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Tag Archives: Alberta tar sands
Nanaimo Launch Photos – Art for Oil-Free Coast
We rocked the end of the Mayan calendar last night in Nanaimo with the spectacular traveling art show Art for an Oil Free Coast, organized by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. More than 200 people turned out for the Nanaimo opening … Continue reading
Art for an Oil-Free Coast – Nanaimo Launch
UPDATE: The opening night event at the Shaw Auditorium and the Nanaimo Art Gallery on December 20 is now SOLD OUT. Please come visit the exhibition between Dec. 21-Jan. 5 at the Nanaimo Art Gallery downtown. The Gallery’s extended hours … Continue reading
Art for an Oil-Free Coast: 4-City Launch
Don’t miss the book launch, art exhibit and film screening for Canada’s Raincoast at Risk: Art for an Oil-Free Coast, opening in four coastal BC communities this November and December (in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Salt Spring Island.) This past summer, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Events, News
Tagged Alberta tar sands, Canadian artists, climate, First Nations, Great Bear Rainforest, nature, raincoast conservation foundation, spirit bear, wildlife
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Tar Sands or Oil Sands? Deconstructing Language
The Alberta tar sands, and the colossus of bitumen extraction underway there, have been called the dirtiest project on earth. Yet tar sands opponents are often flayed for using ‘incorrect’ terminology (which demonstrates the complete indefensibility of this industry, if … Continue reading
Poets for an Oil-Free Coast
Join me Friday, September 21, 2012 at Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria for the launch of Poems for an Oil-Free Coast – a fantastic chapbook from Red Tower Bookworks. The event begins at 7:30 pm at Moka House, 1633 Hillside … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Events, Poetry, Politics
Tagged Alberta tar sands, British Columbia, Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, Great Bear Rainforest, nature, wildlife
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Death of Earth
There are flood and drouth Over the eyes and in the mouth, Dead water and dead sand Contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil Gapes at the vanity of toil, Laughs without mirth. This is the death … Continue reading
