Month: <span>January 2022</span>

Learning and storytelling through a shared art experience

Some of the members of our inquiry group visited the Vancouver Art Gallery in the past week, and experienced the Yoko Ono exhibit together. I couldn’t think of a better experience than modern art to ponder one of this week’s guiding questions: What shared experiences will support our thinking and …

Seven Fallen Feathers

While stuck at home with COVID, I read the book Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga. It speaks about the deaths of seven Indigenous students attending school in Thunder Bay. Police did not take helping Indigenous people, their missing reports or investigations seriously, and as a result, First Nations youth …

A Collective Consciousness: Who’s stories can be found here? Who’s stories are forgotten?

Every time I take a visit to Terra Nova’s Rural lands, I learn something new. Terra Nova is a beautiful part of Richmond, BC that overlooks the Fraser River and contains some of the five heritage buildings left in the city. There are so many stories to be found at …