Virtual Garden Talks: The Gardens of our Lives

 

Miss this event? You can now watch it on video! (See below for details)

  The video of this talk is now on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ftbjGgeVM

August 18, 7-8:30 pm (Pacific Time) / Garden Relations: Plants + humans; Gardens + communities

Lois Klassen (Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, Canada), with artists Amanda White (Toronto, Canada) and Chrissy Orr (Santa Fe, New Mexico), will discuss the relations and inter-relations inherent in growing gardens. Amanda White is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who explores the intersection of art, environment and culture. Her project, Plant Radio For Plants, is featured in the book, Why Look at Plants: The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art (Giovanni Aloi, 2018, Brill). Chrissy Orr is the founder of SeedBroadcast Collective, a mobile broadcasting station that examines the interconnections between people, sees and agri-culture through performance, listening and sharing of stories, resources and seeds. She is the co-founderr of El Otro Lado in the Schools and co-founder of the Living Story Collaborative. Lois Klassen is a participating artist in the Victory Gardens for Diversity residency. Her art and research focus on participatory art in sites of high ethical demand. She is host of Reading the Migration Library and a small-scale backyard gardener.