Mapping Notes
Mapping practices have a long history of being a means and a method of maintaining coloniality. With the Climate Art Map, we’ve aimed to view land in relation to native land(s) and ecozones, rather than in terms of colonially-crafted provincial or nation-state borders. But it is important to note that, while we are pleased to be able to show a dataset relationship between artists and their placement on a map, the land upon which each artist sits is not a mere dataset. Behind each dataset there exists rich natural and cultural realities that inform our lives sensorially, socially, culturally, ecologically and economically – realities which are increasingly in upheaval due to the impacts of climate change.
TAR SANDS SONGBOOK
Written, composed, and performed by Tanya Kalmanovitch
Join us for a special presentation of the TAR SANDS SONGBOOK, touring in November 2023 to sites and communities along the Trans-Mountain Pipeline route
We provide free land-based education and paid employment training programs that support youth to develop the skills and confidence to become environmental stewards. Our programs centre on three themes – native plant horticulture, ecological restoration,
Kevin Jesuino is a Portuguese-Canadian multi-disciplinary performer, performing arts educator, movement coach, arts facilitator, LGBTQ+ activist and community organizer. His work is oftentimes collaborative, site-specific, participatory, and process-oriented. His practice explores relationality, the stories within our
Katrine Claassens is a South-African artist based in Montreal. She is an artist, writer, and environmental communications specialist. She has an Honour’s degree in Visual Art from Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2007) and a Master’s
Natasha (Tasha) Lavdovsky is a neurodivergent artist & amateur lichenologist, who grew up in Traditional Tsawout First Nation unceded territory (in so-called BC). In 2009 Tasha obtained a BA in studio art and art history
This festival invites youth (under 18) to explore solutions to the Climate Crisis, green technology and nature-based solutions, (eg. Miyawaki tiny forests.) Workshops are offered for groups or classes. Youth work to envision a better
Millefiore Clarkes is an award-winning filmmaker working on Prince Edward Island / Epekwitk. She is passionate about creating films that express our interconnectivity to one another and to nature. Solastalgia is a lyrical film that
Sandra Lamouche is a nehiyaw iskwew, Cree woman, from northern Alberta living in Treaty 7. She is a champion hoop dancer, award winning educator, TEDx Speaker, writer and artist. She has been doing land based
A visual arts collective in the north. Our aims and aesthetic are typified through our latest project, Soft Core. Of this project, we wrote: “Connecting the ways we feel in our bodies – silly, anxious,
I am a pen and ink artist living in northern Turtle Island. I started a print series focussed on highlighting various nature-based climate solutions that exist on this land. The first in the series is
sirenscrossing is an international, collaborative umbrella for a transdisciplinary site-specific practice. We think of humans as only one node of liveliness in the interweave of the living Earth. Through creating audience experiences in everyday spaces,
The Community Connectors act as the seed cultivators that help to grow the web. They reach out through their mycelial networks and bring others into the circle — connecting eco-art projects and artists across northern Turtle Island/Canada. Below are the Community Connectors who are tending the web:
Mayhumi is a Japanese Canadian settler in Tkaronto who seeks to expose, challenge, and rectify systems of oppression by creating innovative, introspective and inclusive dance theatre. She sees embodiment as at the crux of world making, providing alternatives to unconscious thought, consumerism and oppression. Her primary practices span performance, choreography, education and Artistic Direction. Mayumi is the Co-Artistic Director of Hamilton based Aeris Körper, a facilitator of Dreamwalker Dance’s Conscious Bodies methodology, and the Communications and Outreach Manager for the Canadian Dance Assembly. She has been mentored by Peggy Baker, Andrea Nann and Denise Fujiwara.
Nicole Schafenacker is a writer, artist and researcher with euro-settler ancestry residing on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council also known as Whitehorse, Yukon. Her work explores body memory, liminal spaces at the threshold of change, intimate geographies, and hopeful acts/relationships between humans and place. She often works with devised practices and in collaboration with dancers, musicians and visual artists to create interdisciplinary work. She is the author of two plays, Fish at the Bottom of the Sea and 13 Encounters and a co-editor of the climate fiction anthology, Our Entangled Future. She was the first artist in residence with the Yukon Chapter of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and a member of the fourth cohort of the FUTURES/forward program at the International Centre of Art for Social Change. She has shown work across Turtle Island/Canada + the US and in Norway.
Flora Aldridge is an educator, artist, and project coordinator who is passionate about interdisciplinary approaches to climate justice. Flora hopes to deepen our connection to the natural more-than-human world through food exploration, art practice and sustainable agriculture. Through her involvement in multiple community-led projects and organizations, as well as her work as an educator within youth programs, she strives to build empowered and diverse communities working towards envisioning a better future. Flora currently works as an Outdoor Educator at Evergreen, delivering place-based children’s programming. In addition, Flora teaches No.9’s art and architecture program, Imagining My Sustainable Community. Flora serves on the Board of Directors for both Arts Education Network of Ontario and New Grocery Movement.
Jen Yakamovich is a drummer, researcher, and improviser currently living and working as a settler on Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Her work focuses on the relationship between sound, social ecologies, and complex embodiment. She received her Master’s in Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University in 2019. She performs under the moniker Troll Dolly.
