Science before jazz:
Delta stories — art-science collaboration from the largest freshwater delta in North America

Scholar Graham Strickert and Indigenous artist Michela Carrière will share stories of their experiences of collaborative art science projects, including a forum theatre production, mix-media art installations, films and a children’s book, Muskrat Fire, which is being published for every school in Saskatchewan. They stress an approach to collaboration between artists and scientists that goes beyond instrumentality, allowing for emergent creations that grip audiences everywhere.

Registration is mandatory.

About Graham Strickert

Graham Strickert is an assistant professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability and a founding member of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan. His passion is to bring awareness to the changes occurring in the Saskatchewan River Delta. He is the principal investigator for Global Water Future’s Distributed Water Science Project. He lives with his wife and children in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

About Michela Carrière

Michela Carrière is an Indigenous adventurer and artist from Big Eddy Lodge, deep in the wilderness of the Saskatchewan River Delta. She was home-schooled and later studied horticulture and biology in university. She is now actively learning traditional medicine as she pursues the path of a Cree herbalist.

Carrière guides people on healing adventures in the wild nature of Northern Canada, on the homelands of the Cree and Métis.