THE FEELed LAB
“We are feel-ers, with feelers, trying better to feel the world”
The FEELed Lab is a collaborative and interdisciplinary feminist environmental humanities field lab located on unceded syilx territory in Kelowna, BC.
Happenings at the Lab:
Land as Teacher: an experiential land based workshop
Syilx people are the best protectors of our syilx lands, waters and timixʷ, and we need everyone who lives here on our territory to feel and act that way.” — Jeannette Armstrong
This spring, we are delighted to once again collaborate on offering the ‘Land as Teacher’ workshop. This session starts with an online orientation prior to the full-day in-person workshop at the FEEled Lab. LAND AS TEACHER—spring 2026 consists of
April 30, 2026: Online Workshop (1-3 pm) together with
May 22, 2026: In-person Workshop (9 am-3 pm) at the FEELed Lab
Text-based Navigation for Screen Readers
Latest Posts
Recap: Biodiversities of Gender at the New Leaves Festival
As our SSHRC-funded Partnership Engagement Grant on the Biodiversities of Gender comes to close, we welcomed the Year of the Fire Horse very appropriately – welcoming OG ecosexuals Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens to a Kelowna screening of their ecosexual/environmental film Playing with Fire in tandem with local artist Mariel Belanger and Sierra Belanger’s film…
How to Weather Together: Book Welcomes (Upcoming May 19 & June 22)
How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change was published earlier this year – a labour of love, community, friendship — and also research! My co-author Jen Mae Hamilton and I, and our friend, collaborator and book illustrator Tessa Zettel, have been very excited to share this new book with friends, colleagues and future…
IN-SALTED
Rebel salt crystals and the irreproducible equilibrium of sacred salt lakes. This FEELed Note was written by Nina Vroemen, with contributions from Julian Self, as part of ASiR 2026, the FEELed Lab’s pilot Artist-and-Scientist in Residence program. “What is saltier: human blood or the Ocean?” Indeed, both blood and swell are comprised of…
Celebrating 5 years at the FEELed Lab
This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab administrator Julia Jung. Thank you so much everyone who joined our 5-year event on March 27th! There were over ~60 people who popped in and out during the day, joined the Keynote event, hosted a workshop or set up a self-led activities. We are so grateful for…
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The FEELed Lab is supported by the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, working across the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the UBC Okanagan.
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