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Heartwood Community Cafe , 317 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC V5T 1W5
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An exploration of the relationship between water's cultural meanings and urgent ecological issues, Thinking With Water presents the work of critics, scholars, artists, and poets in an invitation to pay more attention to the aqueous aspects of our lives.
The Vancouver launch will feature readings and presentations by Daphne Marlatt, Dorothy Christian, Rita Wong, Melanie Siebert and Janine MacLeod. Heartwood Café has a delicious menu that’s available throughout the event and is fully licensed. It is located at 317 E. Broadway.
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Thinking with Water
Edited by Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod and Astrida Neimanis
As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.
Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent symbolic power, its familiarity, and its unique physical and chemical properties - is a lively collaborator in our ways of knowing and acting. What emerges is both a rich opportunity to encourage more thoughtful environmental engagement and a challenge to common oppositions between nature and culture.
Drawing from a pool of contributors with diverse backgrounds, Thinking with Water presents the work of critics, scholars, artists, and poets in an invitation to pay more attention to the aqueous aspects of our lives.