FEELed Notes

This post was written by Mariam Al Barazi our new PEC and FEELed Lab new Community Development Coordinator and FEELed Lab member Jamie Stevens. As we planned the October plant people gathering, we knew with both the municipal and provincial elections on the horizon that it was an essential moment to remind all the newly… Continue reading Sending Seeds & a Zine

This FEELed Note was written by FEELed Lab administrator Julia Jung. For a while now our unofficial FEELed Lab motto has been: “We do what we can with what we have”. (Astrida likes to add “in the time that we have” at the end, but I prefer the two-liner). October was an intense month of… Continue reading Nov = My Month of Rest & Relaxation

This FEELed Note was written by Samantha Jones, who was a visiting artist and researcher at the FEELed Lab in September 2026. In September 2026, I spent a week as a visiting researcher at the FEELed Lab, University of British Columbia Okanagan, in Kelowna. Some of my visit was dedicated to a writing workshop as… Continue reading Inspiration from a cascading stream: A case for creating pools in scholarship

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Ming Qiu, who is joining us as a research affiliate on our new project “Untapping Watershed Relations: Water in Woodhaven”. Can you tell us about your… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Ming Qiu

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Tareq Yousef, who is joining us as a research affiliate on our new project “Untapping Watershed Relations: Water in Woodhaven”. Can you tell us about your… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Tareq Yousef

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Dr. Xiaohua (Adam) Wei, who is joining us as a research affiliate on our new project “Untapping Watershed Relations: Water in Woodhaven”. Can… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Adam Wei

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Michael V. Smith, who has been a FEELed Lab research affiliate for a while but is getting a new introduction with our new project: Untapping Watershed… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Michael V. Smith

This post was written by Mariam Al Barazi our new PEC and FEELed Lab new Community Development Coordinator and FEELed Lab member Jamie Stevens. On September 28th, the Ponderosa Education Community (PEC) and FEELed Lab hosted our first Plant People Gathering of the fall! We kicked off the night by lino-printing shirts with designs hand-carved… Continue reading What is the Badger Revolution?

This post was written by FEELed Lab Director, Astrida Neimanis The beginning of the school year is another occasion to restart habits that may have gone dormant over the summer. For many, this is an attempt to put into place tactics and strategies that can set us up to meet some of our expectations for… Continue reading Writing as a Practice of Being in Love with the World

If last year was a vortex girl summer, this summer has been a time of ~~strange confluence~~! This is what I’m calling that uncanny phenomenon where coincidences, confirmations and crossings happen with such frequency that they can’t be a mere chance … Surely you know what I mean? What is the universe telling us…?! For me… Continue reading ~strange confluence~