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Learning to Listen to Rivers Workshop, Kingston

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January 16 and 17th, 2025

9:30-4

The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

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

Hosted by the Department of Geography, and the Office of Vice-Principal Research

*PLEASE FILL OUT THE PAYMENT INFO POP-UP SO WE HAVE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION. YOU WILL NOT BE BILLED ANYTHING FOR THE EVENT. Thank-you!

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. Register 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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January 16 and 17th, 2025

9:30-4

The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

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

Hosted by the Department of Geography, and the Office of Vice-Principal Research

*PLEASE FILL OUT THE PAYMENT INFO POP-UP SO WE HAVE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION. YOU WILL NOT BE BILLED ANYTHING FOR THE EVENT. Thank-you!

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. Register soon!

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

Guest contributors include:

January 16 and 17th, 2025

9:30-4

The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

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

Hosted by the Department of Geography, and the Office of Vice-Principal Research

*PLEASE FILL OUT THE PAYMENT INFO POP-UP SO WE HAVE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION. YOU WILL NOT BE BILLED ANYTHING FOR THE EVENT. Thank-you!

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. Register soon!

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

Guest contributors include: