Meeting Waters: Cross-Cultural Collaborations on Environmental Racism is a special online event organized and hosted by author and social scientist Ingrid Waldron as part of the annual Nocturne Art at Night Festival on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m.
With a theme of Black and Indigenous solidarity, the event will combine speakers and performers sharing stories and experiences of environmental racism through storytelling, cance, spoken word, song and graphic art using the Zoom platform.
The main event will then be followed by a panel discussion presented with the support of Arts Nova Scotia.
Collaborators will represent the following communities: Africville’s Irvine Carvery and poet Rebecca Thomas; Pictou Landing First Nations’ Michelle Francis-Denny and experimental R&B artist Kwento; Sipekne’katik’s Dorene Bernard and dancer/choreographer Liliona Quarmyne; and Shelburne’s Vanessa Hartley and dancer/vocalist/performance artist Leelee Oluwatoyosi Eko Davis.
Waldron is the author of There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which became the inspiration for the 2019 documentary There’s Something in the Water directed by Halifax-born actor and activist Ellen Page and Ian Daniel.
Advance registration can be done at the Zoom event link, and further information is available on the Meeting Waters page on Facebook.
