OCT 4
People and Place
Wednesday, October 4 at 3:15 PM (NL)
A conversation about places that hold the stories of the people connected to the land and the symbiotic relationship between the two. This panel will focus on past, present, and future as well as the importance of celebrating communities that have been built around cultural identities and shared histories and inclusive placemaking.
Moderated by:
MARY ROWE
President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
Mary W. Rowe is President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI). For over 30 years, Mary has acted as an impassioned civic leader and a leading urban advocate championing place-based approaches to building livable and resilient cities. Living in Canada and the United States, Mary has supported a wide range of policy transformation efforts and has led local, national and international urban initiatives such as the self-organizing initiatives that emerged in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, the initial development of Re-Imagining the Civic Commons in key cities across North America, and the engagement components of HUD-supported Rebuild by Design that informed the creation of the 100 Resilient Cities program of the Rockefeller Foundation. She is also Senior Fellow with Shorefast and is a frequent contributor to national and international city-building programs such as UN Habitat, Ottawa City Building Summit, Livable Cities Forum, Mansueto Institute Summit, the Art of City Building, and the inaugural meeting of the G7 Urban Development Ministers in Potsdam, Germany. Under Mary’s leadership, CUI has expanded its work to include an international network from government, industry, community and city-building professions to advance research and collaborate on solutions to some of our greatest urban challenges.
Panelists:
DARLENE BRANDER
CEO, Wanuskewin Heritage Park
Darlene Brander is the Chief Executive Officer of Wanuskewin Heritage Park. Darlene worked at Wanuskewin from 1998 to 2000, where she was an Aboriginal Awareness Education Manager. Since that time, her career has included progressively responsible positions with not-for-profit organizations, gaming institutions, municipal governments, and First Nations organizations. The return to the park in 2019, in the CEO capacity, allowed Ms. Brander to honour Wanuskewin’s past, thrive in the present, and realize its future. A Band Member of the Red Earth Cree First Nation, Darlene holds a B.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan, as well as a Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) designation. An active community member, Ms. Brander sits on several boards including, Discover Saskatoon and Hospitality Saskatchewan. Darlene has served as Past Chair of the Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners and the Canadian Association of Police Governance.
DAVID SCHIMPKY
Director of Secretariat | Directeur du Secrétariat, Canadian Commission for UNESCO
With degrees from Brock University and Simon Fraser University, David is an experienced executive, author, and cultural leader. Since 2020, he is Director of Secretariat for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. This organization was established by the federal government in 1957 to work as a bridge between UNESCO and Canadian civil society, academia, and governments. He leads a team responsible for implementing UNESCO programmes in Canada, and advising the Government of Canada on matters related to UNESCO. He is member of the Steering Committee for International Coalition of Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (ICCAR), a Board member of World Press Freedom Canada, and a frequent lecturer on public diplomacy with the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
OCT 5
In Conversation with Nancy Duxbury and Dr. Pam Hall
Thurssday, October 5 at 10:45 AM (NL)
Two of today’s most respected researchers of place will meet in St. John’s to share their thoughts, theories, and visions for the world of placemaking and place-keeping.
Nancy Duxbury, one of the founding members of the Creative City Network of Canada, returns to share her work with the University of Coimbra’s Centre For Social Studies in Portugal. Current research through the IN SITU and the recent CREATOUR projects will be overviewed and begin the conversation around remote tourism and place.
Dr. Pam Hall, St. John’s local and the author of Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge, a publication of renowned importance for those wishing to “revalue the local in a time when global monoculture seems overwhelming”, brings a deep knowledge and appreciation for the traditions of rural Newfoundland – and of the process of documenting the stories of the land.
NANCY DUXBURY, PHD
Senior Researcher, Centre For Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Nancy works as a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal (since 2009), where she is coordinator of the transdisciplinary thematic research line “Urban Cultures, Sociabilities and Participation.” Nancy is principal investigator of the Horizon Europe project “IN SITU: Place-based Innovation of Cultural and Creative Industries in Non-urban Areas” (insituculture.eu, 2022-2026), and leads the CES team in the European research project “UNCHARTED: Understanding, Capturing and Fostering the Societal Value of Culture” (2020-2024). Nancy is also the lead coordinator of the CREATOUR Observatory at CES, bridging research, practice and policy in the area of culture and tourism for local development, which builds from the research-and-application project “CREATOUR: Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas,” which she coordinated (2016-2020) (creatour.pt). She is a member of the European Expert Network on Culture and an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University and Thompson Rivers University, Canada.
Dr. Pam Hall
Artist, Author, Scholar
Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally, and is represented in many corporate, private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. Her artistic practice includes installation, drawing, object-making, photography, film, writing, community-engaged collaboration and performance and has explored the fisheries, the body, female labour, place-making, the nature of knowledge and notions of the “local”. Her work is often collaborative and includes communities distant from the pristine spaces of the gallery, the studio, and the museum. On wharves, in fish plants, medical schools and distant farmer’s fields, she has worked with doctors and medical students, settler and indigenous fishers on both coasts of Canada, workers in the food service and fish processing industries, knowledge-holders in Fogo and Change Islands, Western Newfoundland and Miawpukek/Conne River. Hall’s solo exhibition HouseWork(s) presented a decade of her social and collaborative practice at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John’s (2014) and in Kamloops, B.C. (2015). She continues to work inside and outside of the museum context and in 2017 was commissioned by the inaugural Bonavista Biennale to install Reseeding the Dream East, an outdoor installation marking the anniversary of the cod moratorium, in a Port Rexton meadow. She remounted and completed that project during a 2021 residency in Titling on Fogo Island.
For details see www.pamhall.ca
and www.encyclopediaoflocalknowledge.com
OCT 5
Events as Placemakers
Thursday, October 5 at 1:45 PM (NL)
A conversation around how events become a part of a place’s identity and how the place in question supports or impacts its flagship event. Panelists bring their perspective around celebrating and shaping locations through events, like snowy Edmonton’s Winterruption and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. The relationship between events, residents, tourism, and reputation will all be discussed in this program.
Moderated by:
Mike Gillett
Event Coordinator, Regional Municipality of Halifax
Mike Gillett is a Senior Events Coordinator with the Halifax Regional Municipality. During his 30 years of event experience he has worked with a number of large scale events including the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney concerts. Other experiences include working with Tall Ships events, producing the Halifax stop of the Vancouver Winter Olympics Torch Relay, organizing a number of annual events as well as assisting cultural events such as Nocturne Halifax and Prismatic. Mike organizes national meetings of municipal event staff to share knowledge and experiences.
Panelists:
BRENT OLIVER
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Jeanne Holmes
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