The 13th Annual Relate North Symposium
The free two-day Symposium brings together artists and designers, arts-based educators, knowledge keepers, researchers, and scholars from across the circumpolar North, to share Indigenous art and land-based knowledge, and land-based arts and education more generally.
The Symposium focuses on art, design, craft, and education in the North, including the Arctic and near-Arctic regions, and is funded by a grant from the University of the Arctic.
Registration
Please note that you need to register for each day separately.
Here are the registration links:
Nov 3rd: https://lnkd.in/dGWuTWMD
Nov 4th: https://nkd.in/d-7Fhcx7
Schedule
All times are given in Newfoundland Standard Time. Please adjust this schedule for your local time zone.
Team
The Symposium is organized by a team of faculty, alumna, and graduate students from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. The team is: Dr. Heather McLeod, Anne Pickard, and Madeline Kennedy.
Lessons of the Land: New Genre Arctic Art and Land-Based Learning
The symposium is part of the project Lessons of the Land. The project’s overarching goal is to enhance cooperation and partnerships between Canadian and Scandinavian universities within the UArctic thematic network. ASAD encompasses 28 arts, design, and visual culture education institutions. The network carries out activities that integrate Indigenous and traditional knowledge with contemporary academic practices. This collaboration leverages Canada’s expertise in northern Indigenous cultures and fosters a shared understanding of art education’s role in addressing ecological, social, and cultural challenges in the Arctic.
Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador carries out the project in collaboration with University of Lapland, Umeå University, Nord University and Yukon University.
Memorial University’s Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development has awarded $ 40 000 funding for the project from the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative Fund for Indigenous and Northern Collaborative Research and Education Engagement.