Meet the Community Members & Interviewees
Ken Hood
Screenshot from interview. From left to right, Halley Roback, Ken Hood and Fan-Ling Suen.
Lisa HirmerScreenshot from interview. From left to right, Halley Roback, Fan-Ling Suen and Lisa Hirmer.
|
Ken Hood has been studying, practicing and teaching meditation/mind training for over 30 years in Guelph. Since the pandemic, amongst other courses and offerings at Arrive Yoga, Ken has continued to host online mediation and inquiry sessions via Zoom by donation on Wednesday and Sundays. For more information, visit arriveyoga.ca or agoodheart.ca.
Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist who works across visual media, social practice, performance and occasionally writing. She is primarily concerned with collective relationships: that which exists between things, rather than simply within them. Her recent work studies the forces that shape and transform human relationships with the complex ecologies they are a part of, looking in particular for the traces left by the entangled connections between things.
|
Madeline Marmor
Screenshot from interview. From top left clockwise. Madeline Marmor, Halley Roback, Fan-Ling Suen
|
Madeline Marmor is a food person, a dreamer, a trained practitioner of Circle, a treaty person, a landless farmer, the descendent of Jewish and Sicilian settlers fleeing war, persecution and poverty, a community activist and, deep in the unlearning and paced quietness that this moment in history (she believes) has asked of people most privileged by white supremaist systems. She tries her best to walk with the openness, generosity and compassion that she has been lucky to inherit from teachers, ancestors and friends.
|
Sociable Cities - Mervyn Horgan and Saara LiinamaaScreenshot from interview. From top left clockwise, Halley Roback, Fan-Ling Suen, Saara Liinamaa and Mervyn Horgan.
John MaizeScreenshot from interview. From left to right, Halley Roback, Fan-Ling Suen and John Maize.
|
Mervyn Horgan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. His research gathers an eclectic set of substantive interests grounded in a normative commitment to solidarity. He is a Principal Investigator on the Sociable Cities Project.
Saara Liinamaa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. Her research and writing examines cultural meaning and practices, with an overarching interest in how individuals and organizations navigate conditions of uncertainty. She is a co-investigator for the Sociable Cities Project. John Maize who is a Toronto-based writer, fundraiser, and theatre creator. He is a practicing Zen Buddhist, focusing on figuring out what that truly means. You can find him sitting on the porch, or online at www.jrrmaize.com
|
Earth to Tables - Deborah Barndt, Chandra Maracle, and Dianne Kretschmar |
Deborah Barndt, Chandra Maracle, and Dianne Kretschmar are among the collaborators on the Earth to Tables Legacies project, a multimedia educational website and package, which brings together a small group of food activists across big differences – youth/elders, rural/urban, Indigenous/settler, Canadian/Mexican – for an exchange around food justice and food sovereignty. For more information, visit earthtotables.org.
|