Beyond Fires + Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes

Name: Beyond Fires + Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes
Start: 2025-10-24T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-24T20:30:00-07:00
Location: 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6T 1Z2

Schedule

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6T 1Z2 | Vancouver, BC

MOA invites you to Beyond Fires + Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, a powerful conversation on re-storying climate change through Indigenous voices and knowledge.
How have Indigenous narratives helped Indigenous peoples cope with and confront climate change? What does it mean to see and story climate change not so much as a problem, but as a symptom?
Drawing on a century-plus of collective storytelling experience across multiple realms and locations, this seasoned panel will discuss how Indigenous narratives reframe and resist mainstream media’s preoccupation with extreme weather events to instead forefront what legacy newsrooms all but ignore: the colonial conditions, institutions and infrastructures surrounding these events.
Part of Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF), a larger weekend gathering of invited international Indigenous journalists, experts and storytellers, BFF will explore the ways Indigenous narratives work to engage what climate change means on Indigenous terms, and their capacity to both ready us for what’s coming, and help us navigate it once it’s here.
Panelists:
Judi Kochon (Sahtú) has over 40 years of experience as a journalist, and is the Sahtú Language announcer and director of radio for CKLB in Yellowknife
Paul Seesequasis (Willow Cree) is an author, editor, journalist, curator, and founder of the online Indigenous Archival Photo Project
Tanya Talaga (Anishinaabe) is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, and columnist for The Globe and Mail
Mark Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock) has worked for more than 50 years as a journalist, columnist, and editor, most recently as editor-at-large for Indian Country Today
Moderator:
Rick Harp (Cree) is a longtime journalist who has hosted/produced the Indigenous current affairs podcast MEDIA INDIGENA since 2016. He also hosts the APTN News Brief podcast.
The panel discussion is FREE and open to the public.
No RSVP required.
Co-convened by Prof. Candis Callison (SPPGA; CIS) and Rick Harp (MEDIA INDIGENA), BFF is sponsored by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Global Journalism Innovation Lab, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Museum of Anthropology.
LEARN MORE: https://moa.ubc.ca/event/beyond-fires-floods-indigenous-narratives-in-an-era-of-extremes/