Facilitators: Astrida Neimanis, Carol WallaceÂ
Geologist and artist Carol Wallace and environmental feminist and phenomenologist Astrida Neimanis will lead a walk along the shores of Kootenay Lake in Kaslo. Both speakers will embed us in place. Wallace will share stories of glacier-filled valleys, volcanic islands and tectonic boundaries and Neimanis will speak from their research for Bodies of Water and unpack their term hydrofeminism, which involves understanding ourselves as intimately part of the lands and waters that nourish us.
 Astrida Neimanis is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities and Associate Professor at UBC Okanagan, on the unceded lands of the syilx people. As a practice-led feminist theorist, Astrida writes about water, weather and bodies, often in collaboration with artists, scientists, writers and other community members. They are author of Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (2017), and co-author (with Jennifer Mae Hamilton) of How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (2026). Astrida is also Director of The FEELed Lab – a feminist environmental humanities creative research lab in Kelowna, BC.
Carol Wallace is a visual artist of Scottish ancestry, privileged to be living and working on the tum xula7xw/traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/Sinixt, otherwise known as Nelson, BC. Her art practice includes drawing, painting, textile and sculptural installation informed by Earth’s ongoing processes, unimaginable timescales, and the agency of stone. Carol holds a degree in Geology from the University of Calgary (1992) and worked as a geologist for twenty years locally, and in the Yukon Territory and Ellesmere Island. Since 2014 Carol has focused exclusively on her art practice and has been active in arts culture in her community, including six years as a board member with Oxygen Art Centre. She has received financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Columbia Basin Trust – Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance.
FREE EVENT— Walk begins at the Langham Cultural Centre and will move to the waterfront. Shelter is available if the weather is wet. Dress to be outdoors.