Drop-in Workshops
| Time | Workshop | Location |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Access & Inclusion Bingo (Jenica Frisque) | Fire circle |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Shifting from white Settler Environmentalism to Solidarity with syilx Sovereignty (Erin Delfs) | Kitchen |
| 10:00 – 1:00 | Every Voice Welcome in The DIY Recording Booth (Jamie Stevens & Estraven Lupino-Smith): Add your voice and insights on working across difference to the pilot FEELed Lab podcast Otherwise: Polarized. This work is emerging from the Addressing Polarization through an Arts-Based Lens project funded by the UBC Climate Solutions Scholars program. No prep needed, all welcome! | Schoolhouse |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Send a climate justice postcard (Amy Harris) | Carport |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Community Lunch: Join others in the fire circle for a communal lunch – bring your own or something to share, pot-luck style! Some lunch options will also be on offer. (Snacks and tea/coffee will be available all day.) | Fire circle |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Many Dirty Hands Make Light Work (Jamie Stevens): Join the Land Healing Circle from our community partner, Ponderosa Education Community, in planting Okanagan native wildflower seeds around the FEELed Lab as an act of reciprocity towards the Lands that offer us so much. Gloves and tools will be provided, no prep needed, all welcome! | Outside in front of the lab |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Nature Reading Writing (Unearthing a 3-year old Book Review!) (Astrida Neimanis & Norah Bowman): Is the Land a library? Does the earth read? Join local poet Norah Bowman as we dig up Breath Like Water — her poetry book that was buried in 2023, as an experiment in trying to understand the idea of “land as library.” | Outside next to the house by the two big trees |
from 4:00 pm-6:00 pm: multibeing eddies in a global churn — a keynote conversation between FEELed Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Sue Reid and globally renown feminist and queer ecologies scholar Professor Catriona Sandilands. Limited space available for the talk! Register here: https://forms.gle/NpzvH2TwGaFKKbxM9
Do-it-Yourself Activities
Craft-Swap: We love FEELed Lab swag and lots of our members and community are famously crafty. If you are crafty, too, bring a homemade item for our Craft Swap! Leave something and take something or take something and leave our busy crafters a small donation.
Rest as Resistance: One of our mottos at the FEELed Lab is “We do what we can with what we have.” This means we look after ourselves, each other –and rest when we need to! Former FEELed Lab Administrator Dani Pierson also led us through a series of “Rest as Resistance” workshops in 2023-2024. In the spirit of these, we encourage you to rest in the back office of the lab during our 5 years celebration – a quiet space, with a sofa, mood lighting, and tea.
Expanding our FEELed Lab Values: What do you think about our emerging FEELed Lab values? Do they resonate with you? Is there something missing? Where do you see them here? We invite you to spend time with our lab values and share your thoughts about them with us.
THIS IS NOW COMPOST – Why we have let our Instagram account go fallow: If you are reading this, it means we are connected – but how? We have been exploring ways to build community in troubling times. As part of this, we have decided to let our Instagram account go fallow. Explore our Instagram Legacy Art project “THIS IS NOW COMPOST” in real life.
FEELed Lab Community Library Picks: What are the FEELed Lab community library favorites? We invite you to add your thoughts and recommendations for our FEELed Lab library books.
FEELed Lab Through the Years: Check out what 5 years of activities at the FEELed Lab look like in photos! Visit our Kitchen slide show.
ALL WELCOME!
All FEELed Lab events strive to be feminist, anticolonial, antiracist queer and trans-positive, accessible spaces.
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