Below, please find an overview of FEELers 2025 workshop and skillshare acitvities! (Workshop leaders may make some changes to their descriptions in the lead up to camp! We welcome emergence!)
If there is no “max number” listed, there is plenty of room for whoever wants to join. If you sign up for something and change your mind, remember to remove your name from the sign-up list to make room for someone else!
Floating Skillshare: Haircuts for Planetary Survival! (with Astrida, by appointment) Learn how to have difficult conversations about climate change and other polarizing topics, and/or learning to cut your own or someone else’s hair. Let’s be vulnerable together!
Introductory Workshop (Tuesday 3 June 5-6 pm)
Hanna Paul & Keyara Brody: Collective Plant Knowledge
Walk outside, identify plants together, share first memories on the land, and share shareable knowledge. This is to witness how we need a community to better understand the world around us. Meet at the Willow Tree outside Columbia Hall.
Workshops/Skillshares A (Tuesday 3 June, 7:30 – 9 pm)
A1. Sherry Ostapovich: Soundwalking on unceded Syilx territories
Join a guided soundwalk through the area around the FEELers Camp.
A2. Ava Olson: Reconstructing Environmental Narratives With Collage
Many of us have been excluded from popular narratives of “the environment” portrayed in magazines like National Geographic. This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on our relationships to these master narratives and our relationships to the more-than-human world by disassembling some of the archival materials where these stories are held and piecing them back together in collage form.
Max 8 participants – sign up here if you want to join!
A3. Yo-E Ro: b-rea-th-ing-r-o-o-m — a reading and breathing from Why I Swim
I will read from my bilingual artist book Why I Swim, sharing stories of water and Haenyeo divers. We’ll then practice a simple breath cycle I learned through diving, reflecting on memory and embodied rhythm.
A4. Jamie Stevens: Seed Ball Making
This is a hands-on seed ball making skillshare using native Okanagan seeds—a messy, grounding practice that reconnects us with the land through the tactile act of working with clay, seeds, and each other.
Max 15 participants – sign up here if you want to join!
Workshops/Skillshares B (Wednesday 4 June, 7:30 – 9 am)
B1. Caroline A. Pinheiro da Costa: Kakaw Herstory and Beverage Making
This offering weaves the herstory of Kakaw (cacao) as a sacred plant medicine with a hands-on teaching on how to prepare a traditional ceremonial beverage. Rooted in an ecofeminist and decolonial perspective, the session invites participants to connect with Kakaw’s ancestral wisdom and explore its role in Reconciliation.
Max 15 participants – sign up here if you want to join!
B2. Renyu: from sore spots to sweet spots
Welcome to a gentle movement session, composed of self-massage, reflexology to find our different sore spots. By sensing their weather, moisture, temperature, texture and giving them care, opening up space with each breath, building up strength and circulation, potentially turning them to sweet spots!
MOVED TO Tuesday 3 June 5-6 pm B3. Hanna Paul & Keyara Brody: Collective Plant Knowledge Walk outside, identify plants together, share first memories on the land, and share shareable knowledge. This is to witness how we need a community to better understand the world around us.
B4. Claire Fitch & Rachel Rozanski: Horizon traces
Attempting to trace the horizon blind-contour style (looking at the horizon and not paper) twice on same piece of paper. Playing with the landscape that’s produced by this strange doubling & repetition of horizon, the shape they make between them. Using these drawings to think through the multiplicity of landscape & the mutability of our perceptual and representative faculties
Workshops/Skillshares C (Thursday 5 June, 1 – 2:30 pm)
C1. Amy & Mika: Theory to action
A workshop on how to bring ideas from a theoretical space into action.
C2. Estraven Lupino-Smith: Wayward Weaving
I will show people how to weave a small basket, while talking about weaving cultures and practice-based research. I will bring some materials with me and also include “invasive” species that I forage for (with looking into harvesting protocols, ideally potentially connecting with restoration projects or even the gardeners at the Naramata Centre).
Max 10 participants – sign up here if you want to join!
