Call to Participate:
Denise and I would like to invite anyone interested in working in a focused way in the lead up to our exhibit to participate in the process of curation for our exhibit installation on January 28th. This will be a small committee (4 educators max) and require the ability to participate in a bit of an intensive burst over the next couple of weeks to:
- brainstorm,
- review documentation, and
- make decisions about which images and text to include in the first ‘incarnation’ of our Sensorial Becomings: Climate Pedagogies With Children at the Cedar Hill Recreation Gallery.
Let us know by the end of Thursday, January 9th if you are interested in joining us for this part of the exhibit curation process. We will be emailing more information out to those interested on Friday and be scheduling a time to meet soon after. Of course, there will be opportunities to engage with the exhibit in other ways down the line but for those of you interested in helping out in this final push in getting it ready for the public, we welcome your input and assistance! 🙂
Traces of our CAN Inquiry documentation will also be on display at the Western University Colloquium exhibit at the end of this month as well as in the London Children’s Museum in a larger exhibit, along with the other CAN collaboratories. With so many CAN Collaboratory sites coming together from around the world, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and the CAN Colloquium exhibit organizing committee have created ‘site groupings’ to work together to create ‘collaborative CAN inquiry moments’ for the gallery space there. Our documentation will be put to work with Weathering Wanderings (Mindy Blaise, Tonya Rooney) and Conversations with Rain (Jo Pollitt, Mindy Blaise, Vanessa Wintoneak) to create a ‘sensing, noticing, breathing, wondering’ moment that highlights trees-rain-weather-walking-with pedagogies.
Nicole Land and her Ryerson University grad students are exploring ways to create a short video of the entire exhibit to share back with us all, including children and families! We’ll keep you updated on that as things continue to unfold. Excited to see what happens with our CAN inquiry documentation when it comes together with the others in Ontario!
The Conversations with Rain creative team has also published ‘response journals’ in connection with their project, to engage deeper with the concepts. These response journals are open-ended and might invite some interesting engagement within our own contexts, which they will be sending our way for you all to see, experiment with, and share with families as well. Link to the Conversations With Rain state exhibit currently on exhibition in Perth Australia: https://artgallery.wa.gov.au/learn/artist-activation/conversations-with-rain
Look fwd to hearing from those of you who are interested!
Narda