surface / tension (audiowalk)
This audiowalk brings together field recordings, musical performance, and narrative reflections to explore the entangled relationships between Schneider Creek, the changing environment, and the human and more-than human communities that make life within the creek and along the banks.
Directions: start at 117 David St., follow map here
Download postcard here
Audiowalk Launch: Friday, May 31, 7pm (Open Ears Festival)
mixing & production by Sydney Lancaster
creek* score by Deborah Carruthers
music by Nu Ears Ensemble led by Kathryn Ladano
Events
Over the Creek
August 7, 2024
Featuring:
- The Creek Collective Community Mural unveiling
- “Refractions” — an aerial performance response to “surface/tension” by Erika Lui
- “A Hole in the Ground” documentary screening
Association for Literature, the Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) Conference, WLU, June 19-22, 2024
- Geoff Martin, “Channel Migration: Recording an Audiowalk Poetics of Schneider Creek, Kitchener”
- Philip Abbott, Jessica Marion Barr, and Jack Hoggarth,
“Elegies for Eels and Salmon: Disrupted Migrations in Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Territory” -
Reuben Martens & David Janzen,
“Orchestrations of Carbon: Transformative Energy Soundscapes as Agents of Environmental Awareness”
Friday June 14, 2024
6:30-8pm, Inter Arts Matrix
Globe Studios, 141 Whitney Pl.
Photographs
Project References
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Benner, Elizabeth, “This pristine Canadian river has legal personhood, a new approach to conserving nature,” CBC.ca, February 1, 2024.
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Bloomfield, Elizabeth, Waterloo Township through two centuries, Waterloo Historical Society, 1995.
- Bob Burtt, Water: Our Sacred Trust, 2022.
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City of Kitchener, “Stormwater Management.” kitchener.ca, 2024
- City of Kitchener, “Schneider and Shoemaker Creek Renaturalization Environmental Assessment,” engagewr.ca/schneidercreekea, May 2024.
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Chuang, Céline, “what the river reveals: remembering like the water,” Issue 13: Wading, The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, September 2022.
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- Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, “Surface Tension” (song), with John K. Sampson, Theory of Ice, March 12, 2021.
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