Events and Workshops

Upcoming & Ongoing:

16 Nov: Plant People Gathering – details coming soon!

25 Nov: Thinking through Knowledge Mobilization from Proposal to Publication and Beyond – details coming soon!

Past:

six zines next to each other on a table, one of them says "REMEMBER" another "I feel silly when" and "Another body is possible"
26 Oct: Plant People Gathering – Zine Edition!
Text saying "Skilling Up for People and Planet!" in a green box on a green/ white shaded background with white stars. The tagline says "a Hands-on workshop sERIES to build community while building research-adjacent skills"
28 Oct: Applied theatre methods to support co-creation and co-authorship in community-based research
Text saying "Skilling Up for People and Planet!" in a green box on a green/ white shaded background with white stars. The tagline says "a Hands-on workshop sERIES to build community while building research-adjacent skills"
16 Sep: “Writing as a Practice of Being in Love with the World“
Poetic Forecast invitation poster repeating the information on the event page
23 Sep: Poetic Forecast Writing Workshop
JJ holding up a tie-die shirt with a "Badger Revolution" Screenprint
28 Sep: Special Plant People Gathering: Screen-Printing Edition!
A marmot pops his head up from a hole at the base of a Ponderose Pine tree
25 May – Thursday 28 May: Deep Writing – A FEELed Lab Summer Retreat
A marmot pops his head up from a hole at the base of a Ponderose Pine tree
Deep Writing II: A(nother) FEELed Lab Summer Retreat
Three people holding up their crafty treasures including zines, a crossstitch jellyfish and the new FEELed Lab t-shirts at a table with a red tablecloth and cake inside woodhaven studio
26 Aug: Giving & Gathering
8 May: Liz Johnston in Kelowna with Corinna Chong – An Ecofiction Reading
Side by side collage of the poster for "International Analog Day" in pastel colours and The FEELed Lab yard with tall trees and a gravel driveway with the word craft-a-strophe across in cut out magazine letters
13 May: CRAFT-A-STROPHE // Making & Mailing Day
A group of people standing in a circle in a forest surrounded by big trees.
30 April & 22 May: Land as Teacher – an experiential land based workshop
Cosmographies Poster showing an indeterminate red planet in front of a black background with white stars that are turning into tears
23 April Film Screening: Cosmographies (Innovation Centre, downtown Kelowna)
Argonaut sitting on top of a jellyfish floating through the Darkness
16 Jan 2026: Who is keeping you Company in the Dark?
Credit: Mike Bartick / Ocean Image Bank
two circular images on a deep turquoise background with a light gradient. One images shows bullkelp just beneath the surface, the other rhubarb stems photographed looking up towards the underside of the leaves
27 March: Multibeing Eddies in a Global Churn – A keynote conversation
Photo collage of student co-working sessions in the FEELed Lab and Woodhaven with writing "Beyond the desk"
16 Jan 2026: Beyond the Desk: Building and Sustaining Community Through Student-Led Collaboration
A block print image that says "5 years at the FEELed Lab" with 5 funky hot pink ponderosa pine cones
27 March: Celebrate 5 years at the FEELed Lab!
A hand shielding the sun above Bellevue creek on a blue sky and with yellowing leaves all around
10 Nov 2025: Beyond the Desk: Building and Sustaining Community Through Student-Led Collaboration
watery collage of blue and yellow showing a sky obscured by drawings and clouds
5 March: Fluid Sculptures: Stories for Body-Listening
Argonaut sitting on top of a jellyfish floating through the Darkness
16 Jan 2026: Who is keeping you Company in the Dark?
Credit: Mike Bartick / Ocean Image Bank
Side by side collage of the poster for "International Analog Day" in pastel colours and The FEELed Lab yard with tall trees and a gravel driveway with the word craft-a-strophe across in cut out magazine letters
27 Feb: Analog vs AI: Craft-a-strophe on International Analog Day – CANCELLED
Photo collage of student co-working sessions in the FEELed Lab and Woodhaven with writing "Beyond the desk"
16 Jan 2026: Beyond the Desk: Building and Sustaining Community Through Student-Led Collaboration
