Towards an ENCYCLOPEDIA of LOCAL KNOWLEDGE: Chapter III: The Middle River
Sat, Aug 08
|Virtual Reception
Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge (ELK) is a collaborative art-and-knowledge project by Jerry Evans, Pam Hall and local collaborators in rural Newfoundland. It explores art as a form of making and moving knowledge and reveals many ways of knowing that are local, living, and still fruitfully in use.
Time & Location
Aug 08, 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Virtual Reception
About the event
THE MIDDLE RIVER is Chapter III in the ELK and was researched and created in partnership with Mi’kmaw artist, Jerry Evans and supported by the Band Council in Miawpukek/Conne River. Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge (ELK) is a collaborative art-and-knowledge project by Pam Hall and community collaborators in rural Newfoundland. It explores art as a form of making and moving knowledge and reveals many ways of knowing that are local, living, and still fruitfully in use.
CHAPTER III: THE MIDDLE RIVER is based on more than one hundred days of research in Conne River, NL and reveals some of the place-based knowledge shared by more than 70 collaborators there. Gathered by three community youth researchers and the two artists, the pages and panels that make up this chapter, reveal local knowledge on ecology, fishing, baking, food preservation, hunting, canoe-building, traditional craft practices, foraging for berries and some traditional Mi’Kmaq…