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Date(s) - Wednesday, February 1, 2023
12:00 pm1:00 pm
Online event: https://trc57speakerseries.ca/speakers/april-philip-vannini/
Topic:
In the Name of Wild
with April & Philip Vannini
Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. When the Vannini family set out to consider what wildness and wilderness mean to people around the world, their journey revealed something very different from the picture-perfect notion of untouched nature they imagined. Join us in conversation with Phillip and April as they share stories and highlights of their journey into the wild.
Phillip Vannini and April Vannini are ethnographers and filmmakers. They share an interest in exploring the meaning of “wild” and “wilderness” and are the authors of Wilderness and Inhabited: Wildness and the Vitality of the Land and the directors of In the Name of Wild and Inhabited. They teach in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Road University and live on Gabriola Island in British Columbia.
The series was initiated by the NLPS in response to its goal to fulfill the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action #57. This Call to Action asks all levels of government to provide education to public servants on the history of Indigenous peoples. Brought to you by The Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools (NLPS) and UBC Press, in collaboration with Vancouver Island Regional Library.
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