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RRU Boathouse, 2005 Sooke Road
Victoria BC V9B 5Y2
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Join us at the Boathouse for a talk with Basia Irland, the 19th Annual Robert Bateman Lecturer for the MA in Environmental Education and Communication program.
Admission is free | Doors open at 6 p.m. | Everyone is welcome!
What Rivers Know - Listening to the Voices of Global Waterways
An evening river-talk/experience with esteemed Fullbright Scholar, artist, author, educator, Basia Irland, Professor Emerita from the University of New Mexico.
Irland was recently honoured River Warrior for her Art on Water initiatives by the Lewis Pugh Foundation who dedicate their work for the preservation and conservation of oceans for a peaceful and sustainable future.
Basia Irland's biography
Fulbright Scholar, Basia Irland, is an artist, author and activist who creates international large-scale community-based water projects featured in her books, “Water Library” (University of New Mexico Press, 2007) and “Reading the River, The Ecological Activist Art of Basia Irland” (Museum De Domijnen, The Netherlands, 2017).
A monograph, “Basia Irland, Repositories; Portable Sculptures for Waterway Journeys,” authored by Patricia Watts, was published in 2023. Irland is Professor Emerita, Department of Art, University of New Mexico, where she founded the Art & Ecology Program.