Sat, Jun 01
|Nelson Museum
Big River, Resilience & Renewal in the Columbia Basin | Nelson Book Launch
Experience the living Columbia River through visual photographic storytelling and personal connection. Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin is a brand new book and visual storytelling campaign launching June 2024 exploring the Columbia River system and its expansive watershed.
Time & Location
Jun 01, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Nelson Museum, 502 Vernon St, Nelson, BC V1L 4E7, Canada
About The Event
Presenting Organizations: Braided River, Save Our wild Salmon
Registration: Registration is required: https://saveourwildsalmon.salsalabs.org/bigriver_nelson/index.html
Fee: Free
Information on the Event: Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin: Experience a presentation of the new book "Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin," where photographer David Moskowitz, author Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, and former Sinixt/Arrow Lakes Territorial Land Advisor Shelly Boyd will showcase a multimedia journey along the Columbia River from source to sea, illuminating its natural wonders and human stories, while also highlighting the challenges facing the region and the people working on sustainable solutions. The Columbia River watershed encompasses immense ecological, cultural, and economic value, the benefits of which its inhabitants have wrangled over for centuries. As we come to terms with the unsustainable nature of our relationship with this watershed, and local Indigenous nations renew their efforts to steward their territories, we have reached an inflection point.…