Exploring the Intersection between Art and Our Relationship to the Land: A Community Conversation

Exploring the Intersection between Art and Our Relationship to the Land: A Community Conversation
Sunday January 29th from 2-4 pm
Biblio Wakefield Library
1-38 ch de la Vallée de Wakefield, La Pêche, QC, J0X 3G0

In collaboration with Sowing the Future: Women Farmers + EcoAgriculture Exhibit and Biblio Wakefield Library.

Please join us for an open conversation hosted by Alice Irene Whittaker about sustainable farming practices as seen through the lens of the arts and how both can work together. The farmers of Sowing the Future have inspired painting, photography and poetry and we invite you to listen to and offer your perspective on ways the arts can support of the local food shed in a way that enhances our physical, emotional and mental wellbeing in this rapidly changing world.

Our Host, Alice Irene Whittaker is a writer and environmental leader. She is the creator and host of Reseed, a podcast about repairing our relationship to nature. She has been published in national and international publications, including The Globe & Mail and Permaculture Magazine, and her book Homing will be published in Fall 2024. Recently she become the Executive Director of Ecology Ottawa.

The thought-provoking arts and poetry exhibit “Sowing the Future” will be exhibited at the Biblio Wakefield Library from January through April 2023. During this time, the library will be hosting a public community conversation about the intersection between art and our relationship to the land.

Sowing the Future is fundamentally about women farmers engaged in sustainable farming practices in the Ottawa / Outaouais Region and since its first exhibition in October 2022 at Roots and Shoots Farm, the show has expanded its reach in the community to inspire artists, writers and musicians to work together to creative positive social change.

Not only have these farmers inspired painting, photography and poetry, this project is also supporting a conversation about the intersection between art and our relationship to the land and how to strengthen our local food shed.

Biblio Wakefield Library
1-38 ch de la Vallée de Wakefield, La Pêche, QC, J0X 3G0
Téléphone: 819-459-3266, fax: 819-459-8832
contact@wakefieldlibrary.ca
info@bibliowakefieldlibrary.ca

Monday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Tuesday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Wednesday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Thursday: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Friday: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sunday: Closed