matt Rogalsky, composer, sound artist and musicologist / DAN School/Film and Media: https://sdm.queensu.ca/people/rogalsky-matt
Linsday Borrows, Faculty of Law, Queen’s U: https://law.queensu.ca/directory/lindsay-borrows
Laura Thomson, glaciologist, Geography and Planning: https://www.queensu.ca/geographyandplanning/people/thomson-laura
Laura Murray, Belle Park Project / English/Cultural Studies https://www.queensu.ca/english/people/laura-murray
Laura Jean Cameron, Geography and Planning: https://www.queensu.ca/geographyandplanning/people/cameron-laura-jean
Hugh Christopher Brown, songwriter, musician, producer / Wolfe Island Records: https://www.queensu.ca/geographyandplanning/people/cameron-laura-jean
Dorit Naaman, Belle Park Project / Film and Media Studies: https://www.queensu.ca/filmandmedia/people-search/dorit-naaman