The FEELed Lab was delighted to welcome artist Coralee Miller as our first Artist-in-Residence in 2022. This program, which we plan to convene once a year, is intended to support dedicated local artists to further their artistic practice. Coralee joined us in May 2022 over two weekends at the Woodhaven Ecoculture Centre, which allowed her… Continue reading Firing up our Artist-in-Residence Program! Introducing Coralee Miller
FEELed Notes
Listening, Attuning
What does listening hold?What holds listening? How might listening be an act of compassion, a notice of refusal, a way to learn what is enough?How can we attune though bodies, extended in and across other bodies of difference? From 23 May – 1 June 2022, the FEELed Lab convened the first (hopefully annual!) Feminist Environmental… Continue reading Listening, Attuning
Elsewhere Participant Olga F.: Listening, Attuning
Below, Olga F., a participant in the Listening, Attuning summer symposium offers reflections on two different sessions. For Mar: . having cycled, walked, pushed – uphill scurried – downhill, greeted the plants, i sit i sit with your reminder to breathe in the river, and i know: now there is not a day when I… Continue reading Elsewhere Participant Olga F.: Listening, Attuning
(re)s(is)ting
The littoral–where land and water meet and co-constitute each other–is murky.
Seeding, weeding
When planning the most recent Fringe Natures session for the first Friday in May, we anticipated being deep into burstings and proliferations of the planty kind. It seems, however, that the seasonal turns here on unceded syilx lands have resonating with the FEELed Lab’s wish to go slowly and take our time with things –… Continue reading Seeding, weeding
Fire & Water: the first?
A gathering of trees welcomed a recombinant collective of knowledge keepers, volunteers, poets, players, thinkers, practitioners, participants, painters, deer, documentarians, story tellers, learners, teachers, the sound of spring freshet, clouds, and a fire–drenched eventually, for safety.
Unanticipated intimacies
On 18 March a small group of FEELed Labbers gathered online to read Quill Christie Peters’ essay “Kwe becomes the moon, touches herself so she can feel full again” – as always, out loud and together. It is a very sexy text, but not in a straightforward way. It is also challenging It took us… Continue reading Unanticipated intimacies
A Land care conversation
On Saturday March 12th the sky above the Okanagan valley drizzled water. Meanwhile, the FEELed Lab convened a gathering with the intent to set to simmer conversations of caring for and with the Land that makes possible all that we do and are here. This event was orchestrated by Pamela, Jasmine, and Grouse Barnes, syilx… Continue reading A Land care conversation
Elsewhere participant Renyu: Thaw
Thanks for the feel-ed lab team for composing these notes. Finding words&moments shared and unthought-of, being reminded the importance of darkness that accompanies light are few of those magical feelings I found while reading these notes. I am an uninvited translator from Taiwan. Since October last year, we start to have a small Bodies of… Continue reading Elsewhere participant Renyu: Thaw
Elsewhere Participant Isabel Val: Thaw
[41.869513, 2.650965] My name is Isabel and I am an artist from and currently based in Barcelona. This weekend I took the opportunity to conduct a very intimate Fringe Natures event while visiting my mum. She lives in Santa Coloma the Farners. This town is located in a region called “La Selva” (The rainforest) due… Continue reading Elsewhere Participant Isabel Val: Thaw
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