Urgent Storytelling
Facilitator and Respondent: Dorothy Christian
- Lee Maracle – “False Creeks, Real Transformations”
- Violet Caibaiosai – “Reconnecting to Water Ways, Healing Great Lake Communities”
- Mona Polacca – “Water: The First Foundation of Life”
- Melina Laboucan Massimo – “From Homelands to the Tar Sands”
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Creative Waters
Facilitator: Fiona Bowie Respondent: Larissa Lai
- Michael Blackstock – “Blue Ecology”
- Rita Wong and Dorothy Christian – “Re-Storying Waters”
- Basia Irland – “receding/reseeding”
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Thinking With Water
Facilitator: Ruth Beer Respondent: Larissa Lai
- Cecilia Chen – “Mapping Relations with the Lachine Rapids”
- Janine Macleod – “That Underworld of Waters”
- Astrida Neimanis – “Water and Planetarity: Epistemologies of the Unknowable”
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Acting With Water
Facilitator: Janey Lew Respondent: Rita Wong
- Leila Harris – “Narrative, Water and Citizenship”
- Karen Bakker – “Practicing Shared Water Governance”
- Marissa Munoz – “Ethno-Eco-Pedagogies of the Rio Grande”
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Ocean Home
Facilitator and Respondent: Marten Sims
- Alanna Mitchell – “Planetary Distress Signals”
- Hugh Patterson and Bryson Robertson – “Narratives of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
- Paul Harrison – “Changing Conditions of Coastal Zone Ecologies”
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Living Rivers
Facilitator: Alex Phillips Respondent: Sandra Semchuk
- Gu Xiong – “Navigating Waterscapes: Swimming the River”
- Cathy Stubington – “Fluid Like a River: Bringing People and Water Back Together”
- Matthew Evenden – “Fish, Dams and Co-evolution: Living with the Fraser River”