Photo collage of student co-working sessions in the FEELed Lab and Woodhaven with writing "Beyond the desk"
17 Feb 2026: Beyond the Desk: Building and Sustaining Community Through Student-Led Collaboration
A hand shielding the sun above Bellevue creek on a blue sky and with yellowing leaves all around
10 Nov 2025: Beyond the Desk: Building and Sustaining Community Through Student-Led Collaboration
The Shanenawa people - around 15 of them, some in traditional dress from the Amazon region - gather for a photo under a large tree
8 September 2025: Shanenawa Knowledge, Art and Culture
many deer at the FEEled Lab, gathered in front of the new art studio
15 and 19 Oct 2025: Land as Teacher: Experiential Land-Based Workshops with IndigenEYEZ
Photo collage of student co-working sessions in the FEELed Lab and Woodhaven with writing "Beyond the desk"
Oct 15 2025: Beyond the Desk: Building and Sustaining Community Through Student-Led Collaboration
micro-poems made from cut-up poetry and magazines
27 August 2025: Craft-a-strophe! 4: Crowd-sourcing Community
Film Screening in the Schoolhouse showing a picture of a raccoon on the screen
27 Aug 2025: Woodhaven’s Multispecies Inhabitants are Thirsty!
A group of people sitting in a circle outside the FEELed Lab, listening to a story being told
27 Aug 2025: Plant People Gathering
Dark night sky above trees with faint green northern lights in the background
6 Dec 2024: Welcoming the Dark
Hands drawing on a quilted image of gray, purple and yellow patterns with a red square center on a table covered with crafting material.
5 Feb 2025: Quilted Connections: Grief, Resilience, and Community Through Creative Practice
2 April 2025: Access and Inclusion Storytelling Workshop
Red octopus on a robotic arm of a deep sea ROV
20 Nov 2024: Navigating other-than-human agency, differently
Two people wearing colourful glasses happily peek through fern fronds!
15 May 2024: Plant Pizzazz! Writing and Performance Workshop
A collage of many FEELed moments over the past year, featuring regular FEELed friends like Rina, Yazdan, Erin, Sierra, and others against a photo of the FEELed Yard.
May 10 2024: FEELed Farewell Party for Dani
March 2 2024: Drag Kings and Monarchs in the Wild
An image of pillowy white snow overlaid with colourful text in a collage style that reads IN HIBERNATION: Landscaping eco-emotions through art, and the date of February 1, 2024.
1 February 2024: IN HIBERNATION: Landscaping Eco-Emotions Through Art
wet rocks in a shallow stream are entangled with a piece of white and blue plastic
March 18: Water and Plastic: Reimagining Ecological Relations (Alex Berry and Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp)
A digital sticky note placed on top of a close up image of a tree, meant to look like an office memo reading "A Very Important Meeting: creative and collaborative experimentations in rest"
6 November 2023: A Very Important Meeting
The FEELed Lab yard with tall trees and a gravel driveway with the word craft-a-strophe across in cut out magazine letters
18 October 2023: CRAFT-A-STROPHE 3 Cooling Down
An abstract design in orange and blue with Water + Fire written on it.
9 June 2023: WATER & FIRE
The FEELed Lab yard with tall trees and a gravel driveway with the word craft-a-strophe across in cut out magazine letters
May 12 2023: CRAFT-A-STROPHE 2
A book, open to one of its poems, sits in a dirt whole. A hand places a rock on top of it, to join two other rocks already resting on it.
14 April 2023:
Nature Reading Writing
A close up of the spines of 7 books including Okanagan Women's Voices, Empire and Environment, Okanagan Geology, Arborophobia, and others.
Every Tuesday morning: FEELed Reading + collective lunch at the Lab!
23-31 May 2022: Listening, Attuning: FEH Summer Intensive
13 May 2022:
FIRE + WATER: Creative and Critical Perspectives from the Okanagan Watershed and Beyond
12 March 2022: Woodhaven Traditional Knowledge/ Land Use Gathering and Circle
23-31 May 2022: Listening, Attuning: FEH Summer Intensive
13 May 2022:
FIRE + WATER: Creative and Critical Perspectives from the Okanagan Watershed and Beyond
12 March 2022: Woodhaven Traditional Knowledge/ Land Use Gathering and Circle