Please join us for the Learning with the Land Symposium
Saturday, June 14, 2025 | UBC Vancouver Campus, Scarfe Room 1128
Hosted as part of the SSHRC-funded Learning with the Land international research partnership, this one-day free public symposium brings together artists, educators, and researchers exploring how art education can respond to the climate crisis and support decolonial pedagogies. Co-led by Dr. Rita L. Irwin and Dr. Shannon Leddy, this project spans Canada, the US, Norway, Australia, and Japan, and is grounded in land-based learning, a/r/tography, and arts-based research as ways for relational and place-based inquiry. The symposium includes speakers from these countries sharing presentations on their projects undertaken over the last three years. The event promises to be creative and critical, encouraging all us to rethink our practices with land.
Please join us on Saturday, June 14, where you are invited to join us for a day of panel presentations and discussions dedicated to reflecting on how art education can foster reciprocal relationships with the land and amplify Indigenous and local knowledges.
Please consider joining us and signing up for this free public symposium before June 1 to help us plan for the day!
We would love to have you join us!
Submitted by,
Rita Irwin and Shannon Leddy.