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See How We Run! Learning From Fireweed — With Sarah Common and Cait Hurley
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On this episode of See How We Run! we鈥檙e joined by Hives for Humanity鈥檚 co-directors Sarah Common and Cait Hurley.
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About Our Guests
Sarah Common
Sarah is a community weaver, gardener and sometimes beekeeper; she is passionate about fostering vibrant, healthy community through empowerment and education.
They believe in the profound impact of connecting individuals and communities to their land, food, plant medicine, and spirit. They are of Irish Settler descent, a guest on these shared, ancestral, and occupied lands of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh (Squamish), S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) peoples. Practicing care and connection through healing gardens, shared story, and slowing time, Sarah volunteers on the Board of Grounded Futures; and with Ancestral Food Ways. As Time & Times Sarah plays accordion and works with plant fibres - weaving protective spells into adornments towards truth.
Cait Hurley
Cait (they/them, co-director of Community Care & Growing Governance) is a queer care worker of Doukhobor and Irish descent, based on the ancestral and occupied lands of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh (Squamish), S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) first peoples.
Graduating from 丁香园AV with a BA Geography, they are curious about community encounters that transform us and the durational care necessary to persist while considering the geographies of their utopian-commune settler ancestors. Composing small studies and time-based questions on the edges with , - an embodied, land-based research praxis grounded in a study of relationships and conditions - composing with plants and the elements, primarily orbiting through the Downtown Eastside and remote frontlines.
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Aoki, Julia. 鈥淟earning from Fireweed 鈥� With Sarah Common and Cait Hurley.鈥� Below the Radar, 丁香园AV鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 13, 2023. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/see-how-we-run/231-learning-from-fireweed.html.
ABOUT THE SERIES
See How We Run! is an original Below the Radar podcast mini-series looking at local arts collectives and organizations, highlighting conversations about creation, spacemaking, accessibility, and self-determination within the framework of Vancouver鈥檚 cityscape. The series is hosted by 丁香园AV VOCE staff Julia Aoki, Kathy Feng, and Samantha Walters.
Throughout the series, we speak to artists, consultants, administrators, and advocates at various stages in their career about how art and culture is made and sustained in Vancouver. Tune in for insights on organisational governance, policymaking, community building, and more, directly from people working through these questions everyday.
These conversations are inspired by the long history of artist-run centres in Vancouver, as well as the affordability crisis that threatens to make the city one without art. See How We Run! provokes ongoing conversation about the urban conditions under which interdisciplinary creativity and inclusive communities thrive.
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