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BORDER WALKS - check them out on the Borderlands site here
Border Walks are curated hikes - participatory explorations of places and groups of people. In 2018 and 2019 Borderlands curated 11 unique Border Walks, with extraordinary guests - articulating the complex intersections between social and environmental justice and exploring together on location.
Guests have included: Koleka Putuma, Pedro Espi Sanchis, Yandiswa Mazwana, Judith Westerveld, Tinashe Mantangarai, Hedley Twidle, Aaniyah Omardien, Cindy Mkaza, Chase Rhys and many more.
On each Border Walk, diverse guests are invited to guide us in seeing the territory from their own perspective. Contrasting backgrounds, philosophies and diverse knowledge systems are welcomed, giving participants an experience of plural engagements with nature and place.
Following contour paths of our mountains to uncover hidden stories, moving through areas of new growth after the recent fires, exploring the richness and the ocean and stepping into contested borderlands territories - spaces that are the friction points between our communities - the Border Walks open up new ways of looking, listening and understanding.
We invite local historians, ecologists, writers, handy-men, dancers, botanists, foragers, musicians and urban researchers to lead the way. Border Walks have been commissioned by the Sustainability Institute and University of Alberta, CA.
Guests have included: Koleka Putuma, Pedro Espi Sanchis, Yandiswa Mazwana, Judith Westerveld, Tinashe Mantangarai, Hedley Twidle, Aaniyah Omardien, Cindy Mkaza, Chase Rhys and many more.
On each Border Walk, diverse guests are invited to guide us in seeing the territory from their own perspective. Contrasting backgrounds, philosophies and diverse knowledge systems are welcomed, giving participants an experience of plural engagements with nature and place.
Following contour paths of our mountains to uncover hidden stories, moving through areas of new growth after the recent fires, exploring the richness and the ocean and stepping into contested borderlands territories - spaces that are the friction points between our communities - the Border Walks open up new ways of looking, listening and understanding.
We invite local historians, ecologists, writers, handy-men, dancers, botanists, foragers, musicians and urban researchers to lead the way. Border Walks have been commissioned by the Sustainability Institute and University of Alberta, CA.