Watch and Work is a series of films and documentaries you can watch while artist Xstine Cook works on her Hub residency. Be welcome to bring along a project of your own. Please use the Eventbrite link to register.
Event 8: Tuesday September 19
9pm: Watch and Work: Free screening of Trees and Mushrooms Communicating
Free screening of a recording of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard’s talk on how trees communicate with fungi, and with each other.
Drop in and enjoy listen to a captivating recording of a talk from Suzanne Simard, Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia.
The talk will play as part of Xstine Cook’s Artist in Residency This is Not My Culture at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Cook will be working on her art during the screening, and attendees are welcome to bring along a project they want to work on while watching and listening to the talk.
About the talk: Suzanne Simard has a PhD in Forrest Sciences from Oregon State University. She talks about how the forest is linked through mycorrhizal connections, how trees communicate with fungi, and with each other. She explains how large “mother” trees help their offspring, as well as their “neighbours” thrive in the coniferous forests of the west. A huge cycle, or “spiral,” of life is taking place and how humans are impacting the forest system.
She also has a movie/documentary on Amazon Prime called Intelligent Trees which will change the way you look at a forest, especially the old growth forests, and how important conservation measures are to not only fungi and plants and trees, but to humans and life on earth as we know it.
Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society was honored to have her give this talk during a club meeting which was open to non-club members because we feel this topic is so important.
The talk will play as part of Xstine Cook’s Artist in Residency This is Not My Culture at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Cook will be working on her art during the screening, and attendees are welcome to bring along a project they want to work on while watching and listening to the talk.
Free screening of this pre-recorded talk is presented as part of Xstine Cook’s This is Not My Culture artist residency at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Xstine will be modifying and altering reclaimed commercial plastic packaging material into an artistic creation during the month of September.
The cSPACE Eau Claire Hub Artist in Residence program is supported by cSPACE Projects and The City of Calgary.
cSPACE Projects acknowledges that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which includes Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Tsuut’ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
