24-25 Seasonal Soundwalk Mini-Series with Chad Eastman

Sounding Relations and Seasons in Fish Creek Provincial Park

with Chad Eastman

In this mini-series, local outdoor educator and electroacoustic musician Chad Eastman will guide soundwalkers on an exploration of the seasonal soundscape in Fish Creek Provincial Park. Throughout, the false dichotomy between human and non-human worlds will be unpacked in relation to concepts of wilderness, decolonization, toxic colonialism, climate change, ferality, and the anthropocene.

We will start our journey upstream at Shannon Terrace in the thickly forested slopes below the Stoney Trail in the western border of the park. For our second visit, we move downstream to Glennfield grasslands just below McLeod Trail and the C-Train line. For our third and final visit, we will meet at Bow Valley Ranche and make our way over to the (other) confluence in Calgary, where Fish Creek feeds into the Bow just below the Fish Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.

DATES & PIN-LOCATIONS

Sunday, September 22nd - 2PM.  Shannon Terrace.  PARKING: https://friendsoffishcreek.org/wp content/uploads/2014/05/Shannon-Terrace-Visitor-Parking.jpg

Sunday, January 19th - 2PM. Glennfield Grasslands. Link indicates starting point and parking.

Sunday, May May 18th - 2PM. Bow Valley Ranche.  Link indicates starting point and parking. 

All locations are within Fish Creek Provincial Park, in south Calgary.  

Accessibility: the walks will include a mix of paved path, gravel path, and maybe some singletrack (depending how adventurous the group is feeling). However, all walks will be relatively flat.

TO REGISTER: Select the ticket-type(s) for the walk or walks you wish to register for (you may select multiples). If you wish to donate to New Works you may ALSO purchase a donation ticket.  If you choose to donate, please ensure you select a donation ticket IN ADDITION to your registration(s).  

Chad Eastman (He/Him) is an outdoor educator curious about the ways we conceptualize land and how this prefigures our relations to it. Through land-based education, Chad hopes to foster deep connection across species boundaries that will inspire people to take climate action.

A young white man wearing a baseball hat, blue jeans, and a yellow plaid shirt stands outdoors in front of a Hoodoo landscape. He appears to be at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta.  He is holding up a Zoom recording device, right in front of and slightly above a patch of wild growing sage.  The sky is blue, with big puffy clouds in it.

Soundwalks series supported by Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development Association, Canada Council for the Arts, and our generous donors!