C3. Judee Burr: Facts / Fragments / Research / History / Collage: A Writing Exercise
In this workshop, we will grapple with the fragmentary and the factual in our writing. How do we compose representations of history and reality through our research and experience? What narrative tools do we use to convey presence, absence, and collectivity? What narrative forms can hold the knowns and unknowns that inhere in the questions we hold dear? How are plural influences made present in our single-authored and collaboratively-authored works? How do the poetics of associative thinking and juxtaposition exist in line and in tension with practices of logic and explanation? Can research be a form of collage? Can writing?
We will hold and turn these questions through engaged practices: an optional reading (selection from Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes and Paris Review podcast episode “I Was There”), a writing exercise, and our conversations. Half of the workshop time will be devoted to writing and half to sharing and discussion. We will do an exercise called “SORTING FACTS” – an exercise by scholar and writing coach Victor Wildman (more of his work and teaching here: https://marginalamericannotes.com).
I facilitate this workshop as a student of environmental history, critical archival studies, feminist and queer theory and method, the lyric essay, audio storytelling, and visual collage practice, among other worlds of work.
Max 7 participants – sign up here if you want to join!
C4. Natalie Forssman & Manuela Rosso-Brugnach: Glitch Scouts
In this hands-on, low-pressure session we’d like to together explore how digital technologies and environmental sensing tools can help us both sense and make sense of place—while also inviting queer, feminist, and crip engagements with technology and place. We’ll have a few devices on hand to explore and play with together, for listening to birds and plants. As a group, we’ll experiment with ways of using these tools that are curious, critical, and grounded. We’re especially interested in how sensing tech can spark teaching, learning, and knowledge sharing from the feminist environmental humanities into its intersecting communities, contexts, and disciplines. Bring your stories, questions, and ideas—this is a space for collective tinkering, reflection, and discovery.
*The title is riffing on Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Russell, 2020), which we hope to weave in, too
Max 20 participants – sign up here if you want to join!
Workshops/Skillshares D (Friday 6 June, 9 – 10:30 am)
D1. Erin Delfs: Learning and Moving through Generative Conflict
“Conflict can be a generative tool for working across difference, mitigating ongoing harms, and deepening relationships as we organize towards more just and liveable futures together.
Informed by collective activist and Black feminist wisdoms and texts (e.g. “”Loving Corrections”” and “”We Will Not Cancel Us”” by adrienne maree brown; “”Love in a F*cked Up World”” by Dean Spade), this 1.5 hour workshop will utilize emergent strategies and creative activities to explore practices for engaging in transformative and generative conflict. Anticipate a flexible and lighthearted learning process of visiting with plants, moving our bodies like running rivers and mycelial networks (movement-based activities will be accessible to folxs both sitting and standing), quiet reflection, and sharing our ideas with one another.”
Max 12 participants – sign up here if you want to join!
D2. Dawn Roe: Marking Time With(in) the Water
Marking Time With(in) the Water is an ongoing, participatory workshop promoting collective engagement with varied bodies of water and related shoreline spaces. In this version, participants will be invited to create camera-less photographic prints exposed and developed by the existing light of the sun over a prolonged moment along, around, and within waterways surrounding the camp site(s).
D3. Michael V. Smith: Working with Imagery: a writing workshop
In this workshop, we will look at many different ways that an image works in writing. Guide Michael V. draws from across poetry, screenwriting and fiction genres to unpack imagery as a subtle tool of persuasion and embodiment. We will each generate a small poem-type thing from the workshop, as we practice the tools we learn. All skill levels.
D4. Christine White: Deep listening walk: feeling through sound
Campers are paired up and take turns guiding the blindfolded listener to safely explore their environment. First group of listeners explore inside. The roles switch and the second group of listeners explore outside. We close as a group and share our experiences.
D5. Fiona Hillary: Attuning with Waterways
An invitation to quietly attune our watery bodies to other bodies of water. Using hydrophones we will attune to the shimmer of the biosphere.
Max. 5 people – sign up here if you want to join!
The FEELed lab 